THE PAYNE FAMILY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3962, 13 November 1891, Page 2

THE PAYNE FAMILY.

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The Payne Family of vocalists and instrumentalists open in the Masterton Theatre Royal on Thursday next, deferring to this Uleuted company the Catholic Times says:—The thorough enjoyment on the. part of the Payne Family's skilful but unpretentious entertainments; the applause, the smiles, the odd tears shed by unaccustomed eyes, and the frantic re-demand for almost every number were sufficient proofs, even to the cynic, that though people affect an admiration for }ofty music they do not'understand, yet wljen they are treated to music they do comprehend, all the affectation and flummery vanish for the moment, and they become natural and therefore happy. When we saw a truculent M.H.U. laughing till his fat sides must have ached, and noted the tear, evoked by memory, steal down the nose of a severe sawmiller of our acquaintance, as the Paynes sang, with exquisite expression, rt No onfrlike mother," we gathered an opinion 'that even an M.H.K. may be almost a human being, and that the severity of a successful sawmiller might only be the mask that hid a kind heart and an undimmtd aiieetiop for tlie best friend on rartll a man can have-his mother. Pure in tone, honest, unaffectedly bright and gay, rendering sweet and often fine' n)us;p with all fie unpretentiousness of amateurs in the charmed circle of their own home, tuneful as larks, comely in appearance, modest as daisies, the Payne Family are a credit to golden Ballarat and themselves, and their performance is one from which everyone who attends will depart Happier and wiser,