“MADAME POMPADOUR” PROVES SUCCESS AT THEATRE ROYAL.
There was another large attendance at the New Theatre Royal last night, when the J. C. Williamson Royal Comic Opera Company repeated their performance 'of "Madame Pompadour.’’ Dealing as it does with the gay and luxurious period of King Louis XV, of France, the production is one in which there is beautiful and lavish dressing. The part, of Madame Pompadour is a graceful one, and Miss de Vries last eveping bro.ught. to . it. .a handsome stage presence and much skilful acting. Mr Webster was admirably cast as the ardent Rene. His light tenor voice is sweet and of wide range. Mr Arthur Stigant-was -Joseph Calicot, the amusing playwright, to the life. His atrocious rhyming in his everlasting impromptu poetry kept the audience in perpetual merriment. The other artists in the piece f carried out their work well, and the choruses and the-orches-tra were efficient. "Madame Pompadour” will be presented again this evening. . .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18544, 18 August 1928, Page 10
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