AMUSEMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 15, 11 October 1910, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

HAMILTON SCARLET TROUBADOURS The Hamilton Scarlet Troubadours 1 will hold a two nights' season in the Theatre Royal on Friday and Saturday 'next, October 14 and 15. This company j consists of ten performers, and all are I gifted with beautiful voices. Notable 1 : among the singers is Master Hamilton, I a wonderful boy singer. Illustrated songs and duets are given by the memI bers of the company, and the choruses I and marches are very pretty, as is the I Highland dancing by Miss Daphne. Mr. I Hamilton will sing Tosti's "Good-bye," I I and the performance will conclude with 1 a butterfly dance given by four little ' girls. The plan for reserved seats opens ' on Tuesday morning at the usual place. j "LOVERS' LANE." i Mr. George Buller. who has been nian- ; aging for Mr. Allan Hamilton for a number of years, arrived yesterday from Onehunga, and reports that business has been excellent during the last week with the Hamilton, Plimmer and Dennistoh ' combination at His Majesty's Theatre, : Auckland. Mr. Buller is-here to arrange for a two nights' season of this company, and they will appear on Thursday and Friday, October 20 and 21. On tht opening night they wil 1 stage Clydt Fitch's new play, "Lovers' Lane," and on the Friday will produce Jerome K. Je- \ rome's "The Passing, of the Third Flooi 1 Back," by arrangement with Rupert Clarke and Clyde Meynell. For the former of these two plays, in addition to a number of children brought from Sydney, they will require ten or twelve girls from ten to twelve years old. Mr. Buller will engage these at 1 o'clock to-day at the stage door of the Theatre. The senior partner of this new management, Mr. Allan Hamilton, is well known as an enterpreneur who has sent many good companies to New Zealand (and', incidentally, to New Plymouth) during the last ten or -fifteen years, anc, Mr. Buller wishes to inform the public 1 that this large company, including Lizette Parkes (of "Peter Pan" fame) and Mrs. Robert Brough, now appearing in His Majesty's Theatre, Auckland, is the only company he has in New Zealand at the present "time, and he has absolutely no connection with any other.