Pollard’s Opera Company.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 538, 4 October 1902, Page 2

Pollard’s Opera Company.

The plan of seats for tho forthcoming' season of tho Pollard Opera Company, which commences at tho Theatre Royal on Wednesday ovoning noxt, was opened at Miller’s yestorday morning, and already the booking is very heavy, especially for tho opening night, the special attraction on that ovoning being 11 Tho Messonger Boy,” which, it is Baid, has never ones failed to draw aorowded house. Gisborno theatre goers aro anxious to pay thia popular individual a visit to account for bis successful caroor in other towns. The cast of characters for tho “ Boy ” is an exceptionally long one, there being no less than 18 distinct characters. Mr IV. 3. Percy (Tommy Bang), Mr H. Quealy (Captain Pott), Miss Alice Edgar (Mre Bang), Miss Gertie Campion (Rosa), and Miss Connie Buttel (Nora) havo moat to do, but Misses Alice Pollard, Nina Osborne, Nellie Wilson, Messrs J. Ralßton, J. O’Sullivan, C. Carter, C. Albert, G. f Young, and D. O'Connor, also havo important if a little less prominent parts, Tbe music is what is popularly known as catchy, and the whole performance goes with a swing from start to finish. 11 Pationce,” with its heavy dragoons and , twenty love sick maidens, will bo produced on Thursday, with Miss Alice Edgar as Lady Jane, and Mias Connie Buttel as Patience. On Friday " The Gondoliers " will be staged. The cast for this piece is said to be an exceptionally strong one, and Mr Chas. Carter, who will make hia last appearance here on that evening, will undertake his old part of Marco.