THE POLLARD OPERA SEASON.

Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1898, Page 5

THE POLLARD OPERA SEASON.

"THE GAT PARISIENNE." A brief sketch of the new musical comedy which the Pollard's are to introduce to us on Monday evening will he read with interest :— Mr. Ebenezer Honeycomb, who resides at Kingston-on-Thames, was -in Paris with the sense of freedom that the upright, positive-minded Briton feels when he's on a holiday far from the restraints of the domestic circle. He had his fling. It was on)y a passing hour of mad dissipation, a submission to the wiles of the sorceress, and then a suit for breach of promise of marriage. Thereby hangs the tale. Artful man, he has given UienameofafrieiuljAmosDingle. When lie returns home, his serenity is disturbed by the recollection of his taste of unauthorised delight. Honeycomb is a man with two lives, the man who would be wicked, and the man as he is enshrined within the restricted •limits of his wife's scrutiny. You have all seen him. He is a man of high character, of noble impulses, of fascinating sentiments— when his wife is looking. When she is not, he is a bit of a dog, who plunges into the delights of the hour like a man of the town, with all the inclination and twice the guile. The Gay Parisienne arrives, with her " brother," to prosecute her action. She wants £10,000. She is passionate, charming, and intense. She smokes cigarettes and invites gentlemen to tie her bootlace. Honeycomb is caught again, and is discovered by the incensed partner of his home in an attitude which is not more compromising than it need be. He flees to Germany, and while there is supposed to meet with an accident while mountaineering, and a fictitious account of his death appears in the English press. Meanwhile he is staying at the Spa Hotel disguised as a , Scotchman. Mrs. Honeycomb arrives to visit the place of her husband's death. The "Gay Parisienne" also comes on the scene ; her " brother " is disguised as a waiter in the hotel, and the amount of dodgiug and lying that Honeycomb is called upon to do to avoid recognition creates great fun. There is a counterplot running through the piece concerning the loves of Tom Everleigh, a young barrister, and Nora, one of Honeycomb's daughters, which ends happily, as all successful stories do.