MARIE NARELLE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81908, 20 December 1906, Page 2

MARIE NARELLE.

One. 'Australian critic said o£ Marie Narclle:—",Shc is not only a «rcut singer, she is a, great actress." "lliis was said after hearing' her sin., in .(nick succession two such wide!/different songs as "Jiarney OTlea," and the stirring call to arms, "O'Domu'll Aboo." In tin- one she is said, to display such inimitable coquetry 'and archness of manner that she has made her rendition of the humourous ditty famous everywhere, while in (lie other her hue personality and dramatic lervour never fail, it is said, to rouse her audiences to the highest pitch of cnihusism. One eau almost imagine iliss Narclle, like, another • loan of Arc, at the head of an ai'mv, sweeping on to victory, as she sings the song of war. The New Zealand Times of November •>, says:—.Mr Chester Fentress, a young American tenor, had a similarly Haltering welcome to Wellington. His lirst song, Florence Aylward's "Line's Coronation,'' assured his hearers I Imt. he vas possessed of a voice of no menu character or culture. His quality of tone is rich and fairly robust, and iie uses the mezzo voce iji <• maimer which none but a Vasty- '" I well-trained vocalist cold'' ""S'i'-V (lodard's "Dercuese. ,V , ", "tiempt. nlng's "Uoseeu v "' Joeelyn," |>,„nU:.e StUlv ". ,:',;'"'' , Jloim ''* "Oft in j.;,...- v . -Malit-' and Nevim's " My | • ■.'J'.v were the songs in which he sum. d ' :U;<l °" dl WaS lll ' li "' l ' ti '" ll .V The company apnear at New 'Plymouth on .Saturday" evening.