THE AMATEUR ADVENTURESS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15542, 10 June 1921, Page 5

THE AMATEUR ADVENTURESS.

Miss Rosemary Rees’ 'English comedy, “Tho Amateur Adventuress,” will be presented at the Opera House on Friday next and Saturday, commencing the tour of her specially-selected company through tho Dominion. Miss Rees has written a brilliant jolly farce, with a slightly sentimental lluvor. Impersonation, that basis on which nearly till * merry farces are lounded, is given a novel turn. Mary Beamish bought a business and a name with it, and this is the main cause of all the farcical complications which ensue. Written around the Bohemian and pscudo-artis-tru life of London, the comedy gives in pig)it into the lives of tho professional careless ne’er-do-wells who, unconsciouslv, add to the gaiety of Dm community aV large. Miss Rees has lived near the characters which she has woven into her story of “The Amateur Adventuress,” and shared their lives; she is thus enabled to depict' the men and wopien of the story with a fidelity that v.opld be impossible to most other authors. ■*‘Th e Amateur Adventuress” is' frankly a fare© comedy, written to make people laugh. The fun'is always on the surface, bubbling up, and the humor is ol that crisp, wholesome, and buoyant tone that pleases immensely without oil end;nL, The principal characters in the. ulav are; Mrs. Beamish (Rosemary Keesl- Sarah O’Kellv (Katie Towers): Owen Freeland (Harold Moran); Iholilas Peak (George Broad); Martha Long (Pamela Wilson); Jimmy Arbuthnot (Bichard Lanauze) ; W illiam Bogp.s (Gregory Lawson); Lady • Arbumno. (Kora 'King); and Mary Seebold (Aio Marsh). - —A .