ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 268, 22 March 1911, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

" SEVEN DAYS." Box plans were opened at Collier's this morning for the only appearance of Hugh .J. Ward's company of comedians, who visit Xew Plymouth on Monday next. The public amply demonstrated by the booking the large interest centred in the final visit of this popular organisation. The reports of the merry play "Seven Days" which have reached us from Australian quarters say it is of a most mirth-provoking description, in which every member of this talented company is seen and heard to advantage, and all promise to sustain their already high and popular reputations. "Seven Days" is a quarantine comedy; unusual circumstances that enforce uncongenial i association between people of varying conditions of life, obviously present occasion for farcical situations, and it must therefore lie placed to the credit of the authors of "Seven Days" that they have been the first to develop for the stage the ■mirthful humors of a real quarantine story. This has been brought about by the transfer from the bookstall to the theatre of Mary Roberts Rinehart's well-known American tale, "When a Man Marries," with Miss Avery Hopwood as collaborator. The Sydney Sun, in speaking of the opening production of '"Seven Days" recently at the Palace Theatre, remarks: "Mr. Ward has been fortunate in securing a play so eminently suited to the possibilities of this combination. It was his last effort before retiring as an aeor, and he wanted something particularly good, and, having got it, he spared no time, money or brains in presenting a piece with which his name is likely to be long associated." Wl LLTAMSOX-OSSIPOFF COMPAXY. "A GIAXT OF SOXG." Eugene OssipolT—the great Russian baritone, from grand Opera, Moscow—who is to give recitals in the Theatre Royal oil April "20 and 21, is described as "'a ijiant of song." His tremendous range of voice, from the lower D to A in the tenor clef, together with its beautiful quality, powerful resonance, and masterful interpretation, have already made him famous in the Dominion, where he lias given several recitals. The following is a cutting [rom the Lytlelton Times of March U, written by a journalist representing the musical world in both Europe and America: "M. Ossipoff is a genius of the real emotional Russian type, and it is no wonder now that he enthralls audiences wherever lie sings, lie has all the qualities which a singer needs to lie great.'' Miss Rene Lees plays all liis accompaniments from memory, which is a remarkable feat.. His numbers will include the '"Toreador,"' the rendering of which is described as "the best ever heard in Australia," the last note eliding on a top ("!, which rings in a grand triumphal finale. The company will be assisted by special solo artists, under the direction of W. 11. Williamsou.