"THE MAN ON THE BOX.''

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 223, 18 September 1915, Page 9

"THE MAN ON THE BOX.''

■ ■ Last week, at the Grafton Theatre, "The l."nwelcome Mrs. Hatch" filled the house every night. This week Tittell Brune, in "Iron Justice." has been more than tilling the theatre, for on two evenings the notice •house full" has had to he po-ted before eight o'clock. Next week th- proprietor-' -t.ir "The Man ou the Ron." Of course, everyone -has rend Harold Mc(,ratl.-.s famous story "The Puppet King." was ti:.- book' which brought the ant hoi into prominence, but it was "T',e Ma,, ~n the Box" v.', -h made him faniou-. And if t,he boo.. I-. good .vli.it of the pl.i\ : It may t-afelv .-aid Cat notbinu has been it lin dramatisation. The story, in f.i t. lends itself splendidly io pictorial ie ;■■- duetion. L: ",it. P.oh W.lrburton. limn ; • won distin,tion. and honourable wo:::: I, in the sen ii'i>, of !: ; - country, retii'i' ! hoiue on fuilou-'ii. Devilment proup: . I a little adventure, ivhici bring- in i - j trend .ill km,l- ~; ,i,„.\pe. ted dovdo;. ment-. W'lirl.iirton tike- the pin ■■ of the eo.lcbmilll. an.l plan to drive lo I ters huni" from a hill. But tiie !■' " . | slightly miseiirry. for the man .»..' ■ • I bo-, sets od on' n .vi,] ni Ini-j'.it ..i ,' r ithro'i.h the city with ladies win : •: ' not his sister-. I: r.uil... among-t , ■ I most delightful ceo,:.-dramas ~ sented in Auckland. Tic acting is su-.-.'i I—it is the work of the Famuli". Player, 'Company -mi.l it i. one of th" hosi , ,nInected and r.io>t v holr-omc photo-pi * ,-. ]we have seen. It I* a perfectly nai ■: i i story: there is never nn tilileal -i.i. tion in tlv pl.iy. Vet i- all very n.,'-!. very new. mil very .1. ii.htl'ul. The: c ;* a fre.-hne.-s. ~ and a ivii:-i<-If the two pieM-litij 111:,!- iv<n*e • "■• I returns from "1 lie \i.:-i on the Bo\ ' j should constitute .*. .void, for it ia an I infinitely hett'T pro.'.iieliun.