AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 33, 22 January 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

MB. H. B. IRVING AS HAMLET,

TO-MORROW, AT ELTHAM

To-morrow (Tuesday) will mark a great theatrical occasion in the history of Eltham, signallising as it will the first and only appearance there of Mr. H. B. Irving. To be presented with an opportunity of witnessing the famous son of Sir Henry Irving in any role would be an event of extraordinary importance, but added interest will be in the fact that the J. C. Williamson, Ltd., management have arranged to present Mr. Irving in his splendid interpretation of “Hamlet.” The remarkable success achieved in Australia by Mr. Irving as the Prince of Denmark is unprecedented in the annals of the stage. • Night after night during his Sydney season the whole of the dress circle' and stalls were booked up entirely, and never on any occasion did-the first rush fail to fill the cheaper portions of the theatre. The same fate greeted Mr. Irving in Melbourne, Adelaide, and Western Australia, but it was in Auckland that he met with hig crowning success, as, although the northern city contains a small population in comparison to the leading cities of Australia, so much did Mr. Irving appeal to the populace in “Hamlet” that Shakespeare’s famous

tragedy held the boards for no less thin two weeks, and on every occasion it was staged hundreds were nightly , unable to obtain admission. Miss Dorothea Baird will take the role of Ophelia, in which she is said to be charming. The cast, which is exactly tb * same as that which supported Mr. Irving at his farewell London production- of “Hamlet,” includes Messrs. Frank Tyars, who will appear as King Cladius, Henry Yibart ,as the Ghost, Toni Reynolds as the grave-digger, Arthur Whitby as Polonius. Eric Maxon. a!s Laertes, Stanley-Hewlett as Horatio, W.'Beaumont as Osric, Arthur Curtiss as Rosendfantz. 0. Trevor Roper as'Guild en st e rn, W. Hen stock ar. Marcellusjl J. Cass 1 as Bernado, Ronald Frarieifcco, W. H.i Gra-i ham as Reynaldd.r Roland i Pertnis ar, • the;ifirst'.player,; Claude Beerbobm ■as the .second-3inlayer. l Walter Gibbs a rv the- pripsti-j o.(Arthur as the second i grave-digperj Miss 'Helen Rous as Gerand 1 Miss Irene Brown as the pi aver' Queen. The box plans are at Carman’s, where’day sales can also be purchased.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE

A completely new programme will he screened at His Majesty’s Theatre this evening, the ebief attraction bong “Rufus, Dawes.” founefed on Marcus Cl anke’si novel “The Term <if Fb NMuraULifei”' Something good in the stick departmehtds premised. ' " -