BAKER AND FARRON AT THE VOLUNTEER HALL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 829, 10 December 1878, Page 2

BAKER AND FARRON AT THE VOLUNTEER HALL.

Most of those who attended the pej. formance given by the Baker and Fartct| Combination Company, last evening, jj'yf the Volunteer Hall, must have returnee;! to their homes very much disappointed | We do not say this with any desire t: | disparage the talents of Messrs. Baker an: J Farron, for they are really clever artiste;! nor of the company by whom they «, | supported. Everyone concerned in tbi | performance did his or her level_ best t:| please the large audience, but their were neutralised by the total absence o;|j scenery or stage effects, the consequenesfß being that the performance was only httfM a success, and that lay in the excellent™ singing and dancing of Messrs. Baker anfl Farron, " Conrad and Lizette "is a pie«B which, in order to be rendered requires no end of scenery and stageß t effects, but these were not forthcomatH last evening. Everything was left to tlitS imagination of the audience. The sain<|| dreary, miserable-looking walls were made|a to do duty for a village blacksmith§| shop, Von Wolfstein's gardens, a camp onSS the Mississippi, and heaven only knoKijj| what else. The imagination of theH| audience was not even aided by announc«-|| ments being made, as we have heard o!g| having been done in the primitive days ol[s the drama on the goldfields, "This is jHH parlor," " This is a forest," " Thia is ij| hotel," &c. Had this course been adopted, |j it would not have rendered the perform-j ance more ridiculous than it really waa|g by the total absence of scenery. The ide»pj has not been copy-righted, and Measn.! Baker and Farron are heartily welcome tog adopt it if they think fit to do so. "Wsp will not attempt to criticise the perform. & ance ; but will content ourselves withg saying that the singing and dancing oijrj Messrs. Baker and Farron was reallj| good, and that the acting of these _ gentle. | men, Miss Saunders, Miss Morosini, and P Messrs. Jerdan, Flynn, and Mortyne, vm | excellent. The same programme willb(|| repeated this evening. p