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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1804, 2 April 1888, Page 3

Lazy and dull feelings always proceed siolcness, which nothing but Hop Bittera will banish, Get the genuine American. Eead

Mr John Driscoll Foley who has just completed a suooessful season m the North Island !s to open m Ashburton about the 11th or J2th inst. A Northern contemporary thug (peaks of one of Mr Foley's recent performances : — " He has been named the colonial Maccabe, and deservedly so, for hia changes of dress, face, and voice are moat rapid, complete, and mystifying. All of his impersonations are lifelike and realistic, and serve to introduce him m characters to which he has given long and careful study, and which when Seen are quickly recognised by his audience 1 As to his performance with his two dolls m the ventriloquial part of his entertainment his ability is unquestionable, and his two friends, Jimmy Eoundhoad and Tommy Squarehead, keep his audience m screams oi laughter from their entrance and introduction until they bow their heads and retire for the night. The Chinese orchestra is another feature m which Mr Foley excels. It consists of eight ordinary brandy and whisky bottles, m fact a genuine display of dead marines, and on this eocentrio instrument he discourses most sweet and melodious musio, inoluding "Home, Sweet Home," "The Wearing of the Green," "The Highland Fling," waltzes and polkas ad iufinitnm. Mr Foley is assisted m his entertainment by Mrs Foley, who is an accomplished piauiste.