ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2379, 21 December 1908, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE TITTELL BRUNE SEASON

‘T‘he girl of the Golden A Vest,” by David Belasco, will be produced for the first time in Gisborne to-night at His Majesty's Theatre, when Miss Tittell Brune, who is supported by Mr. Thos. Kingston and J. 0. AViliamson’s Dramatic Company, will make a welcome reappearance before local theatregoers. The play is a large piece out of the history of Chlifornia in 1849 —the golden age. It deals with the doings of the members of a community gathered together from all parts of the world, and who are working out their strange destinies at a place._ealled Cloudy Mountain, in the Sierras. The scenic effects of such a wild land are said to be fully realised. The first act takes place in the interior of tlie saloon, where the types of men and their ways of living are' seen. The second act shows the home of the girl, where the effect of a blizzard is realistically produced. The dance hall of the saloon is in the third act, and the final act gives the great prairies of the AYest, the edge of the mountain-fringed forest half shrouded in a grey mist. Miss Tittell Brune gives a capital ■impersona tion of the girl. AA r ith all her loving nature and deep affection for the “boys,” experience has given her a business instinct, as witness her statement to a customer, “Eggs is two bits apiece, and only two hens left.” Again, alien the alarmed bar-tender rushes an with the announcement that “AAkitts has arrived, and threatens to shoot the furniture to pieces.” she calmly exclaims, “Let him shoot; he can afford it.” The piece throughout gives Miss Brune unlimited scope for displaying her abilities in tlie art of which is so renowned. Mr Thos. Kingston appears as Dick Johnson, Mr Geoi’ge Bryant- is the sheriff, and others in the'daste are Miss Adele Kellv and Messrs Loring Ferine, Greglian AlacAlalion, Leonard AYilley, T. AY. Lloyd, R. iStaveley, Harry Sweenev, Norman MacKeown, Fred. Cambourne, Frank Harcourt, and Hedge Carey. Tlie season concludes to-morrow night when “Diana of Dobson’s” will be produced for tlie first time here.