PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 25, 28 December 1883, Page 3

PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS.

: ' [TO TH« EDITOR OP THE STANDARD.] ■ Sir, — How is it, I again ask, that we never get a good class of entertainment nqw ,to visit Palmerston? The highest rank seems to.be a penny gaff, a peep show, or a six legged sheep and a five "legged lamb. It seems a^ if all good ,and respectable companies now; give u«< :t)i '. go by. Surely something. • must itiaye occurred to prevent a good company paying us a visit gay once; m six. months or so. To me it seems very mysterious. "When times were duller than they are now, we now and again jhaa a good performance "which we jcould visit aud enjoy. Our Choral Society .is defunct, and it; seems 0s if •the higher chias of intellectual entertainments are at a low ebb with ux, or plsj^ that our district has by some means acquired a bad. name outside. Is there any chance of oiir halving a better Hall, ov. what would be the same thing, better management, by -and bye, which might get us a visit from something of a higher rank than a six-legged dheep. I have he^rd many 'remark the same thing, aud wonder who or what is to blame. These wretched shows we, .have of late been f havitog ' would takfe'more money out of the place altogether than several entertainments of the higher, class, which 3 would also have ' benefited the community, m an intellectual sense. — I am, &c, ; '' Playgoer. :