AMUSEMENTS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue 13047, 10 January 1917, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

- "THE WAYBACKS." ... Year& ago Air' Bland. Holt bi'G'tigiu ; several dramas in Australian setuii;; last night Air Lytton iutroduced : 10 a, farce with the local coloring- of ti Australian hinterland, an enri*ag<'iiK of Henry Fletchers- uook, "Tlio tti bae ks," which was a very -living skoti of the selector's life in the backbit* of New South Wales, depicting t! hardships, the Jiaive pleasures-, tj family lile of The Way bucks, -and li vicissitudes that befell them on tin first vi»it> to the metropolis. The var of' the stage work depens almost wliol on tlio power of tlio caste in chit rail' work, and in t-liis -respect Air Wlllii Stewart as Dads was. very gcod. 11 clolent 'of the soil, and full of the phi sophy .begotten of many years of liu experience, Dads i.s a very iii.teivsui personality, and Air .Stewart, was ss cessful in the incarnation, though i was rather more assertive and less i iuinativo than we had pictured hit Air .Frank Shepa-rd as Cnariey Lyot the horse-breaker Komi".), presented a other admirable sketch. All's Glovi as the mother of the family, gave Ik self tip to burlesque rather more, th; was called for, and the villain « usually very much out of the picti)! but on the whole tlu.narts were fiiir well filled. The setting was bright, itf interesting, several of the- scenoa Iks ver.v realistic'.