A NEW DRAMATIST.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 946, 23 April 1908, Page 18

A NEW DRAMATIST.

Miss Lena Ashwell has discovered a new dramatist in Miss Cicily Hamilton, the author of “Diana of Dobson’s,” her latest London success, which J. C. Williamson has secured for Australia and has set aside for Miss Margaret Anglin’s repertoire. It is a fine drama telling the story of a girl who while an assistant at Dobson’s drapery emporium, inherits with which she determines to live for a month at the rate of a year. Down in the South of France, however, while engaged in that pleasant occupation, she meets the inevitable man, who, when he proposes to her and is toldi the truth, calls her an adventuress and leaves her. But they meet again in poverty upon the Thames embankment —Diana, because her money is aT gone, and the man, because he has defied his family. A reconciliation follows and the curtain falls on the two sharing a modest repast of coffee and rolls—to purchase which they had to borrow a shilling from a police constable. The opening scene is even more novel than this for it shows the girls at Dobson’s going to bed in their dormitory and making al’ the preparations therefore while chatting over the events of the day and later Diana’s legacy.