EVENING ENTERTAINMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4307, 16 March 1901, Page 5

EVENING ENTERTAINMENTS

TO-NIGHT’S CONCERT. The committee of the Hibernian Society has been fortunate in securing tie

assistance of Miss Kate Connell for the Irish national concert in he Optra House this evening. Miss Connell will sing “Terence’s Farewell.” The programme will he provided by a talented array of artists, including Mi's Walter Murdock, Miss Julia Moran, Miss Violet Mount, Miss Beatrice Vartha, and Miss Lucy Fraser, Madame Eveleen Carlton, Messrs W. B. Oadzow, G. D. Cronin, E. J. Hill and Martyn Hagan. No expense has been spared :n making all provision for a successful entertainment. Tlie box plan is open at the Dresden Company, and rickets are on sale af Abel's, opposite • the Opera House. The cup given by Mr Payne will be presented at the concert to the winer of the St. Patrick’s Handicap.

A disappointingly small audience enjoyed the fine programme of musical items presented by Miss . Kate Connell and a number of local vocalists at the Opera House, last night. Amongst those present were the officers and a number of the men of the Seventh Contingent. Miss Kate Connell’s contributions to the programme were “I Will Extol Thee, O Lord,” and “Solvejg’s Song.” For her singing of the former, the young soprano was encored; the second item earned her "a treble recall. Other contributors to a generous programme were Messrs E. J. Hill and John Prouse, and 1 Herr Max Hoppe and the Misses Lorraine Tansley and Irene Morris. Encores greeted every item. Miss Tansley sang Behrend’s “ Daddy” so sympathetically as to be three times recalled The accompanists .were the Misses Florence Prouse and Winnie Connell.

Messrs Fitzgerald Bros., the wellknown «irous proprietors, will inaugurate a season of six nights in Wellington commencing on Monday, the 25th inst. The “Continental Company” recently engaged by Mr Tom Fitzgerald dming his tour of the world has met with a series of successes since opening in the South, and the newspapers speak in the highest terms of the new-comers. Mr Frank . Jones, accompanied by four agents, arrived yesterday to make the necessary arrangements for the season here. ' *

The first appearance in Wellington, at the Theatre Royal, of Mr’ John Coleman, comedian and dancer, was the signal for a burst of applause from a packed audience last night. Seldom have such shouts of laughter been heard in the old theatre as greeted the “scarecrow ” dance, in whidh, towards its conclusion, Mr ©oleman was joined by two other scarecrows in the persons.cf Miss Lottie Lome and Little Eileen Boyd. Miss Lome, ’who also made her first appearance at this house, proved herself •to be a decided acquisition to the already strong company at the Royal.. There will be a complete change tof programme to-nigiht. From to-night Fuller’s popular companies will dispense with the title “Bijou.” and be known to their admirers as Fuller’s Empire Yaudeville Comnany. Last night there w£s a capital house at the Choral Hall. To-night there will be a complete change in the bill.