LARGE AUDIENCES WITNESS “ MADAME POMPADOUR ” PLAY.
I ; Large attendances are being attract- ’ ed to the New Theatre Royal, where 1 the J. C. Williamson Royal Comic [ Opera Company are presenting ’ “ Madame Pompadour.” Dealing as it , does with the gay and luxurious period 1 of King Louis XV. of France, the pro- ’ duction is one in which there is beauti- ' ful and lavish dressing. The part of 1 Madame Pompadour is a graceful one, ; and Miss de Vries brings to it a hand- . some stage presence and much skilful . acting. Mr Webster is admirably cast as the ardent Rene. His light tenor , voice is sweet and of wide range. Mr ! Arthur Stigant is Joseph Calicot, the , amusing playwright, to the life. His | atrocious rhyming in his everlasting ! impromptu poetry keeps the audience in perpetual merriment. The other , artists in the piece carry out their , work well, and the choruses and the orchestra are efficient. The season will ’ close to-morrow night.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18546, 21 August 1928, Page 7
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