BENT AND BACHELDER'S CHRISTY MINSTRELS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1635, 23 December 1881, Page 2

BENT AND BACHELDER'S CHRISTY MINSTRELS.

♦ This clever Minstrel company will give their last entertainment but one, at the Theatre Royal this evening', Thei'e can be no doubt that this is by far the best Minstrel organisation that has ever visited the West Coast, numbering, as it does among its members, some of the best known exponents of Minstrel business. Strong in every department, whether vocal, instrumental, comic or terpsichorean, it is universally admitted that no better negro, comedian and humourist than W. Horace Bent has ever appeared in the Australian colonies ; while Mr Beaumont Read has the reputation, extending over nearly the whole of the Englishspeaking portion of the globe, as the°best alto singer. Messrs Fredericks and Ball have also the names of being the best tenor and basso respectively in their branch of the profession. It would be difficult to find the equal of the brothers, Charles and William Hugo, as eccentric song and dance artistes and grotesque comedians ;

the same may be said of Mr Edwin Rowley as a step dancer. The instrumentation of Messrs ; M'Sherry, Hey wood, and Langdown is also deserving of the highest praise ; and last, though by no nieans least, " the wonderful double-voiced lady Miss Amy Rowc." This lady equally possesses a phenomonal voice, as hersilining of the duet, in two voices, the " Gipsy Countess" amply testifies ; moreover the company possesses so extensive arepertoire of novelties, that they are able to change their programme nightly. We sincerely recommend our readers to patronise the Minstrels as it will in all probability ba some time before they again have the opportunity of witnessing the performance of so clever a company as Bent arid Bachelder's Minstrels.