HAMILTON FOOTBALL ENTERTAINMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2769, 12 April 1890, Page 2

HAMILTON FOOTBALL ENTERTAINMENT.

The entertainment provided by the members of the Hamilton Football Club, in the Oddfellows Hall, Hamilton, on Thursday evening was in every way a great success. There was a capital attendance of the public, and notwithstanding the low price of admission nearly £12 was taken. The programme consisted of a Negro Entertainment in the first, and after the interval illustrating football scenes, were introduced, followed by the laughable farce entitled "Thomson's Dead." The Nigger part of the entertainment was certainly a long way the best the Hamilton people have been favoured with for some time past, Tambo (Mr G. Mayes) being especially good, indeed he kept the fun going from start to finish. The cross fire of jokes containing many local hits between the corner men and Johnson provoking roars of laughter from the audience. The songs were fairly rendered, though one or two of the performers shewed signs of nervousness, notwithstanding their disguise, attributable to the fact that it was their first appearance before the public. Mr Meachem had to submit to an encore for his son?, " Inez Rovina," and so had Mr Tidd for the capital manner in which he acquitted himself in the soner, "Tho Call to Arms," which had been allotted to him._ Mr Tidd has a good voice well worth cultivation, and sings with expression. The second part of the programme was filled in with tableaux of football scenes—" The Kick Off, " " Line Out," "A Scrum," and "Kick for (roal"—all of which were excellently pourtrayed, the effect being much increased by the magnesium light thrown upon the tgures. When a Nigger farce forms part of any programme the audience expect some fun, and prepare for a hearty laugh. In the farce, " Thomson's Dead," they were not i disappointed. The antics of Ctesar, the coloured servant, kept everyone in fits of laughter. The other parts were very well sustained, and the smoothness with which the whole of the programme was carried out, shows that great care had been taken, and that lots of rehearsing had been done. Our young friend " Marty" Hume made up splendidly as "Juliet" in the farce, and what between a wealth of golden hair, powder, and a judicious use of the paint brush, there was scarcely a more bewitching looking lady in the hall. At the close of the entertainment Mr R. J. Gwynne, captain of the football team, came before the curtain and thanked the audience for their attendance, alluding to the object for which the entertainment had been got up. namely, for the purpose of assisting the club's funds, in payina the expenses of a team they proposed to send to Auckland, to endeavour lo add to the laurels already won by the Hamilton Football Club. Preparations were then made for the dance, for which a large number of the audience remained, and dancing was kept up till about two o'clock, Messrs Ivent and Bain :mpplying Mie music, Mr George Mayes acting as M.O.