AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 215, 16 October 1909, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD'S JUVENILE OPERA COMPANY. "MANOLA."-TO-NIGBT. •TMum of the favorites." so ,runs the advertisement, and quite right, too, as no theatrical company that .has ever loured the Dominion'has retained Its popularity like that of "The .Perennial Pollards." For over thirty years they havei visited us again and again, always growing .bigger and higgw, nnttl always with sonnet-Mug new. The company open'mg to-night is the sixth of the name, that has .visited us, and critics everywhere are unanimous in deelariii" it to be the best. Lecocq's world-famed comic opera "Ma.no.ln," which 'will he produced for the. first time to-night, is a, severe test both musically and histrionically, and that the company is, capable of presenting it in an adequate manner, the, lavish, .praise bestowed by the Press .if Wellington and the South Island cities is ample proof. The cast is an exceptionally lengthily one', and calls far tie full Strength of the company. As the .plot isi laid in Portugal during the seVeiAeenth century, there is ample scope, for the Veal'th. 'of spectacle for which iMV. 'Pollard, is famed.