AMUSEMENTS.
"QUEEN OF THE NIGHT."
./"H";? till 11 o'clock last evening the audience ab the Opera House were regaled, with a hyper^sensatibnal melodramatic feast, when; the Allan Hamilton Dramatic Company put on "Queen of the Night," a melodrama in four -acts, by F * Thorpe■.Tracer, and Ivan i>erlin. The piece is crammed full of exciting scenes, redolent of foul and cruel deeds which follow one another with astonishing rapidity, and full of VJle thoughts forcibly expressed. The villain1 is kept active almost throughout and M-hen he gets tired and his evil machniations are->more than canably assieted by the villaine?s, a "veritable scarlet woman. As usual, all erds well, bafflpd villainy, meets with its just retnbntinn arid victorious virtue reapr Us rich reward. The ■'Cttmpany, wt think, is capable of much-more artisfcia work than rouM bo got out.of "Queen of the Night." . However, they made the most of tho^r parts that tt© piece would_ allow. The scenery, mounting, and dressing wers first-c!ass thrcuch<Mlt. .... ' ;..;■ ,;; S'M;-- ■-■ . .•■■ h- ■ -' ■
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12244, 18 June 1909, Page 4
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163AMUSEMENTS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12244, 18 June 1909, Page 4
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