The Steele-Payne Bellringers.

Manawatu Herald, 29 September 1900, Page 3

The Steele-Payne Bellringers.

This popular and talented Company will give a farewell performances on Friday next, at the Public Hall, when they can rely upon their usual crowded attendance. It is not hard to understand the continued success o.? thin; Company. There have been many changes in its personnel, and oven in its style of entertainment, since it first came from Australia to charm New Zealand audiences, but the main features of its programmes have been retained throughout. The Company provides what is distinctly a drawingroom entertainment, in which only first class items are presented, and these by talented pei formers. Vulgarity, or anything approaching it finds no place in the evening's performance, and there is a general air of refinement about the whole show, which is none the less welcome because it is comparatively rare. To keep up-to-date. Mr Steele has just added one of Edison's latest model biographs, which depicts animated pictures of the Boor war, Maskeleyne and Cook's latest illusions, several humorous pictures, and Ihe Queen's recent visit to Ireland. Tne pictures thrown on the screen are positively life-like, perfectly steady, and without the vibration which is so trying to the eyes with all other machines. The Company consist of Mr Ralph Steele, Mrs Steele (Miss Lizzie Payne), Master Claude Steel, of whom the Auckland Herald speaks with great praise for his rendering of " Just as the Sun Went Down," and " Break the News to Mother," Mr Jas. Williams (basso profoundo), Miss Kate Maher (soprano), and Mr Blackly, an expert lime light operator. Several songs and part-songs will be pictorially illustrated.