ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 117, 7 November 1911, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

'■'SmriEAXT BRUTC." j The )k>x p]iii) for the production of j "'Sfi-nrfjtnt linie'' in tin' Theatre Jioyul ion Thursday next is now open and rapidly tilling at Collier's. "Sergeant Ilrue" is a happy hunting ground for tlio comedians, and Clarke and MeyncH's English company. which is to present I it for this one night only. is said io do it justice. The policeman has always liccn a source of innocent enjoyment on the stage. Thackeray really invented him in his "liallads of the Force/' but Sir W S. Gilbert brought him over the footlights and showed us what an amount of innocent amusement there is in constabulary duty when handled by a humorist. In the —alas!— defunct liar- ■ lequinade he was always quite as important a figure as the clown, and it: is said that Mr. Owen Hall in "Sergeant lirue" has found some extravagant and eccentric fun in a member of Sir Robert Peel's force. Mr. Hall originally intended his work for a coined*", but the fash-

and. securing (he .services of Madame Liza Lehmann for the score, and Mr. Hickory Wood for the lyrics, converted his sergeant in(o the eustoniarv musical comedy. Madame Lehmann, who first became famous through her, song cycle, "In a Persian Garden," is a writer ol dainty and melodious songs, and she has 1 converted a number of tuneful and vivacious airs that move along gossauierlike, with the action of the piece. The music that exhibits the the most individuality is that supplied for the quadrille at t.lie end of the second act. danced by society people in the Green Park Hotel, and enthusiasfcicallv encored nightly.