AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10239, 16 May 1911, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

MR J. C. WILLIAMSON'S OPERA COMPANY. "VIA WIRELESS." To-morrow ■evening, at 8 o'clock, Mr J. C. Williamson's, New London Company will present what is said to be not only tike latest and most up-to-date sensational play of the day, but also the most original and complete in its mounting andi general effect that has ever been staged here. .The central tableaux will rhow the furnaces and the casting of a big gun at the Durant steel works; the Hoeel Bella Vista, Madiera ; the "wireless" noom of the Mongolian; the wreck of the steam yacht "Irvesisia"; and the rescue of the survivors. The chief 'characters will show Mr Ambrose Manning as Marsh(a draughtsman at the works), Mr Lionel Atwill as Lieutenant Somers, Mr Eardley Turner as Durant, Mr Vivian Edwards as Pinkey 1 (the works manager), Mr Charles Graham as Barling (the "wireless" operator), Miss Evelyn Kerry as< Frances Durant, Miss Emma Temple as Mrs Durant, Mr Gbiarles Blackall as a Scotland Yard detective, and Mr Maurice Dudley as.O'Leary. The play will be produced by Mr' J. W. Hazlitt. The Company is mainly an English one, engaged recently at Home by Mr Williamson. Some hundreds of *onis of sceneay, a special electrical (plant, an augmented stage staff, a company approaching one hundred uneim'betrs, are the ingredients ,tihat will assimilate in the production of this big dramatic undertaking, the direction of which iis on the shoulders of the premier Australian stage manager, ■ Mr J. W, Hazllitt, with Mr Matirice Dudley as his assistant.