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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1097, 16 March 1911, Page 17

“GLITTERING GLORIA.” Mr. Hugh J. Ward’s next production will be the famous song farce, entitled “Glittering Gloria,” by Hugh Morton, author of the “Belle of New York;’.’. It is a play full of humorous dialogue and funny- situations. The principal cause of the trouble that nearly wrecks the happy married life and the course of true love with an engaged couple is a diamond necklace. Gloria Grant, a beautiful adless, known as Glittering Gloria, has many admirers, who are anxious to present her with a wonderful diamond necklace. They all meet at a Bondstreet jewellers’ shop, and the fun is fast and furious, concerning who will be the fortunate one to secure the necklace for Gloria. A rural solicitor enters the shop, secures the necklace, and marches off with the lady. In the second act the wife and fiancee, still suspicious, visit Gloria’s flat. Their busband and lover also happen to be there, and to escape being seen, hide in two trunks, which are taken away. Eventually everything is cleared up by Gloria’s tact. The innumerable situations, sparkling dialogue, and the clover characterisations of the farce make up one of the funniest plays ever presented to a Dominion audience. A feature of the piece is a ferocious bull dog, who has been specially trained, and who takes exception to every one wearing a red tie. A big added attraction will be the latest songs, dances, and specialities, by Mr Ward’s brilliant company of comedians. GEORGE MARLOW’S DRAMATIC COMPANY. -THE BAD GIRL OF THE FAMILY.” After achieving one of the greatest melodramatic successes in Melbourne, and at the Princess Theatre, too, “The-Bad Girl of the Family” will make her bow to Auckland audiences at His Majesty’s Theatre, Auckland, on the 2 7th instant, and at the Opera House, Wellington, on April 15. “The Bad Girl ’’ran for six weeks to big business in Melbourne, while phenomenal business was done in all the other Commonwealth centres; in fact so great has been its success that Mr Marlow has reservtd this drama -for the opening of the Adelphi Theatre. Sydney. There will be about thirty people travelling with the . George Marlow Company through New Zealand this tour. ' Most of these people will be new to the Dominion, while few of the company through last year will be seen on this occasion. George Marlow some few .years ago was working for a few shillings a week, while he has known what it is to'walk the streets of Melbourne wondering where his next meal was coming from. Now he has ereced a forty thousand pound theatre in Sydney, and secured a long lease of the Pi-in-cess Theatre in Melbourne. It is a coincidence that both Mr and Mrs Marlow (Miss Ethel Buckley) commenced their stage careers under George Rignold at the Criterion. Sydney. “The Angel of his D’reams” is the title of one of the dramas to be produced in New Zealand by the Marlow Company this tour. It is said to be scenically very beautiful, and to portray one of the greatest moral lessons preached from any stage. There are four bedroom scenes in “The Bad Girl of the Family,” the opening Marlow production here. In one of the most striking the bad girl utters the sentence: “Men don’t "want women to be good except their -wives and sisters.” This utterance generally produces a round of applause. Actresses of the calibre of Miss Ada Guildford and Miss Ida Gresham and Miss Lily Wiseman, the latter a daughter of the jwell-known character actress of that name, are with the Marlow Company for New Zealand. Mr C. R. Stanford is also with this..company now. Miss Guildford' is regarded as one of the bes _ emotional : actresses on the Australian melodramatic stage. Mr S. Grant will again be manager of the company through New Zealand on this forthcoming tour, and Mr Barney Levy will be in advance. Five months will be spent in New Zealand by the Marlow Company. The company will then open in Melbourne for a long season. The noted hobble skirt will be seen in “The Bad Girl of the Family.”

It is estimated that the returns of the eleven weeks’ run of “The Whip” in Sydney, exceed those taken for any other dramatic performance ever ■staged in Australia.