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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4734, 16 August 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)

Mr Bland Holt continues to do excellent business at the Lyceum Theatre, Sydney. On Saturday evening, the 2nd August, he presented for the first time in Australia the stirring naval melodrama, "With Flying Colours,” by Seymour Hicks and Fred O. Latham. Mr Holt has staged the drama in a very elaborate manner, there being no fewer than seventeen changes of scene, providing as many tableaux by Mr John Brunton. This noted painter shows the railway platform at Southampton, a wood in autumn, the deck of H.M.S. Defiance by night, an English cottage garden at Dartmoor, and the quarries at which the prisoners work. A cast of thirty-three characters will include the following:—Mary Derrick, Miss Boss; Florence Hackett, Miss Ireland; Polly Tumble, Mr s Bland /Holt; Lieutenant Richard Dart. E.N., Mr Walter E. Baker; James Strangeways, Mr Albert Norman; Lotan Hackett, Mr Arthur Styan; Admiral Bellingfield. Mr Charles Brown; Midshipman Winter. Miss Francee*Rutledge; Detective Weldon, Mr E. B. Russell; Burglar Stone, Mr Harold Carr; and Bank-Messenger Harry Belt. Mr Bland Holt. The Adelaide season of the Hawtrey. Comedy Company was brought to a close on the Ist with a renewal of "The Lady ■of Ostend.”