THE LORCNETTE

Observer, Volume XIV, Issue 797, 7 April 1894, Page 7

THE LORCNETTE

' Sinbad the Sailob ' gave place on Saturday at the Opera House to ' Cinder Ellen Up Too Late.' This is a version of our old friend ' Cinderella,' but how, when or why she sat up too late is not very apparent. But no matter. ' Cinder Ellen ' is as full of fan almost — not quit*— as ' Sinbad . ' All the latest London music-halls songs are introduced including ' Linger » onger Loo,' which is one of those ' catchy ' things that haunts you like an uneasy conscience once you have heard it. Pretty Miss Ponsonby' and her friend sing it deliciously. Priscilla Verne sings a parody on ' The Man Who Broke the Bant at Monte Carlo '— with Masher Pyke as the hero thereof. I truat all this notoriety will not turn the head of Sequah 11. The charming Priscilla seems to have got back all her old form. Bertha Panning sings ' Mona, my Own Love ' very prettily.

Florrie St. Clair sings ' I Don't Care ' in firßt-rate style. The Connors are as good as ever. These men are simply wonders. They seem to have no more backbone than the average politician. Mr Friedman (who makes up well as a girl) ' jodels ' like a Swiss mountaineer. Tudor (' it makes me so wild ') is funnier than ever. Callaghaa is first-rate as the Baron. Cowan and Parlatto, as the two ugly sisters, keep the house in roars. Bessie Ponsonby makes a sweet thing in Princes. I predict that thiß company will play to packed houses in Wellington. We have had far worse shows in Auckland and which, tor some reason or other, have received .better patronage.

Mr Gee's third winter oonoert attracted a very large audience to (Jity Hall. The popular vocalist's contributions to the programme ('Mona,' "Ihe Deqert,' 'Old Simon the Cellarer,' and -in part two — 4 Thou art Passing Hence ') were all greatly enjoyed. Miss JReeve, Mrs Kilgour, Miss Clarice Brabazon, Messrs A. L. Edwards, Herr Franoik, and others all rendered invaluable assistance. The winter concerts under Air Gee's experienced direction, are proving both financially and artistically successful.

The first concert given by the newlyorganised Auckland Sestet Club attracted a small but highly appreciative audiance to City Hall. The fact is the city is hardly large enough to 4 run ' to many musical societies. The Sestet Club has been formed with the object of giving due prominence to wind instruments, and certainly it would have been hard to draw up a more attractive programme than that presented at the club's initial appearance in public. Mr Towsey presided at the piano, while Messrs F. Innes, S. Jackson, J. Jackson, W. J. B. Green, and J. F. W. Cook, performed on flute, clarionet, oboe, horn, and bassoon, and Mr J. Mackenzie assisted on the contrabasso. Miss O'iullivan, MiBB Kate Best, and Mr Gee contributed vocal items. The programme was a very high-class one throughout.

The Brough-Boucioault Company spend a three month's season at Sydney Lyceum on the 24th ult. The new pieces just secured are : ' Pincro's ' Second Mrs Tanquoray,' Grundy's ' Sowing the Wind,' Jones's ' Bauble Shop,' Wilde's ' A Woman of no Importance,' and ' Lady Windermere's Fan,' and Fred Homer's ' The Other Fellow.' Three English artistes have just joined the company : Mr Eenoaf , j avenile lead ;Mr Frankly n, juvenile ; and Miss Edith Ward, ingenue. From Sydney the company go to Melbourne, Adelaide, etc., then come over to Maoriland again.

Special general meeting Amateur Athletic and 'Cycle Club at British Hotel to-morrow (Friday) evening.

Mrs Kidd, who comes to Auckland with a great reputation, has oommenced a course of cookery lessons at the Girls' College, Portland Eoad, Bemuera. Ladieß will do iwell to avail themselves of this opportunity of learning how to prepare toothsome dishes. Mra Kidd's terms are yery reasonable. She willgive her second lesson, of the course, at the Girls' College on Wednesday, 11th mat. See her an' nonncement in this issue.