"OUR MARY ELLEN."
A large audience was present at the above performance in the Town Hall on Wednesday night, and the entertainment proved a thoroughly enjoyable one. It is not often that Te Awamutu is visited by an actress as talented as Miss Baines, and the wellfilled hall, and very cordial reception, speaks well for the ability of the people of the district to -appreciate a good thing when it comes their way. The play is pure fun from start to finish, of which, as might be expected, Miss Baines as "Mary Ellen" is the life and soul. Her quaint, original style of humour, her clever imitation of the Lancashire dialect, and her droll management of the various complex situations in which she finds herself, kept the audience in roars of laughter from the rise to the fall of the curtain and evoked rounds of enthusiastic applause. Miss Marie Baines in the second act gave some of her very clever child impersonations, studies which undoubtedly give fine scope for her, wonderful powers of mimicry. She was well supported by a strong caste, the entertainment throughout being one of the best that has ever visited Te Awamutu.
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Waipa Post, Volume III, Issue 143, 6 September 1912, Page 3
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