AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14002, 10 September 1909, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

SKATING. There was another largo attendance at tho skating rink last evening, and as tho atmosphere was favourable, all the skaters' thoroughly enjoyed . themselves. After the usual rounds, there was a practice for tho carnival next week, and this promises to be a projiounced success. , Those washing to tako part in it Aould let the management know without delay. "A BACHELOR'S HONEYMOON." Hilaritv will be the order of the night at "the Theatro Royal this evening, when Mr Hugh J. Ward will present his company of comedians in the famous laughing success " A Bachelor's Honeymoon." The promise of plenty of good wholesale nonsense, interspersed with gay singing N and clever Uancing by such accomplished artists as Mr Hugh Ward, Miss Grace Palotta, Miss Rose Musgrove and others, is certain to attract a crowded house: <• Mr Ward is to bo thanked for having brought his complete company to. Timaru, it being seldom that all the original performers of a successful Australian production visit this city. A hearty »elcome is sure to await him and his clever eompanjvn;' ,;.,•■• y -' : It was no afterthought'which caused Mr Ward to alter his intention to pro-, ducc "The. Fendug present in its place to-morrow evening the well-known musical farce ; " The Talk of the: Tpwiu" ■- Mr. Ward was from the first desirous of giving Timaru theatregoers the advantage of witnessing this reputedly great faree,: but the. produc' T tioh is a big one, and arrangements for its performance were, only - "completed two days- ago;' Full of fun and gaiety with musical and dance numbers; "The Talk of the Town" should be-as great a draw .as "A Bachelor's ; , . Honeymoon." '■ -' Though Saturday is not a good "show" night for Timaru, it is rare that such a fine company as Mr Ward's appears here, and the city should at least be able to provide two packed houses for an attraction of this calibre. The Timaru public naturally do not like to be passed by when companies of repute visit the South Island, and when thev get an opportunity like Mr Ward provides theui with or seeing a really nrst class show, it is not likely that they will neglect it. JJig booKihg at «iu Dresden muicatcs a successful season.

BEiVGOUGH. Bengough, the Canadian entertainer. Who opened Jus Sew Zealand tour at Wellington, a fortnight ago, is probably, tne most versatile artist on the concert plattoriu, tor in addition to being a cartoonist,lie is a mimic, a singer, and, a comedian. The "Sydney Muiletiii" comments on ins eutcrtaiunienu tuns: ;"-Meugougn began ins season of cattoonery and raillery on Saturday. . ±lt> mauo .lightning sketches j.f J. C Williamson, &«• mli.ani .Liyne and Conductor Slapoifski, but the audience especially rejoiced: at, this' humorous work. A crayon triangle becomes by a few strokes a cat's face.! A few more strokes makes the animal a hen. Another ten seconds' work and fcLie egg-' mother is standing on the bald pate of a dismal man and is wearing specs and a woman's hat.; The moral/ tlie car-toonist-inoiiologist says, is, ■"'•'Young.' men, don't marry outside of Australia. " Bengough will appear here on Monday next. ' He will be assisted by Borneo Gardiner, the marvellous boy whistler, Claude Allan, baritone, and Dora Carroll, pianistc. . ."A delightful entertainment," was the verdict of the seven hundred people, who (says a Wellington paper) welcomed Bengough, who ha lis from the sister Dominion "Our Lady of the : Snows." - Bengough is just like nobody wo-have uv in »»vi-ntifei-uu oeiuiL. lie is a instinct peraonaiii/y, uoi> magnetic, yet, ius'giips; lauier ucuocraw cuau _,a oho wants to n«lar e»'«ry i/oiu una aceevery.cuulK maiK lie ii..ui<_... ue -jusi. uiiipjics aiuiig nl tiic giv.»v of a genial presence,■ uumg an.i i b«i j iug naming out wuut> is interesting, auu musical. Wim •«.*'• ch..iks his line is strong and true, -with a pleasant numour in every curve, and quiet quips to suit tiic kinuiy satire ■'or tlio luu: uient. Uitli consummate arc he maKes .pictures out of anyiniiig —a couple ol Euclidean Tangles lie transforms (.to a running accompaniment of cheerful patter; into an-Ugly boy wolfing a :>vedge of cake; he metamorpnoses the suunower of primitive art into a tiny maid who in fancy he decrees shall take lessons in elocution at the (ijKiutville; and then leaving the lot loncsomo on •the easel, proceeds to show how the finished product would- recite "Barbara Freitchie," to an, audience' convulsed with laughter. Bengough is a " dialectician " of parts. , His Scotch stories were good ones and new enough; in '.' Chucklehead's War Story," he is the homely American.to the life; and en reciting his own ".Visit of the Yankee Fleet" he lifted Ins audience into an inflammably patriotic condition good to see.; The "ladies owe him a grudge for exposing the real the directoire, hut he crept back into their nffections in his recital of Whitcomb Riley's pathetic- poem "Grandpapa." Another of his "hits" was the evolution of an amateur singer, arid how he -»« a "Th«n You'll Remember Me'/ before and after a course in.ltaly. His talent at " getting a face " was cleverly illustrated in a couple of local snaos. niie" being "Fred." Roberts, the slim footballer, who, with the members of fie Wellington and Auckland representative teams, was among- the audience.