WELLINGTON NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1559, 11 March 1920, Page 32

WELLINGTON NOTES.

(By

“Lorgnette.”)

WELLINGTON, March 8. The Allan Wilkie Dramatic and

Comedy Company, which is now permanently established in New Zealand, commenced a second tour of the

Dominion at the Grand Opera House last Saturday evening with the great naval drama entitled “The Luck of the Navy.” This piece has enjoyed a two years’ run in London, and has also had a great vogue in the English provinces. At the present time it is being played to capacity business at the Manhattan Opera House, New York. The plot has to do with the adventures of Lieutenant Clive Stanton, V.C., of His Majesty’s submarine SA. He is surrounded by German spies, the chief of which is the mother of an English naval officer, and another is a German who poses as a wounded Belgian officer. The drama is brimful with exciting episodes, and interest is never permitted to flag for a moment.. The drama is

staged in the very best style, the dresses, scenery and effects being up to the best J. C. Williamson standard,, Mr. Wilkie’s motto sems to be, “If anything is worth doing, do it well.” It is quite on the cards that Miss Kate Howarde and her dramatic company will make a descent on New Zealand at Easter with her Sydney and Melbourne success “’Possum Paddock” —a tale of the bush that is real live wire from start to finish. Mr. Bert Tate, late treasurer of the Allan Wilkie Dramatic Company, has now taken on the duties of touring manager. He was for some years under the banner of the J. C. Williamson firm, and the grounding he got seems to have borne good fruit. He’s a young Aucklander.