ADA DELROY COMPANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 215, 18 September 1901, Page 2

ADA DELROY COMPANY.

It has bean the wish of Miss Delroy to play a season in New Plymouth during this tour (which is her fifth tour round the world), but the theatre having been booked hitherto precluded her. from doing so. However, after much difficulty, the manager of the Ada Delroy Company has succeeded in obtaining the Theatre Royal for to-night. The name of Ada Delroy is a very familiar one, and ought to be a sufficient; guarantee of an excellent, up-to-date entertainment. It is now almost four years and a half since the company was last in these parts, du ins; which time Miss Delroy has visited England, America, and the Continent in search of novelties and attraction?, and has i succeeded in obtaining much that is . new to New Zealand. All who witnessed Miss Delroy's performance on ' her former visit will remember her , dancing, both on account of the ease , and grace with which the little lady : manipulates the hundreds of yards of i silk, of which her dresses are com- . posed, and because of the skill with which the coloured lights are manipulated, To-night Miss Delroy will inl troduce her latest oreation, " She; the Dance of Fire" (inspired by Rider i Haggard's novel). Miss Delroy caused such a sensation by this dance at the ! Empire in London, and the "Tolie , Bergeres" in Paris, that the English ; press speak of it as being " The most , startling and sensational dance ever ) produced on any stage," It depicts • Ayesha entering the Fire of Life with j » all her youth and beauty. She is sudt denly enveloped in a mass of flames, ) the agonies and tortures Buffered being > most realistically pourtrayed, until i finally the body is consumed into a , heap of charred remains. To-night . will be produced for the first time in . New Zealand the great historic spec- ! tacle, " The Life of Joan of Arc," in . twelve tableaux. The company conj sists of twelve performers, all with . Metropolitan reputations. Unfortunately the season is compu'sorily limi- . ted to one night ooly, as the company (leaves to-morrow for Auckland. '."■ ■ ■'■ ' : !