AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16143, 22 February 1918, Page 9

AMUSEMENTS.

» OPERA HOUSE. A large audience witnessed the excellent- programme submitted at the Opera Houses last night. The operatic and other selections given by the Trio Classiquc. Messrs Laurie Kennedy ('cellist and cornetist). Lance Kennedy (flautist), and Miss Doy Adelle (pianist), were trrcatly enjoyed, and those clever artists were warmly applauded. The acrobatic feats performed by tlm Harlans and the clever danciug of Hickev and Rose were also appreciafci\ cly received, and tho W alter Johnson Revue Company successfully produced 'The Railway Tangle." - To-night the companv will appear in the revue, "The Ivissing Maid." and the other items on lasi night's programme nil! b6 repeated. BARTON'S NEW CIRCUS. "" \fter a-'somewhat lengthy interreg-: num Christchurch people will have an I opportunity of again enjoying the de-1 li"U*s of the modern circus. Barton s ; ! new circus, which opens to-night on j ! the section at the corner of Colombo j and St. Asaph streets, possesses all the customary attractions, and the Pr,varamme to be submitted is as varied and as attractive as the greatest admirer of the .sawdust ring could ask for. The company consists ot thirt\ star artists, including the Fredo Boys (tumblers), the Three Altons (Chinese acrobats), Mena "Val (lady stockw up cracker), Miss Vaidare (trwk cyclist), the Merry Denos (cbwns), Marguerite (bareback rider), Daisy Alton v. !r . e walker), Master Lindsay (rider of higli jumping ponies), and Gracie Bell (J a i--•anese "word act). In addition there are sixty trained horses, ponies, ana mules, some of the animals possessing bucking proclivities, which, will be displayed in "Fun in a Stockyard, the programme is to conclude with a grand steeplechase.