HIS MAJESTY'S TOURING THEATRE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10608, 10 November 1910, Page 6

HIS MAJESTY'S TOURING THEATRE.

Mr Phillip Lytton has 3ust completed arrangements for a tour thioughout the principal centres of the Dominion of what is claimed by.Australian exchanges to be the -most popular dramatic organisation and most novel theatre' tnao has ever toured the pr6vmces of the Commonwealth The company which is especially selected, is .headed by the eminent beauty actiess Miss Madge Hope. The thcatie itsctt is an cnoimous oblong canvas stinctnre, modelled on Saiah Bernhaidt's American touring playhouse, m which the divine Saiah touied with unpaialelled success throughout the United States and thus defeated the -"the.vtncal combme Jo <r lV e an idea of the size ot His Majesty's Touring Theatre," it may he mentioned that over 60 tons of piopeity is transposed, compnsing a stage which when erected is oCtt by 48ft in dimensions, and folding chans for seating over 2000, a proscenium w Inch would do credit to any metropolitan theatre an electric and gas plant, and over lo tons of scenery The company, which arrived mst two weeks ago fiom Austiaha, is announced to plaj at Oamaru duimg Show Week, the huge theatre being erected on Takaio Paik, oft Thames street, and a staff of mechanics is expected immediately to picpaie tor the Oamaiu season. The repertonc, it wall be seen from the ad* ei tisement, contams some widely known and popular dramas. '