“THE FORTUNE HUNTER.”
“The Fortune Hunter,” the smart comedy to be presented on Thursday, is in some respects akin to “Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford.” It is so chiefly in that it shows how a man down on his luck enters upon a hazardous and fantastic scheme to make money, finds the scheme almost miraculously successful, and ends by marrying a girl in lowly state, who is one of the few that do not run after him because of the sham superiority that he affects as part of the fortune hunting scheme. In the case of Wallingford it was the manufacture of ridiculously conceived carpet-covered tacks, a scheme begotten in desperat’on, that turned out a magnificent success. Nathaniel Duncan’s. (the fortune hunter) venture is a matrimonial one.
The cast of characters is as follows:—Nathaniel Duncan (the fortune hunter), Mr. Ronald Riley; George Burnam, Mr. Harcourt Hare; Larry Miller, Mr. Charles Coyne; Harry Kellogg, Mr. Fred. Coape; Tracey Turner, Mr. Reg. Collins; Rona’d Barnette, Mr. George Hewlett; Mr. Sperry, Mr. Tom Vivian; Pete Willing, Mr. C. B. Throsby; Robbins, Douglas Harris; Sam Graham, Mr. Gerald Harcourt; Josephine Lockwood, Miss Margaret Linden; Angie, Miss Mildred Carlton; and Betty Graham, the druggist’s daughter, Miss Madge Surtees.
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1403, 15 March 1917, Page 34
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200“THE FORTUNE HUNTER.” New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1403, 15 March 1917, Page 34
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