BENGOUGH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9607, 29 September 1909, Page 6

BENGOUGH.

Bengough, the Canadian cartoonist, is said to be an all-round entertainer, and one of the most versatile artists on the concert paltform. He makes his cartoons on a big pad of white paper in coloured chalks. As he draw-, he relates humorous stories, and recited funny little poems of his own composition. The "Otago Daily Times" comments thus:—"Bengough is cartoonist, comedian, poet, reciter, singer, philosopher, all in one, and one feels from the moment that he appears on the stage that he possesses in an unusual degree the power to get into sympathy with and please a gathering of people. He has an in« exhaustible fund of anecdote, and is as pleased with his own jokes as is the audience—and that indicates much. He is, ahove and,beyond all, pre eminent in the art of the cartoonist. Without fuss or noise, ha begins to draw, quickly, .firmly and rapidly, and as he works he talks in the cleverest and quaintest way imaginable, and the laughing audiences strains forward to catch every word, for bengough is a very subtle humourist, and meanwhile the picture grows with incredible rapidity." Bengough, supported by Borneo Gardiner, the boy whistler; Claude Allan, baritone; and Dora Carroll, pianist, will give one of hi& unique entertainments at the Town Hall on Thursday, October 7th. The box plan will be opened at McLeod and Young's on Saturday.