THEATRE ROYAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 972, 12 November 1910, Page 5

THEATRE ROYAL.

THE AMATEURS AGAIN. After a lapse of several weeks—the close season, trials were once moro placed on the vaudevillo bdl at the Theatre Royal last evening, in addition to the regular •pm formers. The latter preceded the ; iimateurs, who were last, but, in the : estimation of the audience, by no means i v'' st °; - 10 c °mpany to appear. !#.#«''.Professional part of 'the pro- - grammo little need be added to what ims : been said concerning its , Sierits. •; Miss Beryl Gilman, operatic joprano, was in excellent voice. She •••? still."a" warm favourite with the public.. Jlarry Sadler, in his irresistible comicalities, and. George Dean, character vocalist and monologue artist, are : ,"ie life and soul of the entertainment ■One of the star turns, is the balancing act of J. M. West. The o'thers aro equally good in their particular ways. ;' The amateurs were disappointing.' According to the management there were ,to have been ten aspirants to vaudeville : fame. Only four, 'materialised—the cithers, with visions of vegetables and iither concrete expressions of disapproval through the air, had lost ■their courage and deserted the. firing lino. Of tho four who had decided to ''do or die," 'Amateur the First was a pasal tenor, with certain defects in fltagc. presence. .He sang "Come Into the Garden Maud," but the public deiidod when he had gone a littlo way, itnd was warming up. for tho "con »>more," that it had heard enough, and counted him out as they do at prizefights: "One I—two [—three!—four I— five!—-six!—seven I—eight I—nine!—ten! —out! (fortissimo, bon marcato). And out he went. Amateur the Second was 8 clever step dancer, and was very acceptable to his hypercritical audience. He was twice recalled, and'must have ';? p p y - A maf:e " r tho Third was a donble,"_an enterprising pair of patter comedians, grotesquely attired. It ■was a case of "double or quits," and the nridienco called for- quits, with appropriate emphasis. ' The "double" at first mistook the merriment of the audienco for appreciative laughter, • and outstayed its welcome so lone that the critics became serious, and bespcched, entreated, commanded. Finally the 'pair 'was. "countcd out," and they departed- ■