Herbert Flemming Company

Southland Times, Issue 12124, 2 May 1908, Page 2

Herbert Flemming Company

It. is said Hi at even - lover of the intellectual nnd artistic in drama will welcome Hie commit of Mr Flemming's Company because any critical survey of the Australasian stage at the present time, while revealing 1 much in enterprise, a good range in variety—especially upon the light musical side —and certainly no lack of expenditure in catering for the public needs in bright entertainment, discloses an obvious gap. The suggestion that Australian taste and talent lias deteriorated during the last ill* years would be very properly resented, because there are 100 many phases of art —notably literature, painting and music —in which conspicuously good tilings have been accomplished, lint it is undeniably true that nearly all that is new in the drama is of the cheap, evanescent, catch-penny, sonsalional order. .Mr Herbert Flemming claims that lie lias undertaken to remedy the defect, to cultivate the barren places, to fill the field in which the ever-to-be-re inombered Brough-Bouci-cault companies were too often, unfortunately, only gleaners, instead of gatherers, of the full harvest to which art and honest, labour entitled them. On Thursday Mr Flemming will present for the first time in Invercargill “ Dr. Wake’s Patient,” a play in four acts by W. (layn Mackay and Robert Ord, whilst Friday and Saturday will he reserved for the two equally successful plays, "The Mummy and the Humming Bird,” and the "Morals of -Marcus.” The box plan for the three nights will be open at the Dresden on Monday morning.