PRINCESS THEATRE.

Evening Star, Issue 3798, 27 April 1875, Page 2

PRINCESS THEATRE.

The reappearance on the Dunedin stage of Mr and Mrs Wm. Hoskins w(W the meant; of drawing to the Princess last evening one of the largest audiences we have seen within its walls tor some time past. Every part of the house was crowded, and on Mr and iirs Hoskins first appearing, as they did in the opening scene of “ The Jealous Wife,” they received a welcome—as genuine as it was general—which expressed the gratification Dunedin theatregoers felt at seeing them again. When the applause, which lasted some time, had subsided, the play was entered upon and performed throughout with such spirit as to lead to, a cal for Mr and Mrs Hoskins at the end of the second and third aois. Mrs Oak leigh is undoubtedly one of Mrs Hoskins’s best impersonations, and we do n >t think she ba« played it better than she did last even ing. During the eighteen mouths or so she has been away Irom us, she has evidently studied much, and under such tuition she has had, it is not surprisiug to find hi r acting now thoroughly finished. And fht dresses admirably. Of Mr Hoskins it is enough to say that he acts as ple-autly as of uid, and looks even fresher than when ht first made his bow to a Colonial audience, mue years sir.cj thau we care to re member.' The afterpiece was “The Serious family, ” in wh ch Miss Colville as vlrs Delmaine, Mrs S'toneham a* Lady Creamly, Mr Hoskins as Sleek, Mr Steele as Captain Maguire, and Mr Booth as Charles Torrens, kept the audience in high humor, •'tiii we thought it went less spiritedly than on previous occasions, when the c <st has been very similar. We had nearly omitted to mention that, in the interval between the pieces, Mr Hoskins, in responding to a cal 1 , thanked the audience for their kindly reception of hla wise and himself, and expressed his pleasure at finding that h;s Dunedin friends, of . whom they had often thought, had not forgotten them. For to-night “ The Love Chase” and “The Happy Pair" are announced.