MR EMMET AS FRITZ.

Evening Star, Issue 4292, 28 November 1876, Page 2

MR EMMET AS FRITZ.

The Princess's was crowded to excess in the lower parts, and had a capital circle attendance last fvenu.g, when Mr J. K. Emmet made kis first appearance in " Our German Cousin." The piec» itself is quite as hastily constructed as any of those in which Littlo Nell figured ; but Mr Emmet, while in the main le performs much of the business she did, has attained an eminence m this particular line which she can nevtr expect to reach. His performances are those ot" a thorough artist. He is evidently a musician of much merit; he is a skilled dnncer and banioist • while his acting from first to last is good, his forte laying m emotional parts. Of course he is the central figure of the piece, thw lending features of which are describable in half-a-dozen sentences. Fritz, m search of a lost sister, travels through the United Stites, assuming various disguises, until at laat, with the aid of his sweet, plaintive lullaby eonsr he discovers her in the family of a maliciously wicked stock-jobber, in circumventing whose villianies half his time is employed. In his search aud his counter-plotting he is assisted by a lawyer (Mr Steele) who, falling out with the villain of the piece beca ise the latter will not give him his daughter, ultimately marries Fritz's sister. The remaining characters do not require notice. Mr Steele does the little he has to do carefully, and Mr Clitton has a congenial part; while Mr Love appears to he delighted with himself. Despite some drawbacks almost inevitable to a first production, the piece went. well. The songs are particularly taking, and many of them (especially the ««Lullaby"; will quiekly become comimn property, as will muuvof Fritz's sayings. Consideration far the heavy work that is thrown on Mr Emmet last night prevented encores being allowed, but the repetition of the Lullaby" nud the soloou the toy harmicon anyone could have torgiven. Fritz ia a success, and is certain to become better acquainted with Dunedin theatre-goers duriug the week.