MR. GEORGE MUSGROVE'S GRAND COMIC OPERA COMPANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXV, Issue 180, 13 August 1903, Page 2

MR. GEORGE MUSGROVE'S GRAND COMIC OPERA COMPANY.

VISIT TO NEW PL?MOUTH. Ma G. H. Barnes, the well-known msniger for Mr George Mu°grove, arrived lost eight from Wellington, and go 8 on to Auckland by the Ngapuhi to-cight to mako arrangements for the forthcoming tcur of his principal's combination, which commences at His iVlhj'jgty's Theatre on the 25th. The residents of New Plymouth will read with pleasure that Mr Mu'grove has decided to s?nd the Company to this town fcr a season rf three nigh's, com meccing Monday* September 21st. Th: Opera Co., which numbers over 90 people, including principal?, chorus balls*', and orchestra, is rega-del astht largest that has ever visited New Z -aland. The New Plymouth season will begin with Victor Hubert's enormously successful opsra the " Fortune Teller," and will be followed by " The S.rcnade" and probab'y "The W'zird of the Nile." Mr Barnes, wh»n questioned as to the reason Miss Ne'liStewart abandoned her visit, rema r keJ that Miss Stswart was quite as much disappointed as the residents themflelves, but the previous journey overland so upset her that tha could not again face it. Mr Musgrove was, however, making ament's by sending the present big combination.