OPERA HOUSE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 19898, 16 September 1913, Page 8

OPERA HOUSE.

'•THE NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON."

There was a large attendance at the Opera House last evening, when Geo. Marlow's new combination made its first appearance. The piece chosen for the first production, "The Night Side of London,'' riov'ed to be an excellent moral play. The plot deals in a remarkably eievor and withal /delicate manner with the operations of the •'White Slave Traffic." To quote from the programme.—"There is a dreadful evil in our rr.idst, and this i>lay i* written with the object of trying to wipe it out.'* "Honi soit gui mal y pense" (Evil bo tc him who evil thinks). The heroine of the play, brought, to ruin by th-> unsuccessful speculations of her father,, is tempted "with a lucraiive position in an alleged typewriting csta'olishmenc in London, but which is really a tr.no for young girls of gooa appearance. As "tynistes" the girls nvo brought face to fac?. with the basest cf human natur? Some people treat this njaitvi with indifference, but if they v t ulrl only consider for a moment wheth?iv they would like to see one de:t«to them ii the same position they •vnld daman 1 shut something he done to blot the trafile cut Space does not permit, cf our con.in^ntintf in detail upon play or the >ble cast of characters; snFice to say both were AX. and if.fchopiece .chosen for this evening is of iha same class none need have any doubt'l am to bein*.-; oivscnt. This, ovepir.g, \hc last night of the s-enson, Gec-rg^ Marlow's Dramatic Cent panv will tn""inure the sensational dr>».-'.ri, '■ 1 he Girl Who Took the Wrong Turning." It is siiJc 1 thnt this piece is an ideal entciainmont. The plot of the pay is the story cf a young man named Jack Fqnton, 'who, t-Wroiigh the intrigues of his coi :v>n and marriage with a girl "beneath his station," is away fvon-j the pat-vnal roof and worming in the racing stages in Ne^yrcal•ket. A sister of 'Fonton's wife is persuaded to leave homo fcrget her sailor lover, and find pleasure in fine dresses in i\ir> haunts 01.o1. questionable society in London. There is a double love story which runs throughout the piece. The fcouory will be identic?. 1 "tv'th that used in the original Australian production, [.(■tester Siua;e. London with the extenor of lac Albambra Music Hall handMini'^y lit up. .vill be .ihown. Racing si-i!>Ws in Newmarket and several wellkno<vu London loca'ities will be amosg the many .scones which are an import.ii.t factor in the success of the new production. The box plan is r,wv on vi(v.v at Tone-- r,nd So,"'s. booksellers. Day sales at-Roberts', tobacconist.