ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 79, 20 August 1912, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

MISS MARGARET COOPER. Miss Margaret Cooper, who will make her appearance at the Theatre Royal on Friday evening, is something more than' a society and music hall entertainer in London—she is an institution. Her six years at the Palace Theatre, the longest engagement ever iilled at that popular place of amusement, 'tells its own tale. After dinner in the various restaurants, in the hotels, and in the homes the sayis not "Let us go to the Palace" so often a« it is "Let us go and hear Margaret Cooper." She has endeared herself to innumerable thousands in London by her inimitable singing of such songs as "Janie," "Catch Me," "Plumstones," "Philosophy," "You'll get heaps of lickin's," "Hello, Tu Tu," and numerous other songs, some of which have be,en sung the world round, but never as Miss Cooper .sings them. She and her piano are one—each would suffer by. the absence of the other, for her pianoforte accompaniments are full of character, humour, pathos, and sentiment. There is that perfect affinity which is only established by a complete mastery over the instrument combined with a 'temperament that can reach out over the footlights and find a welcome in the hearts and minds of those on the other side. A brilliant company of artists accompany Miss Cooper and supply a striking and varied programme. Box plan opens this morning at Collier's.