STRAND THEATRE COMEDY CO.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 13028, 2 December 1905, Page 5

STRAND THEATRE COMEDY CO.

"THE J.P."

This morning the plans for the two nights of the Strand Theatre Comedy Company season opened at McKinnon Bain's, and, judging by .the incessant inquiries for seats during the past few days, a large sale ;of tickets should eventuate. Preferential choice of seats will be accorded to those who arrive earliest at the box office, so as to ensure all fairness. The Company will open its brief season of twp nights at the Theatre Royal on Thursday evening. It" is seldom" that a company of such repute has "been' gathered' together for the interptetation of a play of this!^ class, 'and" the splendid ecomiutns the | Conipahyo-has - gained' in • the' chief cit- 1 ies of Australia v> are' perhaps telsne sufficient '•"guarantee' of its- excellence.' j ■Mr ••«?.' J. Dallas^ and Miss Florence Lloyd are the^*cMef performers inlthis j clever van of comedy-makers, whilst ( the presence' of such a well-known fa- j vourite as Miss Maud Chetwynd gives added lustre to the presentation. Miss Chetwynd will be -favourably remem- : •bered'in iife^prinoipai'comedienne.roles in "La Cingalee" and '/The Orchid/ with Mr J; C.< Royal Comic Opera tour some two years ago. Mr Aubrey Mallahieu, another English member of the ! Company, comes from those parts- with excellent caredenti'als f ain liglit icomedy oharactersj whilst Miss Florence Redfern is said to be a vivacious comedienne who has quite- -recently risen to -a high position on .the boards at Home. ) Coming as the "J.P."' dotes on .such al wave oi popular enthusiasm as the production seems . to hay© I : evoked both 'at . the, Princess* Theatre, Melbourne, I a»d Her < Majesty's Theatre, Sydnoy, ! it is . li.ttle. .wonder 1 that the plaudits of the .critics everywhere have , been unanimous,, somerreferring to the play as simply seething with fun and frolic .from the .rise . to the fall of the Surtain,.. providing .a .feast of laughter for nearly three hours. A "comedy farce,"., says, a. 'leading daily, "which is, brightly written/- throughout, which l^as not a dull. moment ,^n and which simply bears, the impress of. a master hand.'* - ,