AMUSEMENTS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10753, 28 April 1911, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

"SEVEN DAYS." The box plans were opened at the Dresden this morning for the only appearance of Hugh J. Ward's company of comedians, who visit Oamaru on Tuesday next for ono uiirht only. The public amply demonstrated by the booking the large interest centred in the final visit of this popular organisation. The reports of the merry play "Seven Days' 1 which have reached us from Australian quarters say it is of most mirth-provoking description, in which every member of this talented company is seen and heard to advantage, and all promise to sustain their already high and popular reputations. "Seven Days" is a quarantine comedy; unusual circumstances that enforce uncongenial associations between people of varying conditions in life, obviously present occasion for farcical situations, and it must therefore be placed to the credit of the authors of "Seven Days" that they have been the first to develop for the stage the mirthful humors of a real quarantine story. This has been brought about by the transfer from- the bookstall to the theatre of Mary Roberts ltinchart's well-known American tale, ""When a Man Marries," with Miss Avery Hop Wood as collaborator. The Sun, Sydney, in speaking of the opening production of "Seven Days" recently at the Palace Theatre, remarked: "Mr Ward has been fortunate in securing a play so eminently suited to the possibilities of this combination. It was his last effort before retiring as an actor, and he wanted something particularly good, and having got it, he spared no time, money, or brains in presenting a piece with which his name is likely to be long associated."