THE MARLOW DRAMATIC COMPANY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1046, 24 March 1910, Page 16

THE MARLOW DRAMATIC COMPANY.

On Saturday next (Easter Saturday) Mr. George Marlow’s Dramatic Company will open its New Zealand tour at His Majesty’s Theatre in that great

dramatic success “Married to the Wrong Man.” by Frederick Melville. The story deals with the trials and tribulations of a girl named Ruth, who has been left in charge of Jasper Skinner, a publican, who believes her to be a heiress. With this cherished

idea, and with a handsome but erring son as a captain in the army, he wishes the girl to marry the latter, and she is practically forced to do so though it is against her will. On her wedding, night the mysterious box is opened and it is found the girl is a pauper.- The son in desperation laments his fate, especially as he has just been ordered to the front, and deserts his regiment. A private, who has fallen in love with Ruth, nears of the forced marriage and though arriving too late to prevent •' the ceremony comes up to the conspirators in time to prevent the. husband ill-using his wife. After a stormy and highly dramatic scene the husband sells his wife for the sum of fifteen pounds. .Sensational events quickly follow. The hero is raised to a captaincy after winning distinction in war, and becomes a rich man. Both believing that the first husband is dead they are married, but on the wedding night the first husband reappears and there is a fine scene, depicted and well acted at the sumptuously laid wedding breakfast. The villain is sent out of doors, but in his scheming the girl is entrapped and hidden in a garret, where murder is done. The cast, which is the same as that which produced the piece in Australia, is as follows:— Jack Gladwin, Herbert J. Bentley; Herbert Deering, H. Vox; Dr. Archie Bird, Reginald Goode; Jasper Skinner, T; E. Tilton; Timothy Glinker, Thomas Curran; Sergeant Maimers, P. V. Scully; Dr. Brandon, Gilson Taylor; Sir James Flint, P. Hunter; Landlord, Nodin; Tipkihs (Swell), George Oswald; Court Usher, Wilson Clarke; Lord Somertan (Judge), W- Edmonids; Court crier, Victor Private Jones, E; . Stephenson; ' Private Watson, Walter Temple; Private j Huglies, Herbert Stanley; Private Moody, Borman Bruce; Ruth, Essie Clay; Rose O’Connor, Lilian Booth;..Olive Manners, Nettie Bundle; Mother Snaigs, May Bland; 1 Nurse Gray, Eva Graham; Nurse Linley, Maud An win; Dplly Fritter, Louise Carbasse. The one and only matinee of the season will be' given on Easter Monday. 1