Theatre Royal.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 12810, 18 March 1905, Page 6

Theatre Royal.

j "Tii>E FACE AT TUJiI WINDOW.'" The members of ,W. Aoiderson's JDra- \ inatic Campany scored another success I on Friday night m the production oi I the weird and sensational drama, j "The Face at the Window." The incidents of the play are laid in the L Vouch capital, and refer .uiainly to ' the efforts of a ■celebrated detective to run to earth a gang cf professional murderers, whose terrible deeds are preceded by the appearance of a "face" at a window. Of course thereis love fcind marriage in the plot to provide the sentiment, and the detective is a sort of guardian over the I'overs. The character of J'au] Goufctt, the detective, vas taken oy Mr ,'Geo. Cross, who was most, sue •- -.is- j ful in hiding his identity in the va--j ious disguises he assumed, whether % <i was as the old woman selling match >x or the broken-dawto, escapod-from-igaol coiner. As the villain, Delgado, Mr K. Dug'gan had a heavy part «to sustain, but lie it articticaily, being esj ecially good in the scene v,bere he Avas accidetnt'ally electrocuted, when thedoctoiy by ttneans of rice trie experiment, was endeavouring to jniake tlie dead detective's aruuscles .jomplcte tho "writing .lie was engaged in when struck <iowli by, the assassin. The parts of Lucien Cor tier and 'Marie de Brisson. the lioro and heroine, were faithfully takdn by, Mr 'G. Caas and Miss .Ada 'G,uilf!ord. All the other parts were In capable hamds. The production was well staged. '•'imRtOUOH THE DIYOBCE COURT" The ortmpany will complete their season here to-night, when "Thbough Ihe Divorce Court" *Wll be staged. 1 This is a drasma which has drawn! large houses in other • tntres, being full of stirring iucident and pathetic j sentiment.

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