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The Reporter

POLLARD’S LILIPUTIAH OPERA COMPANY. This organisation, is always welcome in Invercargill, and who can wonder ? Prom the merest midget to those who take the more prominent positions, they act with a crisp vivacity which would do credit to “ children of larger growth.” The Theatre was therefore well filled on Tuesday night, when the season was opened with “ Olivette.” While this opera is simple in construction, it abounds in racy dialogue, and some of the stock sentences are common property in town ere this—indeed for some time we are likely to see small boys imitating Capt. Merimac’s stiff leg, while they will tell us they are “ sad sea dogs.” There is a splendid orchestra, which supplies music so good as to almost make our own feet trip in company with the dancers on the stage. On Wednesday “ Erminie ” was placed before the public. This opera is not very well known here, and the cirle was not so well filled as it might have been, many doubtless reserving their patronage for something they knew more about. However, none who went were disappointed. The music was of course good, especially the

lullaby song, which was encored. The comic features of this opera are Gadeau, the timid thief, who upon the slightest occasion intimates that “ hit his ’is first offence,” and he can prove a “halibi,” and a princess who proves the truth of the proverb —“ There’s no fool like an old one,” in love affairs at any rate. This clever company is to play here till Monday night, and it is to be hoped that .the audiences will keep up and so encourage them. “ The Gondoliers ” will be staged on Saturday night, and as this is an old favourite the house is pretty sure to he packed. “ The Forty Thieves ” is hilled for Monday evening, when we will say farewell to our young friends and wish them a quick return.

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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 36, 1 December 1894, Page 9

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The Reporter Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 36, 1 December 1894, Page 9

The Reporter Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 36, 1 December 1894, Page 9

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