MR FRED FOLEY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 187, 8 October 1906, Page 3

MR FRED FOLEY.

Mr Fred Foloy, who is announced to appear at Hia Majesty’s Theatre cn Thursday end Friday next, comes to ue well recommended by tbe press throughout Australasia. A Southern exchange says : The entertainment is distinctly good, Mr Foley never wearies bis audienoo. Ho passes lightly from wonder to wonder with a wealth of " patter," apropos to the particular surprise bo is going to spriDg on hie audisnoe. When be incubates full grown ducks by firing a pistol into an empty tub, the utility of tbo ordinary slow process of poultry-farming becomes appa< rent. Tbo sleigbb-of hand tricks are wonderful, especially when the performer shows bow they oro done. We would eli like to got bold of that easy method ol making money rain into a bat and picking it up all over tbe place. A feature of the show are tbs shadowgraph?. It iirra’y astonishing what pictures Mr Foley oan throw on a screen merely by using bis hands, and the littlo oomedy of “ sweethearts and wives ” created uproarious amusement, Ho gooa out of tbe hackneyed route in tbe ventriloquial display, and the dialogue is witty and original, and there is aoi tho slightest suggestion of an objocs jionab|e oaaraolar,