ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2229, 29 June 1908, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

meynell and gun.

Speaking of the production in Auckland of the military drama, “Her Love Against tlie World,” which is to be staged by Meynell and Gunn’s “Beatty-Alelntosh Company” at His Majesty’s Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday next, the Auckland “Herald” says:— This success is due, in the first instance, to the line company that the new. firm has got together, headed by Air. Harcourb Beatty and Miss Madge Mclntosh. The play itself is frankly melodrama, and does not pretend to be anything more. True, the author (Air. Walter Howard, author of the successful “Midnight Wedding”) has made a bravo effort to get- away from the melodramatic tradition by laying the scene in a foreign land—presumably in Austria—hut it is merely a difference of degree. The hero" is prosecuted by the villain for tlie best part of three acts, hut surmounts the usual incredible difficulties, and triumphs in the end. and is rewarded by the hand of the heroine—in this case a Princess. The play lacks humor, as the lighter vein of it is conceived, and carried out in the broadest farce. But the author has succeeded in imparting plenty of life, color, and movement to the action of the play itself. It is crammed with exciting, incidents and dramatic climaxes, which, if they sometimes pass the bounds of probability, are full of intense interest. “Her Love Against the World” will be played for two nights only, and will be followed by the romantic historical play “A Beggar on Horseback,” a play of strong interest, dealing with the period of the Jacobite rebellion. ’ ,