AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14236, 30 June 1910, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

"THE GIRL FROM RECTOR'S." Speaking of "The Girl from Rector's" to be staged here on Saturday evening, the Melbourne* "Punch," on its first production in that city, described it as "a diluted French farce of four acts, seething with fun. The first is a smile, the second a scream, the third a chuckle and the last a riot. The plot cavorts briskly round 'The Girl,' who in odd moments, is the frigid wife of a provincial judge, but is in the habit of breaking loose from her matrimonial ties, and having a gav time in little old New York as the President of the Night Owls' Club, and also as the affinity of Dicky O'Shaugnossy, a young bachelor Johnnie, who suors from too much 'Girl' and champagne, and too many outings with the boys. These, a wier'd old professor, cousin of Dickv, and others, are mixed up in a succession of ludicrous situations, till the final sorting out and happy ending. The whole thing is an irresponsjblo"burst of bustling frivolity with a French flavouring, which is piquantly agreeable without broadening into vulgarity." The box plan at the Dresden is rapid!v filling.