MISS AMY VAUGHUN'S COMPANY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2203, 21 May 1896, Page 39

MISS AMY VAUGHUN'S COMPANY.

Misa Amy Vaughaa's Musical Comedy Company opened their Dunedin season in the City Hall on Monday evening. The audience was a fairly numerous one, the lower part of the house being well patronised. Most of the members of tbe company are f*miliar to Dunedia playgoers. Some years Wave elapsed, however, since Miss Vaughan last made her appearance here, and her perfotmance last evening was proof tbat after the lapse of so great an interval she has lost none of the grace and piquancy which characterised her playing. Her contributions were tbe serio-comic song "Oh, you gre<tt big darling" and the descriptive number " Ere the lamps are lit," both of which were redenunded. Mr Harry Baxter, in_ renewing his acquaintance with his Dunediu friends, was also accorded a hearty round of applause. He rendered several descriptive soi gs and some coster ditties, mont of which elicited .repeated calls for encoro3, In Mr Alf. Macdermott the company possess a comedian of high degree. His step -dancing especially was a feature of. the entertainment, while his Irish, and negro impersonations were received with roars of laughter. Miss Florrie Cameron, who possesses a nweet voice, saug the well-known number "Piggy B.ick," which was deservedly encored, and later oa she contributed another song, which proved equally acceptable. Miss Jeany Johaston, a young performer who i 3 not unknown to Dunedin, rendered a couple of ballads in creditable style. Messw Collins and Browne, it need hardly be said, met with a favourable reception, and their specialties were provocative of frequent outbursts of merriment. A duet entitled " Conundrums" served to iutroduce some really very funny ''business," while their burlesque of the " ballet cirlh" was no less amusing. Comedies, entitled Slattery'd Horns" and " Foiled Mashers," were al-io included in the programme.