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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12167, 16 January 1903, Page 3

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MAJERONI DRAMATIC COMPANY. "

"A RING OF- IRON."

The Gompauy concluded their season .'on Thursday night when they produc.ed the powerful drama, " A Ring of Iron" before a large and enthusiastic audience. From tne rise of the curtain, in the first to its descent in the' last act the audience were kept interested in the working out of the x plot, and, at the conclusion, wh«a the ; wrong were righted and the vi'.udus punished the audience made' quite a demonstration, and the curtain had to be raised again. Mr G. Majeroni then took the opportunity of saying a lew words. He thanked the audience for their patronage, and added tbat the Company hoped to reappear here in April on! t-teir way 'to Auckland. They would therefore /'not s&.y good-bye, but aureyoir" (applause). " The Ring of Iron" is a fascinating play as the plot is well pieced . together, and the- characters are <* aried and good. The play opeus in ;a. mining* camp in Australia and introduces the principals— Gentleman J ack and his wife. , The former is a ruined scapegrace, who had io Jeavehss country for his country's Jfppd, and' t-is wife is -a* young v.English gill wuom he marrieti'at the.goldhelds t-Atuc c_i«_iad j nursed • him through a' twvere illness. Gentleman ■ .Jack gets diacontet-tcd with? the life , at" the oamp/'&cd . ,ai_o discontented with his wedded life. ' lie learhs' through' a newspaper, of the death of his brother in J.ugland, making him Sir John Graham and heir to the estate. He- makes up his mind at once to go Home, and deserts. Lit* wife I and infant soq at the golcTfieldri. The, balance of the scenes are laid ,in. Eng-' land, where Sirv John is found of the eve of his wedding to li^raidU ( ne ; Bellew, a 'handsome and lich you ng lady. The wrong wife, however, recognises him, and frustrates, his pJuns fcr a time. . To rid himself of her he forcibly places her, in a private madhouse, but with the, aid <S>i friends she escapes and denounces Sir John before the -woman he intends*' "so marry, hejr story being backed up by her friends. Sir John is arrested for v forgery committed some years before, aad ends his life by poison in prison, thus breaking "The Ring of Is on" that bound fhe heroine to< himl Mr Mario Majeroni j^ave a studied impersonation of Gentleman Juck. The callous, scheming, selfish man was well represented by Mr iiajerom. May Gordon, his wife, found a go<.d ex-. ponent in' Miss Nellie Ogden, who brought the houso down in tne scene where she bests the nurse ia tt>e madhouse. Miss May Renno was exceedingly good as Nancy Drake, an 1 the game remark (applies Uilda ' as Geraldine Bellow, iliss HaU- ! bin as Sejina , Thorpe, and'Mins. May Grahville as Nurse Bland. • 'Iho other male parts were . also well filled. • Mr G. Majeroni was good as Da. Meredith, and so. were Mr P. Walshe as Sam Thorpe, Mr Savior! as Tim Clinker, and Mr Fitzgerald as Dr. Grant. ( The piece was well staged. The Company loft for, -Scmtford this morning. ,