Munga Manga Minstrels

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 126, 3 April 1886, Page 2

Munga Manga Minstrels

The grand performance of the Munga Munga Minstrels was given in the Public Hall last evening to a f " large and appreciative audience. The front seats were crowded while those at the back were only moderately,, filled. Punctually at eight o'clock the curtain wag rang up exposing the performers who were tastefully dad in black trousers with a crimson s&Bhi ; and white shirts surmounted by the usual ebony faces. The overture 'Bream Faces" was well sung. Place aux dames. The young lady who presided at the piano during the evening, played the galop "Flick Flock" in brilliant style with good execution. Her accompaniments to the several songs and choruses were excellent and of real assistance t* ttie vocalists. Mr Fred Eoe sang ," Hoses underneath the Snow" very nicely and with great feeling. Tambo followed with "Up to Dick" which was well received. He also sang " Take me in your Arms." Mr Audrey rendered ■ " Wait till the clouds roll By" very pleasingly. Then followed the gem of the evening by Mr Johnston who Bang .«? Sweet Chiming Bells," Thi*, performer possesses a sweet voice of '} great compass winch he knows well' how to use. He also sang "The National Guard" with applause. Mr - Beading sang the familiar old song "The old folks at Home," and was . i followed by Mr W. Halcombe with "Oh, dem golden slippers" rendered with considerable spirit and effect. 1 Mr Gilmer sang " Uome where my love lies dreaming" very effectively. ■■ The choruses were all excellently sung, ; the harmonious blending of the voices :■■.. proving how m< Vi care had been taken during rehearsals. After the interval Mr Gilmer sang " Tom Bowling" in plaoe of " Take this message v + to my Mother." We have never heard him in better voice. The stump . speech of Mr Bones was very good ' and provoked much hearty laughter.' : The banjo song of Mr Johnston was very funny, and some of the local hits were very good. His " get up," and stage business showed that this per* former is no stranger to the boards. Mr Beading concluded the musical part of the entertainment with . "Thomas's sewing machine, " v in hia > usual efficient style. The farce, " Wagner Outwagged, " was supremely funny. It would be diffioult - to trace the plot, or account for the sequence of events, but it was " a live show" all the time for all that. Mr Paget Jones, the stasje manager, was a nnst excellent -Bones and was very happy with Tambo in the interlocutory part of the minstrel show. The j musical director, Mr Hartgill, is to be congratulated on the successful manner in which he . coached his team, the majority of whom had never before faced the footlights. la concluding this necessarily brief notice, . - we must express a wish, which will be ' heartily joined by all who were present last night, that this performance be repeated at no distant date. It is > not too much to say that the singers were all good, and that better voices have not been heard in the HalL