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THEATRE ROYAL.

Mr Horace Olester.

Mr Horace Chester, «• the Wandering Minstrel," opened in the Theatre Royal, Masterton, last evening to a thoroughly appreciative audience. Mr Chester is an entertainer of exceptional ability, surpassing in his character, impersonations, and mimicry anything seen in Masterton since the famous Maccabe. He has also a cultivated tenor voice, which he uses with peculiarly pleasing effect, to illustrate the most difficult of his humorous sketches. In the first part of the programme the following characters were impersonated:—John Thomas, an illused flunkey; Oliver Grumbler, a decrepid old individual who Buffers from the goui and rheumatism ; an excellent representation of Sims Reeves, the great tenor, with the song " My Pretty Nell" j a nurse possessing the respectable cognomen of Jones, and who is a yictim to the influenza epidemic; Horatio Fitz» poodle, who relates in a song how he became " quito enred " of stutttering; a whistling song which was enthusiastically encored ; the Yorkshire lad who enlistb as a soldier ; and a capital representation of one of Her Majesty's navy. In the second part of the programme was introduced a decided novelty in the stape of a " Mous« tacheograph," by which the upper lip is adorned in a remarkable style by the use of reflectors. The entertain* ment, which was of a highly amusing character, was brought to a close by ft series of instantaneous im personations of eminent personages such as General Gordon, Gladstone, Beaconsfield, Colonel fiurnaby, Lord Randolph Churchill, Mr Justice Hawkins and others, the facial transformations being exceedingly clever. At the conclusion of the entertainment Mr Chester announced that be would appear in Masterton again at an early date.

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3952, 31 October 1891, Page 2

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THEATRE ROYAL. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3952, 31 October 1891, Page 2

THEATRE ROYAL. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3952, 31 October 1891, Page 2

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