THE AMERICAN NOVELTY COMPANY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 103, 1 May 1894, Page 5

THE AMERICAN NOVELTY COMPANY.

The Opera House re-opened ita doors yesterday evening, and a largo number of persons were presenb to witness the first performance in Auckland of the World's Trio and American Novelty Company. The entertainment is a variety show, embracing negro minstrelsy, modern music hall songs and dances, an amusing series of acrobatic acts, and concludes with a laughable pantomime entitled "Confusion." The public who like this species of entertainment, and it'has always been popular in Auckland, are given a very great deal cf variety for their money, and to judge by the hearty laughter of last) nighb, ib provca to be variety of a very funny kind. Yesterday almost) every item on the programme had to be repeated. Crawford and Mooney's burlesque trapeze act, and Flaherty and Mooney's greab song and acrobatic dance were especially successful, while Mr Chas. Fanning kept everybody lively with his awful grimaces and stories. Among the other items we may mention :—Comic sone, "Climb up," Mr James Mooney ; ballad, 11 Letter in My Dream," Mr Chas. Moore ; song and dance, " College Girls," Misaoa Delroy and«Lynne; ballad, " Letter that Never Came," Miss Polly Robertson; ballad, "Her Own Boy Jack," Miss Ida Holbein ; eerio-comic, " Mr Nobody," Miss Georgie Devoe ; Tyrolean song, " Come Away," Mr Charles Naylor ; jubilee, "Children By and Bye," Mr Cbas. Fanning. In the second parb of the performance Mr W. Toohey won loud applause in his wonderful chair acb, and an equal amount of praise was beetowed on the Misses Delroy and Lynne in their seriocomic specialty "The Little Slate." This acb was followed by Mr Charles Farming's specialty "Scraps," a very amusing performance. In conclusion, let us nob neglect to mention the singing of Mr Charles Moore, of Miss Georgia Devoe, or of Miss Ida Holbein,

Tho performance will be repeated to night/.