OPERA HOUSE.-"The Crushed Tragedian."

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 116, 25 May 1885, Page 3

OPERA HOUSE.-"The Crushed Tragedian."

Bykon's entertaining four-act comedy, "The Crushed Tragedian," drew a largo audience at the Opera House on Saturday night, and achieved a complete success. Mr Reeve's impersonation of the title r6'o, like hia Major Buncombe, was a complete success. His very appearance proved sufficient to sot tho "houso" in a roar, and it need hardly bo added that his speech and action were not less risible and effective than his get-up. Mrs Chippendale made a capital Mrs Gulpin (a landlady of the Mrs Partington genus), and Miss Alice Deorwyn made a captivating Florence Bristowo. Miss Constance Deorwyn did justice to the part of Miss Mountcashel, and Mr Holloway gave a faithful portraiture of the old prompter, Frank Bristowe\ Mr J. B. Steele, though out of his element in the role of Young Glondenning, played with care, and Messrs Stewart and Gladstone, in congenial parts, also acquitted thomselvos well. Miss C. Deorwyn's song, " Sparkling Moselle," was encored, and at the ond of the third act Mr Reeve, Mrs Chippendale, tho Misses Deorwyn, and Mr Holloway were vociferously called before the curtain. The play will be repeated tonight, and is so thoroughly suited to a holiday season that it should draw a " houee " crowded to the doors.