The Leitch Company.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 82, 20 December 1887, Page 2

The Leitch Company.

Mr Fred Casein, the proprietor of the Albion Club Hotel, has received a wire from the Leitch Company saying that they will play for one night only, on Thursday evening next, when the sensational play " Harbour Lights" will be produced. This company, throughout their tour in the Colony, have met with good receptions, and Gisborne people will .have a chance of seeing one of the best companies that has ever appeared in New Zealand. There is sure to be a large audience present, as it will be some time before such a good company visits Gisborne again. The following extract from the Auckland Star will give an idea of the success of the piece as played by Mr Leitch: — The Opera House was ones again crowded last night to witness the second production of u Harbour Lights," by Mr George Leitch and his Company. The play is an intensely sen. sational one all through, and the Company showed themselves fully equal to the task of intrepreting the various passions set to them by the playwright. Mr Leitch was extremely diverting as Tom Dossiter, the comic but faithful quarter-master, who in order to secure the hand of Peggy Chudleigh, undertakes to collect the bad debts of her mother. Mr Leitch’s performance was one of the richest and most artistic pieces of low comedy acting ever seen here, and he received quite an ovation after each act. Mr J. Montgomery as' Squire Morland gave a good rendering of a bad character, while Mr F. Stanmaur, as the the cousin of the squire, made a sufficiently disagreeable character, and brought down the hisses of the house by his villiany. Mr H. C. Sydney gave the character of Lieutenant Kingsley, a capital and spirited rendering, being the open-hearted sailor to the life. Miss Alice Norton, as Dora Vane, did her part to perfection, and Miss Emilie Brown, as the unfortunate Lina Nelson, did full justice to a difficu't part. All the other characters were capitally rendered and went as smoothly and as successfully as the most captious critic could desir*.