ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 67, 9 September 1911, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

THE ROYAL COMIC OPERA CO. "OUR MISS OJBBS." The phenomenally successful "Oui Aliss Gibbs," the mascot of the firm of •I. C. Williamson, Ltd., will be presented here on 1 Monday and Tuesday, September 25 and 2(i. It is officially amioitncwl that the popular play will be sent to the Dominion, cast, staged, mounted and costumed in precisely the same manner as i has been the ease in Australia. • No musical comedy presented to the Australian stage lias so easily nvon in the race for popularity as "Our Miss Gibbs." It started with a record run in Sydney of eight months and a half to the greatest business ever known at His Majesty's Theatre in that city. It is said that fully 510,800 people paid for admission during that period. 'Some months ago it was presented at His Majesty's Theatre, .Melbourne, for the first time, with renewed animation and increased poce, I being withdrawn in the height of its success on account of imperative structural alterations to the Theatre. By no means behind the most attractive of the comic operas that have recently been beard out here in respect to its music, is "Our Aliss Gibbs." The names of Ivan Caryll, who has for some time past figured in the bulk of the latter day musical successes, and Lionel Monekton, who first sprang into favor with his "'Soldiers in the Park," appear in connection with the new musical attraction. Years ago Air. Caryll was a music teacher, and Air. Monckton was struggling to get a footing as a lawyer; the ■former was lifted out of his> drudgery when he composed his first opera, "The Lily of Leoville," and the hitter took the first step on the ladder of fame when he became musical critic on the London Daily Telegraph. With "Our Miss Gibbs"' -will eome Aliss Blanche Browne. Aliss Browne played the part of "Alary Gibbs" in London two years aeo, in the production that is still one of the reigning attractions there. The cast will also include Alessrs. 'Leslie Hotland. Andrew ITipiginson, Fred Leslie, C. R. Ba.ntock and Bertie Wright. Misses Fitzmaurice Oil!. Connie Milne, Nellie Wilson, Tvy Schilling, Nellie Calvin. The. Auckland season will be for twelve nights, with the li-nal maiinees. The box plans will be opened on Thursday, September 21, at Collier's Piano Depot.