THEATRE ROYAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3391, 13 June 1881, Page 2

THEATRE ROYAL.

♦ i . H.M.S. PINAFORE.

The children's operatic performance at the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening waa very largely attended, and the satisfaction of tho audience was pronounced and unmistakable. Several of the little performers — and notably Miss May Pollard—were hardly n such good voice as usual, but there was no diminution of the spirit and success with which they acquit themselves iv their respective rflles. Miss Maud Pollard's Sir Joseph—though an admirable portraiturewill admit of improvement. In two parti, culars this may be achieved by avery_ slight effort. The singular manner in which she jerks out the word "water" in the trio with Josephine and the Captain, for instance, has a harsh and unplcasing effect, and the boiaterous behaviour of the "gods" on Saturday night shewed that it afforded them a convenient means of ridiculing and mimicking tbe performer. The young lady would do well to amend this eccentricity of pronunciation. A{»ain,inherreply to the Captain that that official utterances are generally /egarded as unanswerable, the rapidity with which she utters the words as she loaves the stage, renders them unintelligible to the bulk ot her listeners, and thus an effective point is missed. The trio was encored, so,too, was tho Captain's opening song, while Deadeye won his now customary honours in the duct " Kind Captain." The performance will be repeated to-night,