AMUSEMENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13998, 3 September 1907, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD'S JUVENILE OPEEA COMPANT. There was again a veryj full house at the Princess Theatre lost evening, when Pollard's Juvenil© Opera Company repeated " Bluebell in Fairyland " with iurthor big success. The play, .with its many pantomimic effects, its charming billets, calcliy chorasM, and generally its olaborato staging, together with the extraordinarily bright a"nd clover acting of that. many young performers, is ono _ that cannot fail to receive the very highest oncomiums of the public. . Another performance) is announced. for this evening. ALHAMBHA THEATRE. Thcro was a very large attendance at the Alharabra. Theatre last evening, the building being pretty'We|l full in.alj parts. The;, performance" all • through-, was of excellent character, and.'qnifo aeserved-.the hearty encomiums. passed.. The biograph and bios-cope pictures,' which are' particularly good, came in for' the usual .favourable, recognition at the hands of the audience, ,and the singing and dSricing earned numerous demands for repetition. Ssveral spfcialtiss' were, given with pronounced success;' and proved both entertaining and amusing. ,'Tho same ■ programme will be repeated this.evening. MADAME ALBANI'. " I reldom see , a day pats • without being asked by someone Mio' meaning of the .letters 'O. M." attached to.Madame Altai's name," remarked Six C. H. Gibbons, who is directing Madama's pres'ent roimd-the-world tour. " These .letters are for tl'.o Order of Merit, the English decoration to the French Legion . of; Honour, wliioh wis instituttd . by. King. .Edward ,-at the beginning of his reign the special, recognition of the geniuses of the, . Empire in arts, science, and literature. It is significant; that Madame was the' first "recipient.. ifi> ;ph'e i^'England but recognised >li£r.' unique', eminence, and lift superior title to the'much-coveted decoration, ..which is but" "1 cut of 30 01 more orders and bejewelled, medals, etc., bestowed.by the various European sovereigns or by'world-famous'musical societies. Xor will oiir present tour close, in all probability, without seeing the number* add«l to. wo have received a command to visit -Teheran if possible, and appear before the enlightened new Shah -at his Roya.l Palaco. No artists of the standing of Albani, "William Green, HayJn Wood, Mildred Jones, and Alyrtlo Jlcgsy have ever batons com? to Now Zealand in combination. Your people will prove for themselves that this is no exaggeration. Wo are so accustomed to everyone knowing ; Album's status and . that 'of our ■other artiste that We overlook the fact tint their fanto is scarcely so familiar here. But they are, as the Australian papers have said, •'the finest organisation of concert artiste , ever brought to Australasia,' and this will include Sew Zealand. Madame Albsini before lias always commanded the guinea and halfguinea scale. This was charged when 'Mr Williamson brought her for 20 conceits in the four chief cities cf Aus'tralia. On the present tour Madame Albani is her own proprietor, and she desired Uie.p'ricos to be fixed at what , the masses or' the people can afford."'