MR. J. P. HYDE AND HIS GEM BURLESQUE COMPANY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue VI, 7 March 1879, Page 2

MR. J. P. HYDE AND HIS GEM BURLESQUE COMPANY.

In the face of a miserably wet even J ing there was a very good attendance af| the Masonic Hall last night to witness^ the clever, brilliant, and attractive per-1 f ormances of this very talented company .l "The Loan of a Lover "was as welfl played as we have, m a long theatrical experience, known it to be. Mr. Hyd« was simply irresistible. It was imposl sible not to laugh, and equally imposfl sible to refrain from giving applausefl In the burlesque of "La Sonnambulajfl the situations were so amusingly absurcfl comical, and outre ; the songs so goocfl and the dancing so graceful that th 9 audience between listening, laughinfl and applauding, could find nothing cl 9 to engage their attention. The severfl characters, with this company, are sfl well sustained and so admirably acteH that one cannot possibly feel a duH moment. Everything m this wcrfl comes to an end, and so do the Hycfl performances ; but all wish they weM longer, and all feel that there must another and one more, visit before t^J Company take their departure. sight of Mr. J. Wilkinson's make-up "La Sonnambula" is worth a lo^| journey to behold. This clever burlesq^B actor must have learned the mystery^H divesting himself of his flesh, to pl^| only with his skeleton. There is nothing to which he can be compared on earth, or the waters under the earth. The sisters Johns, with Miss Jenny Nye, acted, sang, danced, and did other things m a way that no three other burlesque actresses we have witnessed m our time could do. This evening there will be a change of programme, the pieces selected consisting of the finely written comedy of " Who Speaks First," to be followed by an interlude of songs, and to finish with the burlesque extravaganza of " Cinderella," perhaps the cleverest and most amusingly written of the burlesques of the day.