Pollard's Opera Company.

Hastings Standard, Issue 47, 20 June 1896, Page 2

Pollard's Opera Company.

This much-travelled combination will arrive here this evening and will commence a season of six nights at the Princess Theatre on' Monday. " Paul Jones," with which these clever young people will renew acquaintance with a local audience, is entirely new here, though it has been a standard attraction throughout the old world for the last eight years. It is one of the most popular of modern works; the music is bright and tuneful, while the libretto fairly bristles with good things, and is acknowledged as being the smartest ever written for this class of work. Mr Pollard has always been famed for the perfect manner in which he stages his operas, but, judging by contemporary criticism, his latest effort excels anything lie has yet given us. When we come to think that he has produced no less that 22 operas, burlesques and dramas during the last five years we may certainly expect something out of the common. It speaks volumes as to the excellence of the production of "Paul Jones " when we find it running to crowded houses in Auckland for eight nights, Wellington, seven ; C'hristchiirch. six ; and four at Dunedin. Those who have not already secured seats should do so at once, to avoid disappointment. In order to prevent crushing at the doors, stall and pit tickets can be purchased at D. D. Hyde's (tobacconists).