EVENING ENTERTAINMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4300, 8 March 1901, Page 5

EVENING ENTERTAINMENTS

The Dix Gaiety Company still doei boom business at the Theatre Royal. The "Eisley" act of the Tylers has become established in popular favour. : At the Choral Hall thp nightly entertainment provided by the Fuller Bijou Company evokes hearty applause from large audiences. ' i Handel’s oratorio "Judas Maccabeus" |is to be rendered at Wesley Church this 'evening. Such celebrated items as "Arm, Arm, Ye Brave/' and the "Lord Worketh Wonders." by the Bev A. Mitchell, of [Auckland; "How Vain is Man" and - i /'Sound an Alarm," by Mr B. J, Hill; ’“Wise-Men. Flat’ripg/i/rod- YProap. Mighty Kings/’ are in rfyy draw a . crowded audience Tn ,any ; ',part of the world. When it' is added that,.there is a professional - orchestra ahd,.a /first , class chorus of 120 .voices.! a musical,treat : may be anticipated. ’ ’ The‘conductor is ' Mr C.;D. Mackintosh... Admission is by ticket'only. , Tickets' may be obtained at Mr Brittain’s; Manners street,'and the Bible and Tract Depot. Willis street, ;>■ That Mr Dix intends keeping-up. the high standard' to which his amusement enterprises, have attained ..,ljy the following, list of artists, during the last'.,few days'. and supplied, ho } us by* Mr Duval, the general, manager;— Pope and Sayles. the’ celebrated Ijcolourpd comedians,! who have been the rage of Melbourne and Sydney for years; Wallace King. the .popular- tenor;; Professor Almond, a. el ever trick' dancer; ’ Jarvies, the Australian CincusvalH; Harry Gray, eccentric compdian; . .the -Lingard.. Sisters, Berios, and dancers'; . Elliot and.'Marion,-■■■. sketch .artists; 'Daisy. Harcourt, ■ ’ the brightest serio, on the Australian stage; Dainty Irene Franklin, the quaint American singer of coon ditties;, the Gallairdi'Sisters, dancers ‘and: soubrettes. Some of the above artists leave, Sydney this week, and the others follow at intervals. - Negotiations are now going on between Mr Duval and Miss Billie Barlow, the, famous. English artist, who is-playing principal bov in Harry Bhjkards’s pantomime,, And the Haytors. three clever American artists, also with Bicards. Several of these new artists demand princely salaries, and Mr Dix deserves the patronage of playgoers for his energy in importing them. , Th'fe Garrison - Band, under Conductor T. Herd, gave an open-air concert ut the Band Rotunda. Jcrvois quay, last evening. The following programme was attentively listened to by- a large number of people:— Delight. (C. 5 Trussell); selection. "Songs of England* (H. Bound); valse, "Dreams of , the Ocean" (GungT); selection, "’Gems of , Sullivan" (arranged by J. O. Hume); petite selection. "English Gemsf’ fW. Roche); mazurka, "Rose Blush" (W. Roche). . J The Corrick Family and Biograph Com- ~ pany are just bringing a most successful * tour* of the North Island to a close, and will shortly give a farewell season in Wellington. - ■ There was a large attendance at.the T«bearsal of the Jubilee Ode at St. John s Church last evening, under the direction of Mr Maughan Barnett -The .rehearse, was a satisfactory one, and the work, is indicative of a finished performance bemf given.