AMUSEMENTS.

NZ Truth, Issue 139, 15 February 1908, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

. , ..« , ' THEATRE ROYAL. Fullers' Entertainers. . A varied programme has been nightly presented at 'the Royal this week, and everybody has gone away thoroughly satisfied, and promising to come agajfri some other, night. The Biograph heads the list with pictures of our Gracious bald-headed ruler reviewing his fleet, and hensvolently patting the Dreadnough as if it were a poodle pup. ' Mr A. L. Cropp is m excellent voice, and renders "King of the d-eep,'* and "Meat, me. Jeannie" m a faultless manner. Next comes Miss Malvena Moore, a smart soubrette and dancer, but nardlv justifying the assertion on the programme that she is little. Ruby and Will Franklin are a song and dance pair with a number of gags that should be suppressed out of respect to Mr Noah. Tod Callowav's budget of comic congs are very catchy, and his last nights are announced. Harry Salmon and Ida Chester have repeated their ruralcofiiedv sketch, "The Blacksmith's boy." introducing some quaint Americanisms besides some brights songs. Reg. Williams and Violet Bonetta are comedy patterers who gag m a gay old way antL provoke the most sober to unseeming mirth. Madame Blanche Carelli, the talented soprano, has been nightly recalled for her 1 perfect rendition of the valse song from "Romeo and Juliet," and this paper here wishes to record its utmost displeasure at the unruliuess of the gods for their indecent behaviour m hissing at what is properly speaking a vocal treat. Such conduct is unmanly, and stamps the "serpents" as the slimy creatures they undoubtedly are. One of the star turns of the programme is the cornody knoeka-bout acts of the Banvards, 'and their performance every evening is marked by unanimous applause, ami a demand for more. Will James' banjo items are a treat, his imitation of the church fae'ls, organ, and p-arson's sermon sets people guessing; who Mr James imitates, and one gallery ite t'other night hazarded the opinion that it was J. J. North. The "Racoons and the dog is another unique performance, and a pleasant evening is wound up with more Biograph selections. Some new and novel turns are promised for this evening, when there will be a complete change ofnrogramnre. Fullers' can conftd°ntlv lay claim for a large share of Wellington theatre-goer's patronage during J;he coming week.