THE POLLARD REASON.

Evening Star, Issue 10933, 16 May 1899, Page 2

THE POLLARD REASON.

‘A GAIETY GIRL.’ What ia described as a ten 'nights’ season of melody ami fun will be inaugurated to-uight at the Princess's Theatre, when the “popular Pollards will produce, for the first time here, the bright, breezy, and bustling mu.-ic.-.l comedy A Gaiety Girl. 1 hia is the latest addition to the already strong rep -rtoi e i f the company, and several of the Non hoi n critics went so far as to state that it was the be.-t thing the company had ever dime. '! ho full strength of the ■company will borteniuthecast. MrOhas. Carter, the tenor, wh > makes bis first appearance in Dunedio, * xcept in the idle of ballad singer, is cast f<>r tho part of Bobbie Rivers, iu which he has some charming numbers to sing. Miss Gertie Campion will be sten as Mina, the cause of all the trouh’e, while Miss Maud Beatty will treat us to another of her excellent “ boy ” ,impers. -nations as i harlie Goldfield, in which she has to slug the in h.dious ballad ‘ .Sunshine above. A (tarty Girl ’ can only be staged for three m.lits, and will be replaced on Friday bv Tho Gay Paiisienne 1 for positively one night c-nlj. On Saturday there will be a matinee performance of ’Paul Jones,’ wbeu special prices will be charged On Saturday night ‘Paul Jones’ wiil be repeated for positively tho lart time hero. This favorite opera was staged at Invercargill last night, when, we are advised, there was the biggest house ever known there. The southern season has, in fact, been a record one.