The Mammoth Minstrels

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 44, 1 October 1887, Page 3

The Mammoth Minstrels

The opening night of the Mammoth Mnstrfcte.tsays the Wanganui Her- j aid) at th« ; -Primje'S Theatre attr«e|ed a ,gc(6J: houfiw, ■» and ; the audi- | ence," 'we ve^tare Jto>ay, . mete, well please^ >w*t& tlieir visit, The;rise, of the curtain discovered to rjew/half a du^^iqpd lpokiog. Jpung, lad^% ; and: fouFepfnOT men, -doing the "chair luisme^, in ijheKorthj/dafc minstrel, Btyl^^haethe>T>afcl?<Jf $& stage^Ss B^fl^tjyidi aaimit^tiosroatffieldi vjialsheavea being brough'tinto requisition. UißSfMfibf Clifford mad© * chatminrg interlocutrix, -while the f Roofer men were exceptionally gdod,; and for Once in 4 minstrel ceaipany we heard some net^"] o^ 8 ' In the Toeal line the comvpany is* strong, Miss Clifford's "Rather," Mias Amy Blackie's «« Ponder Monkey Jim" from the lady members,' nothing like mother to me" by Mr Turner, and " Put oa the Golden Sword" by Mr C* Fanning by the male, members being items well worth hearing. It is in dancing, however, that the Min«trels excel, ; and we have not seen in Wangariiii clog dancing to equal that of. Messrs Delbwry, Craydon, arid Holland. If for this item alone the chow is worth a visit. Mr Manning's comicalities, and the Woodward Efrothers? acrobatic feats are features that tend to make the the performance very- - Jpopular. The farce " Thompson's Dead?' at the conclusion of the -entertainment was the' weakest part ©£& pfflsaf" (AJ^ifan^in^ ", being;- .the only "character 'in ' it: yprfhi sf&nga^^jprQgxan^nie^orth, : peejng~ ,!m§i pfograpijtae ,on, the vwj^l&isroner.that will bear seeing twice, arid the ftempany f^eAtsat 'tliia 1 'evening* s whetf wet&is£»th"eywill re>p''the pecuniaryi rewiard- fK> flieir| n enterpriSei ' 'deserves, pftii^alen^d Cofapaiiy'^i^ appear in^eUdin^ oa Tuesday next,}, ,' H