THE MOUNT IDA GARRICK CLUB.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 136, 6 October 1871, Page 5

THE MOUNT IDA GARRICK CLUB.

The first public appearance of the Mount Ida. Garrick Club took place at the Masonic Hall on the evening of Thursday last. Previously to the commencement of the performance, Mr. W. I-I. Cooper, the stage manager, came forward and explained the causes which led to the formntion of the company and the objects they had in view. A J amateurs, he claimed the indulgence of the audience for any short-comin »s which the severe eye of criticism niiyh't detect. After having explained that the entire proceeds of the evening's entertainment would be handed over

to the Relief Committee, Mr. Cooper retired amidst loud applause. Of the evening's entertainment, we have the greatest pleasure in speaking of it as one of the most successful performances ever given on the Hogburn. The pieces—Sam's Arrival, Lend Me Five .Shillings, and Bombastes Furioso were, in our opinion, well selected, and the characters well calculated to be efficiently sustained by amateurs ; and that the characters in each piece were well sustained the public will, we feel sure, agree with us in declaring. Of course on such occasions some mav excel others, perhaps from the fact of having more prominent parts to enact —perhaps from a better and more intimate knowledge of stage acting and stage effect; but where all not*only did their best, and that best well, we do not feel disposed to make invidious distinctions. The intervals between the pieces were enlivened with music and songs, obviating the tedium which is frequently felt during these intervals. The House was one of the best ever seen at Naseby, the building being crowded to excess in every part, and we feel sure that each persou present felt himself indebted to the Naseby G-arrick Club for having passed a really rational and, at the same time, an enjoyable evening. We have an objection to appear selfishly local, but we must say that the iS'aseby Garrick Club have proved themselves not only equal, but superior, to the quasi professionals who have from time to time visited this place, and that their claim to public support is the greater on the ground that, whereas in the one case the money received remains in our midst, to be devoted to some useful local purpose, in the other it is taken from the place and expended elsewhere upon objects in which we have no interest. We trust ere long to see the (Wick Club again on the boards, and we sincerely wish them as great a success as they undoubtedly achieved 011 the first and last occasi. n. We must not omit to mention that the iNaseby Brass Band was in attendance, and tended materially to the enjoyability of the evening —their services being, as usual, gratuitous.