AN ENTERTAINMENT(?)

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 303, 24 November 1883, Page 2

AN ENTERTAINMENT(?)

[TO THB BDITOE OP^'THE STANDARII.] Sir, — In your Saturday's paper you, printed a local m refeirenco to an entertainment to be giyen m m which ybu^id 1 *&■ follows : — v Judging „ by^their printechprogrammes, fcho Oombinatibn CbhSpany irUkelptbde.agiood. business m the district." Will you! iell me'nowybu caii '-jliilge of ■the merits* ' of «b enteriainujent by a "printed program me." I went to se6 this so-cklled entertainment, add sucH a "cohibinatiotf'l have neTor §een m Falmereton of "elsewhere. Itiiadnota redoetning 3 feature, and I *ould write, of it ih, considerably strongwwtaitiguage ttah 'I'ite^ttf'tee. if 4Sonsideßf tlie press baa no riglit tb praise thd n^riis of an entertainment of which it cannot s'peafc: with certainty ; and another tbiug, I&lmerstou is not support? thc^e^ente^taiumcnts whicli only carry the money '• out of ibe pTa'cel You cannot Elaine the poor unfortunate performers who, I suppose, have to live; somehow, though I confess it seems a ; atrajige kind of existence ; but if what f hear is correct, that a local resi'lent induced them lb*rcpjue. then,it is aaother roatterV :If ' this gentleman intends starting^ m the tKeatrical line, a\la jCeorge Cojipin, : l6t us have something above the merits of a "penny gaff." I suppose 10 theatrical speculat ons are legitimate enoughj but thje public sh'duiuVn^tibel ilelutled into bestowing its patronage unworthily, by press notices that are 4>up)y misstate* raents. I can bat express my astonish- ' ment that you should favorably notice m prospective, an entortainment which you, know nothing about, except' by "printed programmes." The. value of such testimony is easily estimated,' but yonr readers cxpecc you to speak honestly, and, »9t2dec6i> c them even on sueh a matteis as the merits of n-wande.tr.; ing " CTombinati6n i Tix)une." :^-=I scmJ&Q., •■ ' '■'<.! - • ••■■ i• / ->i <SjTB; OF : THB -£o^l4c.v" : "