BLAND HOLT SEASON.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 277, 22 November 1893, Page 4

BLAND HOLT SEASON.

11 a million of money" to-Night.

The last production of the spectaenwl drama " The Trumpet Call » by the Bland I Hole Company attracted a crowded honsa'l last night. All of the principals We » honoured with a call before bho curtain and applause waa frequent throughout tha progress of the drama. The mechanist of the Company is a thorough maßter of hl| business, and the quick manuer in whioS the different "Bets" of thd drama at§ changed and put in order is little shbrt of marvellous. A word is due to Mr Pert* Kehoe and the orchestra for the appropriate selections they play each evening. To.night " A Million of Money " tflu k. produced for which great pttpaktfcj have been made. In this drama, It is lUted that Mr Holt has exceeded all hi! Zl efforts in stage production. In tht fjj 8 J act of the drama, a number of huriterg ridden by enthusiasts of the meet* OroM the stage, and for the tableau, rettffh i! triumph with the results of their IporbM day. In tho second act, a graphic rabVesentation ot the great race of the Worfik. the Derby—is given, and here wo «co tho marvellous olla podrlds of an lSWliih racecourse—costers and their wives, boot makers, gypsies, negro minstrels, gttotih. aristocrats, plebeians, racing men, and that ram avis as far as Australasia is concerned —the racing woman—in short as retftftrfc able a picture of life in Bohemian circles aft has ever been represented on this aide oH the world will be shown tin this rare pl&yj A military pageant, with troops on fchj march to India, brass and fife and drunii bands, etc., will form the principal feature* of the fourth act, which Is further em<? belllfehed with a characteristic picture of «{ swell London drawing room, filled with numbers of aristocratic parsonages indulging in the pastime of the famous gamj of baccarat. The final act of the drama is made remarkable by a series of etage tableaux representing the wreck of a troopship, and the tragedy of the deaths of many of the surrivors on a lonely reef in mid-ocean.