THE COGILL MINSTRELS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VIII, Issue 1355, 10 July 1886, Page 2

THE COGILL MINSTRELS

Tho above company which is advertised to play here on Tuesday and Wednesday have just concluded a most succesbful season of about a week at New Plymouth. The Daily News in a critique upoD the company remarks as follows : — These performers, who were introduced to the Melbourne public from San Francisco recently, consist of fifteen speciality artists aDd vocalists, and, duiiDg their tour of the Australian colonies aud New Zealand, created a perfect furore with their Yankee drolleries and exquisite ballads. In tbe Cogill Brothers the company have a host, and their comicalities have everywhere been greeted with uproarious laughter. The business is entirely new to colonial audiences, and the new faces in minstrelsy rapidly secured public favor. On the end, Charles Cogill with his two tainbonnes is a wonder, while " Bores," as represented by inimitable Johnny Gilmore, with his amusing originality, leaves little hope for the melancholy. In the centre, Harry Cogill requires only to be looked Rt, for, like Artemus Ward, he raises a laugh without eveu speaking. The musical portion of the programme, which falls to the vocalists, J. Gueßt, Raymoud, and Masion, is of very high order, two of tho gentleman named being operatic performers of high repute iv America, aud all the songs introduced beiug new to the colonies. Iv addition to the usual minstrel btisiuess, Walter Medus, tho comedian, nnd Mi6S Fauny Laugloy, the accomplished youug soubrette, mo introduced in farcical cornedlea, conjointly with the Cogill Brothers. Tlio company is under tho management of J. S. Smith and Co., and it uoed ouly be said that every detail will bo atteuded to with tho sumo care that markod previous Hi'iif-ons uudur did sumo dirooliou no doubt, n laißO luulirnro will pive tho Auieiiciui puiU)iinuißa cordial welcome.