MISS MARIE BAINES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10559, 15 February 1912, Page 5

MISS MARIE BAINES.

As the rollicking farce "Miss Lancashire, Limited," with which the clever English" artiste inaugurates a one night season on Saturday; is new to Masterton, the following short sketch of the plot may prove interesting : The -story, briefly, of tho farce is that on his deathbed Mr Lancashire requests his old friend, Mr John Higgins, to be the guardian of his little daughter, and that when the girl grows up she and young Harry Higgins shall be united in marriage. Mr Higgins, senr., however, places the girl with poor relatives, and does not see her ior many years, only safeguarding her business transactions. When the young lady, now an heiress, reaches marriageable age, she leaves her Lancashire home and *eonies to London to stay with the Higgins family to make the acquaintance of Harry, and to see whether marriage is possible between the two of them. However, Miss Lancashire ! misses the Higgins family, who have l gone to the railway station to meet her, and comes on to the house, of which she herself is really the owner, by herself." At this psychological moment arrives also Mary Ellen Thomp-' son (Miss Marie Baines), the new housemaid, who has run away from Lancashire to escape a marriage with a young man named Bobbintop. With the object of finding out what sort of a man Harry is, the heiress persuades Mary to change places with her for the time being, allowing her ,to impersonate the Housemaid. On ( the return of Mr Higgins, senr;, Harry, and the stately and haughty Miss Bertha Higgins, and after their introduction to the pseudo maid the fun | waxes fast and furious. Miss Higgins is promptly called a nasty cat, young Harry is not forgotten in the j exchange of amenities, and generally the lass from Lancashire kicks over ; the traces, and laughs, rollicks and declaims through some most divert- , ing scenes.