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Observer, Volume XIV, Issue 795, 24 March 1894, Page 7

Sweet chiming 1 bells of Ion? ago ! Let me see, 'twas in the eighties that the Lynch Family came to Auckland last, and here they are again, in the nineties, as fresh as paint and as good as gold, as Johnny Fowke would say. The Javanese piano still forms a feature of the show, and Mr Will Lynch still continues to extract music from this quaint instrument which resembles a job lot of rolling-pins mounted on a sorubbing-board. I could wish _ that the Javanese edition of the familiar instrument might become fashionable in New Zealand. * * * Those rolling-pins don't sound half so excruciating as the ordinary thumping on the ordinary ' cottage.' But then Mr Will Lynch is the performer, and Mr Will Lynch is an expert. Mr A. W. Hulme (new to Auckland) is the possessor of a fine baritone and knows how to use it. The ' glassophone ' consists of a table covered with thin tumblers. You wouldn't bid five shillings for the lot in an auctionroom — unless you knew that those tumblers, properly manipulated, yield the sweetest music ever heard. As those ielioiously pure, clear and sweet Bounds soak into you you can lie back in your chair, shut your eyes, and fanoy yourself in heaven. Mr J. E. Collins is a capital 'comique,' and Mr E. J. Ford also warbles ditties of an alleged humorous kind. In. short you may spend a couple of hours with the Lynch's very pleasantly. # « # The season concludes on Saturday — short and sweet. Pity it couldn't be extended over the Easter holidays. Just the sort of thing to please a holiday audience. But the talented family is bound to keep to its ' dates.' There will be a matinee on Saturday, and a change of proarramm* to-night (Thursday). It is seven years since the Lynches were here last. Goodness knows when they may be here again. So if you would hear them you had better seize the present opportunity. * * * The attendance at Choral Hall on Monday night, when Herr Franoik, the eminent violinist, made his bow to an Auckland audience, was very good, but no better than an artiste of such acknowledged ability had a right to expect. Herr Francik possesses wonderful mastery over his instrument. His technique is remarkable, while he plays with feeling deep and true. His soul is in his work. The audience was, of course, delighted. It is a pity we cannot induce this talented musician to give us another concert or two. # # * The first of the City Hall popular concerts was to take place last evening — too late, of course, for any report in this week's issue of the Obsebveb. Mr A. H. Gee, the gifted vocalist lately with the PalmerBeaumont Company, is now running the concerts. The second series (sacred) eventuates on Good Friday, and the third on Wednesday, 28th inst. The services of many of our most capable amateurs have beer secured. * • • Miss Bessie Doyle, violinist, is now in Auckland, en route to America. Sheopens for a very brief season at Choral Hall on Good Friday night. * •* • A pantomime at Easter sounds queer but they always have 'em in London. They run right along from Boxing Night. On Easter Monday ' Sinbad the Sailor' goes ;on at the Opera House by a speoial Australian company. Gorgeous scenery, glittering effeots ! # * * George Leitch is in town. . c You don't say.'