GEORGE MARLOW'S DRAMATIC COMPANY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10663, 19 June 1912, Page 3

GEORGE MARLOW'S DRAMATIC COMPANY.

"A GIRL'S TEM'PTATION." J This (Wednesday) evening in the Town Hall,, George aVtarlow's Dramatic Company -will commence a season, .of popular/ drama "with the successful, drama entitled "A Girl's Temptation." The drama, which is described as (being fulil of human in- [ tiefesjb .Illustrated by sfcilful'ly eon- ' trived situations, is designed to show how hard is the lot- of many .girls who have to go out into the world to obtain theii' Hiving. The ece'ri'B is laid 'i'n England, where the drama has proved ant even bigger success than it has been in Ausitiralia, go far, and the Aust'l'alia'n'. '.success has been Etitle short of a : triumph everywhere, and a cons-idelrable portion of the is. occupied in opposing the' har&hniess and baseness cf a certain) .class «f employees and the terrible ctenlsiequemces •of the sweating of female labour. Ac- I I cording to a synopsis of the drama, i ithe opening act shows the girl's J 'lemptatio'n, arid the action of a son, causes his father to forbid.him the house. In' the third act Ithe depths to which the pair have fallen are shown. Im Ithe third act the desertion is .reproduced, --with the .methods in vogue by some sweaters an Elnglamd, Lanido.ni particukriv, a'ntd ith&re is shown the contrast between wealth j and jpaupory, how 'girls work, how

they starve, and then the temptations -that ibeset them. The scenic effects ar© oru a gorgeous scale, aiid the .scenery forms a feature cf the ontertaiiniment, the • tenso dramatic situations .being tvdvid*3y irciprcdua.''; with tie aid of tilhe rreaßstic scones at.*.! sconea-y that are cdmspieuous throughout the drama-. The .box .plan fclr the season is at the Dresden, where early door Ibickeits .ftir the back stalls and gallery are also obtainable.