AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 80, 3 April 1906, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS. MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

" SATLTIDAY NIGHT IN LONDON."

This play ,was produced in Auckland only a few months ago by the MacMahon Company, so that there is very little to be said about it that is new. It ia a weird Saturday night and a weirder London; but for sheer excitement, alternating with the most popular type of broad humour, it will not quickly fail to draw good houses.. Miss Maie Nelson acted in her usual quiet, easy way as Mona Clayton; Miss May Granville played with real strength in her difficult acenes as Sara Shabner; Mr. Charles Blake was an energetic hero and Mr. Wilton Power a sufficiently sinister villain; while the comic side was represented by Mr, Harry Douglas (Abraham Shabner) and Mr. Peter Savieri (Nicky Nobbs). The boxinoscene was admirably done, and most of the main developments • were well worked from the stage manager's point of view. The scenery is good, and there is ample reason for believin" that the success of the piece will be repeated. To-morrow (Wednesday) night the Messrs Maemahon will present, by arrangement with Mr J. C. Williamson, for the first time in Auckland, the successful sensational English railway drama, "The Pointsman," which enjoyed very long runs simultaneously in London and New York. The play is very strongly written, and lends itself to 1 elaborate stage setting, new and magnificent scenery having been painted for the production—the striking signalbox scene and the wreck of the express train in which the heroine is a passenger being portrayed in every detail. On Friday a special ladies' night will be inaugurated, when the evergreen i story of love and jealousy—"East Lynn" —will be produced. I