“OH, WHAT A NIGHT.”

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 694, 25 June 1903, Page 11

“OH, WHAT A NIGHT.”

This comedy, which has already appeared in the Colonies under a somewhat different name, is said to be most egregiously funny. The situations are absurd to the verge of hysteria, and the dialogue is liable to produce heart disease if proper antidotes in the shape sermons be not taken the next day. The plot shows how the pretty Marcelle Paillard, fancying herself neglected by her husband, agrees with his friend, M. Pinglet, a middle-aged man with an autocratic wife, to rouse jher husband to ' a due sense of his sins by showing him that others can appreciate her charms. A visit to the theatre,* followed by a supper at a quiet restaurant, is thereupon planned and carried out, but the results are very different to those contemplated by the volatile pair, and it is only by the display of the greatest ie- >. sourcefulness diplomacy, and by undex served luck that Mme. Paillard gets outof the scrape into which her vanity has led her. 'When it is added that Mr Gjd- >* dens plays the naughty Pinglet, that Miss Eileen Munro is his Nat-ional-Coun-cil-of-Woman wife, that Miss Mollison is the - neglected Madame Paillard, and Mr , -Cecil Ward, her- self-deluded husband, the possibilities of the piece stand confessed. The other members of the Company have good parts, and the accessories are Mr Williamson’s.