ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1063, 29 June 1912, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

JOSEPH BLASCHECK

Mr Joseph Blascheck, who gives his entertainment at Foxton Town Hall on Tuesday next, July 2nd, in private life is a quiet, unassuming little man, whose delight is to stroll about in a comiortable old suit of clothes. He delights to haunt the picture galleries aud the second-hand book shops. Nothing gives him greater pleasure than to pick up bargains in the shape ol books, poetry, drama and biography being his favourite literature. He spends a small fortune on this hobby, aud accumulates cases full of books wherever he travels. He is of a most retiring nature aud detests being lionized. To strangers he seems almost dull aud uninteresting off the stage, but amongst friends and iu congenial company he is the merriest aud most delightful companion imaginable —his fund of good stories is inexhaustible and his mode of telling them irresistible. But no oue, to meet him casually, could possibly conceive that this quiet, unobstrusive individual, with very little t<-> for himself could be the sanu man, who, ou the public platform, thrills his audiences to enthusiasm the man, who, dressed iu the conventional modern evening dress, can actually be the same being the character he represents in his entertainment. It is simply marvellous that this man to his audience actually seems (by the power of his genius as an actor) to be Ihe living embodiment ot the ridiculous old J.P., Shakespeare’s “Marc AulUoiiy,” Chavelier’s “Fallen Star,” a doddering old yokel, a merry schoolboy, an operatic vocalist, a comic lover, or any of the hundred totally different characters be pourtrays to such perfection that has never been equalled in our time. In every town where Mr Blascheck aud Miss Wiightou have appeared there has been a great demand for seats and we should advise ail those who want good seats to book them early at the Council’s office, there is no extra charge.