"LES CLOCHES DE CORNEVILLE'

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2580, 30 September 1915, Page 6

"LES CLOCHES DE CORNEVILLE'

I "Les Cloches de Corneville/'-one 6f the 'nost charming comic operas ever written; (lis being played by the Wellington Amateur Operatic Soeicty at the Opera House, laud all the profits are to be given to the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. The performance has now lost the crudities of re'■hearsal stage, and is Teally a. splendid one' from beginning to end, and one that I all - Wellington should endeavour to see, 'not only for its own sake-rthough this should be quite sufficient an, inducement— .but. to assist swell the fund, that is,to 'help our boys who are fighting for us at the front. Ho many entertainments, havo been given for the good cause that people 'Ore; apt to become callous to; the appeal, but when that appeal has attached to it a very bright performance' of a: sparkling (comic opera, the response should be better Vthan has been the case. ' Mr. Tom Pollard has spjred no; effort "to make the production an attractive one, land every individual member of the society has -worked for weeks, to make 1 tho performance the delightful' one it now is. l.iAn- enthusiastic return is duo to these rHadies and gentlemen, and what should t;be remembered is that, men are still fall'••insr and dying, at the front, and' an lm--uienso sum will be needed-to alleviate their wants in,the future.