THE KING'S THEATRE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 5853, 28 September 1917, Page 5

THE KING'S THEATRE.

PAULINE FREDRICK IN ZAZA. To-night Pauline Fredrick will make her first appearance as “Zaza,” the musio-liail artist of wonderful character who loves, loses, and forgives in a manner that will please everyone. The play is saud to be magnifioent, and the acting and staging superb. The plot- is an adaptation of Daniel Frohman’s emotional

Broadway drama, reprodu<vd in five feeds. Zaza, so the .story goes, has brought the youth aijd fashion of Paris to her foot, but she is proof against the wiles of Oupid for a long time. Then she meets Bernhard Dufrase, and he passionate w<xving finds a response Her love is £ flame, and consumer her whole being. Thes she discovers that her lover is already married. She becomes a tigress 'in her fast for 'revenge. her hatred of her deceiver is •intense, a.nd she turns furiously upon some fitting object- for her vengeance. Hiis w*if 0 a.nd chi Id 1 But here comes the great climax which is the secret of Z ana's popularity throughout the world. T n the most dramatic moment of the play the majesty of her soul reveals itself, and in a magnificent denouement. She presents a. memorable piot.u re of the worn an who ca n love, lose, and forgive. The support ng ■items include an amusing Vitagraph comedy. “When it Ba ns it Pours,’’ charming Japanese scenic study, rnd the Pnthc Gazette.