MR HORACE CHESTER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4090, 16 April 1892, Page 3

MR HORACE CHESTER.

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Speaking of Mr Horace Chester's recent appearance in Napier the Hmke'i Bay Herald says;—"Mr /Horace Chester, one of the most tfepable monologue entertainers who has vißited Napier since Frank Lincoln, opened a short season last night at the Theatre Royal before an appreciative audience. Ho has a good voice of wide range, being able to sing tenor or baritone without apparent effort in either ease, and he has cultivated falsetto to great advantage. He is a good aotor, so good, indeed, that of his many impersona* tiona'not one possessed the slightest resemblance to any other. Mr Horace Chester has the true actor's face, expressive, yet oapable of taking in all expressions, and the play of bis mobile features last night deserves to be Btyled remarkable. So complete were the changes he made in his appearance, and so thoroughly did one Bet of mannerisms replace another as character succeeded character, that it was at times difficult to believe that in each ease the performer wa3 the same. All bis impersonations fyere •' good, but ; his " nonde» •. poript," who sang a whistljng song of a moaC'tnirth provoking kind, was M) heartily enjoyed that it was twioe laooreii. •' After a range of characters Mr Chester introduced to his audience tj)e"Moustacheograph." This is a little arrangement of lights and lenses by whioh all kinds of shadows can be thrown upon the face of the performer, and Mr Horace Chester utilises it /to grow moustaches, whiskers, &c,, on his face in full view , of the audience, the hirsute append', figes thus simulated ranging from the youth's " or H eleven ijn'eich aicfe,! (a the big mpustaiih'bf Sims Beeves and thewild'and sc'6rn> fui 11 fairly-one" of bis Haughtiness Sandolph Churchill. Another plevef feature was the rejwsento'tiqr). of prpjjijnent sen, inpludifig Pordpn,W Gladstone, lord Beaoorifield, So., all the changes being curried out in full view ot the aud-f ience, and occupying but a briespace. Mr Chester's last p>erwm« tlon W4B Very mirtn-compelling, and the audience roared at it. [(was 1 IJiat of a!! bones!! in'a mihstreishow .ijVi'th a' 'very "un'otiiou'i laugbi' who ahumoroU? song. 'This sent everybody away in the best possible humor. Throughout the whole performance there was not a traco of vulgarity, and every utterance of the performer stamped him an educated gentleman. Mrs Chester, an fxceptionally good pianißte, provided the instrumental letting of the performance,' 1 ' 'Mr Chesty s}iitild ; be jjreW'by ft wowiled house on Mon* day night, when ho makes his first appearance inthe Theatre Boyal, Jlaßterton. . ■