AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10277, 3 July 1911, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

"THE BAD GIRL OF THE FAMILY." To-morrow evening, at the Town Hall, Mastenfcon, Mr George Mailow's Dramatic Company will produce Frederick Melville's drama, "The, !Bad Girl of the Family." Everything that can possibly be written about .this production has been done, and a short resume of the play ' will give a good idea of the plot of the piece. The Mocwes are described as reduced gentlefolk. Bess (the. bad girl) is keeping the family going, partly byworking, but principally by borrowing money at ruinous rates from Barney Gordon, who by some means has obtained proprietary interests in the firm of Berry and Robertson, where both Bess and her unpleasant sister Honor are employed. The villain, Harry Gordon, who is much, given .to the use of improper language, "has professed love to both girls dn turn, and has deserted them in order to make love to Gladys Erskine, who repulses him with scorn, preferring her sailor sweetheart to the rich young Jew. However, the haughiby Earl is so much in in the elder Gordon's power that he lends himself to his ambitious designs, and hut for Bess impersonating Gladys, the union would take place. During an altercation witih Lieutenant Marsh at the dead of night the Earl is shot by a burglar, wflio had come to steal the wedding presents. Of course the , sailor is charged with the deed. He is condemned to death, and Gladys marries him on the night -before the hanging is to take place. However, with the 'burglar, he escapes in a cart, the supervision, of the warders, ebdn gexitremely r lax, and the play ends happily. ' The hox plan, also the day sale tickets, ore at Miss. Rive's. THE SCARLET TROUBADOURS. The attraction'of the week will undoubtedly be the return visit of Mr Edward Branscombe's Costume Comedy Camipany, "The Scarlet Troubadours," who appear at the Town Hall on Wednesday next, sth July. 'Their many friends will welcome the news with keenest delight. To those who did not have the pleasure of hearing this now famous Company, we .may mention that their programmes comprise high-class solo and part-winging, unaccompanied quartettes, opeiratic gems, musical sketches, farcical comedies, humor- . ous monologues, pantomime burlesques, costume seenas, lightning cartoons in coloured chalks, and a host of sparkling novelties. Their previous visits here will long be rememhered by the amusement .seeking public, and we say nothing higher in their favour than that they bear the hall mark, "Braiiscombe. This is a farewell tour, as the Company proceed to the Old Country to fulfill engagements there, so .we advise our readers not to miss this opportunity of witnessing one of the finest eiitertainments • ever set upon a stage. The box plan is at Miss Rive's.