PHIL WALSH DRAMATIC COMPANY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10543, 26 August 1910, Page 6

PHIL WALSH DRAMATIC COMPANY.

To-night "The American ' Tramp" will be staged at the Municipal- Theatre by the above company. The following critique from the Feilding Star is worth quoting:—"Mr Phil Walsh is a genuine comedian, and the many patrons who met him in the Feilding Drill Hall last night for the first time quickly recognised that fact, for the laughter - was hearty and prolonged. ' Sir,' said the Irish-American, Aviso carries the quality of Broadway, Now York, in voice and gesture, ' I ka™ the uoods, and 1 have come to ing to deliver them!' Mr V\ alsh is a man of his word. To use another of his own attractive idiomatic phrases, lie "made good' last night, and will henceforth 'be a welcome visitor io Feikling. There was nothing very original about the sloiy of the play, but. its presentation was such that it is no exaggeration to say it was one of the best" that has ever been staged in Feilding. The Tramp was, of coursc, the central figure, and lie was right there every time. In describing the pleasures of the Bohemian life and the curse of solitary confinement in Sing Sing Prison he was full of dramatic power, and Mr Walsh's full and free exposition of American humor, expressed in the vernacular, was something worth going a long way to hear." "Taken all round," says the Timaru Post, "the company is a fairly strong one, with one bright star in the person of Mr Phil Walsh. The company is practically a new one, gaing'strength and popularity, and with judicious handling ought to make its name in the Dominion. Mr Walsh's abilities are m themselves sufficient to command a house, and we look with pleasure to the company's return to Timaru, which is promised at no distant date." Seats may be reserved at the Dresden Piano Company. -