ROYAL COMIC OPERA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 75, 19 September 1911, Page 4

ROYAL COMIC OPERA

"OUR MISS GIBBS.". •The box plans .for "Our Miss Gibbs" will be opened at Collier's on Thursday next. The phenomenally successful "Our Miss Gibbs," the mascot of the Royal Comic .Opera Co. of J. c. Williamson, Ltd.. will .lie presented on Monday and Tuesday next, September 25 and 20. It is officially announced that the popular play will be seen, cast, staged, mounted | and costumed in precisely the same manner as has been the case in Australia. No musical comedy presented to the Australian stage has so easilv won in the race IV popularity as "Our Miss Gibbs. - ' it started with a record run in Sydney of eight and a half months to the greatest business ever known at Ills Majesty's Theatre in that city. It is said that fully 51(1.800 people paid foi admission during that period. Some months ago it was presented at His Majesty', Theatre, Melbourne, for the first time, with renewed animation and increased pace, being withdrawn in the height of its success on account of imperative structural alterations to the theatre. Hy no means behind the most attractive of the comic operas that have recently been heard out here in respect to its music is ■■Our Miss Gibbs." The name, of Ivan Caryll, who has for some time past ligured in the 'bulk of latter day musical successes, and Lionel Monektou. who tirst sprang into favor with his "Soldiers in the Park," appear in connection with the new musical attraction . ago Mr. Caryll ;was la imusie teacher and Mr Monckton was stru«glin« to get :i footing as a lilwvcr. '"rile former was lifted out of his* drudgery when he composed his Jirst opera, 'The Lily of Leoville," and the latter look' the lir,t step in the bidder of fame -when be became musical critic on the London Daily Telegraph. With "Our Miss Gibbs" will come Miss Blanche Browne. Miss Blanche Browne played the part of "Mary Gibbs" in London two years a«o in the production that is still one "of the reigning attractions there. The east will also include Messrs. Leslie Holland, Andrew lligginson. Fred Leslie, C. R Bantock. Frank Stirling and' Bertie Wright, a comedian from the Gaiety, London, who will make his first appearance; .Misses Fitzmaurice Gill, Connie Milne, Nellie Wilson, Ivv Bohillin.o-, Nellie -CalviiT. and a score of other favorite artists. The company numbers over UK) people, and is stated to be the most expensive musical organisation that ,T C. Williamson , Ltd., has yet sent to New Vlvmoutlt.