"OUR MISS GIBBS"

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2678, 26 January 1916, Page 3

"OUR MISS GIBBS"

REVIVAL AT OPERA HOUSE I OAST OP CHABACTERS: The Honourable Hughie Purripont r i,. Tv, , . . Leslie Holland BUtwf £ St ' lTes K - Dan took S i'y Reginald ltoberts f„ r - Charles Albert Derek Hudson A To?? riili, Jack Halston A Ce£by - Alfred Andrew nS: Dick Shortland r? j S mu - 'M Smith Utdr Elizabeth Thanet Ethel Cadman Addie Lennard Jino Duoaess of Alinster ..... jiaggie Moore Jfrs. 1 arqunar Florence Young •••'• Vera Pain Yick Millar Kathleen Mildred O'Brien kybil Jesßie Ccflyzi W Uonme Nellie l'ain Xxwly Trixie Eitie Btevenson way Angela, hiieen Cottoy W Sluxlel Leah Pritchard ; Bessie Jfc'oy ■Wary Gibbs, Minnie Love 1 Breezy humour, bright music, and a wealth of colour in dresses and stage setting are features of "Our Miss Gibbs," a musical comedy which was presented at the Grand Opera House last night by J. 0. Williamson's ttoyal Comic Opera Company. Throughout the play the (sparkle and .dash never and the comedy should have a suocesstul run during the short season of tljree nights which it will have in Wellington. It was welcomed by a large audience. Like most plays of this kind, the plot Dr story is immaterial; it is the setting and music and acting which count. The fun provided by Mr. Leslie Holland and Mr. Phil Smith, as the Honourable x Hughie Purripont and Timothy Gibbs respectively,. kept. the house in roars of laughter. Miss Minnie Love, as Mary, Gibbs, oame quite up to expectation, her impersonation of the part being excellent, while in her singing of "In Yorkshire," and "Mary," with- a chorus of gentlemen, sue won fresh laurels. With Mr. Phil Smith she sang two effective duets. : Miss Maggie Moore had a hearty reception on her reappearance before a Wellington audience; As the Duchess of Minster she filled the bill. Miss Florence Young, as Mrs. Farquhar, made her part successful. The singing of Miss Ethel Cadman, who 'took the part of Lady Elizabeth Thanet, was another feature of the performance, "The Dancing Lesson" and "The Arms and the Man" being warmly applauded. The Earl of Ives was played by Mr. C. It. Bantock, and the part of Slithers, a professional crook, by Mr. Reginald Roberts, while Lord Eynsford was capably played by Mr. Derek Hudson: - The remaining characters in the piece were ably represented. The scenes through which the story progresses, with many entertaining musical and humorous digressions, are laid in a fashionable London millinery store, and at the FrancoBritish Exposition, the experiences of -'Mary, the lass from Yorkshire, providing the theme. "Our Miss Gibbs" will bo presented again to-night and tomorrow night. , :