Trilby.

Opunake Times, Volume VI, Issue 259, 2 March 1897, Page 2

Trilby.

Commenting on the performance of Trilby at New Plymouth by the Collet Dobson Company, the News says the performance was a success. The interest concentrates on two characters, Svengali and Trilby, and the impersonators of those charactars require a considerable amount of ability and energy to make the performance run with that smoothness which is essential for its success. Mr Collet Djbson aud Miss Idrene Thornton, the exponents of the characters in question, are both well known in New Plymouth, and their ability is undoubted. Mr Dobson's representation of Svengali was decidedly pleasing, and he is to be complimented on the results. He invested the part with sufficient realism to make the audience view him with horror and on more than one occasion the feeliugs of those present were made manifest. Miss Idrene Thornton gave a clever impersonation of Trilby. In the opening scene where she appeared as the gay frolicsome girl in the artists' studio and displays on a small scale a diminutive pedal extremity, she was free, easy, and natural. But, it was in the more pathetic parts that Miss Thornton was seen to advantage. Her renunciation of Little Billie ' because things are not what they seem ' was meritorious, and was warmly applauded. She also sustained her part well when she was supposed to be under the evil influence of Svengali, and at the conclusion of the third act the audience insisted on the curtain being raised. Do not forget next Thursday evening.