Theatre Royal.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 792, 7 April 1905, Page 2

Theatre Royal.

J. C. WILI jLVM'SON'S GILBERT & SULLIVAN'S OPERA CO, The announcement which appoars in our advertising columns relative to the forthcoming visit of the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company should bo received with much gratification, as Mr Williamson may ailways ho relied u[>on to spare neither troublo nor expense in connection with his unilertukings. The two comic operas to l>e presented during the season of two nights, which commences nt the Theatre Royal on < Thursday next, April 13, ure "The Pirates of Penzance," and "The Mikado." company, it is stated, will include upwards of eighty artistes, is complete in its «jui|>mcnt, and carrying a well tr'aineJ chorus and an orchestra of twenty, instrumentalists, under the baton of M. Leon Caron, It is satisfactory to loom that Mr Williamson, in accepting the responsibility and very great expense which the visit of so large a company entails, is encouraged in his enterprise by the manner in which his Royal Opera Company have been universally received. The box pluns for th"e New. I Plymouth season will be openod at Mr McKinnon Bain'. l * music warehouse on Monday morning at 9 jn'clock, and the prices, notwithstanding the great expense of tne [attraction, will! br on n li'li'd'al scale, ~viz., reserved seals .">s, stalls Us, and pit ls< 'sUNDAY CONCERT IIY COOPER S IMPERIAL HIOGHAPPH, Mr Cooper's Imperial Riograph II uical and Dramatic Company is giving entertainments throughout the country districts with great success. On Sunday next at' the Theatre RoyI 1 u grand sacred concert is to be 'given in aid of the hospital funds. :Those who attend are promised views of magnificent life motion pictures, 'beautiful niyriorumic views and appropriate musical selections ; 'also Harriet lto?cher Slowu's famlous story of Vncle Tout's" CnAVIn and 'little Eva in life motion pictures. I There will also be a grand presentation of Wilson Harrett's "Sign of ,the Cross," with 32 magnificent; tulvleaux, commencing with Mercia, the the Christian maiden. 0i» Monday night u line programme will be presented, chief among the maty moving pictures being the football match jllritain v. New Zealand. In addition ko Hie pictures Miss Lily Sheldon, iu clumuing serio-comic tlya Uudist and child impersonator, will entertain the audience, while Mr Kimlley wHI give pictured melody and illustrated dru-mat-ic songs. The famous ventriloquist, Mr Sheldon, will give his clev- I or ven'triloqual entertainment. There' wjll be numerous pictures, and also i animated films dealing with the North Sea outrage. Special tickets at low pricos for school children and purcnts can now he hud at lliodders', ho stationer.