Entertainments.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 August 1911, Page 2

Entertainments.

"THE WANDERERS."

FIRST APPEARANCE ON FRIDAY.

Playgoers who will remember the excellent companies brought to New Zealand by Mr George Stephens l ;))!, will be pleased to learn that this young manager has again entered the field' of theatrical management. He has imported from the leading English theatres and music halls, fifteen artists, who are now touring tin's island as a Costume Comedy Company, entitled "The Wanderers." The programme to be presented embraces high-class vocalisation, irLstrumenta.talism, comic songs, sketches, duets, trios, choruses, monologues, and many novelties entirely new to local audiences.

The '/ate fixed for the company's appearance in Levin is Friday next, the 18th inst._ The personnel of the company is a strong one. ft includes the eminent London monologue entertainer Mr A. J. Black, whose renditions of Bracken's "The Auctioneer," "Only a Dog" "Oh, Memory," "The Same Old Lie." etc.. has stamped him as one of the finest monologue entertainers yet •heard in the dominion. In MiGordon Ryan, late of the Auckland Lyric Quartette, the company reassesses one of the finest bassos yet heard in New Zealand, while the comedian of the company, Mr Leslie Holmes, has created a furore everywhere. Tho other members of the company inch vie Miss Ruby Gues, instrumentalist and soub'rette ; Miss Beatrice Mercer, contralto ; Miss Lillian Irvine, soprano; Miss Everill Haggie. soubrette and dainty dancer; Mr Leith Harvey, a tenor; Mr George Winstanley. male soprano; Mr Herbert 'Brahms, musical director. A delightful entertainmemt will be presented; music, mirth and merriment being l excellently blended. The plan is now open at Phillips' Bvko, Levin, and patrons would bo well advised to lese no time in I secnring > seats as a crowded atten(dance is already assured. Tho I prices are popular: 3s and &', and ' there is no hooking; fee. K '