ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1917, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"THE SENTIMENTAL* BLOKE." On Thursday, February 15, »t the Good Templar Hall, Messrs. J. and N, Tait will present Mr. Lawrence Camphell, the popular elocutionist and entertainer in C. J. Dennis's brilliant Australian character study, 'The Sentimental Bloke." The scope for an elocutionist and entertainer is quite obvious in the book and Mr. Campbell, who is an intimate friend of the author, suggested that their recital would make an ideal entertainment and recitals were given in many of the principal towns of Australia with very great success. Of one of these the Bulletin says:—"C. J. Dennis has foun'd in Lawrence Campbell an almost ideal interpreter of his "Sentimental Bloke." A quite unaffected delivery, with an artistic restraint that prevents him depicting comedy with circus effects, or drowning a pathetic scene with counterfeit tears. He gets the last ounce of allowable humor out of audi scenes as "Hitched" and feelingly sug-. gests in "Beef Tea" the sentimental hiatus between "Bill and Doreen." Mr. Campbell at each recital presents the work in its entirety without the aid of book or note and his portrayal of the various characers is said to be exceedingly fine. Time will only allow or three recitals being given in New Plymouth and the box plan of reserved seats is now open at H. Collier and Co.