ABBOTT'S OPERA HOUSE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6819, 25 September 1883, Page 5

ABBOTT'S OPERA HOUSE.

THE COURT MINSTRELS. In this entertainment the minntrels appeared in full Conrt costume of the time of George 111 and the troupe includes six ladies besides the orchestra, " bones" (Mr. T. Buckley), and J "tambourine" (Mr. Johnny Cowan) being t the only "darkies," bat costumed in red e velvet "according to the fashion of the olden ] time The ladies whoso names appeared on v the programme last night as soloists were , Miss Vesta Amor, Miss Bella Sotherland, , Miss Eva Winnette, and Miss May Vivian as t Millie O'Connor in the Hibernicou , Mr. Shaw Cross performs the part of interlo- , eutor in the concerted part of the entertain- , ment. The songs are comic and sentimental; ( the female voices are very good, and there is ( "lightness and brightness" about the .ook , of the entertainment which obtains credit , for it throughout. The Hibernicon comedy is a series of drolleries—lrish and American —in which an impetuous Irish carman (Mr. T. Buckley) crosses the path of an eccentric nigger, both being in love with Mollio O'Connor. This laughter-provoking contrast of broad farcical humour is relieved by a moving panorama, on a large scale and excellently painted, of the principal sights and rcenes which a tourist is supposed to visit in a journey from New Y-irk to Ireland and while doing the "Irish lions ' for his pleasure. These elegant pictures relieve the mind aod eye which require occasional vent ■ from the ludicrous comicalities presented by the performers. It is evident this is a kind ; of entertainment that gives the greatest satisi faction to pit and stalls. The laughter was loud and incessant, sometimes exuberant. ; Indesd the audience got into that stat'.i in i which they must laugh where the occasion i did not call for it. Of its particular kind, e this entertainment has the special merit of s fulfilling completely ail the cunditions of an s entertainment whose object is amutement t without requiring any troublo to examine a the source of it. There is some capital •, dsneingas well as singing in it. The whole !„ object is "fun," and this is dispensed without measure. ' •