AMUSEMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12545, 22 May 1909, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

«s» ' EIP VAN TO-NIGHT, "Betum of the favourites" so runs the .advertisement, and quite right too, as no theatrical company, that has ever toured the Dominion has retained its popularity like that of "The Perennial Pollards," For over thirty years tliey have visited us again and again, always growing bigger and better, and always w T ith something new. The company. opening tonight is the sixth of the name that has visited us,' and critics everywhere are unanimous in declaring it. to be the best. Planquettels delightful comic opera ."Rip Van .Winkle," iwith which the season will be inaugurated to-night, is a severe test botli musically and histrionically, and that the company .is capable of- presenting it in an adequate manner, the lavish praise bestowed by the press of Wellington and Auckland, jg ample proof. Early door tickets to stalls and pit at sixpence extra can be- secured from .7 o'clock, ordinary doors open.at 7.30.