PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3962, 4 May 1870, Page 5

PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE.

Mrs. Walter Hill's engagement ought to work through as a successful one. She is an actress who can scarcely displease any one ! whose opinion is worth considering; and she will greatly pleaae most of those who can be pleased with earnest, natural acting. Her voice can scarcely be called a good one — at times there are evidences of weakness in it ; but when the occasion arises, Mrs. Hill can . make it the tones of true passion, of deep grief, or of merry humour. Mrs. Hill's actions are free, appropriate, and graceful : in fact, as an actress, she possesses, or has acquired, most of the elements of a genuine aotress, not of the tragic school, but in comedy, and in what is called the 8t domestic drama." As Margaret Wentworth, in "Henry Dunbar," Mrs. Hill was alike good, while Margaret supposes that she ia pursuing the murderer of her father, and when she discovers her father in the disguise of the murderer. The scene in which she makes her father kneel to pray for forgiveness, was perfect in its way. It is a scene which may be so easily overdone, nd of a kind which is so often overdone, hat not to overdo it is apt to seem in itself a positive and gi eat merit. Last evening, as on Monday, Mrs. Hill was twice called before the curtain ; and that common place thing in Auckland was really deserved on each evening. Mr. Ryan, as Wentworfch, or Yfilmot, acted with marked care as to

: details, and geneially with good effect ; the terror of discovery, shown by the blood1 guilty man, being shoyra with truth and power. Mi 1 . Musgrave -was Carter, the Detective, and he improved the part by dropping last evening the half-lisp which he assumed on Monday evening. Mr. MeGowan waa Stephen Vallance, or Major Vavasour j and he was jerky in style, but amusing. Mra. MeGowan and Mr. Glover may be mentioned as playing small parts well. This evening 1 , Mrs. Hill appears aa Hester Grazebrook, in " An Unequal Match. "