"TWA HOURS AT HAME."

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1688, 1 June 1874, Page 2

"TWA HOURS AT HAME."

: The Academy. o£ Music was on Saturday night attended by a large and en- "I thusiastic .audience, which, cpniidering the night, must be taken as the best evidence possible that Mr^ Kennedy's " Twa* Hours at Hame " Kasbecome exceedingly popuLr. It could scarcely be otherwise, especially with Scotchmen, of whom there rwas ji,jfarge gafnjering i&njSatgrday. usual Mir Kennedy commenced with .a few remarks on Scottish life and character »so^ruthful]iy r .illustrated in,-the national songs'^ He'iheii" sang " The Auld Scot's • Sangs/' a most appropriate introduction to. the entertainment. ;' John Grumlie " dame nextj!'tiie^h'umors of which were so excellently rendered a 9 to set everybody laughing; " A Man's a Man for a' that" ;fpllow,edf?.and was sang as only one who thoroughly appreciated the sentiment of the song could sing it. A courtship gong, and that plaintive old Jacobite melody „" "^ae's me for Prince., Charlie" were' 1 ■thenlgiven by Mir Kennedy ,/preceded by appropriate remarks on the incidents of history which lend an additional interest to the latter song ; and the first part of the entertainment concluded with a Highland gong, " Mj^Heather Hills," which deserves more than a passing remark. Unlike the songs which had gone before " My T Heather Hills " was not dependent up<m any peculiarity oofp dialect ,or acting to make it'attractive. Its! senfimeht w*s of cpßTs^SiCott^sh, tut the 'air jwas difllcult, arid.required" a good'yoice and a powerful to. ojo jifc^jugtice^ 'I Mr Kennedy fairly, '"surprised i some -of his. audience bjr hil rendering'*ofy " spngi* and it mujlt ,b^, jpeniembered that he hid already been talking and singing; for 44 hb^without a sp^ell of five minutes. The : second portion p|' the entertainment was simUar, to that giyen on. preyipuj evenings.. The mpstnoticeablo,. features.'Jiii".-it^we^e"' The p|uje Bbanet* the>sorder^, ■;8olp! aml,chprus, and the finejsonjf " Auld" ".Kpb'iri Qray;^ Vungliy Miss Helen VKerinedyi; In pa^t three Mr-Kennedy recite,d tte > humorous poem " Watty and JMeg f *'. rn^-a manner which^proved 'him. ..to. joe^perfect as an 'elocutibnist. After getting through the : whole, of-the prpgramnae but ithe< finale-r----just as w.e * were ;jyisnirig -thatVsomebody wbuVdask for >> Alister MoA'libJter "—Mr Kenned; said, as the audience had been 10 good and attentire, and had turned out bo well on a wet night, he would give'them' " Alister ?McAlister;." land ;'.a; story to 6; which, :^e i" didj" the^^s'ong,' c witli bag-pipe imitatipns, producing the utmost signs of appreciation which could possibly bOi elicited from any audience; andthe storyrwellif wasoneof the best of the evening arid was received with evident relish. " Auld Lang>Syne "was sung by the company, and the chorus_joined in by the audience, standing,: the same' enthusiasm 'being apparent as on previous night», and people ; departed to their homes evidently delighted with " Twa Hours at Hame." This evening we are promised " A Nicht 3wi' Burn|,";; when o' Shanter]" Will be' -recited by* Mr Kennedy, arid many of Burns' most popular songs will. i,be r -;Bung, n Tp-mQrro,ir >?nighti positively >the last of tKese-isbn, will be'urider tl^e patronage of Major Cooper and «.;;iccrs i •ad mMnb^ri of the Thamoi Seotti*ii . \ j