AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10199, 29 March 1911, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

"S£VEN DAYS."

'Seven Days," with ..which' Hugh J.. Ward land Irs comedy company stage for their farewell visit at the Town Hall on Friday next, is a dramatised version:.; of- the';.: clever and -humorous, story,' "W>en a Man Marries." In the play the situations are all the more involved, because all ■the characters are in the -one house during the whole, of'the play., The house is quarantined, and the device's the characters resort to to escape discovery are'asJunrjy as they are ingenious.. Bubbles Wilson's wife, has divorced him, on. the grounds of psychic cruelty, the latest idea.- Bubbles has. expectations from an Aunt with a horror of divorce. Bubbles' friends: rally rOuud '.hira; on the anniversary;of :diis divorcey and Aunt Selina arrives;''unconscious of- the domestic- ..tragedy. To save -the'.situation v;VDne^.of,:-. : the;, ;gkls^KitMeNair-T-posps,v as" >' : Mis, Bubbles. .Then mlla/who 'Bu'bhlesrsneaks'in'to'seeatowolie Is; taking it." Kit's lover arrives tr>api' parently find Kit married, a burgkir raids the place, a policeman is making a call on Bridget, and with all these complications hi the first act, the:'house'.is placed in quarantine I for seven days. The various entanI glements are not straightened ' out | till the.final curtain. The Bunetin ]' says:— "The play is one that might ] have been written for Mr Ward and his compact company, as every member of the cast is placed to the most advantage." 'Mr Hugh Ward, of course, takes t-ne leading role, and among -the-, favourites, supporting him are Misc?s Grace. Palotta,' Celia '' Gilhoni, Maud Ohetwyhd, 'Messrs ' Root. Greig, ; Reg. Aubrey Malliieau and H. H. Wallace. The booking of seats at ' is brisk, and indicates a prosperous visit for. the ■ company to. MasterI ton. ... '"'.