HUDSON'S SURPRISE PARTY.

Evening Star, Issue 10472, 16 November 1897, Page 2

HUDSON'S SURPRISE PARTY.

_X}n the first appearance of the company at Hongkong the leading journal said: "The company : do not o nsist of a fewdeadheads r i.j,.x. x . • t . here an artist of mediocre abilities to raise the performance above a, trathy level. On the contrary, each member possesses talent of the highest olass, and that talent Is displayed to the best advantage. Each item of the first part was given in a most. superior style, the tinging being of all round excellence, the dancing pretty and clever, and the jokes perpetrated by Mr T. Hadson (tambourinist) and Miss Lillie Linton original and humorous to a degree. The vooalists possess highly-trained voices, and not one of them can be said to be in is a pianist of the highest order. The first part concluded, with a very pretty Japanese fan dance by Miss Linton and Mias Williams,-the' winding up being; a tableau which wm screamingly funny. 'J he Becond part "led off-with a pianoforte eolo by Mr H, Button; which was followed by a very o?ever performance by Altro, who certainly deserves the appellation of 'the demon/equilibrist.' "Mr Hudson then occupied the stage. He is a comedian who is funny without seemingly doing anything, and when he is doing something he is positively irresistible, and while he was 'rhapsodising and parodising' laughter was loud and hearty, and he hid to respond to two encores. Miss May Habgood ga"e a paraphrase on Scotch air's, ' Abergeldie,' in which she showed a oomV plcte mastery of the keyboard. rTtffss Jessie Williams gave a clever and original danoe, Messrs M'Kisson and Kearna immensely pleased the audience with some excellent fooling and clever knockabout business, and Miss .Ida Rosslyn. was delightful in her amusing seriovocal effusioi and dances."