MR GEO. STEPHENSON'S MUSICAL COMEDY CO.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 9047, 20 March 1906, Page 5

MR GEO. STEPHENSON'S MUSICAL COMEDY CO.

It may surprise playgoers to learn. tEait this combination; which appears here on Thursday night is, at the present time, the largest and meet expensive theatrical organisation touring the colonies. Mr Siephensoa carries sixty people, which include a chorus of thirty, a ballet of eight, and an orchestra of nine. He also carries scenery, wardrobe propetries and electric effects complete. The following from a contemporary refers to the Eecond.actof "The SkirtrDanoeni":— The- scenery "was beautiful, epecially the set ior .the aecond act, a large hall with, a staircase in the background, the .roof almost entirely comcealed from eight by festoons of "Sowers and # myriads of ook>wd globes, lit byCdiecincity. The-faia of-iße curtain-on Act 1 also furnished an ..occasion for a *;weUarrariged.stage, pictuie, which evoked rounds of applause, and (resulted in the raising of tie curtain! .again- <ft&d a-ow^y The dresses were bright and ba^inomaed •effectively, and'the orchestra" anct-cikxrus, under ih« direction of Alfred - : Hilfc did commendable work.