THE GOURLAYS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4915, 2 January 1895, Page 2

THE GOURLAYS.

i Music, Mirth, and Monody. • The public of Masterton will Lave \ tho opportunity to-night and to-mor* i row night of seeing a really clever, i novel, and unique entertainment, at the Theatre Royal, by the Gourlayi. , and their clever company. On Weak nesday last tho Gourlays had tffi honor of giving, by Vice Regal mand, a performance at the Government House, before His Excellency the Governor, the Countesßof Glasgow, and some 500 of their guests, The Gourlays haTe just completed a successful tour through New South Wales and Victoria, and have como to this Colony with a high etas re. putation as entortainers, and moreover the performance they give has the charm of novelty, an important consideration with the theatre-going public now-a-days, Miss °Amy Gourlay, who has beon a leading member of such standard companies as Brough and Boucieault, and Williamson and Musgrove, is a most graceful actress, possessing a charming figuro and a sweet voico, and is a most clever up-to-date danseuse. Mr W. Gourlay is an eccentric and corkscrew dancer of great merit Besides ho is the possessor oi a capital baritone voice. He is clever in coster songs and impersonMß tion. To-night and to-morrow nighW a capital programme will be submitted consisting of songs, comic and coster songs, character impersonations, short comediettas, eccentric and skirt dancing. Ab it is a long time Bince anything good !in the way of light mirthful and | refined entertainment has been hew we expect this talented company will have crowded houses during their short stay here. Tho performances are under the patronage of tho Wairavapa Caledonian Society, •