AMUSEMENTS.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 749, 13 November 1876, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

MUSIO HALL.

Farnie's celebrated opera bouffe, " Nemesis," concluded the lengthened and very successful season of the Lydia Howarde Company on Saturday evening. The part of Rosalie was capitally played by Miss Howarde, who infused any amount of life and spirit into her rendering. She sang " Bid me discourse " excellently, and received a warm encore for it. Mdlle Navaro, as Praline, both sang and acted capitally, and Miss Nye gave " Her bright smile haunts me still" very sweetly. She also danced a hornpipe with much grace. The qnarrel scene from " Madame Angot," by Miss Howarde and Mdlle Navaro, was capital, and received an encore. Mr Towle played and sang as Calino with much success, and Mr Power's Major Bamponneau was a very fine piece of acting. Generally the extravaganza went well throughout. To night the company appear at Kaiapoi in the burlesque of " Kenil worth." THEATRE ROYAL. The popular drama," East Lynne," formed the bill at the Theatre on Saturday evening. Mrs Walter Hill's impersonation of Lady Isabel and Madame Vine was a most powerful one throughout. In the scene where Bhe throws off her disguise and reveals herself to her dying son, she was touchingly pathetic, and received, as she deserved, loud and enthusiastic plaudits. Her disguise was well managed aIBO, being a contrast to the easily penetrable one usually adopted by actresses playing this part. Miss Hettie Howard j played Miss Cornelia Carlyle fairly, and Miss Vernon made a good Barbara Hare. Mr Douglas, as Archibald Carlyle, made him what the author has drawn, a high spirited honorable gentleman, and was very successful in the part. Sir Francis Levisou, a part which, under ordinary circumstances does not stand out prominently, in the hands of Mr Hoskins was made one of the features of the piece. The other parts were well filled. To night Mr and Mrs J. L. Hall make their appearance in the dramatic adaptation of the American novel " The Gilded Age." It is only necessary forus to call attention to the fact of the re-appearance of those old favorites to ensure a full house and a cordial welcome to them. MR AND MRS J. L. HALL. To-night, after an absence of many yearn, these old favourites and pioneers of the drama in Ohristchurch, will make their re-appearance on our local stage. Since their departure they have won well deserved fame in various parts of the world, and Mr Hall's name as a comedian stands high in England and America. Mrs Hall also, as might have been expected, has also made her mark, and has won golden opinions from the critics for her natural and unaffected style of acting. The piece chosen to reintroduce them to their old friends here is a dramatic adaptation of a novel, written jointly by Mark Twain and C. D. Warner, which at the time of its publication achieved a great success both in America and England. The part played by Mr Hall, that of Colonel Eschol Sellers, a man of speculative tendencies who is always into some visionary scheme with millions in it, but which never comes to fruition, is one which affords every scope for th<. display of his talents. Laura Hawkins, the type of a class in America known as " lobbyists," who use their beauty and blandishments over senators to forward some particular job, will be played by Mrs Hall, and the other parts are also well cast. There are several sensational scenes, prominent amongst which is a steamboat race and explosion on the Mississippi, for the'effective rendering of which the noble stage of the new Theatre is admirably adapted. We hope to see a full house to-night, and we feel sure thee is no need to bespeak for Mr and Mrs Hall such a welcome as will assure them that they have not been forgotten by Christchurcli play goeiß,