AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14282, 24 August 1910, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

PHIL WALSH DimiATlC CO. With reference to the production of "J he American '.l'raiup 1 ' a L the Theatre I',oyal this ei-eninc.. we quote the i'oll<nvm L ; from one ol our exchanges : '•Air t'hii Walsh is a -ennine'comedian, and Liu; manv patrons who met him in the Koildiue; Jll-;jl Jiidl for the, lirst time quieid.v reco;.|iised that fact, for the laiurliior was heartv and prolonged. "Sir," said the I rhii-American, "'ho carries dm qualify of Broadway. Xew York, in voice and eysturc, : -l liave tlie Hoods, and j hare conic 10 Eeildinic to Ooliver thcni!'' Mr Walsh is a man of his word. To use another of his own attractive idiomatic phrases he "made e;eed : ' and will henceforth be a. welcome visitor to Eeiltiino-. There was nothing very original about the story of tlie play, 'but its presentation was .such that it is no exaggeration to say il: was one of tlie best that has ever been staged in I'Y'.kliiio;. The Tramp was. of course. the "ooniral li.nure, and he was rieht there every time. In describinc; the pleasures of the Rohemian life and the curse of solitary ronfinoment in Sine; Sinit i'rison he was full of dramatic power, and Air Walsh's full am! free exposition of Americ.'in humour, expressed in the vernacular, was something worth proum a. ionri iv.iv to hear. Aliss Paijine. as tlio tnunp's lone lost <lar.;ibter. has a liood voice and plcnsint; presence, and was a successful heroine. Mr G. Tanhad no trouble in convinoine: the audience that he was an unmiicitated blackguard, whicli is the b:st praise to c,'ive the villain of the play. The other parts v, ere. well su-tained.