Pollard's Liliputian Opera Company.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 82, 1 October 1894, Page 2

Pollard's Liliputian Opera Company.

This much travelled and highly spoken of combination, is just concluding a most successful season in Napier. They play in Palmerston on Wednesday and < hursday, arrivin&^f here on Friday at mid-day, appearing^^ that evening in Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular opera " The Gondoliers," Mr Pollard is famed throughout* the colonies, for the perfect manner in which he stages his production, his attention to detail being recognised by critics everywhere. In " The Gondoliers" there ia plenty of scone for bright dressing, clever dancing and artistic grouping. A strong feature in this company will be the orchestra, which numbers ten performers, under the baton of Mr H. T. Harrison. At the end of the first act there are over forty performers on the stage, and the picture is one seldom seen in a provincial town. Several members of the Company have bright future* in their profession, notably the two Wellington young ladies, Miss Sissy Sandfqrd aad Miss Marion Mitchell, the latter of these is likely to develop into a great aitist, as the •• Melbourne Argus " criticised her as follows:— " She has a voioe of wonderful power and sweetness, is a clever little actreei, and there is no position on the operatio stage that she may not attaiu witU study. In her we detect another Madame Melba, or we suppose it wiU be Madame Zealandia,"