VAL VOUSDEN'S ENTERTAINMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 100, 25 April 1903, Page 2

VAL VOUSDEN'S ENTERTAINMENT.

, It U not often that one man essays

tho Unk single handed of entertaining a thoatre full of p.ople, but when he do •?, and succeds, it rmrk-i him as a iaan of talent and versatility. At the The:»t.-a Royal hst night Mr V,il Yousden occupied the stago for a couple of hours, with one blight inter- ■ mission, and dmiog tie whole time he nnnsged to hold tbe a:tention of a well filled house, and at times causing ' them to be convulse) with laughter. ' As a mimic, Mr Val Vousden exuells, he has mors than average talent as a ventriloquist, and his r.cttive powers are very good. Want of space will no 1 ; = p rmi'. us to follow all the items in an excellent pro fe rammi>, but bis recitation of " Shamus O'Brien," and his character *ket< hes of an old woman, and Sr. Henry Irvine are worthy of special mention. His ventriloqual imitation of f'ogs barking, fowls cackling and crowing, humming bees were very clever, while his imitation of a gallop ' ing horse was something to be r°il membered. The old time ky figure | business was very good, and "the audience wsro greatly sold when i.he '■wo figures turned out to be a couple ff boys. Oa the whole, Val Von den n a s every mason to ba satisfied with New Piym mtb. Mr. Rountree's rchestru phyed an excellent f election of music.