AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 February 1913, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

"GET HIGH QUICK WALLLN'GFOEiD." To-morrow morning at 8 o'clock the plans will be opened at the Dresden for the first and only representation here of the great remarkable comedy success, "Get Rich Quick Wall in jxford" which is to be staged at the Town Hall by J. C. Williamson's Company of over sixty specially sel&ted artists on Monday night next. Anticipating the same large demand for seats which has taken place in other centres where the American comedy has been staged the management will have a. staff 1 of ushers "in attendance at 7.30 a.m. to form a queue so that the earliest arrivals may be assured of getting first choice of seats. The occasion will introduce to the local playgoers -the famous comedian, Mr Fred Niblo (Wrili lingford) and Mr Harry Corson Clarke (Bla-okio Daw) the original Jones in "What Happened to Jones." "Get Rich Quick Wallingford" unfolds an intensely exciting story, and its interest is maintained right up to the final fall of the curtain. Tlie first act begins with the appearance of Battlesburg of Blackie Daw, who proceeds, his partner by a day or two. and talks;, and .moves so flambuoyantly that by the time Wallingford arrives with his Japanese Valet, leading a huge Bulldog all is commotion. The Irish Landlord, t)empsey has become so convinced of the bona-fides of tlie pair that he showers free champagno on them, and sends servants all over the place in the effort to entertain such star boarders in a befitting stylo. Harkins, a tmique newspaper reporter, assists the good .cause, lrv/'scare" article in-the : local "blade," and organizes a public reception, so that the first act closes .with a brass band marching into the Hotel playing the ''Stars and Stripes," accompanied by cheering citizens to whom Wallingford," from the balcony delivers an invigorating speech, grandiloquently announcing that 'ho is to manufacture the "Sulphur that tips the match," that lights the fuse, that explodes tlie <r>ky rocket.of, wealth, success and happiness." The partners promptly get busy to form a company for the manufacture of carpet tacks covered with' cloth. "Get a. paper of tacks," Wallingford orders his. servant, "and cover the tops of a few of thorn with that red necktie of mine, cut the stuff to fit the top and glue it on." There is a fascinating love story running through the plot. Wallingford is deeply interested in his lady typiste,. and Blackie Daw in, DorotlVy Wells, ; daughter of the Real' Estate Agent, and the regrets of the two men as they prepare for the "get-away" are, it is said, pathetic. The last scene of all, set in a beautiful picture by night, with the rose-embowered Houso, and green lawn overlooking a fine background of the town, with electric jtraracai's running past in the middle j distance, -shows the two men walking in the paths of rectitude, they and their friends immensely rich, as all their scheming turns out trumps.