THEATRE ROYAL.
THE LITTLE BEEADSVIiJNEK:' .COMPANY^'--•■'^-V''---;
.',■ The ; ; M6ynell ;: and; ' Giihn management;: under the .direction .of,f Mr 'Allan: Hairiil-j ton! on' Monday 'night'afc't'he Theatre' Royal will present their' latest ;'ancs motet' .f^mo.us''' ; diumat'ic'.'^ccess i Aia^^n€Wv^ : di , ama/in* four acts entitled The.Little;Breadwinner.' Plays may, "come,■.and plays; may.v go, but it is only 'the.-lew" that fe'niain to; iriipreijs': the j>ubUc,.';mind',;'',-.'Jhe'.-;maiiSg|eineut- ; -.6lititn'." that 'The Little Breadwinner' ; ife such; a, - play.■■'- "'■■•■ With• an .important; ••genuine, child interest,' a'story' simple in cdnstruc•tioh, which avoids 'all : tpossible' • devia,-. tipns iritto the', realms "of the. impossible, .and 1 a wealth, .of ..detail in: construction, it is claimed that: no more: duly homelypresentment, of. a .storyj" bristling with;, human situations and 're'flett-Tig the iliretl ,wei Jive.'has'ever-been jpyofieretj'to.iah Aus-" Italian . public. .The Tocalfc is England, and there', within the quietrs'ahctuary. .of., a Quaker home, are enacte^' tlie' tragic and appealing" elements whicii" go: "to; make the story. :' : .The" ahmcspheie, 'if verging on the/melodramatic at' 'time's, yet. all-'thl'otigh as. though held by,, a' bridal-jreM^ ~'ii neyei' crosses •■beyond i the 'tihreshoM;' is natural and reasonable. ■'. : '■'; ;T.he riaihe .part is played' by Miss Queenie- AVilliains, who once led , the J ' famous .Tin.';,. .(jail. Band,: so popular of 'thiS" management;, throughout .Australia!. Associated "with .her Aslittle : Maggie." Dickinson, -also.'--a "^littl©'\sfar of like- fame: '." The company,'., a, .;pftrticularly strong"; Hollow'ay:' In' support' there, are! many' artistes ■, familiar, in the; past: .' sutliesses io- Australians, including Messrs iU.' P; Carey, C; .-R..Stanford, F. .C'pope, .E. G;'' Uoughlan, and; Mesd'anies'-: : -.--Ida•. Gr-eshamj Alice De6rwyn,'"Mabel Russell, .ettv '■'• The rim of '.[The Bread-winner 'is, limited 'to one :nighl,only;; -The;'hox plan is- hout open .at; the Dresden and:.popular. pr'ces are "announced. ',•-'■ .'.* ...v-' " '."'■'''
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13685, 29 August 1908, Page 7
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272THEATRE ROYAL. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13685, 29 August 1908, Page 7
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