AMERICAN COMEDY COMPANY.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 975, 22 August 1903, Page 2

AMERICAN COMEDY COMPANY.

The bos plan for the forthcoming season of this celebrated combination will be opened this morning at Miller’s, when it is safe to prophecy that there will be such a rush for seats as will mark an epoch in the history of local amusements. In the past theatre-goers of this colony have had to look to Australian and foreign managers for theatrical attractions, but now a native of New Zealand has stepped in to break the monopoly, and that his first venture is successful the phenomenal business being done in Auckland amply proves. As to the merits of the combination secured in j America by Mr Duval, for Mr Stephenson, the following from the Auckland Star speaks for itself :—“Quite the best company of its class seen here is my verdict on the Stine and Evans Comedy Company, which opened in His Majesty’s Theatre on Thursday night with the musical farce, ‘ Mama’s New Husband.’ The company and the play are fraDkly American, but the fun is entirely cosmopolitan, and while never trenching on the questionable, is well sustained and laughter provoking to a degree foreign to most pieces of the sort. The company is a remarkably even one, and if it has other cards _jn its repertoire equally as strong as ‘ Mama’s New Husband,’ not only its local, but its j Australasian, success is assured ”