STANFORD DRAMATIC COMPANY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12402, 16 January 1901, Page 2

STANFORD DRAMATIC COMPANY.

The Stanford Dramatic Company ■will commence its Christchurch season in the Theatre Royal -on Monday next, ■ when Charles Darrell’s celebrated drama,' ■ “ The Power and the Glory,” will be produced. This drama enjoyed a most phenomenal run in Melbourne and Sydney, and in Dunedin was played to packed houses for seven nights.; The production, it is claimed, will be remarkable for the splendour and 1 elaborateness of the scenic effects, comprising a succession of brilliant stage pictures, and will ba’ mounted.upon the same scale which charao-' tensed the production in Australia. It will be interpreted by a very powerful company,; which includes such well-known names as; Misses Ida Gresham, Holland Watts-Phil-' lips, Rose Conroy, Katie Towers, Rose Hoi-; loway, Pearliie Helhnricb, and Messrs 0. R. Stanford, J. P, Cathcart, J. P. O’Neill,’ Prank Hawthorne, George Chalmers, Prank Harcourt, and C. B. Westmocott. The “ Sydney Morning' Herald,” in sp-eaking .of, the performance, said: “Phil of startling, situations and blood-curdling schemes, it is 1 the kind of melodrama that exactly hits the taste of that large, section of the public which goes to the theatre.; It is most efficiently staged, the first-act giving aim ex-1 cellent-idea of the bustle .and.life of a great city, and .the audience were completely car-i tied away by the bird’s-eye view of London by night.” There are four’acts and 'njnescenes, and a tremendous effect will be.pixC d'uced when the- audience are introduced to the -interior of the Burlington Theatre, and witness the “flies,” “siage,” and a gorgeous transformation scene. The management have decided upon charging popular prices,and wish to intimate that the box plan will be opened to-day (Wednesday) at .Messrs Milner and Thompson’s,