THE SILBON COMBINATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 33, 10 February 1890, Page 2

THE SILBON COMBINATION.

OPENING PERFORMANCE TO-NIGHT.

This great combination bad a piece of very bad fortune in not arriving in timo to permit of their engagement to open at the Opera House on Saturday evening laefc being kept. Prior to the hour of openiugr a very large number of people proceeded to the Opera House, and it was evident that, had the Company been able to. perform, they would have been fa«&uredi with a crowded house for a certainty* The performance had, unfortunately, to be postponed on account of the late arrival of the Company, which left Sydney on the previous Saturday by the steamer Jubilee, expecting to arrive here on Thursday or Friday. Tho steamer experienced a very severe gale for the iirst two days of the passage, and was thereby prevented from reaching this port until close upoa 6 p.m. on Saturday. As the whole of their dresses and theatrical properties were in the steamer's hold, it was manifestly impossible to perform that evening, and the opening was, of necessity, deferred till this evening. Silbon's Congress of Wonders, as ib is very appropriately called, is without doubt, far and away ahead of anything in the same line ever before seen in Auckland, and a successful season should ba assured, The Company includes the famous Silbons, renowned throughout Australia as the cleverest of acrobats, the marvellous Hackers, Moulton, and Dashaway, clever horizontal, bar specialists, the original Giratds, the comic Dales, the Russian skaters, and, last, but by no means least, Mr W. B. Warner, who was here a few years ago with the Jennie Lee Company as comic singer, and established himself a particular favourite with the public. The overture will be played at 8 p.m.