Bijou Vaudeville and Concert Company.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22212, 13 March 1900, Page 2

Bijou Vaudeville and Concert Company.

As we anticipated, the entertainment given by the above combination in the Town Hall on Friday evening last, was well worth seeing, and it is a long time since Te Aroha has been favoured with a travelling company that has given such general satisfaction. Considering the number of concerts, etc., we have had in Te Aroha of late, and other drains on the family purse, the attendance was a, good one. , The programme submitted was 'well selected, and each and every item loudly applauded. In Miss Akerster the Company have a talented pianist, whose manipulation oii the ivories was a treat, in itself. Mr A,. G. Murphy’s singing of ‘ Soldiersof the Queen,’ and ‘ Motherland,’ was well given and loudly applauded. It is soldora we have the privilege of listening to such accomplished mandolin playing as that' rendered by Mr A. Wynyard Joss, who gave the ‘Templemore March;’ and a ‘ Sand Jig,’ both, items being encored. The comic portion of the programme was supplied by Mr Percy Blackman, whose get up- a nd singing fairly brought down the li oU se 5 ‘ Some things are better left unsaid,’ a n( * ri What o’ She Bumps£ w6 re among st the favourites. Miss- Thomso 11 has a sweet voice and a pleasing wad’ on the stage. In the rendering of ‘ The Two Nightingales,’ her fine soprano voice was us^d'to great advantage. Captain Winfon gave a shooting display with a saloon rifle, hitting his mark every time. Not the least enjoyable portion of the programme .‘was a series of views on the Bioscope, manipula'ed by Mr E. Maekie,. the pictures shown on the sheet were life liko and both serious and humourous, the most entertaining of the latter being ‘The Man in the Moon,’ a dumb comedv-extravaganza which lasts several minutes.