MADAME CARRENO.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 846, 18 June 1910, Page 11

MADAME CARRENO.

Mdme. Carreno's personal magnetism • is such that, she always awakens dqirionjstratioris of. the utmost enthusiasm from her audiences, and occasionally ■this enthusiasm finds vont in more than cheers. On ono occasion, at Chicago! .at tho close of a concert, the people made a rusk for tho stage; some went . round, through the stago door to tho platform, but others took tho shoH ,cut, and .'climbed, over tho footlights. Mdme. Carreno was delighted iviih the compliment, and the people 'grouping themselves round, her in various attitudes, . -n-hile tho remainder of the departing audience ■ resumed their seats, eho Trent on playing number after number until she had given practically tho whole of a second programme. Then everybody wanted to shako hands at once; as many as 200 perhaps did manago this ceremony, and the rest, men and women, in a dishevelled procession, waving their handkerchiefs' aloft, made for the greenroom to say "good-night" and beg'for a souvenir, to furnish which tiro pianist's heap of bouquets were demolished. •' The Ladies' Auxiisary connected with the Y.M.C.A., which has rendered such splendid service to tho institution ever since its inception, are holding their annual winter carnival about the end of the month. Towards purchasing goods for this sale- Mrs. Chieholm, of Thompson Street, is arranging an unique entertainment to bo held at tho rooms on Tuesday evening noxt, Juno 21. It will be 'the inla-oduction. to the Wellington public of the Musical Nomads. These will appear in "tramp" costumes on a stage with very primitive effects. The names of tho tram|>3 should be a guaranteo for the excoljonco of the programme of orchestral ■ vocal, humorous, and dramatic itemsMessrs. Joy, llttliker, M'Farlane, Gillies, Hall, Carr, i'orteous, Mec, Dohorty,: Jacobs, Meadows, and Wood. The winter, is coining, with its alternating bleakness and humidity, its wind and pelting rain—all the things and fluences that try. the complexion so ■ severely. Have you thought of that? Are you content to go on just 'anyhow; letting the weather do its worst - with • one of your dearest possessions—your comeliness? If you are not, tho remedy is ready to your hand. Mrs. Arthur Stannard found it after years of searching,:and its world-wide popularity has given her a second (amp. Lakslnni, tho infallible Indian skin-lotion, perfectly harmless, perfectly wholesome, perfectly efficacious, in bottles, of all good dealers in toilet requisites, 3s; Cd.; or post firo from the John Strange Winter Company, Wellington, 3s. M. For golfers, and all women who aro much iu the open, Lakshmi has proved itself an absolute necessity of the toilet.' It proves itself on oud trial