ENTERTAINMENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10424, 29 July 1895, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CITY HALL,

There wass a capital attendance at the City H»U on Saturday night, when tha Irish drama, " The Woarin' of the Green " was reproduced as a bsnefit performance to Mr Collet Dob-sou. The piece was produced curing tho previous week, and is therefore freah in the raiuds of playgoers, and it wm received with evident favour. Mr Collot Dobsoa, io the part of Barney Kooney, met with a favourable reception, and succeeded in investing the .character with all the requisite buoyancy and ' humour. The other principal p>.rii« were tiken by Messrs Walter Clifford, frank May, Barrie Marschel, Misses Virginia Ciayton and Milliceut Mowbray. Mr Dobson introducedwith efftict several vocal items, iDcludiug a song entitled "Jolly old pipe," written a-ad composed by Mr Barrie MarscheL In tho fair scene in the second act the members of Messrs Collins, Brown, and Stapleton's company introduced several of their specialtiea to the evident, sstisfactjon; of; the audience. .■

MISS MATHESON'S CONCERT.

Quite a large number of ladie« and gentlemen asstmbled at the Dresden Piauoforl cs Company's rooms oa Saturday afternoon, when a concert was given by Miss I. L. Msthesou, with the' assistance of several of her pupils, Tho space available at the Dresden was quits inadequate to aocomniodnte all those who received invicatioas to bo present, with1 the result .that many were-.unable, to-gain ..admittance, aud oShers listened to the music whilpt ptaudiog on the ntreet doorstep. A choice si-ltctibn of-items was provided by Bliss Mather s on, and these were gone through in a manner that would satisfy1 tbe mosc exaefciog critic. The principal pianoforte soli were Beethoven's ".Spnatitp&thetique" (in O minor, op. 13) and Chopin's "Scherzo"' (io B-flat minor, op. 31). Taeso were played by Miss Matheson with a.l the ekill a«d taste thiifc bue would expeoli from a pianist iios-essiuj^ auch high attainments as dots that lady, and the, performatco was consequently accorded a very hearty round of app;aufl«'. Her other solo—-Lii-zt's '"Rhapsotiie" ' (No. 12)— '■ was played-with equit meiit. The iaterpretatton of Lisz'.'s transcription of ?! Rigoietto," b? Miss OHvq Little is deitrVing of unstinted priise. The ducks •• Maz.wpi " (Li-zb) and " Dan«e Mnoibre" (Saint-Sil-jcs) were the two other pianofora Belectiousv -Of the vocal portion~bf the programraeMiss'Slaths-SDiiranda-ed Tosfci's "Goon-bye)'' with .much, Bymp*,t)ietic efTecti Kiss Elsie Blliottigßve a pleaning rendering of. " In oweek Sa'ptem'ber,"-- Miss' Ada Macheson gang Dolhy's "Out cm the'ro'ib* " in au acceptable manner, whileVlix'--AJ-Msrtici wa3 heard to advantage in ",Kuby,^.,(Gii'onel). •, ,