AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 61, 17 July 1913, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

HAMILTON-PLIMMER COMPANY

"A WOMAN OF IMPULSE." The forthcoming Saturday night's production in our Town Hall of the Hamilton-Plimmer Company's play, "A Woman of Impulse" is attracting much more interest amongst local Iplay-goers than is usually associated with other theatrical productions here. This must be attributed to the really I brilliant company Messrs Hamilton land Plimmer are bringing us and the high standard of the play to be staged jhere. We in Strait'>rd are i.ot altogether out of touch with theatrical matters, and the reputations of this company and this play have reached us many weeks ago. The piot of "A Woman of Impulse' is a decidely intricate one and quite Sardou-esque in its style. Sir George Laagford and his brilliant and extravagant nife spend most of their time >n a ivfcul of politics and fashion, and though suiting one another ve~y well, nre ucder the circumstances, not exactly inseparable. Lady Langford is full of pride in her family, and it is a great blow to her when Carl Navourac, a diplomat from the near East, who is on visiting terms at her residence, disloses to her the fact that her father has stolen from the Colonial Office and sold to a foreign Power plans which have enabled that Power apparently to bring disaster on what is known as the Malatanga expedition. Navourac makes this revelation in order that he may secure a hold upon Lady Langford, and make her really one of the agents through whose instrumentality he claims to be in touch with the innermost secrets of European diplomacy. In a scene full of interest he secures from Lady Langford, under compulsion, a letter to the effect that Colonel Challace, her father, has in her presence confessed his guilt and destroyed the proofs thereof. The threatening \influence which Navourac has come to exercise over Lady Langford naturally attracts some attention from her intimate friends, but Langford is not suspicious. When his interest is aroused he plays with some reason perhaps the jealous husband, and misconstrues the position. The climax of the drama is reached in the third act, where Navourac, being wanted by the police for a political crime, is apprised of the news in Lady Langford's drawing room. His flight must Be immediate, and he hands to Lady Langford his keys, giving her thus the opportunity of visiting his chambers and securing the fatl letter which has constituted his hold upon her, on condition she destroys all the other documents in her safe. The lady sets out upon her mission without delay at midnight, but fares badly. She is prevented by Navourac's servant'from destroying the letters, and is surprised under awkward circumstances by her husband, who naturally demands an explanation. The position is not improved when the police enter and search the safe, and hand back to her one sealed document which very courteously they allow to be evidently her own private property. Determined to go on shielding her father, Lady Langford destroys this, only to find herself quite unable to convince a jealous husband that it was ( not a love-letter. Through the belated intervention of Navourac, the misunderstanding is cleared up in the fourth act, and all ends happily. The curtain rises at 8.30 sharp. The box plan is now on view at Grubb's.