POLLARD'S OPERA COMPANY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6551, 31 July 1899, Page 1

POLLARD'S OPERA COMPANY .

This popular, combination -visits Christchurch with the regularity of the seasons, always growing stronger and better, and always prepared t<y place before theatregoers something novel. On /Saturday, next ,Mr. Pollard and his clever company /will inaugurate a season at the Theatre Royal with the comic opera '"La Poupee."' This is Mr Pollard's -latest/ and, according to criticism, his, greatest, . succes-s. . : "La Poupee" was first nroduc&d in. February', 1.897. at the ' Prince of Wales ' Tlieat-o . r.r'r>don, where it ran to crowded houses for neaily j two years,, the, rc;«on . -of:-iis> witlKjrn ; .v.il ■ the expiration of ;.the. lease. ,lt was purchased for the colonies by Messrs WU-. lia-mson and' 'Miisgrove, * and" wasr first pro--1 diiiced :in Australasia a.fi •• . Bfer "'Majesty's .Theatre,^Sydney,: in, .August, .1898.... Mr Pollard, ..with 'his; usual. energy., .stepped in and secured not .drily "the ,^ew - Zen.la.iid rights, but the entire scenery,'-' ; w:u<drobe -and' eff eelrvandvcnr Saturday night ■' the play . will be placed upon the stage exactly as in the Australian cities. Since last iere, the company has been strengthened 'by 'a male chorus of eight" picked voices. The : box plan for the season will rbe opened at the Theatre ' Royal on Thursday; morning at ten o'clock. .... . " ;«.■ ■y^\'J •