KATIILENE MAGDONELL SEASON.,

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17424, 19 September 1918, Page 7

KATIILENE MAGDONELL SEASON.,

f m ° x , l'' ans f° r tho J. C. Williamson Jvathleno MacDonell season, to commence at His Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday, will be opened at tho Bristol on Saturday. Miss Katlili.no AlaclJoiiell will be warmly rememas Judy Abbott in "Daddy Long Legs." " Romance" is presented in a prologue, threo acts, and an epilogue, tho first-named serving to introduce the story told in tho threo acts, the epilogue adding an artistic tail-picce. Great things may be expected of Miss Jvatlilone Mad >onell as La Cavallini, tho bewitching opera singer who enslaves the young clergyman, Thomas Armstrong. Mr Charles Waldron is said to bo admirable as the love-torn rector of Saint ydes. 'lhe cast comprises 110 less than 25 names, including many well known to the public. The plot is somewhat original. In the first we discover Bishop Armstrong, in his study on New Year's Eve, trying to dissuade his grandson from marrying an actress, and tho young man, accusing his grandfather ol prejudice, asks what he has i?r> a snm " box: ho has just produced. 'Romance, my boy," he saj's, "tho romance of my lost youth," and thereupon dccides to tell his' grandson tho story of his own young life as a -naming, and just as he begins, "Over 40 years ago when I was a young rector at Saint Giles"... the curtain falls. _to riso a moment later on tho play which is tho storv of his romance—a play within a play. In this it is said that Miss MacDonell interprets tho part of Margherita Cavallini with consummate art, her railings against love being delivered with passionate emphasis, while "1 the scene _ with Tom, where he offers to sacrifice his life to safeguard her future, and she piteously cries that " her heart will always bo his, but let me keep my soul," she reaches tho height of dramatic art.