OPERA HOUSE.
Ox Saturday night Foley's Festivities w*er9 removed from the Cook-street Hall to the-. Opera House. There was a large audience' ■downstairs. Liko Maccabe Mr Foley-, immitates quite a number of characters in,' the course of which amusing comic songa-' are sung and laughable jokes made. The performance was opened with afarce entitled " Romer's Relations," in(' tho course of which Mr Foley' represented eight characters, the changes being worked with wonderful rapi-' dity. He changed his dress 16 times, a 1 few seconds being occupied in transforming himself successively into a servant girl, air old grandfather, a bridegroom, an Irish aunt, a German uncle, a bride and her, cousin. The entertainment concluded with*various novelties in which further chanj-* cters were assumed.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 55, 4 July 1887, Page 5
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