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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 167, 10 July 1888, Page 3

A Melbourne correspondent writes :—ln the history of Melbourne theatres there has never been witnessed such a scene as the one on the opening night of the Gaiety Burlesque Company. People in the dress circle stood four deep in the passage for four long hours. There was a roar of enthusiasm when the curtain went up, and it grew louder by degrees till the curtain went down. The audience were frantic with delight. Miss Nellie Farren is an elderly married woman, but men and women before the curtain would have kissed her and strained her to their bosoms in ecstacy if they could only have got hold of her. Screams of laughter followed the poorest of Mr Fred Leslie’s sallies ; the dancing of Miss Sylvia Grey and Miss Letty Lind was never watched before with such an eager straining of vision; the performers grew infected with the audience’s enthusiasm, and the notable performance did not come to an end till close on midnight. All the seats for the following Saturday night were booked before Tuesday I morning.