SCARLET TROUBADOURS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10061, 1 February 1909, Page 1

SCARLET TROUBADOURS.

When last Mr Branseorn.be's Troubadours appeared here they amused and entertained us, and on Saturday night we found they had lost none of their power to please.' Theirs is a style of performance of which wc see altogether too little. "Much of the music is of the best class of concert music, and all of it is weli sung. It is seldom that we find together three male voices such as those of Messrs M annexing, Cunningham, and Waltham, all solo singers of much merit, who with the addition of Mr Griffiths, sing also several well-modulated quartets. None but Mr Branscombe has succeeded, in finding performers in whom musical taste and capacity for extracting the best out of life are so happily blended. In Mr Percival Mackenzie the Company owns a fairly good banjo player, and a particularly clever artist in colored chalks; his work on Saturday night being amazingly smart. Mr Edgar Warwick _ provided much amusement with his stories, which if not always new, were well told. In Miss Gertrude Parker, Mr Branscombe found a smart soubrette, and Miss Maude Fane confirmed the excellent opinion we formed of her after her first visit. It is a bright Company and a clever Company, and ought to be just what the public -want—if the public want anything in parI tieular.