THE CLIMAX

Inangahua Times, 22 January 1915, Page 2

THE CLIMAX

FLORENCE YOUNG'S COMPANY.

Great statemen, writers, and stage stars have arisen from time t ) time have had their short hey-'j day of popularity, and have then passed just as rapidly from the public mind, but (according to an Australian writer) Miss Florence Young still manages to hold her sway over a fickle public, and remains to- day, as she was twenty years ago, the uncro -vned queen of the Australian theatre. It is twenty-two years since Miss Florence Young first started with the firm of J. C. Williamson in Melbourne. " Many changes have taken place since then;" she told an interviewer the other day, " and many new faces are to be seen in the head offices of the firm

bull hive b:en practically a . fi.tire ell that time. I went j to Engl ind in 1897, and phved at! the Shaftesbury Theatre, London j From London I went to South j Africa as prima donna in ''Thei Scarlet Feather," and several other light opras. This trip was a hug .3 success, and I was repeatedly asked to stay in that country, but I decided to return to Enpjaid. I then loured England for fifteen months till Mr William son wrote asking me to come back, and so I returned to Aus'ralia in 1901. I played steadily till 1905 and then took a holiday trip to America. Since my return I hive been playing continuously." Miss Young's versatile/is indicated by the fact ! that she has played in opera, musical comedy, tragedy, and pantomime and she has played them all equally well, She has now achieved her overwhelming desire of years to appear in a lyric play and that success has beeh overwhelming is , amply proved by the full houses and eulogistic press notices everywhere accorded " The Climax." M iss Young appear in " The Climax "at the Princess Theatre to'-morrow night the performance commenc ing at 845, The plan is at Cohen's.