J. C. WILLIAMSON’S NEW ENGLISH FARCE-COMEDY COMPANY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1068, 25 August 1910, Page 16

J. C. WILLIAMSON’S NEW ENGLISH FARCE-COMEDY COMPANY.

“ THE BRASS BOTTLE. On Monday week Mr. J. C- Williamson will present F- Anstey’s extraordinarily successful farce-comedy, •• The Brass Bottle,” interpreted by a new English company. “ The Brass Bottle” is acknowledged as the most successful farcical play London has seen for a .score’.of years. It has enjoy eda 12 months’ run at the Vaudeville in that city, and . is still filling the theatre nightly. A good idea is sometimes more precious than rubies; the author of “ The Brass Bottle” conceived one, and, valuing it for its rarity he has/ it appears, treated it with all the skill of a master humorist./ .The .author of “ Vice Versa” and other., topsy-turvy plays was the fortunate author, and London, America, and, more recently, Sydney, it would

seem, have been caught in an extraordinary manner in the maelstrom of his mirth. The distinctive quality of the new play, it is affirmed, is a rich vein of rollicking fun that springs from an ingenious interweaving of the wonders of magic with extravagant absurdities, in wjhich the invention leaps from fancy to fancy and has no other aim than to delight the imagination by happenings of the mos : ludicrous description. Taking fair game in the familiar story of the “ Vase and the Genei,” the author has introduced, we understand, such a gamble of bustling incidents and astonishing surprises into a modern plot, that the scheme in its development is quite unlike anything that has yet been seen here in the way of farcical comedy- “ The Brass Bottle” will be played fpr six nights only. The box plans will be opened at Wildman and Arey’s on Thursday next, September 1-