AMUSEMENTS.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 717, 6 October 1876, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

LYDIA HOWARDK BURLESQUE TROUPE.

" Girofle-Girofla" was again most successfully repeated at the Music Hall last evening to a large and enthusiastic audience. The opera has now established itself as a firm favorite with playgoers, who are most lavish in their demonstrations of praise during its nightly enactment. As played last evening it was a great treat, nothing intervening to mar or cause it to go other than well, the singing and acting of each member of the company being very efficient throughout. The same pragramme will be repeated this evening. On Monday evening, Herr Schott, the leader of the orchestra, takes a farewell "benefit, previous to his departure to join the De Murska company. A capital programme has been prepared for the occasion, which includes '* Trial by Jury," musical selections, " Girofle-Girofla," and a novelty in the shape of oboe solos. Speaking of the latter, the Dunedin Evening Star says:—"But the instrument over which Herr Schott has complete mastery is the oboe, and we must candidly say that in the course of our experience we have seldom had a richer musical treat than was afforded us last evening, in listening to the varied selections played by this gentleman, which included an imitation of the bagpipes, " Jenny Jones," with variations,; "Home, sweet Home, " Last Rose of Summer," " Auld Robin Gray," Meyerbeer's " Robert toi que j'aime," and some of the choicest morceaux from " II Trovatore." "With such a varied programme and the undoubted ability of the candidate for benefit favors, we predict a bumper house on the occasion. MISS DUNNING'S BENEFIT. To-night Miss Alice Dunning takes her farewell benefit. The programme is a very attractive one. The first piece will be a new comedy by the author of " Our Boys," called "Not such a Fool as he Looks," in which Miss Alice Dunning, Miss Florence Oolville, and Messrs Hoskins and Lingard will appear. This will be followed by two ballads by Miss Dunning. These are " Star upon star," and " Is my Darling true to me," both of which were composed expressly for her, and have been sung very successful elsewhere. The opportunity this lady has given us of hearing her voice is sufficient to prove that it is of excellent quality, and the musical part of the entertainment will not be the least successful. The performance will conclude with a one act comedy, " Lady Elizabeth." Such a bill, apart from the claims Miss Dunning undoubtedly has on the Bupport of playgoers, should crowd the Hall in every part.