... detective, get away from a locked room by means of a fire-oscape, with fire-engine brought rapidly to the place, after the manner of The Still A!arm and another bit. of sensationalism relates to their firing from a motor-boat on the river up to a trapdoor ...

... speeding- up, however, would be of advan tage, particularly in some of the smaller scenes, where there is 11 tendency to hang fire. Without being luxurious, the piece if pleasingly Btaged and costumed One has had frequent occasior of referring to the excellenl ...

... Police Motor Cyclist Mr Chas. Farrell Doctor Mr. C. Hampden 1st Guard Mr. Sydney Seaward Death House Guard Dummy Mr. Grosvenor North 2nd Guard Mr. Walter Langley Chief Guard Morwn^ A Guard in the Death House Mr. B. J. Dawes Driver Mr. ...

... Convict S V2 Mr. Fred Minton Convict X 19 Mr. Richard Lonscale Convict M 73 Mr. Charles Harley Convict H 93 Mr. Will Danes Guard Mr. Charles Hart Captain Boget Mr. (Jay Middleton Convict Q- S3 Mr. Gyles Isham Lieut. Cartier Mr. Tully Comber Corporal Mr ...

... appears, masked in ortho dox fasnion, but at the moment when ho is about to add their iives to the toll of his victims the coast guards arrive, and Jake Verney shoots the masked villain. Tho latter is discovered to be the doctor who iias been smuggling dope ...

... Hunter Geoffrey Grainger Mr. Reginald Gosse Peter Mostyn Mr. Edgar Norfolk Second Dining Car Attendant Mr. John Lloyd Train Guard Mr. Chas. Heath A Country Policeman Mr. Roger Livesey Fording Mr. Ian McLean Barnett Mr. George Belmore Sir John Grainger Mr ...

... unfortunately, they do not make a play. The unwelcome truth about 44 Little Catherine ,f that, taken as a whole, it misses fire in several of its most essen tial scenes, and becomes even dull and heavy in places that, pos sibly, were characterised by ...

... Gyseghem Mester Laurentius Mr. John Boxer Hester Johannes Mr. Francis L. Sullivan David Mr. Richard Fisher Leader of the Town Guards Mr. Walter Tennyson Herlofs Marte Miss Rita Daniel Bente Miss Pauline Lacey Jorund Miss Judy Menteath Originally produced ...

... d. This scene was acted impres sively on Friday bv Mr. Welch- man. who. as a picturesque brigand chief, had delivered with fire and entrain the strongly rhyth mical number. Rebels Are Out. together with the male chorus, who had previously distinguished ...

... presumably the bright idea of the clerk, Leonard Beebe, after he had gained his chief's notice and favour by putting out a fire caused by a match dropped either accidentally or on purpose, to have the lavishly decorated new- office of the firm adorned ...

... working out of an ingeniously dovetailed and caustically written play, dealing too much, pcrchance, with details of playing with fire and skating over thin ice. All the same, the piece and its per formance were received with ac clamation by a crowded house ...

... possible. Sterling was supposedly best friend of, and had been best man io. Paul Daventry, when that young officer in the Guards married Pearl, a very modern girl, who is saved from Sterling'# m Ititches by her mother, who take* her place at a rendezvous ...