THE SEASON OF LAUGHTER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9640, 15 January 1903, Page 2

THE SEASON OF LAUGHTER.

TEE WRONG MR WRIGHT, , -.v -AND "ON 'AND OFF. That; the capacious Theatre Royal will be severely taxed on Monday ppxt is a fua-egoiiK; cbnclusMMi, .since Mr" Ueorga Willoughby and Company are to appear m il\& : great laughing success "The Wrong Mr Wright,' 'which, as is generally kiioyriij is fcbt? latest >and best effort of the successful author of "What Happened to Jones," which, is sufficient to draiv accord; house. in any community. Mucfc as t!ie play-going publifc , think of "The \Vrong Mr Wright," as a laughing raiser, it has been totally eclipsed quite recently m Auckland by the very latest London farce-comedy m "On and Off," which follows ''Mr Wright" on Tuesday nighlYnexts ;When staged at Auckland l-ecently the ; piece was,, indeetl, almost generally declared by <its patrons to be infinitely funnier ; thai* "The Wrong Mr Weight.;; The judgment- of the general, pjkjygoer .is geiierally far amiss m niattera of this sort, and upon this oc-ca§iQUj-it' < i& ( backed, by a consensus of opinion wliich, Speaks for itself. Of c'outee, the production, like*, all pieces of its class, is blessed. . with the inevitable impossibilities, but these are more judiciously veiled tkm }s ujmal, the Uumor is less boisterous aud (lie element of burlesque does not stifle quite so vigorously the lighter forms of wit. The box plan for' the geason ja now open at Miller's.