Are You a Mason?

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12288, 22 June 1903, Page 2

Are You a Mason?

' - ■■■ ---■, ;1 It is always a sota'ce, of pleasure to i theatregoers to know that Mr' J. C. J Williamson intends sending one of his j attractions to New, Plymouth, 'for the': t;rfms>le reason that his -name is ajfiynonym for everything " that is best ■ixfr ffgnnectioii with, the stage -world. And the pleasure will doubtless be accentnaled on 1 the present occasion, wHen it is -known that on the detes he has select edKiMond ay and Tuesday evenings next, it is his new English Comedy Company," • who will' appear," presenting on l -the" first night the, latest an"d u "*p^o i fea!bly'' v mqst amusing farcical oomiedy; :of nrojdemdays "Are .You a * Mia^on?" and on the second night another screamingly iunny corn^ edy entitled, ".Oil!, What a/Night ! J ' Tie , Comjpany is at present playing at Hjs Majesty's Theatre, Auckland/ before^ a.udienice9 wh.o are mfanifesting j their apfpireciation by crowding* the theatre to' Oiverflowing every night. "Are Yo?u A Mason?" has. constituted ; the bill of fare ever since their open- 1 ing on\the 15im, aaid 'is still going as strong as ever, the general opinion, dually voiced by the enoianous attendances, and^ the opinion of the en- J local press, being that as a laugh provoiker, brilliaufty played, it, has, seldom, if ever, had an' equal. The tBerald, for, instance, in "its opening; criticiswi, said.'—^For ihV nekt/jfeWj nights there promises to be "an.epidemic of laiugihtcr within the «valls of Has Majesty's' Theatre. There are seiveral ways of nutting a question, and Jtr ' J. C. Williamson's Company, having first secured 'a cjuesUon to.ptut in the shape of Deitridhstehi's adaptation from tjie German of Laiufsand Krate's "Are You A Masion?" will ask it in such a Way of futwre aiid--iences (as of last nigiit's for example) that the answer will for a certain^ be given \\*ith sihputs 1 of laughter, ana qiuite irrespective of aching sides. We ha-ve not seen a cleverer farce, a funnier farce, nor one so full^'of orig-. iriality,' for years. , -V\re, Yoti'^A Itias- 1 orn?" 'brisfbleg with excruciating hii Imoiuaious: situations', filling cup of JaHighter to the bubbUhg-o^er point. It "" starts ,N, N -witih'^ a cluvcrlyfisonceived idea, and " t'briough'r each. ' act quiche .opisodes of fun, chase each other rap- 1 idly along, fr*"* ' '.-a'fiably to one shriek of laltighter at every fall of the curtain, .leaving ppsit£\^ely>^np " other, impression' than „. -^ sense ; of hilarity .and " 'keen enjoyment. ,As a frantc and breeizy laughter maker, this latest pi6pe will easily ranib with tlva.t^ wine of old adage, which,- being good,- needs, no bush. If the, playgoer is able to answer its '.cywry in the afßMmatlve, then . he ,«lioiuH see "Are You A, Mason?" if only to laugh at the ruthless metliiod with wJiich. the author „ bui'lesqUes, — for the- sake of miaking them frarikly anilusing, f sopie of ihe imiagined*" -miys'teries of the r craft. „ To, that j playgoer who must kay nay 'in "answer "to the tiUffs' q"uery [it I self J no less^rongjly • for/ a multitude; of reasbhsy all,', beginning and ending with that ' magic talismian of enjoyment, a good laugh.* { (And so on for a whole column, .is" praise bestowed v{pcm the play, whilsft the cojnjpany is described as having, i the most brilliant comedy combina- } tion e,vcr 'seen ti,pon the Now Zealand.'.sta^Q. Wit3i' siwch an advance verdict/ awd all the other journals are', similaV | in their praise, theiuacan be no ! tion as to the. result of thfe-,two nigh^ : s;^eakm .h'e^^, , . ' .

Whoovi^vpuld ,b§^^fe Q^ c walk" J Must o^oM^'his" '^fe^ft loud, ; For-?w;ln^rs',aiicl 4^ttors.'«^ plainly -not talk,'". \> )>!%", -, '/-', And very' soon lost in; "a crowd.., We take special care that "we may be heard, * Our knowledge we' cannot immiure. For bad coughs anfcl colds the stuff ; I that's preferred ' <■- « Is WOOD'S QKEAT'PEPP^RMIINT ' CURE. . • .. .