AMUSEMENTS.

Evening Star, Issue 2894, 29 May 1872, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

MASONIC HAUL. A dramatic entertainment—half professional, half amateur —on behalf of the Bowing Club, was given in the Masonic Hall last evening. The Hall was not full, and for this result the promoters of the enterment arc to be held responsible. The prices of admission were unreasonably high; and it would seem that the object was rather to secure a select than a numerous audience. This, like all efforts at exclusiveness, was a mistake. Tho object was one with which the public was disposed to sympathise ; and if its co-operation had been invited, the result would, we veatiue to say, have been pecuniarily more satisfactory. “Still Waters Run Deep,” and the third act of “Othello” were represented. Mr Morton Tavares sustained the rule of JohnMildnrvy; hut though he had accepted Mr Alfred Wigan as his exemplar, his performance was hardly equal to the celebrated original. The parts of Mrs Mildmay (Miss Surtees), and Mrs Stcrohold (Miss Dolly Green), were creditably played. The efforts of the amateur who took the part of Uncle Potter were, as amateur efforts, considerably better than wo were led to expect, and he leceived the unmistakable plaudits of the house. Of the gentleman who personated Captain Hawkesley little can be said. The part requires—at least in appearance—a villain ; and the gentleman will hardly accept it as llattering if, we state that he looked as unlike a villain as possible. But notwithstanding the drawbacks inseparable from amateur

performances, the drama was well throughout. All the perfonmOTtswera apoew before the curtain during tnepjece, ajt‘ its termination, and were received with hearty demonstrations of apMailse.; ST Otliello Mr Tavares ously as lago, but the part of ()thello«,it is hardly possible to conceive could have been rendered with less effect. His enunciation was indistinct, and little of the dignity of the Moor was preserved in the performance. PR I' CESS THEATRE. The “Watchdogof the Walsinghams” was repeated to a fair house last evening, by whom it was well rec jived. To-night Watts Phillips’s comedy of “ Friends or Foes ” will be produced.