FULLER'S MYRIORAMA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2314, 7 July 1898, Page 39

FULLER'S MYRIORAMA.

After an absence from Dunedin of about 12 months, the Fuller Company opened at the Garrison Hall on the night of the 29th, and were accorded a very hearty reception fiom an exceptionally large audience. Since the company were last here Mr Ben Fuller has vi3ited the old country, and there secured a large collection of excellent pictures of many places of interest both in the old and new world The pictures exhibited, by means of the Sydney School of Arts triple-optical hntern, which is claimed to be the most complete and powerful in New Zealand, were certainly excellent samples of the photographer's art, and the mechanical contrivance in connection with several of them increased their effectiveness in a marked decree. Among the pictures »hown (special mention may be made of the " Statue of Liberty (by daylight, at sunset, and by moonlight, and also when brilliantly illuminated by the revolving arc light) • " The Big Fire in Forty-second street, New York," the effect of which was most realistic ; " Sunrise on the Catskills"; and an old English lodge under various aspects, introdueingtheChrist. mas carol singers. The other pictures were principally Fcenea in the United States and Canada, and were without exception capital views, and gave an excellent idea of the wonderful sights to be met with in those countries. The musical portion of the evening's entertainment reached a nigh standard of excellence. Proceedings commencea with an overture for piano and violin, played by Messrs' W. and B. Fuller. Miss Hettie Warden's rendering of the pathetic Song Darby' and Joan," with pictorial illustration, was marked by good taste. Later on she gave the Lachuca dance from " The Gondoliers," for which she was recalled. Miss Lydia Walters was also successful with her recitation " Christmas Day in the Workhouse," also pictorially illustrated, lit Howard Chambers, who has improved consider - ably eince he was last here, gave very fine render, ings of "The storm fiend" and Alone onthe raft." and being encored for the first sang in cellar cool." "Mr John Fuller sang Balfeo serenade "Good night, beloved and the old English song "On. the banks of Allan Water." He was particularly successful in the latter, though the first item met with the most favour from the audience, aad he had to respond to their demand with "lhe pilgrim oE love " The humorous part of the programme was entrusted to Messrs John Flora and Ben lv ler. and both these gentlemen created boundlegs amusement by their exceedingly comijg I renderings of '.'The Ghost of Benjamin BiirasJ* i and " Darling Mabel " respectively. The first of those was sung in character and Mr Flora hadto sunnlement it with another comic ditty, Mr FS erwming in for an equally flatter^ reception Mr Walter Fuller, besides acting us guide and accompanying the slngen, played a selection on the organ and piano : and a humorous quartet ("Pro phundo basso") and a plantation trio I (" De ole banjo ") completed the evening 8 amuseI nient, with which everyone had every reason to be perfectly satisfied.