AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13914, 27 May 1909, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

"TWO LITTLE SAILOR BOYS." Meytiell and Gunn's Dramatic Con® pany is advertised to commence a two nights season at the Theatre Royal on Tuesday eveniug next. The initial production will be Walter Howard's latest success, ''Two Little Sailor Boys," a play of intense human interest. The plot treats of the marriage late in life of Admiral Grey, R.N. (retired), with Lola, a woman with am exceptionally vivid past. Two characters in the story, Captain Tom York (her husband) and' Lieutenant Redstone, are closely connected with her career. Prior to the opening of the play, in the early days of the Boer the hero, Captain Tregarthen, a naval officer, shut up in Ladysniith, made friends with York, who was suffering from the result of his wife's treachery and desertion. Possessed of a reckless, daredevil nature, the man courted death on all sides to drown the mental anxieties caused by iris wife's conduct. After a, sortie, desperately wounded, he makes a confidant of liis friend Tregarthen, and leaves him a legacy to find his boy, who was taken away by Lola when she deserted him. At +.b'S stage lie was supposed to have died. Lola Grev, oalm and peaceful in her marriage'with the admiral, is distracted bv the appearance of Lieutenant Redstone, who has suffered before a naval court-martial through the evidence of Captain Tregarthen. Redstone hates the captain, who is betrothed to the admiral's daughter, and it is Redstone's intention to marry her at all jinaards. This results in implicating Tregarthen in a. robbery from +he admiral's safe. R.edstoue, by threats, compels Lola to swenr falsely and ruin Treearthen. The robbery wns rcnll r committed by 0110 of her cast-off

no'er-do-wells, Jim Royston, who lias flvirp-p of lier son, and is bringing mm W z lifo of crime. On Wednesday night Arthur Shirley's great play Stepmother" will he staged, the plan is now open at tlie Dresden-