ABBQTFS OPERA HOUSE.
Boucicault's drama, "The Shaughraun,". was repeated, last night at the Opera House with as unqualified a. success as on the previous evening. To-night the dramatised version of Charles Reade's celebrated work, 1 "It is Never too Late to Mend," will.be produced. In referring to this drama a contemp.,rary observes :—" Its varied incidents comprise not only a just exposition of penal tyrannies, hut faithful, and pretty pictures of English farm life, while in. contradistinction the audience are presented, with, wild; vivid, and realistic portraits of the Australian bushj one of discovery of fail especially to latere t residents of the southern hemisphere, The moral of the drama is a pure and healthy pile, which, while it wards that crime invariably, brings its own punishment, at the same time points Out to the sinning mortal— ■" It is Never too Latetb Mend."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6813, 18 September 1883, Page 5
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142ABBQTFS OPERA HOUSE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6813, 18 September 1883, Page 5
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