" THE J.P."

Otago Witness, Issue 2695, 8 November 1905, Page 64

" THE J.P."

At His Majesty's Theatre on Thursday next (King's Birthday) the Strand Theatre Company will inaugurate a brief season with the much-talked of fares comedy " The J.P.," which ■will be presented under arrangement -with. Mr J. C. Williamson, and is .described as a piece vvhich has been constructed by its_ author to create laughter by any and by all means, and consequently is a veritable screamer Headed by two leading English Gaiety stars in the persons of Miss Florence Lloyd and Mr J. J. Dallas, the company comprises a number of artists of the highest prorainence,|arD.ongsi them being Aliases Maude Chetwynd; FJoience Ee'dfein, Magda Kossmcre, Madge Herrick, Norah Delaney, and Austin; Messrs Aubrey Mallalieu, G'regan M'Miahon, Toiu Cannam, Johnson Weir, etc. Ihe plot is shortly the adventures of Csesar Montague, J.P., the letters signifying bofck justice of the peace and jocular party. Csesar i?i both. At home he is eminently respectable, staid, and sober to a degree-; abroad at Bc-ulonge he is completely opposite. He is particularly anxious to stand well in the estimation of his l'ephew, who is to be his heir, provided lie falls in with the matrimonial arangements made by his uncle en his behalf. Charlie has matrimonial arrangements of his own. He has been married on tho quiet to Flo Neville, principal boy at the Bijou Theatre, ■whose own particular friend is Kate Earle at the Gaiety Theatre, and wife of a low poiniedian, who fancies he was born to play tragedy. The two ladies take the lead in the exposure of the pious fraud, who is ever addressed as the J.P., and -who has had a bad time particularly under the treatment of Flo Neville, who, putting herself xa male- attire, assumes the style and title of Captain Rattler, a gay dog, and lures the man on to brandies and -sodas and a little game of nap, in which he &r she contrives to fleece him of all his money, seeing that Charlie underneath tho table arranges the card 3. Such is a brief outline of this amusing comedy and the doings of the J.P. and his friends, and there seams little doubt that crowded houses will rule throughout the season, as the demand for seats a.t the Dresden was exceptionally heavy yesterday.