HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
"The Lady Slavey" w-as produced again at His Mujeeaty'e Theatre last evraiug by the Joint l< , . Sheridan Company, bafow a large audience. IMiis evenimjf the oompsuir will produce a now musical coineily, "Mrs Dooiey's Little Jolce." A Southern paper says: ''It fe a hannltus affair, not to be seriously considered, but it is not a bud bit of fan, and it went very well on ltd flret trial <m v. New Zealand audience. T;o give a joke away is bad policy, but for the benefit of those wiio may «uwpeet Mr Sheridaai of liaviiiig one at >tlielr expense it may I>e explained that it refers chiefly to <a nittn who had a rooted aversion to niothers-in-tew, and, much us he loved his wife, he had .the eoiivlctinn that «he had no business to nerve a mother, or, if she had, sbe should keep her at a distance. So the wife and a friend invented "Mrs Dooley," who came, saw, and conquered, and turned oat to be just the sort of mother-in-law the ninn wanted."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 230, 26 September 1903, Page 3
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