MR. McLEAN'S YOUNG AUSTRALIANS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4201, 25 August 1892, Page 2

MR. McLEAN'S YOUNG AUSTRALIANS.

This clever little company is now playing at the Opera House, Wellington, with marked success. The Company has made a palpable hit with the extravaganza of " Helim and Zulieka," presumably a travesty on Byron's" Bride of Abydos," although there is very little of the original skeleton left by the time the Young Australians have got through the evening. However, the Burlesque oxtravanza, or what you please to name it, serves as well as anything else to introduce tbeoompany in their specialities. These specialities mainly consist of that class of entertainment known as " variety," and inoludo some very clever skirt and step-dano-ing, some fooling of a most laughable description, and some really excellent | singing. The local hits and topical songs are about tho best of their kind that bave ever been set before a WeN lington audience. Nearly all the popular songs of the day are sung by the Company during the course of the Burlesque, notably tho now famous " Ta-ra-ra-Bootn-dc-ay," which is sung and danced with great vim by the whole strength of tho Company. For tho original inano words of the song have been substituted a series ol hits at our legislators which are productive of much amusement and nightly result irt vociferous encores.

The Misses Bella Adair, Lillie Rodman, and Lydia Breakwell bear off the honours amongst tho ladies, whilst Iters Arthur Glyn and Frank Lynch are very amusing in their particular lines. Miss Adair is the possessor of a sweet and flexible soprano voice and sings lyith much taste" and' finish. Misses Kodman and Breakwell both

| sing and' dance very pleasingly, and Messrs Glyn apd Lyncih (\ylio by the way are rather old Australians, judging from appearances) keep matters alive by their comicalities. Altogether the whole performance is most creditable, and a very pleasant evening can be spent, Thero aro, however, one or two items verging on yulgarity which might be omitted with ad van l age, notably that song by name," jio was mine, so jasmine," At'the concision of thejr Wellington season the company open in Masterton, whiob will be iq September,