HEGARTY'S COMBINATION TROUPE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 74, 17 July 1876, Page 2

HEGARTY'S COMBINATION TROUPE.

This troupe made its first appearand! the Masonic Hall on Saturday evening a really firstTclass house. The front sa were well patronised, the second ones* crammed, and the abode of the gods * packed. The attendance, however,' no better than the excellencies of the' tertainment merited, for we believe' readers will agree with us when we * that the programme, taken all tW is the best that has been witness* Oamaru for a long time. We'pred" a few days ago, in noticing the into* visit of this troupe, that Mr. Hegarfj not likely to travel with a bad shots' our prognostication has turned out f Before commenting on Saturday W performance, we must again refer t« disgraceful conduct of some of the audi in the gallery. Before the curtain "J as each gentleman entered the hall; <j e greeted with some vulgar saying, and of chaff that would disgrace a low. P| gaff in a back slum in Liverpool <> r don. We have again and afain. j attention to this larrikin nuisance, ®, hope that the police would accept hint, and that a constable would tioned in the gallery to preserve As our suggestion has not been act* , we now ask Sub-Inspector behalf of the ladies and gentlemen j visit the hall, to place a policeman J, gallery. As a rule, one scarcely evenr to a place of amusement without see"*

but Otunartt appears to the tttle. 'f f rl . ti> fclif performance, vvtf will r " ?,..'■ with f-f'"-' hvst itom ' "' SMn * !> >" '"'' ,f tiit? i.urt"nu<'i'» was a matei::- of ll ! u V'„,. -Miss Harrison possesses a ,JW; Cnavoice, and admirably r ! 1, j s ;Jj.fin<j. Among her selections mnbv evening, in our opinion, the *S«"i< "Siich is Life," though " I capitally rendered. The conjuring ~r tl»> entertainment was very *-"r 'irnl w^n r - Heninefce as the " s "!-' wt . nt ',,n- very satisfactorily. As a l,,t '*' sameness about this * Lain bu>uu«ss, and, Bice the clown's , t (.jrmirt, the tricks become tmm"riltfamt stale. Mr. Hennicke s style snrd»y evt-iing gave general satia- , nml ciille'l forth immense applause, ' i v from the tricks themselves, bttt the. fun produced by the vagaries of "f the professors assistants—two per"wlßctU from the audience. The L,1 e ,l Lady Trick in the second part L was very good, tat, of ™, fitters by comparison with feylvesliliusion, because the tatter gentleman Vantage* of proper »PTg* „ Mid also the Ume. tight. SttU, Mr. Jcko » to- he congratulated for the in„r in which he performed the trick ( , rt |io circumstances. fcuKatu Russell, on making her hrst wanes, was well received. She sang kchintf Through the Park "in true im ntsyle, her " business being very |, jifiss Rnssett has- not what may be voice, in fact, on Safrttrsrening, it struck its that she was stifferftmn iv severe cold, bat her acting is h-Bouit. In the comic song, "Have : Wmy .Pickles," she caused great Iter,, but by far the best of all the : ■doiU she took part in was, "The iors, Gifted by nature with a pleasing ; Mid aa excellent figure, she did the Nf imakesess to perfection. She is k excellent dancer, and with the ling' tope is 'he beat we have wit-

id. f, Hurt, the London eomtr-tue, ts a litwmißitiou to the troupe. He has stuolWt voice, and there is a good 0 stylo about his acting, which twy tailing with an audience. io singors now-ft-days seem to inv » tliut the more vulgar the song flle lm»in«Sß, the better it is appre--1 'thin is a mistake, which Mr. isiiuw of, and hence, his by-ptay on rfay oveuing was jttst such as to »without giring offence. In the icntuet with his wife-, he was tm»£amusing; but his best effort was ''Gorman Ctarionette." It fairly jhtduwn the honso, the represintaif •» v:<t' old broken-down German (iiiv. '!•:<{ perfect. His "Spanish ir- " .i■•'ompanied hy the niandovi.: u'.v -ffective, and took well with llliicll''-.

iim*. i-.i-.-e been very gratifying to l'!h>i M. m to find that his friends iiw !'-I'm,!tun him, for,on making his u.tuai, ito received a littte ovation, n in just as good as ever, and his wttwiw of a certain phase of Irish luturhavu never been excelled on the Xuiiluml lioiu-iU "The Rocky Road lWin," !«♦ travelled by Moran. is imo, tlio facial expressioiu* antt the 'ill !j«t up, ave simply perfect. The ihiic car song., " Sandymoirnt," with ■ luwnipiiniment, was received with '(tpplimsi!, and it deserved to be, for long- was wull given. It has often stiitml in the "Colonial Press that nliiui uo ecumt on the bones, and in fo lire inclined to> agree. His bone Bwijltwocthhcaring,"}Mui his handling » -shillohi.lv worth seeing. There is a tvisli stylo about the tvviddling of the iinhtidi which, cannot be mistaken it', it ia only a son of the soil that can w tlio twig properly. v pruijrammev which never flagged all fell, was hvnuglvt to a close at" 10.45 flio troupe appear here this evenH'l tm Tuusilay and Wednesday.