AMUSEMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 198, 11 August 1908, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

ALL STAR NOVELTY COMPANY

lhe All Star Novelty Company opened a two nights' season at the Theatre Royal last evening to a fair house. The programme submitted was a most varied one, and eaeli item wan favorably received, In a successful vaudeville performance the first essential undoubtedly is that the performers must lie firstgrade artists. Each and every turn given last night was executed in a very finished manner, demonstrating that every member of the company is possessed of no mean talent. .Miss Ivy Uilmour was in rare form in her songs and graceful dancing. The comic element was supplied "by Will Minton, whose funny isms and local hits produced much niirth. Miss Vista Collins, in tier ' character songs, was accorded a very favorable hearing, and was recalled repeated! v. One of the clever features of the programme is that .given'by the Armous m their marvellous musicai act. These two artists seem to be perfectly at home with any instrument, producing some very fine music with many queer arrangements. ' The farce,' "Pete in Trouble,'' abounds in ludicrous situations. Miss Kva Lee and her picaninnies made the hit of the evening in their clever performance. .Miss U>e is a star in vaudeville performance, while the picaninnies are wonders in their way. The. latter have only seen a few »immers, and their unique acting was the delight of all who saw it. The concluding part of their turn took the form of a willing bout with soft boxing gloves, the audience keenly enjoying the liliputian encounter. Owing to the arelight of the biograph lieiug damaged in transhipment the picture portion of the programme could not be given. The defect was not noticed until the last moment, the machine having been in perfect working order at the"Auckla-id Opera House on. Saturday night. However, after the performance the defect was. remedied, and n. Xews representative was shown some excellent pictures of the American fleet on ils cruise across the Atlantic. Altogether the coinpanv has some 10,000 feet of-fiiw for the machine. At to-night's performance these pictures will be shown in their entirety, while a complete change of programme lias been arranged. [We would like, to see the company eliminate from its future progranini"s one or two •"suggestive'' features disfiguring last night's programme. Lewdness and coarseness might appeal to and lie applauded by a section of the community, but this section does not count for so much as the respectable portion, and care should be taken hy all theatrical and variety companies not to wound its susceptibilities, particularly when there is no heed for it, as is the case with the "All 'Stars," who put on a programme of more than ordinary merit.]

THE MALLINSONS. • Music lovers in New Plymouth are eagerly looking forward to the Mallinsou song recitals, which open in the Theatre Royal on Monday night next. Mr Mallinson is acknowledged to be England's greatest composer of songs, and Madame Anna Stciuhauer, his wife, is described as the finest soprano Denmark has ever produced. The Ik>x plan of the recital will open next Wednesday morning at presden Coy.