ENTERTAINMENTS. "THE COLLEEN BAWN."

Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 73, 27 March 1900, Page 5

ENTER TAINMENTS. "THE COLLEEN BAWN."

To-morrow evening, the Marist Brothers' 014 Boys' Dramatic Club will perform Dion Boucicault's finest Irish drama entitled "The Colleen Bawn,"in aid of the Catholic schools of Wellington. The piece is full of stirring incidents and effective situations,, and cpnt nested with a good plot. It opens with the home of the Cregans on the Lake of Killarney. Hardress Oregan (Mr. Richard" Marshall) has been secretly married to Eily O'Connor, th.c Colleen Bawn (Miss L. Collins), the only witness to the ceremony being Dahpy" 2tfanq (Mr. George Harpur). Tore Cregan is mortgaged to a scoundrel, Spuire Corrigan (Mr. Denia Kelly) A who consents to forgo tho mortgage if Mrs. Oregon will marry him, but Hardress intercepts and tel}s him to do his worst. There is only one way to redeem the property, and that is for Hardress to many Anne Chute jMiss E. O'Bullivan) 4 and therefore Danny offers to put the Colleen Bawii (Hardress's wife) out of the way if he will consent to give him a glpve as a to ten. But Hardress repels his horrible proposition. Danny then tries to get Mrs. Cregan to coax him, and Mrs. Cregan, who has found out about this secret marriage, takes Hardress's glove from where he left it in the hall, and gives it to Danny, whp thinks it came from Hardress, and therefore takes Eily to a cave and tries to drown her. In the act of dping so he is shot by Myleg-na-Coppaleen (Mr. Ned Twohill), who saves Eily. Danny dies from the effect of the wound, and there is a general reconciliation in the last act, Everything is going smoothly, and the performance promises to be a success. Th,e box plan is /filling rapidly. A complimentary concert was tendered last night by the Glee and Madrigal Society to Mr. Robert Parker, its conductor, who ds about to leave Wellington on a visit . to Europe for the benefit of his health.. The concert tpok place in the Sydney-street school-room, which was well filled, and the programme presented was one of more than ordinary excellence. The Wellington Liedertafel gave two part songs, "The Beleaguered" and "Warrior's Prayer." Mr. Parker conducted. At the clpse of the concert, the Rev. T. H. Sprott said he had been requested \o make a presentation to Mr. Parker on the eve of hia departure. The members of the Liedertafel and Glee Society were fully conscious of the valuable services rendered by that gentleman, and they wished not merely to express their indebtedness to him, but desired to ask him to receive a slight token of their esteem. The rev. gentleman then presented Mr. Parker with a purse of sovereigns, and said they all hoped ho would benefit by his trip. Mr. Parker feelingly responded. Though he was very glad to go he would be happy to return. The new programme of the Vaudeville Company at the Choral Hall has "caught o»" with the public, and the hall is nightly crowded. Las,t night the building was filled from stage to exit door long before the hour of commencement. The Rev. Charles Clark, who is to begin his lecture entertainments in the Exchange Hall an Thursday evening, will give that evening the new patriotic oration, "St. Paul's, the British Temple of Honour" for the first time in Wellington. The popular lecturer has been received enthusiastically down South, and the critics are unanimous in declaring that he retains his varied gifts unimpairod. t A jolly hour or two was spent at the Sailors' Rest last evening when a varied programme was given, consisting of vocal and instrumental items by Mesdames Popham and Joyce, Misses Letham (2), Birch, and Godber, and Messrs. Harrison and Phillips (ship Auckland). A special feature was some graceful skirt dancing by Miss Norah Curtis, a step dance by Mr. Chris Davis (s.s. Waimate) and Indian club exercises by Mr. Rodwell (ship Auckland).