The Haslingden Gazette. — 1906-06-02 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

THE SECOND MRS. TANQUERAY."  "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" will be produced at the Theatre it.ovul, Blackhurn, on Morah.y twat by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sugilen and specially re• lected company of high•cla,. artiste-. This attraction ibtadd provo a lingo draw for Whit-week. and the publie are advised to book flair seats at ono-. The company ion..t direct from London to fulfil this engagement. The play ic by A_ W. Pinern, and is one that certainly will not please pimple who liko ni drama, like their dinner, to follow a fixed order. and tin wind up at tho clone of the third or fourth act by phmsatit things being distributed to all the nice people in the cast. Mr. Pitieri-s has written a medern drama on a very Monarn theme in aunt may Is. styled a modern realistic manner; helms dealt with it phase of life which is never allmh.d to in polite society. hut which, tieverthele., takes the liberty of obtruding itself unon the of every dueller its rum with painful insistency. Mr. Piller° as a dramatist has achieved a gteat triumph in this work; it is written with a masterly hand. The incident; a.nci " shunt nine" have a terribly real and ilmonatie aspect. The rot tel problem Mr. Finer,' discusses in Mr,. Tamps, my. as most roople who take an interest in the ;theatre know, La whether it is po,sible for a man to marry a woman who has fallen (ran virtue and yet keep hit head above the society- tempvt which IA stirred up by the. act. If vra are to believe tit, teaching of Mr. rilti`/I, play, the thing is an impo-sibility; such a WO i. sure. sooner or later, to bn engulphed by 510,711,, which may be foreseen but Irr, restrained. Mr. Pincre, with a skilful hand, is alto a preacher of rightenu-nessagainst certain phasi, of what be calks •• a marts life" by shuwing—as in the incident of Ardale and Ellean what terrible ulterior consequences may thereby be entailed. In the end the family relationship of the Tanquerays becomes imyessible; the drama changes to a tragedy of that most painful kind, from which suicide i. the only escape. The :I,le, hi) i,stitnrt of thi,. play also help; to raise it to II high level of execllenm The central figure in the drama from the moment •he appears upon. the stage, is Paula—dm seeend Mrs. Tanqueray—which is enacted by Mrs. Charles Sagalea with eomummate ability; ber's is a beautifully consistent prowntatii,n of* wonsan of arcumplishmenti who has fallen from a high estate. I,s sinned. and would fain relialigi• tate herself in decent iociety by meatus of her marriage with Tanqueray; she has many likeable quail but her nature is ill-balanced and wayw itt; rho is bavrri to death with repectability and a country Itim,a at which nitioily calls; she is jcalott, isf her budiand's child, and we are tict surprimsd at the denouement; at times Mrs. Kugden rites to the hlgliest level of tragic acting. as in the interview with Ardale its tho third act, and a pathetic er..a is Paula'. fit el weeping after being re. preached by tar husband. Mr. Keuruth Black 214 Tanqueray is a somewhat enigmatical character; he i. a. man if the world. he a. forty years of are, hi, fir .1 marriage had .br., a failure, and yet he neon thi. ser, nil mcsalliance with alight heart; in h from love or pity? He speaks, of giving Mrs. 1 animeray a chattel, and in his acting Mr. Blink. his cling both imoriens an a working, basis, plays with gnat judgmetti. balance, and ability. Min Marie Daventry give; an excellent repre..ettation of the prudish Elk-an : and- anodic., part admirably played is that of Cuyley Drumm', the umittal friend, which, in the hands of Mr. Charles Septet], is elevated into the impedance the iteinutsist intimated it should possess; but each role is well. tilled, and the interest twver flags. 'the Blackburn people are being well catered fee Whit-meek. end Mr. Yothe's enterprise should be rewarded by "bumper" houses.