WILLOUUHBY-GEACH COMPANY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7854, 10 December 1903, Page 2

WILLOUUHBY-GEACH COMPANY.

1 TO-NIGHT. This evening Messrs Willoughby and Geach will play in the Opera House, and, in view of the popularity of performers and performance, a large audience is anticipated. The fnree-act farce-comedy, "Topsy Turvy," is t: be the pioduction, and one in which Mr Willoughby has scored a hit in the chief Australian cities, and of which a Sydney exchange r says : — "This farcical comedy is in three acts, and the joint authors have certainly introduced almost the maximum of hilarity into the play, and have furnished a 'strong tonic for elevating depressed spirits and overcoming the most pronounced fit of the' blues. The dialact is vacy, the incidents developed in the course of the plot arebeyond even the suspicion of coarseness, and the. funny situations follow so rapidly that. the audience presents a new illustration of 'laughter holding both its' Sides.'" '"lopsy Turvy" will be preceded by a charming domestic comedy entitled ".Airs Hilary Regrets." Since the season of laughter is positively limited to this evening's performance, the popular com ■ bination should, and doubtless will, attract a crowded audience here, as elsewhere. Mr George Willoughby and company, who dlpsed a successful season in Wellington recently with "Topsy Turvy" arrived in Hawera to-day.