“THE TEA GIRL.”

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 957, 9 July 1908, Page 16

“THE TEA GIRL.”

This musical comedy attracted good houses at His Majesty’s Theatre all last week. After the first night the weaker items were deleted, and this reduced the playing time by a full hour. The effect was to greatly accelerate the action of the play, which was, consequently, much brightened. Also the performers gained more con-

fidence, the result being that towards the end of the week they were able to infuse more dash and vim into their parts, with very beneficial results. If only all this could have been done prior to the opening night matters would have been greatly improved, and there would have been no cause for the somewhat adverse, and in some cases absurdly harsh, criticism the piece received at the hands of critics. When the book is brightened up “ The Tea Girl” should easily hold its own with more pretentious pieces of the kind.