THE GLADYS LEIGH COMEDY COMPANY.
Tonight Aucklanders will have an opportunity of seeing and hearing an accomplished actress in the person of Miss Gladys Leigh, who, with Mr. L Leonard, and supported by an excellent company, will produce for the first time in the colonies one of the latest faroical comedies, " The Coming Woman." Mies Gladys Leigh is well known both in England end America and in the Australasian colonies Mia popular comedienne. She has sustained leading parts in various companies. ; As Wolverine Griffin in " The Coming Woman," Miss Leigh has ample scop* to display her abilities in farcical comedy, and there is little doubt thai "the woman of the year 2000" will ban an excellent interpreter in the lady under notice. ,The pathetic dramatic fancy '' Dream Faces," which is also quit* new to Aucklanderi, is admirably cast, and will give Mr. L Leonard, who appears as Robert,,an opportunity of displaying his well-known biatriooic ability. oomptn/ is'» strong on*, and wme excellent scenery ii being painted by Hirr Vennermark. f, The, season * can ; only last three nights, and -oti'; each ; evening the weedy "BWOomionWoman" will proi doced,pwoe<Why»Dr««fcm. ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10434, 5 May 1897, Page 5
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187THE GLADYS LEIGH COMEDY COMPANY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10434, 5 May 1897, Page 5
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