"SEVEN DAYS'LEAVE."

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17323, 24 May 1918, Page 8

"SEVEN DAYS'LEAVE."

!• The Allan Wilkie season, under the direction of Messrs Ben. and John Fuller, with the epy play, " Seven Days' Leave," as tho chief attraction, will commence to-morrow ), evening in His Majesty's Theatre, and tho ir booking reported for the premiere gives pt promise ot a record season. Walter ■k Howard's play has had so much written ill about it, anct has been a reigning attracis tion in so many theatres all over the world to eince its first production two years ago, that most playgoers are acquainted in some degree with its main elements. The playwright set out to write a play which, while not in essence a war play, dealt with a cir» sr cumstance of war times only too prevalent .9 in England, as we know to our cost. Tho i; spy menace in England, although ft was ; quickly dealt with, produced many sensa- -- tional incidents, as wo know from a study ), of the daily newspapers. No student of ". history will regard the plot of " Seven d Days' Leave" as improbable in tho light S of theso revelations. Briefly, it deals with 7 the machinations of two spies in a small -3 village on the East Coast of England, and ; with tho brilliant way in which Captain Terence Fielding circumvents them, with X) the assistance of a brave young Englishy woman, who swims out to sea and gives n the signal that brings the submarine up to 5 its fate. Tho depletion of this incident is — said to be one of the greatest bits of stage ir mech-inism yet revealed to the public. Mr >d vVjlkip lias a fine heroic role in Captain •s. Fiqlding, and is well supported by a capre able company, which Includes the clever young Australian actress, Miss Marie Noy. Tho box plans are at the Bristol, and day sales are now obtainable at Jacobs's.