AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10093, 15 September 1910, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

,"THE, BRASS t ' % -''W& Kantsoß' will'present Fi AnsteyV (trajwdinarily, successful faree-com-'edy,. '"the Brass Bottle," interpreted : by the new -Ehglish company 1 . "The Brass Bottle"'is the most successful farcical play London has seen for a score of years. It has enjoyed a 12-month's run at the Vaudeville in that city, and is still filling, the theatre nightly." A good idea is sometimes more precious than rubies;-tKe author of "The Brass Bottle" conceived one, valuing it for its rarity has, it appears, treated it with all the skill of •a master hunjcapi-s*; - The author of "Vice Versa," and .other, topsy-tur-vey plays was the fortunate author, and London, America, and more recently Sydney it would seem have been caught; in an extraordinary manner in the maelstrom of nis mirth. The distinctive quality of the new play; it is affirmed, r, is a rich vein of rollicking fun that springs from an ingenious interweaving of the wonCers or. magic with extravagant absurdities, ~ in which the invention leaps from fancy to fancy, and has no other aim than to, delight the imagination by happenings of \ the mpst ludicrous de-'-r BcriptSm. Taking fair, game the familiar story!', of } the'' 'Vase and \the "Genei/'' the author has introduced, .we tmde'nStand, such *a' gamble . of hustling incidents;and '.; astonishing surprises into a modern plot,; thajt been seen here in the way of farcical comedy. "The Brass Bottle" will be played for one night only. The box plan will be opened at Miss Rive's-to-morrow morning, I