HELLER'S MAHATMA COMPANY.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 346, 27 September 1898, Page 2

HELLER'S MAHATMA COMPANY.

This well kuown company will appear in Cambridge to-night and Hamilton on Thursday. A contemporary says :—The Heller Mahatma Company, who give a pleasant, entertaining, bright, little show, made their first appearance last evening at the Theatre Royal to an excellent house. The programme as submitted contains something which will suit all tastes, and evidently was very popular with the audience. Miss Hilda Talma, who is a clever little lady with a soprano voice which promises well, sang "Baby's Eyes," one of the popular ballads with a waltz refrain, and "Alice, where art thou ?" as an encore, very nicely. Miss Vera Havlock added yet another to the list of skirt dancers which we have had here. She dances with a good deal of grate, the effect being considerably enhanced by the very clever manipulation of the limelight, the blending of the colours being wonderfully good. One of the prettiest effects was that of the butterfly thrown on to the whirling masses of drapery, giving a lifelike appearance. Madame Heller answered a number of questions, from the price of wheat and the perpetrators of the outrage at the Catholic Church to the moic prosaic ones, to the satisfaction of the questiontrs. Mr Heller is a performer of no mean ability. Any one who can sing three or four serio-comic songs, give a spiritualistic seance, is, as our Auieiican cousins put it, "no slouch," aud he did all very well. Mr Percy Abbott sang and also played the banjo. In the lumiere biograph wc had a species of kineniatograph but somewhat steadier. Several of the pictures, notably a cavalry charge, a bathing scene and a gymnasium scene, were exceedingly good.