ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 82, 23 August 1912, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

MARGARET COOPER. Margaret Cooper, tlip young English star .singer of humorous songs, whose tour Messrs J. and N. Tait are at present directing throughout Australasia will he (he attraction to-night at the Theatre Royal. Margaret Cooper, who for the last six years has been the favorite of London, where she has appeared continually at the fashionable West End theatre, the Palace, started a few months ago on her Australasian tour, and in Mel-bourne, Adelaide and Sydney her success was as pronounced as iii London. Night after night the management had to turn money away at The doors in each city. Miss Cooper can justly claim to be the originator of the song at the piano as she gives it. She combines the playing r,f a skilled accom- !>:""-''. tlie voice of a highly-trained operatic -inger. the art of an actress, and the charm of a dainty humorist, in a personality which at once pleases mid grips her audience. The supporting company of artists are Mr. Scott Leslie, a finished raconteur and humorist;' Signor Manzoni, a facile mandolinist; Mr. Horace Witty, a young English baritone; and Mr. Charles Lawrence, accompanist. Tlie box plan and dav sales •ire at Collier's. The s.s. Rarawa is !o ..»e delayed to-night till after the perturmance.