POWER’S ESTHETIC PARTY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 933, 1 April 1882, Page 3

POWER’S ESTHETIC PARTY.

The entertain recent entitled Rustle and Rounce given by the above company last evening was, as we anticipated, a really goad one. We have already given a description of it, and therefore it is unnecesto do, so again, Mr Bower represented seven characters, viz., a comedian, a drunken waiter, an .aesthetic poet, a Chinese ambassador, Constable O’Fogarty a deaf old gentleman, and a love-sick Frenchman, and was really capital in each. He changed characters with extraordinary rapidity, and so perfect was the change that he was not recognisable in cither. In fact he proved himself to be extremely versatile, and what Goldsmith said of Garrick might be said of l\ira ‘On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting ; ’twas only when he was off he was acting.’ Mdlle. de Glorian gave capital representations of five characters, entitled Angelina Syllabub, an »sthetic young lady, a litle girl in chintz, a daughter of Erin and an operatic artist and was greatly applauded for singing and dancing as well as her acting. Miss Leslie and Mr Lanirey, who acted the part of the lovers, acted very efficiently, but their singing, especially Mr Lantrey, was more to be admfred. As each of the various characters sing, the entertainment is spiced throughout with very pleasant little ditties as well aa extremely comical aongs. Thfe afterpiece entiiled ‘Winter and May’ proved a most amusing thing, in fact a better gem in its way. The piece, as it title suggests, illustrates the groundless jealousy of an old man who married a young wife, who resorts (o very ingenious artifices to cure him. In this, as in the. former piece, there is a great deal of singing, and as the characters were represented principally by Mr Power, and Mdlle de Glorian, it was capitally gone through, and it sent the audience home in good humor. There will be a change this evening when Mr Power wil appear as an Irish comedian giving a sketch from Handy Andy, and we should recommend persons who have not yet visited the hall not to lose a treat which they are not likely to be able to enjoy for soipe time agajn