HUMPHREY BISHOP

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6439, 17 January 1924, Page 1

HUMPHREY BISHOP

COMEDY AND OPERATIC COMPANY

The box plan is now open at Young’s for the forthcoming visit of the famous English Humphrey Bishop Comedy and Operatic Company at the Theatre Royal on Friday, January 25th. The news of the great and unprecedented success of this company in Auckland has preceded them, and we are quoting the Auckland press in saying that it is the brightest, breeziest and finest show of its kind that has ever visited New Zealand. Comedy is the keynote and with such comedians as George Ross, Robert Roberts, Harry Avondale and Edward Elliott to lead them there is not a dull moment all through the show. On the vocal side the company are especially strong, and to hear one of their operatic finales * accompanied by the orchestra, it would seem impossible to -believe that there was not a. full real grand opera chorus behind them. The original ragtime quartette appeals to everyone, both from a comedy point of view as well as a vocal, and their reception everywhere can be described as a “riot.” The company is, without doubt, the largest of its kind that

has ever toured the Dominion. In each of thir programmes there is something of everything to please everybody, each and every artist being a well-known London performer.