"BABY MINE," TO-NIGHT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 11 July 1917, Page 8

"BABY MINE," TO-NIGHT.

J. C. WILLIAMSON COMEDY CO

The Williamson Comedy Company, headed by the popular comedy artists, Robert Greig and Beatrice Holloway) has met with unprecedented success with the three-act comedy, "Baby Mine." Wherever this piece is presented it creates quite a sensation. "Baby Mine" will be staged at the Opera House to-night. The child-wife of a jealous man simply cannot tell the truth, and when sh.e innocently lunches with her husband's best friend she launches into fiction and domestic upheavals when the simple truth would obviate all trouoles. She is found out, and her husband, tired of hearing her tell the 'real truth,' leaves in high dudgeon, never to return. It is at this point, the end of the first act, that the authoress takes the daring step of opening her farce with a sad note. The little wife, attempting to write an appeal to her husband to return, breaks down. The. situation is delicately tinged with sweet pathos, and suggests that the writer of the comedy had confidence in her powers when she commenced a farce with tears. There comes from her friends the brilliant idea of borrowing a baby and of testing the axiom's power to bring the husband back. But unfortunately accidents occur, and by the time the/third act is on its way the family has reached triplets. The "play, though it makes men laugh hugely may nlso ruffle their dignity, but women enjoy every line of it.