Andrew Mack

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 19, 9 May 1907, Page 15

Andrew Mack

The advent of Mr. Andrew Mack, who, opened with Ms own company at His Majesty's Theatre, Auckland, on Monday week, to a large and enthusiastic audience, marked a new departure in Irish drama. His first production was ' Tom Moore,' a pleasant love story, for which Mr. Mack appears eminently fitted. He also has Moore's musical gifts, and is said to have something of his extraordinary personality and magnetism. It wili come as a pleasant surprise to Irishmen to find there -are Irish plays in which the hero is not a buffoon. In ' Tom Moore ' we ~ are tataen 'back to the days when George 111. was King, and introduced to such historical personages as the Prince Regent, Beau Brummel, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and others. The play was especially written for Mr. Mack by T. B. Sayer, who has chosen the days when Moore was wooing Bessie Dyke for tne period of his play, and has invested his hero- with a sentimental charm,- naturally to be expected in the writer of ' Believe me if all those endearing young charms,' and the, rest of Moore's beautiful series of ballads, several of which were introduced into the play by Mr. Andrew Mack, who is a tenor singer of high repute, as well as a famous actor. The second production of- the Auckland season was the phenomenally successful Irish drama, ' Jack Shannon.'