TO-NIGHT'S PERFORMANCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 3 December 1910, Page 6

TO-NIGHT'S PERFORMANCE.

To-night this company wili produce Jerome K. Jerome's mysterious play, ''The Passing of the lhirrl Floor Back." Jn this play Mr Jerome brings into the sordid atmosphere of a Bloomsbury lodgiog-house the mysterious Stranger, whose benign influence makes itaelf J!e!t amongst the commonplace and narrow-minded people oy whom he is surrounded. The piece excited great attention when it was first produced in London, mainly because of the popular belief that the dramatist actually intended to represent, by the Stranger, the Divine Founder of the Christian re ligicn Himself. Whether this be so, or whether the character is merely symbolical of the better self and of all the Christ like virtues, the reverence which such a theme ought to inspire was very properly the dominant quality in the English producI tion, where Mr Forbcs-hobertson I was the Stranger, as it will doubtless be here also, where the role will ' be sustained by Mr Harry Pi immer. "The Passing of the Third Floor Back" deals not only with the higher aspirations of humanity, but also with its foibles and its weakness. Ihe first act, where the boardinghouse people are shown in all their unlovely qualities, before the regenerating influences come upon them is devoted to this side of the story.