"THE IRISH DETECTIVE."

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2303, 27 May 1886, Page 2

"THE IRISH DETECTIVE."

We are glad to be able to inform lovers of tho drama that the lessees of the Masterton Theatre have been successful in securing Mr ftvattan Rigeja and his full company, They will appear in Ma»terton on Monday next in " The Irish Detoctive." MrGrattan Riggs who has the reputation of being the most successful delineator of Irish national character who has over visited tho Australasian colonic, has been appearing for the past six years throughout Australia and Now Zealand with marked success. '' The Irish Dotec-. tive has been written expressly for tho purpose, of affording Mr Riggs opportunities of displaying his versatility. In this drama he sustains seven different characters. A Melbourne papor speaking of his performance in this play says:— "It is difficult to say which is the must perfect and amusing assumptions. Arthur Tracey, tho detective, is in propria persona only a sketch; but his impersonations are each as porfect in detail as art can make thorn and nature be followed, and Mr Riggs must have ,been a close observer of real lifo as ho travelled through the States, from which all his character hail. Public opinion, as far as we can gather it, is very much divided in its estimation of the respective merit of Doolan or Speihnan, of the nigger, and tho Chinaman, of tho widow and the bandit, They are ill good-so good that it would be interesting it the management could hold a ballot and and eauge their relative cxcellonco by an expression of public opinion thereon. Last night the people roared at the broad Hibernian humor of Michael Doolan ' from the north country'; they were delighted with Hans Speilman, and his sausage and his glass-to-mend; they sympathised with tho age and eccentricity of the negro clam soup seller, Pop-Corn-Juice ; they treated the pie-seller, Ah Cat with the good-humored bandiuage which the Celestial is usually, greeted with in these colonies; they made Mrs Muldoon and her apples and pears and ' bintuics' a prime favorite, especially when «ho jumped, and made use of her fruit as misslos; and they cheered the ferocity of the Italian Padroni, Matteo Marzotti. Nothing coaid have been a more complete chain of successes; and if ii hard work to Mr Riggs, as it must be, he gets»very liberal reward."