Theatre Royal.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 232, 5 October 1904, Page 2

Theatre Royal.

HARRY HICKARDS' VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. The announcement made elsewhere that New Plymouth will be visited on Tuesday and Wednesday, 11th and 12th Inst., by Mr Harry Rickoncls 1 combination of vaudeville and specialty artists will be hailed with pleasure, by all theatregoers. Mr Kickands has always given New Plymouth good shows, hut the coming one promises to out do all previous onos in its excellence. The company numbers sixteen tirsb-class artists, foremost among wh 0 m may be mentionod Mr Will Van Allen, a highclass musical artist just arrived from London, and who hasi scored very heavily at Mr Rickards' Melbourne and Sydney theatres. The reappearance of Miss Maud Daatty in New Zealand will be certain to" uttract considerable, inteivst. It is upwards of six jears since Miss Ueatty last appeared w th Pollards' Company, since when she has occupied the proud position of principal boy in last year's Christmas pantomime at Dairy Lane Theatre, London. Mr J. W. Winton and his friond MoGinty of vcntriloquial fame will bo pleasantly ixMuciulwrod on his last visit to this town. Ono of, the most interesting items on the programme will be the very latest series of animated pictures just imported from Palace Theatre, London. The subjects are : V A Trip up the Thames," "A Daylight Robbery and Capture by (he Police," and "Canadian Salmon Fishing." The company includes several popular and well tried artists, notably Miss Ada. Dclroy and Mr James Bell, the Smith Sisteny Miss Maggie Fraser, Mr Ed. Ford, Mr George Bentley, «md others. The management has decided to charge "p o pular prices," 3s, 2s, and Is, so that two crowded audiences are assured for the Rickards' cornbin ntion on Tuesday and Wednesday next. The company will arrive here from Auckland' on Monduy, but the theatre being previously engaged for that night the season cannot commence until Tuesday. The box oflico will be opened this morning, when seats can bo reserved at 1). McKinnon Uain's 1 now Music Warehouse, without amy booking fee. With such an attraction, "standing room only" should be at a premium during both nights of the company's stay In Now Plymouth.

THE THEATHESCOPE. Tho American Theatrescopo is to be exhibited at the Theatre Royal on Thursday and Friday evening next. Commenting on thle work o! tin; machine, an exchange says : "It certainly marks an advance on anything ever previously seen here. The minutest details of the subjects depicted are clearly brought out, and the flickering (which is one blemish of the wonderful art of amimated photography) has been reduced to what may be taken as a minimum. Tho pictures arc exceedingly varied, demands being made alternately on the risible anil admiring faculties of the spectators. Among the most admired of the series were :—The Dluebeard Pantomime, Uncle Josh at the moving picture show, nnd the groat waterfalls of the Rhine m SchalThauser. The pantomime representation occupied fully 35 minutes, and throughout tho whole of that time the inteitwl of Mu audience was most delightfully sustained by the variety of characters introduced, the wealth of the scenery and costumes, and tiho multitude (if rapidly changing and dissolving views. A Mexican bull fight is also a real picture of a brutality in which some nations still continue lo find enjoyment. Other particularly pleading scenes were Mount Telee eruptions, feeding seagulls, the American yacht race, Niagara Fulls, skating on the ice, Montreal, j Canada." i