GEORGE WILLOUGHBY'S DRAMATIC COMPANY.
TOWN HALL THIS EVENING. "The Beggar Girl's Weeding" will be staged in the Town Hall tlfis evening at 8 o'clock. It is rather a coincidence, that "The Beggar Girl's Wedding" should bo staged in NewZealand for the first time when only last week .a New Zealand lady sued the author, Walter Melville, for having copied ideas, / etc., from a drama she had written and hanied "'Hie Beggar Bride." The case was decided a few days ago, when Miss Rosemary Rees, the lady in question, who hails from Gisborne, was non-suited, and whilst the hearing of the'ease was going on, there was great excitement as "The Beggar Girl's Wedding".is being played at the present time in several/theatres both in London and the provinces. -- Mr Geo. Willougliby intends staging, the piece here in the same scale of completeness as was done when it was'.first produced in the Old Country. A first-class company is being-sent over, with all the magnificent scenery that was painted for the play in Sydney by Mr John S. Mann, the American art-
ist. Tho box plan is open at the Dresden, where day sales may be obtained from this morning.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 26 February 1914, Page 2
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196GEORGE WILLOUGHBY'S DRAMATIC COMPANY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 26 February 1914, Page 2
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