Adapted from H. Rider Haggard's classic adventure/lost civilisation story She, this Pat Finn burlesque-style pantomime was possibly subtitled 'The White Queen of the Amahagger.'
Haggard's original story, serialized in 1886 and 1887, is a first-person narrative that follows the journey of young Cambridge professor Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. There, they encounter a primitive race of natives and a mysterious white queen, Ayesha, who reigns as the all-powerful "She", or "She-who-must-be-obeyed". In this work, Rider Haggard developed the conventions of the Lost World sub-genre, which many later authors emulated.
[Source: Australian Variety Theatre Archive]
