KING’S THEATRE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1419, 5 July 1917, Page 31

KING’S THEATRE.

“ONLY A SHOP GIRL.

Love and intrigue are the basis of “Only a Shop Girl,” in which the Brandon-Cremer Dramatic Company gave a good account of themselves on Saturday. The persecution of a lonely shop girl by a jealous unscrupulous woman gives rise to a chapter of sensational happenings, but an evil plot to ruin her is frustrated by Bobs, a little waif, and a newsboy. Mr. Ronald Riley as the hero, who loves the heroine and is loved by the adventuress —hence the trouble —acted with his customary discrimination, while Miss Clarice Warner idealised the friendless but pure shop g!rl of the title role. Miss Eileen Dalgleish as Bobs gained many friends for her staunch assistance to the heroine. Miss Beatrice Esmond and Mr. Kenneth Carlisle earned proper odium for their whole-hearted villainy, the other characters being adequately portrayed by Mr. Charles Archer, Mr. Fred. Coape and Mr. Harold Hill.

“THE LITTLE CHURCH ROUND THE CORNER.”

Mr. Brandon-Cremer has come up from the south specially to produce the next attraction , “The Little Church Round the Corner,” which will be played for the first time at the matnee on Saturday. The piece has many features similar to those in “The Fatal Wedding,” and should make a popular appeal to lovers of melodrama. Divorce and marriage are the points round which chief interest centres. Little Mollie Cremer will take the part of Jean Grey, a role similar to the “Little Mother ’ in “The Fatal Wedding,” in which her sister Gertie made such a big name. Something exceptional is promised in the way of scenery.