RETURN OF POPULAR ACTRESS

Evening Star, Issue 18333, 21 July 1923, Page 15

RETURN OF POPULAR ACTRESS

EMELIE POLINI SEASON. An important season will bo inaugurated at ilis Majesty’s Theatre by J. 0. Williamson, Ltd., on Thursday next, when tho popular dramatic company, headed by tho young dramatic genius Emelio Polini and the distinguished leading man, Mr Frank Harvey, will make its reappearance alter an absence of over two years. Miss Emolie Polini on her last visit probably gained as great a share of puplic favor as has been granted to any dramatic actress during recent years, and her return is certain to be heartily welcomed by all those whoso tastes lio in tho direction of superior dramatic performances. The initiation of the now season will bo rendered noteworthy by the production for tljo first time in New Zealand of what is described us a dramatic novelty in three acts and nine scenes by tho well-known author, Edward Knoblock—My Lady’s Dross.’ The new play is stated to bo unusually powerful, tho story resembling Miss Polini’s previous success, ‘ Eyes of Youth,’ and allowing in a series of .remarkable scenes the various origins of the materials used in'the gown discussed in tho first act. Time travels apace, and tho spectator is taken to Whitechapel, where poor little Anne {Emelio Polini) is depicted as a flower maker, offering to sell her glorious hair in order to do a charitable action. It is the turn of the furs now—fur is an adjunct to the silk dress —and in Siberia a stirring dramatic episode is introduced, again of love and treachery. And so on, until the scene again switches back to the boudoir, the awakening and the reconciliation. This successful play had remarkable runs in Melbourne and Sydney. ‘My Lady’s Dress’ will be staged for the first four nights, and will be followed in quick succession by three other dramatic successes—‘Tho Lio,’ ‘French Leave,’ and ‘The Flaw.’ The box plans for the season will bo open at The Bristol next Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock.