ALLEN DOONE COMPANY.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17740, 17 April 1923, Page 13

ALLEN DOONE COMPANY.

THE CHRISTCHURCH SEASON. The opening bill of the Allen Doone Co. for the coming season, will be "Lucky O'Shea," a romantic comedy drama of the Napoleonic period. O'Shea, the central figure, ono of those daredevil freelances, whoße swords and keen wits were ever ready in the service of the "Little Corporal, is handled with spirit and rare insigiit of character by Mr Doono, who is always at home in this class of work. Speaking oi this play, the "New Zealand Times" suid: "The audienoe at the Grand Opera House on Saturday evening had not seen the like of this play for years. Mr Doone's vignettes of the gipsy and. the mock bailiff are gems of their kind. In the congenial role of Rose MoMichael, the beUo of Dublin, Miss Edna Keeley gives a spirited of the courageous girl whose coqliettishness merely serves as a foil to better display the qualities of her nature." Among the supporting company are Misses Mabol Russell, Adele Inman, C. Kvte, and Billee Jones, and Messrs Ronald Riley, (flias. Brown, Richard Bellairs, Maurice Lynch, Cecil Soott, Kevin Kerrigan, and J. Vincent White. Tile plans for "Lucky O'Shea" will be opened at The Bristol at 9 o'clock this morning.