American Trio and Novelty Company.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 227, 31 January 1894, Page 2

American Trio and Novelty Company.

The performance of the above company iv the Assembly Booms last night was witnessed by a very large audience, and it was decidedly* an appreciative one. The members of the company are very clever, and the programme which they submit is a variable and highly amusing one, the audience being kept in the best of humours from the rise to the fall of the curtain. The performance commenced with songs, jokes, conundrums, etc., incidental to Christy Minstrel business ; the singing was good, while the jokes were funny, fast and furious, and in many instances entirely new. In their serio-comic duet singing and skirt dancing the Misses Delroy and Lynee were very successful especially in the song and dance " Rowdy-dowdy Boys." Encores were demanded in this, as in almost every other instance, and were alwayscomplied with. Messrs Naylor and Moore were exceedingly funny in their comic singing, tumbling, etc. The burlesque trapese act by Messrs Crawford and Mooney, caused shrieks of laughter, the antics and capers which these individuals cut, and the comical positions into which they wriggled themselves being amazing. The high-kicking of the two last named artists was undoubtedly the feature of the entertainment, and nothing has before been witnessed like it here. Mr Crawford had been credited with kicking to a height of lift ; this had been doubted by many, but those who were present last night' must have been satisfied that this great feat (with the feetj was achieved. It was a clever exhibition and fully merited the applause which followed. "A darkey's imitation of a drama _ company in distress," and the comical sketch " Bike the Actor " brought the house down — even to tears — the audiepce being convulsed with laughter. The performance was concluded by the pantomime "Sam Kee's Laundry," which caused even more laughter than " Bike the Actor," and was in fact, excruciatingly funny, it being a fitting wind up to an excellent variety entertainment. There will be a change of programme this evening, but the high-kicking and pantomime will again be repeated, and these two : performances alone are worth going to see. The company should be greeted with, a crowded house to-night.