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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIV, Issue 24, 17 June 1905, Page 41

Inlvijigent melodrama. well written and grandly acted. setn- to be as high as we ran expect to get at present. It is n-eless to expect the public to "cotton” to a piece like "Les Troi- Filles de M. Dupont.” for in-tanee. Indeed, when we consider how the realities of life are “burked” in everyday existence, how we go on living very contentedly with an army upside down, and 30 000 people in London alone "always on the verge of starvation.” an interest in fietive problems is too much to expect. The nearest we can go for the proverbial ninepence is to plays like "Lena Kleschna." in whieh the ethical pill is wrappci in plenty of sensational jam. and the “morals'’ of the time are "castigated” with the aid of capital curtain*.