“SCANDAL.”

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9572, 25 July 1923, Page 3

“SCANDAL.”

THE FAMOUS DR AA! A. Harry T. Cob on, by arrangement with J. C. Williamson, will present at the Opera House, Cosmo Hamilton’s daring comedy, "Scandal. This plav is booked for a three nights' season commencing Friday. “Scandal, which is in three acts, is the tale of what happens to a spoilt young girl, who disregarded convention in order to save herself from a compromising situation. Beatrix Vandordvke, the girl, announces to her .relatives that she is wedded to Pelham Franklin, a sportsman and big > game hunter. Franklin allows her tal.?' to go by unchallenged, but later, regretting "the mood, demands that she eithoßMoralisos their lie or lives up to it. She refuses to do either, with i-lie result that Franklin engages in ca.ve-nian tactics. _ Then, when they seem to be • skating on thin He, the author brings into the play his unusual sense of humor and saves them from what appears to. he a. very black situation. As in all proper* novels, the two principal characters realise that they are meant foiveach other, and with, this realisation. in their minds they are. wrought together by the medium of a, powerful love. Doris Dual up who has had a remavkahlv successful career, carries the vole of Beatrix Van-' dei-dyke. Erie Harrison, the matinee idol of the play, is the Pelham Franklin of the story. The box plan is at Aluir’s, booksellers.