WILLIAMSON'S DRAMATIC COMPANY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8349, 4 February 1907, Page 5

WILLIAMSON'S DRAMATIC COMPANY.

This evening, at the Town Hall, Mr J. C. Williamson's New Dramatic Company will stage Mr E. Milton Royle's New York and Australian success entitled "The Squaw Man." A contemporary says:—The piece possesses so many features of interest as to stamp it as one of the most popular plays of the last decade, which is a great deal consyierirgthe successes already witnessed in New Zealand, thanks in a great measure to Jhe continued tours of Mr J. C. Williamson's companies. In "The Squaw Man" the author has introduced no stilted pictures of impossible types, no evanescent drawing of characters that never were,,nor never could be, but a truthful sand powerful story that grips the spectator and holds him enthralled until the final curtain. The men and women of the play are real beings, who love and hate with a singularly effective strength, and who pursue their separate paths with the determination of absolute conviction. In its theme the play may be called almost international in as much as the first act is laid in England, and the following three exhibit the wilds of the West with startling effectiveness. In organising the company Mr Williamson had some difficutly as to one character, that of the Indian interpreter, but was fortunate in securing the services of Mr Utah White, who instructed Mr Hardie Kirkland in the very difficult language. The former is a half-bred Ute Indian, whose performance is one of the features of the play. i