RICKARDS'S VAUDEVILLE COMPANY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12394, 2 July 1902, Page 5

RICKARDS'S VAUDEVILLE COMPANY.

■ - !:■ : ; Mr Harry YatidsvilU Company, headed by L'incomparable Paul Cinqucvalß, appeared agam at the Frmcess Theatre las'' ; night, when 'tliere w.t Si £ood audience, if not quite so good as oii the opening night. Naturally., the. chief interest centred in. tho appear. wee of the famous juggler, and truly ho proved to bo u marvel, It is generally regarded asi' a! r hard thing for a celebrity to hve.\tp ,iiojhis rpputation, but in this cnao It, Cinqnevalli. dpesi more, and whatever description of.hi% fsats .1 may hive gone before him, it must sieoessarily V have been inadequate to eonveya trueimpre?? . sion of his powen, • The audience at times.sat, .breathless as ho performed tho.wonderful . juggling acU which havo amazed audience? in; all parts 'of tho world. "Juggling" w.'<tci- : ~ mittadly an inadequate iorm to ppply.tonjl , IT. Cinquevall! doss. He displays thesaiae facility in toesing about a walnut ad a 401b cannon ball; he balances the said t cannun. : ball oil tho end urn stick apparently with as little iijconyenience as lis docs his roinarkabla bal-i ' am:ing act with tho billjard ballij and cue3j hs . : lifts the cannon ball with his feet by sheer . . . muscular force and catches iton his Ueatf. But. it is idle io attempt, to analyse the modus ; ' opwandi, aiid like many other wonderful' thing* l "must be seen to bo believed." .-.Madamo Lydia Yoatnans-Titus, billed atl the "peerless lyris actress and travesty quocn," is also, oiie of (he "stars" of tho company, and, like M. Ginqiievalli, her T»illianea has a depressing effect on the modest twinkle of the- lesnr' v luminaries. The coon items by Mr Charles \ Walker'nud Miss Ida May wero applauded.with sufficient emphasis to justify h repetition, and if tho public who paid to hear them yras.satisfied,our opinion on their merits may gb.iro». . stated. Professor Onirics Wrigley's select-ions . on the clarionot and saxophone were executed . ... with- a skill that called forth greafc admiratiqn • . on the part of the audience, and he was heartjljr cwored. The Diamond Duo—two young ladios 'in liberally b:sr.arigled and abbreviated skirts— showed themselves to 'be' expert .banjoists-and ■ decidedly graceful dancers. ' Mr Colby and Miss Alice Way succeeded very well with their-clever. ■'. ventriloquial net.while the audience gained more . or.less satisfaction from' the solos of Miss Nitty"'' • " Leelc (contralto) and Mr James Opie (baritone). •Itis a pity that'a singt-r of Mr Opio's calibre does pot chooso a better class of song.. , Th'o company appear agaiu to-night, and their . entertninmont is worth' going out to see, oven when the weather is taken'into consideration.