AN EVENING WITH THE POETS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2307, 19 January 1892, Page 2

AN EVENING WITH THE POETS.

e This evening, as will be noticed by an e advertisement published elsewhere, Mr e Tennyson Smith will appear in a new s character before a Temuka audience, o when he will give his great poetical s recitals. The following are extracts r from some of our contemporaries .—" The ; entertainment forms one of the most

i interesting entertainments ever presented I, to the amusement-loving public, and if i crowded houses, loud and prolonged applause, and roars of laughter testify to t the appreciation and enjoyment of an 1 audience, then rarely indeed has any y visitor proved more popular in the X> i, colonies." Another paper says s recital in which is depicted the efforts of • a young man, suffering from catarrh, and f prolonged fits of sneezing, to recite the

1 celebrated 'Both Gelert' is undoubtedly I itself worth more than the absurdly small J charge made for admission." An Ausj tralian contemporary .says: r start to finish, Mr Smith's versatility r proved provocative of intense interest > and good humor, the wonder apparently i prevailing in many minds 'how one s small head could * cany all he knew.' -> ' There is no need to exhaust tl|e language ; of eu|ogy in' describing Mr ' Siiaitlrs L wonderful elocutionary powers. * His

' recitals are their own eulogy, their owi} | description. Once he.ard, he can never ! be forgotten. Th,e subtle immqqi'! the tender pathos; \h& moving p|ay pf feature; the delicate modulations' of % voice now soft as a flute, now loud au,d stirring as a bugle ca}l; the action } the emphasis; the keen sympathy which transfigures its subject, and Hikes the trivial Impress! vo, the impressive sublime ; ■—all these contribute to stamp Mr Smith's literary and dramatic recita'-,S-i yUI>OntUOIUfI, W- Mr Smiths ...'........*,> powers are shown to even better , advantage i han in the temperance whicm attj of his for here his versatility has full spope." In Auckland the evening of poetic recitajs was so greatly appreciated that Mr Smith was requested to give $ spoon*} evening, Wq understand that in Adelaide 380 Q tickets we.re applied for before noon on the day previous tp the {vfe Melbourne numbers were tuii'iiad iaway 5 at Brisbane the City Tabernacle crowded to excess, and in Auckland tlm hall was packed half-an-hour before th. 9 time for commencing, a.nd on fiwera} evenings the police, had to clear tho passages. Mr Smith will, during the evening, be assisted by some of our most popular local musicians. While at at Timaru and Oamaru hundreds were turned away, money being at the doors, and lie has bgen/f engaged \q give a second enter!-: tainment at Timaru. next week. As it has been arranged that those who secure tickets beforehand, will be admitted a . quarter of an hour before tickets are sold ■ ' at the doors, we should advise our readers to secure tickets early.