NORTHCOTE'B ENTERTAINMENT.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 10 January 1901, Page 2

NORTHCOTE'B ENTERTAINMENT.

Last night Mr Northcotc Was again greeted with a large audience, the excellence of his entertainment having got noised abroad. In addition to being exceedingly amusing and entertaining, there is in the first part a great moral lesson that many folks might well study. The musical section following possesses variety as well as excellence with, the concluding spectral sketch of " Pepper's Ghost," is as the manager declares funny enough to make a chicken laugh. This evening the Company give their first change of programme, when a bill varied and attractive will be presented. Tho curtain will rise upon "Faust," a well- , known Lyric drama into which a large amount of the original musical number will be rendered. Miss Lillie Octavia appears as "Marquerite,"MrE. Maurice as " Faust," Mr Fred Smith as "Mephistophelcs," and the other characters by the members of the Company. In addition to " Faust" the programme also contains a new garcical comedy entitled "Mucldlehcad in a Fit," and in both pieces we are promised some very interest spectral effects. " Faust" not only contains charming music—as popular as classic—but permeating Gounod's famous work : " All that philosophy and poetry can bind together—the truth, and the paradox—the highest and the commonest, the greatest, and the most gay— • the wildest mirth, and the desolution of deepest anguish intervened." " Faust" is essentially a mystic conception, and naturally lends itself to the wonderful effects obtainable by the spectroscope. There will doubtless be a large attendance at the Opera House to-night.