AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 355, 5 April 1910, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

ROYAL BF.SSV> - (V T!l' IiAUX BAND. .Marked cordiality existed throughout South Africa during the recent tour, and press critics vied with each other in issuing laudatory hoik-in of the licsses achievements. The Friend, Uloemfontein, said: •'The audience was as representative as it was largo. Here you could see jaded legislators fresh from their labors over .Sunday Observance, and close at hand working men whose dialect betrayed the fact that they came from the same country as the wonderful instrumentalists on the platform. The programme was a varied one, and not alone suited to bring out the full attainments and abilities of the band, but admirably adapted to the taste of every section of the audience. A very neat compliment, and one that was highly appreciated, was the playing of the old Free State Volksleid, "followed by the National Anthem at the close ol the performance. No one but an expert would dare to criticise such a performance with any hope of success. But even to those not burdened with musical abilities of the first rank, the performance last night appealed in a very special degree, fhe outstanding feature was the perfect: precision and attack, the sympathy between player? an<l conductor. and the wonderful modulation ill lound and effect, the crescendo at times j-ijicr a.wav to the minimum of sound clearness of toDe, , , , The world-famous Jlvmn, "Abide with Me," lias often been remlwe'l, Surely never better, oven on the gPflilct gan, than it was by the Besses last evening."

The New Plymouth season is limited to three performance. Theatre Royal on Saturday and Monday evenings next, and at Pulcekura.Park on Mondav afternoon. The box plan opens this morning at Collier's.