"FLORODORA"

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 762, 7 September 1929, Page 15

"FLORODORA"

HOUSES STILL CROWDED Going on from success to success the Auckland Amateur Operatic Society’s presentation of “Florodora” again attracted a crowded house at His Majesty’s Theatre last evening. The show will be repeated tonight, when the season will be brought to a close. The play is a two-act comedy, of ; which the setting is first, the island of Florodora, and later the old Welsh estate of a noble lord. All the colour and beauty of a tropic isle and the gay costuming of its inhabitants have been combined to make one of the most enchanting scenes given in the theatre for a considerable time. The orchestra, conducted by Mr. Colin Muston, gives evidence of the most careful training and the singing, individual and concerted, is most ably supported. The hero of the piece, Mr. Ernest Snell is heard to fine effect in his several solo numbers. He sings easily and commands attention from the furthest parts of the house. Opposite him in the part of the girl of the story, Dolores, Miss Verner Wishart sings pleasingly in several selections. The main stream of humour flows from Mr. G. C. Lyttelton, who keeps the'house in laughter os the ludicrous Professor Tweedlepuncb, phrenologist. The production has earned the appreciation to which it is undoubtedly entitled, and the Operatic Society has won new fame as the result of the staging of “Florodora.”