CRANE-POWER DRAMATIC COMPANY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 17, 21 January 1901, Page 2

CRANE-POWER DRAMATIC COMPANY.

"THE KING'S MUSKETEER" • t TS teWM?. nlnßr> at the ° Pera House. Mf J. C. Williamson's dramatic organisation will stag-e for the first time here that mueh-talked-of and highly - criticised romantic play, "The King's Musketeer based upon Dumas' famous romance"The Three Musketeers." Judging from reports elsewhere, Mr Williamson-, has been singularly fortunate in the distribu*tten of characters in being able to suit the right artist for the right part. MissEdith Crane, whose reappearance win be hailed with pleasure, fills the part of Miladi, Countess de Winter, Mr Cecil Ward appears as D'Artagan, Mr Tyrone Power as Cardinal Richelieu, Miss Lilian Wheeler as Queen Anne of Austria, Mißs Rose Murgrove as Gabrieile ,de Chalus, Messrs Cyril Keightley, J. W. Hazlett ■ and Victor Dougal as Athos, Pohthog and i Aramis. Mr Harry Hill as King Louis, \ XIIT., Mr W. F. Grant as the Duke of" ' Buckingham, and Messrs Oily Deering, W. Rosevear, R. C. Pitcher, Misses Hetty Muret, Alma Vaughan, Florrle Gleeson, Anie Cobb in other parts. The scenery was painted by the late Me" George Gordon, assisted by his son, .Mr' John Gordon, ample guarantee of its' artistic quality, and the costurnes^of-jtha-' picturesque period of the French court in the time of Louis XIII. have Been imported from London. The performance of "The King's Musketeer" will commence this and each evenirig at 7.45 p.m. The company, numbering 48 people,' arrived this morning from the South,' ""where they have been drawing croW'ciedhouses. "The King's Musketeer"- can' only be played this evening, Tuesday and Wednesday. The box plan is nott on view at Messrs Wildman and Son's. Da# sales. Partridge, tobacconist, Qufeen* street. ' ' ■ /