MEXICAN BILL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 424, 15 August 1908, Page 2

MEXICAN BILL.

There was a poor house to greet the above company on Thursday night, in the Public Hall, The first part of the programme was devoted to comic songs, dances, etc. Miss Eily Foley was loudly applauded for her pleasing rendition of “ Can’t you see I’m lonely.” Undoubtedly, Mexican Bill proved the star of the evening, and performed some wonderful feats in his manipulation of the lasso, also using as a skipping rope a length of some 70ft, with marvellous dexterity, causing either side of the stage to be widened in order to make room for the tremendous coils of rope which he was encircling himself with. J, Knowles’ (nigger) coon songs were very well received. The drama, “ Burnt at the Stake,” which occupied the second part of the programme, was of an exceptionally sensational nature, the whoop and yell of the Red Indians triumphing over their capture of Mexican Bill and his sister, Eittle Star (Miss Eily Foley) being almost deafening in their shrillness. The last scene, depicting the heroine, Tittle Star, releasing her brother and robbing the sleeping Indians of their weapons of defence, was vociferously applauded. Some of the songs were extremely vulgar, and the show, as a whole, will do well to aim at something of a higher moral character.