Lyceum Theatre.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7862, 13 June 1904, Page 5

Lyceum Theatre.

Mr Melvß. Spnrr

To-morrow night the popular • ■entertainer, Mr Mel. B.Spurr, will make hia ! arsfc appearance .in PalmeratoriV North. Concerning him a Sydney oomemp'orarv writes : la these dayß one hears"'■a'gVeafc deal about the modern tendsneyUo indulgo in ribald joke and doable entonda as means of stimulating- a saiea public appetite, but Mr Kpurr's .entertainment is a striking proot,of the power that genujne wit, free from any suggestion1 of indelicacy, bull has of amusing the people. One can imagine that in other hands the kind of fare £c provides would be absurd, and nothing more, but with such an expert as he, it becomes at once an artistio success, and a triumph ia metoods of entertaining the public on irreproachable lines. Vulgarity does not enter into bis programme at all, and vet be keeps his hearers in the moat delightful humour. His ojmody is essentially good humoured, and, wheJher he is pok. log bits of nonsense at some elderly famale, or burlsecjuing some v well-known type of modern society,' he is -always screaming by funny and grotesque, but absolutely free from objeciionable inundo. Mr Hpurr aima at giving his patrfl.isa feaas of fun, not of the yapid, sea 'i-Effeminatekind but hsalthy, vigorous ena withal refined, and he works like & verity ble Trojan in order to Jbeep his auoiencs> in the merriest fram eof mind