ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2481, 21 April 1909, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE DOWN EXPRESS

At His Majesty's Theatre to-morrow-evening Augustin Daly's drama, “The Down Express,”' will be presented in id of the funds of the City Band. The plot is a very interesting one, being mainly centred round the life of the heroine, Laura Courtland. who is supposed to be an outcast, having out of pity been taken from the streets when a child by a philanthropic lady who adopts her as her niece. This news is broken to her lover on the eve of their marriage, and by accident- gets to the ears of society, who denounce her. She flees from her home, and is fruitlessly searched for for months, at last being found in a wretched basement in New" York. She is persuaded by her friends to return to them, but is abducted by her supposed father, who tries to murder her by throwing her into the Hudson river, from which she is rescued by her lover. She again flees from her friends, and while waiting outside a wayside station for the next morning’s train, is locked in a goods shed from which, she sees the villain, for revenge. tie her faithful friend, a onearmed messenger, to the rails. She batters down the door of the shed, and rescues the messenger iust <a.s the express dashes by. The mystery of her birth is finally cleared by the announcement that her cousin—a heartless flirt —is the outcast, thev having been changed in their cradles by an old nurse.