MR ANDREW MACK.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8797, 26 April 1907, Page 2

MR ANDREW MACK.

The next attraction at Marlon will be tho appearance of Mr Andrew Mack. The "star" is a tenor singer and actor of high repute in the United States. Two years ago when Mr J. C. Wlliamson first brought this artist to Australia, he met with such enormous success that his whole engagement was practically devoted to Mclborne and Sydney. Tho vast theatres were nightly crowded to witness the performances of this eminent comedian. Th« characters Mr Mack has made, especially his own, arc those of quietly genial and refined Irishmen—as distinguished from the phillelah flourishing 'begorra" variety that have b3on more generally—perhaps too generally seen on the stage. The production will be "Tom Moore," a play founded on the life of the famous poet. Though the married life of Thomas Moore has been fully chronicled in tho biographies of that famuo3 poet, little is known'-; of the years of wooing that preceded it, before Bessie Dyke, the youns actress, consented to become his wife.

It is that timo, during the first blush' of Moore's literary success, that has been chosen for tho period of the drama "Tom Moore" which Andrew Mack will introduce to Marton playgoers for the first timo at the Opera House on Wednesday next. The author is careful to remind his audiences that the play may not bo strictly accurate, but presuming that a certain amount of license is permissible, he has adhered closely enough -to the known sentimental interest. Tho poet's early years in London when ho was winning his wav to fame are pictured in several wo 11 known figures, including the Prince Regent, afterwards George IV., his favourite Mrs Fitzherbert, Lovelace, Sheridan and others being brought on to the stage. Naturally a feature of "the play is the inclusion of many of Moore's melodies, and tho fact that he himself was wont to sing them in society has been fully availed of for the sake of Mr Mack's other charm, that of the possession of a. well trained and sympathetic tenor voice. Mr Mack will be supported by his own specially selected company of Irish comedians. _ The mounting of tho play is on a lavish scale, and the season should boom in no uncertain fashion.

Box plan for the performance will be opened at Mogridge's on Saturday morning at nine o'clock.