REPERTORY THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 210, 3 June 1935, Page 3

REPERTORY THEATRE

A brief resume of the story of. "Sixteen,” to be produced by the Wellington Repertory Theatre in the Concert Chamber for four nights commencing on Wednesday under the direction of Mr. W. 8. Wauchop, is as follows:—Jennifer Lawrence, a young and attractive widow with two daughters, Baba, aged thirteen, and Irene, sixteen, is attracted by Sir John Collet, who meets the approval ot the girls in a friendly sort of way. When the elder girl finds Sir John embracing her mother, to whom he is now engaged, she is horrified. The next day she faints at school, presumably ill; but the I act is she cannot reconcile herself to the thought of her mother loving a man other than her dead father, whose im mory she very dearly cherishes. Baba, the younger, of quite' different temperament, is perfectly satisfied when she learns that her mother and Sir John are to be married the following day in the little country church near his estate, and Irene successfully hides her true feelings until her mother and Sir John have departed. When they return Irene is missing, lint is eventually found by her ipfnther in circumstances that suggest premeditated suicide. Her mother, frantic witli remorse. is willing to sacrifice Sir John for her daughter's happiness, but the family physician intervenes. lie makes Irene realise that Sir .John loves bci mother very dearly, tluit she had never known true happiness with her first: husband, and the curtain tails on a happy reconciliation.