ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2546, 6 July 1909, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ALLAN HAMILTON’S COMPANY—“QUEEN OF THE NIGHT.” Though heavy showers fell at intervals, there was a large audience at His Alajesty’s Theatre last evening, when Air. Allan Hamilton’s Dramatic Company produced for the second time here the sensational play “Queen of the Night.” The performance • Went very well, and the audience fully rewarded the work of the talented company with weE merited applause. To-niglit the company will appear for the last time in Gisborne, when the splendid ethical play, “A Alessage frpm Alars,” will be repeated. The comedy drama drew a crowded house on Friday last, and as the production will be staged in complete detail, it should attract another large crowd to His Majesty’s Theatre to-night. POLLARD’S JUVENILE OPERA COMPANY. As “The Gay Hussars,” with which this popular, combination wEI inaugurate, a four nights’ season to-morrow evening, is new tb local playgoers, the following sketch of the story or plot may prove of interest: It wiR be seen that it is much more coherent than the. usual run of musical comedies. The scene opens in the tea room at Earl s Court, London, where Enid Alarmont, a ward in Chancerv (secretly betrothed to Lieutenant Clyde Burke, of the Hussars) is engaged as a tea gjrL For mercenary reasons Lord Kuilfa.il and Lady Brookfield are opposed to the union, having selected the Rev. Algy Brookfield as the future husband of Enid, so that they could claim her fortune. To separate the lovers they enlist the services of Colonel AlcAlister, who is in love with Lady Brookfield, and has influence at the AA ar Office, to have the regiment transferred to Japan. In this thev are successful, and the first act ends with the departure of the regiment for the Land of the Chryautliemuni. The second act opens in the Flowery Land, where the Japanese nobles and Indies are paying their respects to Buddha. The officers, who have been ii’.ling in an idle, time by making ' love to the Japanese tea girls, are surprised bv the arrival of "a contingent of hospital nurses, who. to their surprise and delight, turn out to be Enid Alarmont and her friends. In the midst of their congratulations a despatch arrives cancelling their commission as nurses, also announcing the fact that Lord Ivuilfail. Ladv Brookfield, and the Rev. Algy , have left England for Japan. Ensign South has a brilliant idea, and suggests that they all adjourn to the temple and got married wilder the laws of Japan, the. ceremonies to be confirmed under the English rites when the Rev. Algy arrives. , The comedy is largely supplied by two Londoners, in Bobs, servant of Clyde Burke, and Alarv Louise, now servant to Lady Brookfield. Bobs, following tlie lead of liis superiors, has hi led m hs idle time in Japan bv making love to Nnmmv Sam, the daughter of a rich nobleman, but on the arrival of his finanoee. Alary Louise, with Lady Brookfield’s party, quickly returns to his old love. To escape the attention of Nummy Sam he introduces ! !0 ]) ev - -\bgy to tlie I.ady of the Rising Sun, who has a rich dowry. Algy makes violent love, is accepted, and ndjournalg to the temple, gets mar- * ned. Everybody by th : s time beinf' M married, and Lord Kuilfai'. finding out \ that of Enid Alarmont. forgives, and the p.eco concludes with thd happy re-union cf everybody.