BALCUTHA DRAMATIC CLUB.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 1, 9 July 1874, Page 5

BALCUTHA DRAMATIC CLUB.

The second of the monthly entertainments of the Balclutha Dramatic Club was given in Parr's -tiatl,. Balclutha, on Vyeu'nes aveveninir. Lan week. The proceeds were "tobe given: towards the fund* of lb c local Fife and Drum Band, and ,£he. surp obtained, we believe, amounted to £10 18s. By theapppinted hi,ur; eight o'clock, the hall was eio.-u.jl iv every part by. a highly respecja' la : and orlerlv. au ience. The pro -eedings commence d a few wiin.Hte* ; thereafter by the bant referred to plajinjr the ovevttire, and wtf'icb, it was admitted on all hands, they did. in a very ; or editahle manner.. : thefi st part of the pro- ; gramme consisted of readings, so. gs, and. ; due's, vocal and instrument*!, given by local ladies and gentlemen; With ; reference to amateur -**r for mat.ces we may Bay once for weconceiireit, td be beyond the province of the Press to induce in individual criticism. W«- ;V 'ar-» well aware that/not un.frequently both ladies and. gentlemen are pressed to take p<rt in Mich enterta nrr-ents, although they know their qa-tliflcntioLs- are n. tot the hi.-hiSt ordc. They (Went to do the i best they tan to enhance the success of the entertai ment, and out of; sympathy with ; . the object to which the proceeds are • to be devoted. To jftr&icise ' -ihwmtelv .iv suoh a case would-be altogether out of place, and, we be-' lieve, annoying to, the paties tbemseb e< Very good evidence of the cxc Hence ot•(the; entertain'pents of. th-* i« to' be foiit-d iii ihe 'appreciation of' tW/pTb 'tc s ' ' as 'testified to by the crowds which invariably attend them. To.say that imperecti ns di 1 not exist would be nauseous 'flattery, "bat wf do <ay that the first part was gone through very creditably to all concerned. Afcr an iufr rvtil of ten minutes-, the tcreaniog farci-ot;-'Turn Him Out" wase acte^, aid which **a*as provocative of much laugh er and fintrriment.. The several^ ctors. seemed to have - studieitbeir parts, well, 'and, in the case elf / some of them at least, Wttaihe* the character, throughout, in agwanner which wou'xl tie no .iiagiMCe to prokssionaUi. ... We ma'r/-nien--tion that the whole enteitki anient was cp;--ducted uhd r flid/very" cfScierit rnaua?erh'i-t: ;' of Mr. IJ.Benner. to /whom the inhabitants; y \ have often been indebted ribre waj s^thinj one. _-.'. A/ter toe performances; had conclude i, , •the hall was cleared) dArfci'ng.was'iheh; ccrh-/ "- mtnced and kept- up to an early/hour nVxt^ I m-rriingv tliis/ nqtice ;' w i h <vt _ reiVrrio'*- to i a very a.icoV'ng'-pracltie, '-. i-ioti uncommon " in ■other/towns^ bt* t w h'jc'a /we ; ;are sorry ; ,£o Slid prevaiong at Balclutha/ j We refer t<v the p^^^ •;• bation, r d'a de* re*mr/:a re6arn;"pi i vtn'e2p/'i|'.; : ■ f irmtr hy. /whiitlih^: t;Tl.i!*.4si;Bo/ißt:«;pying, ,i ; i»o lo^V-ai d ypJgafV thac^we /truss ;>ic : v^iljhoi/ ,i be re, ea-e " /or should aoy contiuueto indulge ; in it, that t ; c. pPiipyny-^ '■ \ to, mak<- a p/^ciic^ij ij^^ic^tlpiiOtHthef jrcepi' /, VV e-dnesday t yemnirv and '"/T^ RJ* 'iH'^* : i)sj£&& %