"UNCLE TOM'S CABIN."'

Press, Volume L, Issue 14982, 1 June 1914, Page 9

"UNCLE TOM'S CABIN."'

Inaugural New Zealand performances of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" will bo given this evening at _, by lieorge \tilloughby's New Dramatic Company. Interpreted by a combination which includes Mr Cyril Mackay and Miss Nellie Fergusson in leading roles, Messrs Herbert Leigh, Vivian J_dwards, J. P. O'Neill, Ronald Riley, Darcey Kelway, Bruce and the Misses Nell Holroyd, Little Vera Huggett, Rose Terry. Pearl Helmrich, Pearl Smith, and Little Dot Proctor, tne newly dramatised musical melodrama, with singing, dau.ing, ragtime, plantation and sacred melodies interpolated, presents in addition to striking stage tableaux, dramatic scenes ot <- <-v interest. Providing f, ie ums'-al portion are the New York Jubilee Singers, the Era Comedy Four, ragtime specialists, and the National Duo. Tho scenic studies include the frozen river, which calls upon the full width and depth resources of the stage, and the »reat waterfall scene. The whole production is under the personal supervision of Mr Lester Brown, of New York, brought specially from -America to stage the piece in Sydney. The boy nlan for the six nishts' season of "CV'.e Tom's Cabin"' is now open at the Drev'en. and day ,vil©» may be obtained at the Toy Cfve. A matinee will lio. given on Wednesday next (King's BirtWay). on which occasion half --ieo wW v -n _ >d for children to all parts of the theatre.