WEBB'S ROYAL MARIONETTES

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 239, 19 September 1884, Page 3

WEBB'S ROYAL MARIONETTES

The following notices are taken indiscriminately from a bo.ok of about 300 pages:—“ The closing performances bore off the palm and filled the treasurer’s drawer to overflowing. It is interesting to see Marionettes who can act. Our actors and actresses should go in swarms and learn a lesson.” — New York Herald. “ The Marionettes came highly recommended, bvt notwithstanding the rarely landatory terms used with regard to their performances, no tinge of disappointment could anywhere come in.”— Melbourne Leader. “ The veriest cynic could not fail to be amused at the antics of the Marionettes.” — Sydney Morning Herald. “ The Marionettes is the most enjoyable entertainment wo have seen for many years.”— Auckland Herald. “ The songs, jokes, and the tricks perpetrated both by the dark gentlemen, and by the clown and pantaloon keep the audience in a perfect state of delight, and the jokes and conundrums are far beyond the stale nonsense usually retailed. The transformation scenes are simply wonderful. The female Blondin, the stilt clown, the Turkish juggler, the animated skeleton, and the majic Turk perform with surprising agility, a*.>l must be seen to be believed.” ‘-The Marionettes send the little ones into hilarious yells, until the young beggars roll delighted on their backs and scream, as did Ulysses of yore, Give us more; this is divine; while their parents, unable to control themselves, let the

younkers revel on, spell-bound by the electric and facial contortioning antics of this novel spectacle,”-—zl'MuWe Punch. The Company opens on Saturday night, at i’arnell £• Bov. bn’s Hall.