AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 90, 14 April 1908, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

• - THE JULIUS KNIGHT SEASON. Box plans for the first six nights of the Julius Knight season were opened at Wildman and Arey's this morning, and the booking is already extensive. Saturday next, the opening night, promises to prove an important theatrical occasion, as besides being the reappearance of Mr. Julius Knight, Miss Ola Humphrey and Mr. J. C. Williamson's, dramatic company, "The Scarlet Pimpernel" will be staged for the first time. The Baroness Orczy's book, from which the play is adapted, has run into something like 26 editions, has been printed into half-a-dozen different tongues and has already been .widely read, and the dramatic version has had a remarkable career from the moment it was placed on the stage. A story which has fascinated so many people hardly requires detailing. The hero is - a daring Britisher, whose sign- ! manual was a little English floweir, receipt of which by the French authorities, in the exciting times ol 1792, proclaimed the escape of another intended victim for "Madame Guillotine." The authoress of the book is her own playwright. The drama follows closely on the lines of the novel, and is said to preserve very -admirably the picturesque types of personages of the period, and the atmosphere in which they lived. Mr. Julius Knight appears as Sir Percy Blakeney (The Scarlet Pimpernel), and Miss Ola, Humphrey as Marguerite Blakeney, while Mr. Williamson's company are said to be all-placed in most suitable characters. The locale and period of the story lend themselves to elaborate scening and dresses. ——-~————— I