THE BELLRINGERS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2320, 24 May 1887, Page 2

THE BELLRINGERS.

The world-renowned Lynch family of bellringers are announced to appear at Hamilton on Thursday and Friday evenings next. The talented troupe are so well-known in the colonies that praise is almost superfluous, but at tho same time it may be interesting to quote a few paragraphs from the notice of their performances which appeared in the Auckland Observer. " There is not, says the dramatic critic of our contemporary, 14 a dramatic combination travelling that can reckon on such good all-round business as these bellringers. Their ' Judge's Substitute,' and 'Five Shillings a Week,' created more laughter than the best comedy company lean remember to have seen in Auckland. The second programme contained some good things. The Javanese piano, a cross between a patent washing 1 - machine and a job lot of rolling pins, and presented to Mr Harry Lynch by His High and Mightiness the Great 1 anjandrum of Java, or somebody, is a weird-looking instrument. When it bursts upon the astonished gaze of the audience, it fills them with" consternation. It seems so impossible that music can be extracted from a thing like that, but it can. In the deft fingers of Mr Lynch the unearthly-looking instrumant gives out 'Jenny Jones.' not merely the simple, unsophisticated Jenny, but a whole lot of assorted Jennies, introduced in the ' variations.' The bells' quincette, 'Come Home, Father,' is roally pretty; loud and clear, sweet and lo.v, the bells invite the giddy old man to return and all will be forgiven, and before the audience | has done expressing ics approval, the Lynches are wrestling with ' The Sailors Hornpipe,' a very difficult piece on the bells, let me tell you. A still more difficult selection is 1 Sweet Chiming Bells, which is exquisitely rendered, and always creates a hurricane of applause. ' The Blue Bells of Scotland,' and 'Home, Sweet Home are favourites with every audience, especially on the bells. 'My Heart's Best Love,' 'Anchored,' 'I'll Await My Love, etc., finely rendered by Mr Percy Brown, invariably fetch the audience, -Mr Lrown s voice is one of which he may be proud. If he threw a little more animation into his singing, it would bo about parfeot. Mr J. C. Parlatto has made himself an .immense favourite. His, ' It's Only What Ive Been Told, You Know,' ' There You Are , and his T)utch songs and dances are always rcdemanded. I consider Mr Parlatto one of tho cleverest young ' vocal comedians we have ever had in Auckland, lhe comic duets,- 'Tho Local Bobbies,' and 'lhe Guards,' by Messrs W. W. Lynch and J. C. Parlatto' were received with roars, and the house goes almost into hysterics over ' The Employee's Revenge.' Change of programme to-morrow (Friday). Season nearly at an end. Go."