CORNWALL COMPANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 168, 13 June 1902, Page 2

CORNWALL COMPANY.

i The opening pv f >rmanc9 of this popu t lar »nd talented company was given at t WhiteUy H4I on Thursday evening, i and they fully m intainsd their reput tation far excellei.ee in th» varied 91 prograrainn pr. sen'ed. The marvellous i dex'erity and sb'll shown by thfl band 1 of in'tiumfntalists wss, if anything, t greater than ever, and evoked loud 1 appl iu»e, especially i.n the very effective t rendering c.f "The British Patrol," r wfe're the a ; r, as it is wafted in from s the far dis'anc', almost imperceptibly t grows on the eur until the full sound is t J reached, cnly to die away like a gentle *'z c phyr until it is again lost in 'space. As «n ar'is'ic ruanipuhtion -; of string d insiruments th : s piece t could hardly he excell d. In the hand- - bell ringing same v ry fine eft'e :ta wf re f productd, esp cully when aided by the • ( voice* of tho par formers. The character , du ts of Miss Gladys and Mister i Horace Cornwall werd full of lit-', ar.d their daneirg neit and well execu'ed. ■J Mis* G-rtie Millar also contributed . seiio comic i'ems that found i favour with the audience. In Mr F.wce't Rowe the company posses os . a vocalist and comsdian who is immens ly popuV. Hi? drollery is irresstible, and ho kept the housa in roar* of laughter whenever he was on ths ctnge. Mihs Ethel Cornwall seems to be rqually at Home on all sorts of instruments, each of which sho manipuh'es with ease, precision, : and ar is'ic iffjrt. The enteirainmen* ronclidel wi'h a humourous bibu'ous sketch, which gave Mr Wove an opportunity of demonstrating in r. alistic f«li,n the ■:. bsurd but droll bs-hiviour of a man wh j h is dined at his club not wisely but Uo we] 1 . Altogether it was a mo t fci j .yable amutument, and there s h ould be a large audieoce TO-NIGHT, whea th» farewe-1 p rformn'ice tak-ip ' place, an entire change of programme being submitted Thoie is a charming rriskn- ss about the whole p *if .rmacoi \ that eiihancts (ha ether poin's of ex- ' re'.lencn by which the fntmtainment is j characterise J. I>