POLLARDS AND "MISS HOOK OF HOLLAND."

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1106, 10 February 1910, Page 4

POLLARDS AND "MISS HOOK OF HOLLAND."

Playgoers will bo delighted to learn that ■ the ever-welcome- "Pollard's Opera Company" will inaugurate a season of two nights at the Drill Hall on Wednesday next, February 16. Since last seen here Mr Tom .Pollard has secured from tho firm oi : Sir llu-

pert Clarke, Meynell,

and Gunn, o

> I the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, and Theatre, Sydney, the sole rights of th<r^;J4XS reatest com ? 9' i success, "Miss Hook orSslplhind- Jn order to adequately present this delightful work ho has considerably altered the personnel of his company. Discarding the word "juvenile," he has engaged nine new artists, including Miss Edyth Collins, a clever soubrette and dancer; Mr Wilfrid Hilary, an English baritone who came out with the original "Miss Hook" company; and Mr A. S. McKay, a character actor of repute. The chorus has also been considerably strengthened by the addition of male voices, and the- company is rapidly approaching the standard of the- fa•noHS one of 1900. The attraction *or TVediiesday night will be "Miss Hook or Holland," fresh from record sea - n°n)f + tM '{r n< r six w«eks hi Melbourne and tuenty-four m Sydney. It w m be staged with all the original effects, and with a specially augmented orcTiestra. On Thursday wo. are promised another novely in the new oi.'ftratic extravagaiyai "Tho Belle of Ouba, wincli has been creating a corner in laughter in the southern cities. Mounting and dressing of each piece will, it is promised, excel the high standard already set by the company The box plans for the season will be opened at Walker's on Monday morning, when thero is certain to be a 'brisk demand for seats