THE ZINGARI CRICKET CLUB ENTERTAINMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 547, 20 November 1875, Page 2

THE ZINGARI CRICKET CLUB ENTERTAINMENT.

An entertainment, successful in every respec', was held on Thursday evening, in the Gymnasium at the A. C. Barracks, Hamilton, in aid of the fund* of the Zingari Cricket Club. The performanca consisted of an amateur concert of vocal and instrumental music, followed by a firce " The Ticket of Leave" which was, indeed, the piece dcicsislancc of the evening, and tne ■eventf characters in whid| wero sustained with an ability not oftet* **. bo met with in local amateur corapanfes. The first part of the programme congitted of 18 pieces, and was gone through from beginning to end, but though somewhat lengthy, and reqdered still more so by the long interval allowed to elapse between the performance of the several pieces, was so well diversified in its arrangement, as to sustain the attention and enjoyment of the audience throughout. The overture, from Donizetti's La Favorita, opened tho performance and was executed with a style and finish which deserved, as it received, tho plaudits of the audience, and was followed by a glee and song which were also well received. The duet in character, an original composition entitled " The Upper Ten and the Lower Five" was evidently looked forward to as tJu piece of the firs* part of the programme, nor were the audienot disappointed. The " get up" of Mr Corbett as the " heavy swell," whose income hee-ar was ten thousand a ye-ar, and of Mr Cor who'd enough to do to get together a copper or two, were both excellent, and they each looked the character to the life, while the acting was natural and well sustained. Then followed * reading by a " Cork boy" of Waikato, we might fairly say of Provincial celebrity— in which, in the rich brogue of his native city, he challenged the world to produce the aquil of his countrymen in arts, science, making- lovt, fighting, or whiskey drinking, and a very good representative of his fellow townsmen he is in three, at least, of the abovementioned accomplishments. Further on in the entertainment, the same gentleman sang a new and capital song of Lover**, — a. warning to lovers by the bye—*' The Whistling Thief." Two very nicely executed instrumental pieces on the piano "When the Swallows Homeward Fly w and " Bonnie Dundee" were rendered with spirit and good effect by the same young lady, nor must -we forget to mentiou tb# duet of the "Canary Bird Quadrillea f indeed the instrumental portion of the programme was far from being the least enjoyable part of it. A very pretty song of Claribel'g, "Out on the Books," wa* sung by a young lady with a more than ordinarily pleasing voice, and in excellent taste, and was followed by " I'm sitting on a style Mary" by another lady, who, to a good voice added a perfection of style and culture which deserved a more fitting room for their performance than that permitted on the occasion. The singtrs geneially, indeed, and especially tho ladies, who necessarily remained at the piano behind the proscenium, sang to a disadvantage, the voice being in » great measure lost in consequence to tl> audience, which wou'd not have been th case could they have come forward to tbt» footlights. The interval between th« concert and the farce was filled up by Hie execution of an interesting pianoforte duet, and the entertainment was brought to a close with the farce of the " Ticket of Leave.'' Ai we have said, the acting was unusually g)od for amateurs, especially that of Bottles, and the Mm Aspen Quiver wns got up for the occasion in quite feminine style, making a rather attractive and interesting looking young matron. We are glad to loam that the affair was not only artistically but financially a suocese, a sum of some .£ll having bean raised by the performance.