"THE DOWN EXPRESS."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11839, 20 April 1909, Page 5

"THE DOWN EXPRESS."

At His Majesty's Theatre on Thursday evening the above-named drama 'will be presented. , All arrangements hayo been made to ensure the success of the production. The plot is a very interesting one,' being mainly centred 'round the life of the heroine, Miss Laura Courtland, who is supposed to be an outcast, having out of pity been taken from the streets when a child by a philanthropic lady who adopts her as her niece. This news is broken to her lover on the eve of their marriage, and by accident gets ; to the ears of society, who* denounce her. She flees from her home, disgraced, and -is fruitlessly searched for for months, at hist being found in a wretched basement in New York. She is persuaded by her friends to return to them, hut is abducted by her supposed father, Who tries to murder her by throwing Ker into the Hudson river, from which she is rescued by her lover. She again flees from her friehds, and while Waiting at ,a. wayside station for the next inoming's train is locked in a goods shed from which she sees the villain, for revenge, tie her faithful friend a one-armed messenger, to the rails. She at length batters down the door of tho shed, and rescues the messenger just as the express dashes by. The mystery of her birth is cleared after, many trials 'by the. announcement that her cousin-p a heartless flirt — and not the heroine, is the outcast, they having been changed in their cradles by an old nurse^ The piece has a broad viein of humor running through it, thus relieving the darker . side of the plot. Magnificent scenery and dresses have been prepared for the production.