ENTERTAINMENTS.
"PEG O' MY HEART."
It is "Peg o' My Heart" we're sneaking of, and do you know whose heart it is you're referring to. Why, her father's heart, to be sure, though before lung it'll be the truth you're telling when you refer to "Peg o' Everybody's Heart." For a fascinating, red-headed little hoyden is this Peg, as she comes through in a role that is filled to the edges with quick Irish wit and cunning devil* rnent and tenderness that has you laughing most of the time; but it is not without the moments that bring moisture to the eyes. Coming back to the theory of her father—Peg thought it an excellent way to bring up children, as he did, and from the children's point of view it is; but remember all of them are not Irish, with the wit that's a saving grace. However, "Peg is Peg," and that is all there is to it. Wherefore, when she arrives in the richlyappointed living room of Regal Villa
(there's an aristocratic locale for you) your heart goes out to 'her in her dowdy steamer frock and "shady" hat with its disreputable red flowers and you're willing to take her "Michael or no Michael" as the case may be, which is more than her recently rich but now impoverished relations are ready to agree to. For Michael is a dog—plain, if you must have it —and though there is room in the house for the haughty Ethel j Chichester's toy pup, Michael is not welcome, and Peg objects strongly to .class distinction in dogs. "Can't see the use of learning the height of a lot of mountains she is never going to climb," is an amusing observation of Peg. When she has to draw the map of Europe Peg represents England, France and ' Germany with blots, and writes "Ireland" all over the rest of the sheet. Messrs J. and N. Tait, who have been responsible for so many successes in recent years, particularly wish it to be -known that they are sending Miss Sara Allgood and the original company for the performance here to-night and Monday of this great play. The box plan is filling rapidly at Mrs Elvey's.
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Northern Advocate, 28 September 1918, Page 2
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