POLLARD’S JUVENILE OPERA COMPANY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9403, 25 March 1909, Page 5

POLLARD’S JUVENILE OPERA COMPANY.

The Australian critics were quite taken by surpirse at the excellence of the performance given by this popular combination. Of the.fourth performance of "The Gay Hussar,” which Mr Pollard presents at Marton on Monday night, an Adelaide paper says: The success scored by Pollard’s Opera Company on Saturday in “The Gay Hussar” was more than repeated pn Monday and Tuesday, when on both occasions the Theatre Royal was crowded, and long before the rise of the curtain people were turned There is something in the performance of juveniles which peculiarly appeals to the adult mind. It is one of these quaint absurdities of Nature which demands that at some period or other of his existence everyone shall be a child. This occurs sometimes in youth, • sometimes in old age. But its generality means that all juvenile performances are treated with generosity. This, of course, materially helps Mr Pollard’s clever company in scoring an emphatic success.” The box plan will be opened at Mogridge’s to-morrow-morning, when it is almost certain there will be such a demand for seats as will mark epoch in the history of Marton amusements. "The Pollards” as they are familiarly called, have been playing -to' crowded houses in Wellington for the last three weeks, the universal verdict being that the company has improved out of all knowledge, and is at present the best combination touring the