ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 183, 12 January 1915, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

.1. ('. I 'M!i 1 i>I*KUA ,' LOMI'ANY. , . Tin: (j<.\T)(>!.ii:!-;s. ] . ! ■ ; That- tl»: "Ooii'lislWi" Mill retains it- , place »- tin- w.a »i «il il»; »>»■; • ical work* of tin' !• r. Nt pi-ii'-rai ion i:- i bein'.: prow-tl over over aLNiiu bv 'ne , I'i-et >l'i i audii-lie.'-. V- '•]'<■ it iK i- i 11' ■ 1 t< > j obtain a jiti• i>i'-fil• ■to ii-t't rtain which ot ill.- famuli- ;ulil Slllikail operas ; plavjioi'!'* of New Plymouth would < lik.'to v, itue— tin i',- is hardly a doubt but that "The Comloliei's" wmilil head tin- ].cl] with a larpe majority, amt it will ;>ive general sati-faetion when :t i« known that the -I. C. Williamson Co., l.td.. management has decided to present their new lvi'ilish comic opera company in this work at tin- Theatre Koval on Monday niiiht next. N'-ither money nor time \'vas 'spared in .-(vmrinj; flic whole ol" Kiijjland for arti-U for the production in Australia of the Oillicrl and.iSulliv.in operas, with the tin.- result that the organisation was de-i-ribed in Melbourne ami Sydney a- 111• ■ best all-rouad comI filiation of singers. comedians, anil dancers whieh hail ev, v appealed in tbo-e | cities. The principal comedian, Mr Charles Weleiin, has been associated I with thi' Gilbert and Sullivan operas in London for many year-, and lie is regarded as the eleven--! and mo-t humorou- exponent of tie- part "f tin- Duke of Maza-Toro in "The (Gondoliers, and who lia> played tin parL in Australasia. 'The tenor. Mr Kdward McKc-own, created quite a sensation in Auckland recently. and his hin;:iii;r of "Take a I'air of Sparking Kvc-" wa- encored no less than four times, and even then tin■ audience stopped tin- performance until tin: finder bad aiiaiii conic forward to bow bis acknowledgements. Mi-- Cladys

Mom-riell, tin* soprano. Jairlv eleetriiie<l playgoers of Sydney l>y lu I ]' jnii*ruiiimit and acting, and sin- \va* A oiK'f proclaimed ;!.«• l.>-> 1 jninia donna since yi\>- Nellie >iwart. Mib* Pari Ladd comes with a l»f*r London reputation which she ha- more than sustained by her line work a* Casilda in "Tin- ' Gondoliers." and other ini|)ortant roles. Mv Frank Wilson i- known to New Zealand ••r>. principally through his splendid work in tl.e baritone roles during the last Gilbert and Snlii\:;n ivvivaK and more recently In- \ i-iled Australia with '•The ( 'hi.r"l;i j.. S< dd it•!'" oriiani-alion. < >ther- to may their tir-( wlli in- Mi-- Katie May. litlu^^lrt-nii, Lilian and <k \"\ lli-'rs i A rn< dd. ?vli>- Murri-i:i] i- a i,.Ui\r where ldaved i= M ;.ttain i - »l.»e in «! • t - aid- 1 aiii-ijin piMdii'ii.'i;- ; -h«. v,Vi< t<> London. I iei' I name j-, I",f!>.>! Ma Ji>nil\. 'l'i'e clii.j'i;- work a i"'-a----1 uiv of the r.-\ ivai of "The I k.ndniier-/' aid the oivlie-tra eun:prise-. (!m- piek of 1 iie best and .>e\y Zealand mu-iciaiK. The Im.v olaiw for ''The Gondoliers" will be or.i-n.-d at (oilier*on l-'riday m.irnin.- ne\t, at S o'clock. Ulieile v.ill he foya;«'d ai 7 oYluck.