THE HAMILTON-MAXWELL. COMPANY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10514, 23 July 1910, Page 6

THE HAMILTON-MAXWELL. COMPANY.

"WOMAN AND WINE." The Hamilton-Maxwell Company gave a satisfactory rendering of the" spectacular melodrama "Woman and "A me" at the Opera House last night. 'I he piece is one that lends itself to the highest aspirations in stagecraft, and although there were occasions | when f.he mounting could have been i upon, these defects were lost ! ?!! the ai;-i-t>i3nd excellence of the per-ic-rmanco. Of plays of its class, it is net too much to say "Woman and Wine" ranks amongst the best that have been staged in Oamaru. 'it is not, as the name would seem to imply, one of those productions in which profligacy r.nd intoxication are the prevailing features: rather are these questionable stage attributes obscured by the debasing effect of wine and pleasurable living on man's mental nature rather than on his physical. As the hero of the piece, Mr" Max Maxwell had the heaviest part, and his work Mas of a bright and uniform charactei throughout. Miss Nellie Strong, Maxwell's evil genius, was also heavily cast in a role for which she showed herself to be thoroughly adapted; which indeed may be said of Miss Beatrice Hollowav, 31is<; Vera Remoo. Mr Richard tfellairs, Mr Godfrey Cass, Mr Wallace Riley, Mr Charles Brown, Mr Sydney G. de Vine, all of whom were cast in leading parts, and others who occupied less important positions.