M'DERMOTT'S BIOGRAPH.

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

M'DERMOTT'S BIOGRAPH.

There was a large attendance at the Opera House on Monday night, on tfa occasion of the reappearance in Hawera of xMtDermotts Biograph .snow. The principal attraction was the announcement that M of a couple of the all-blacks'" matches, would lie given coupled vith the fact that ihalf the D roceeds weie to go towards t(be musical edu£s£ STSSS3f* " *"-* * OT Of the animated pictures the farcical «™ Tf? ailV t were P 6^** &« best. The Kitchen. Argument" and "Bringing hanoe the Christmas goose" were both highly umiaing. "The escaped' lunatic" w a 7 6ry « Cle T <kp*<*i<*i of the arts and dodges of a lunatic who led. his warders an awful chase, and after baffling them to their astonishment re-entered tfc£ asylum by the way he had escaped. "The hunt for the kidnapped child," another humorous absurdity, appeared to have the greatest effect on the audience. A- railway tragedy was very realistic. A few lime- " hght views of the New Zealand footballers preceded the much-looked for Hivine pictures of the" Northumberland and ■ Glamorgan ■ matches. "The lattery how, ever, did not provoke any enthusiasm, although- some of -the views, such as . the team entering t!he field, were very good. In the try scored by Hunter — in which Hawera 'people ware most interested—it was impossible to distinguish the players. - , f Professor- Scott.' ventriloquial entertainer and magician, showed himself quite up to the average at sleight of hand, and he succeeded in mystifying -the, audience. His ventriloquial performance was also clever and caused much laughter. The company appear 'again tins evening, when another pacjeed house is expected^