THEATRICAL CHARITY PERFORMANCE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12120, 7 December 1894, Page 2

THEATRICAL CHARITY PERFORMANCE.

1 AN EARL AS A SKIRT DANCER. REMARKABLE SCENE. Hobaht, Novomber 28. Probably the mo3t retnarkab!e theatrical entertainment ever seen in the southorn hemisphere was given this evening at the Theatie Royal, whon tho Earl of Yarmouth, assisted by a company of local amntsurs, performed in the presenco of a crowded audience, consisting of the elite of Hobnrfc, for tha benefit of the fund of the Girls' Industrial School and the Dorcas Society. The Earl ot Yarmouth, who arrived recently from England, and is at pi O33nt staying at Government hou in, is a young raau of twenty, threo with ft stron.j predilection for the s'ngo, and (he aunaunsiment Itiab b.e would appear at tin Theatre Royal 'exceed great interest. The audience mil d)d Lor;l and Lady Goruianston, Miss Beaij. tnont, nkca of Lord If intore, and, l|c J". F. Kawhnson, pdvate=secretary to the Governor, Many members of Parliament wero proaant, r.s woro atao the offlc:r3 from H.M.S. Katoombi and Goldfinch, now lyinif in the harbour. While the mere fact of tVe Earl of Yarmouth's appoiraace in a farcical comedy wai a ttrong attraction, it was also stated in the bills that the famous serpent'ne dance would bs performed by " Mademoiselle Boze," and it was generally whispered about town during the afternoon that this wa3 the norn-de-ballet of tha Earl of Yarmouth, As the serpoatine - dance had never before been seen in Hobart, oxoitomont reached boiling-point at the pro3poct of tho fi«t performance of

Mian Loie Fuller's celebrated dnnco being given by a member of ilia nobility. • After the OYerUuij, tho curtain went up on the farce entitled " A Pair of Luuaticß," in which the Earl of Yarmouth took the part of George Fieldon, and Miss M'lntyre, a Hobart young lady, represented the character of Clira Manners. Tho piece went with grent briskness, and when in the course of the dialogue allotted to him the Earl of Yarmouth asked, with feverish impatience, " Have I btoa making alto»6thc r an ass of myself ?" some of the audience seemed to detect a hidden point of some kind aud applauded rapturously. After a number of miscellaneous items the Earl of Yarmouth appeared as John Grumloy, a huckster, in another farce, entitled " Domestic Economy," and ■ gave further proof of Us histrionic powers. The programme as it advanced kept on challenging attention still more and more, and when the Earl of Yarmouth appeared in a loose white wnpper, with blue ribbons, and a flowing wig of soft brown hair falling below his shoulders, there wassometning Hko a pa^p in the dress-circle. In this di9guiso his lordrhip took the part of an injured wife, who has been sitting up to receive her husband, who coraoj home late from the club, and was appropriately voluble and emphatic. When the Earl of Yarmouth rocked the baby in a cradle, and alluded to Kirns-elf as a poor ill-used mcther, the audience applauded heartily, and a large 1 ocquet was thrown to him by an enihu:-iistic occupant of tho dress circle. The next item in which ho appeared presented several new features. Bis lordship wore raiwh abbreviated skirts reaching just bolow his knees, black stockings, dainty shoe?, and a large white sunbonnet. His partner, Mis 3 Yates, was similarly attired, and those ■who remember Mr John F. Sheridan and Miss Gracie Whiteford in their duets in Melbourne will have an excellent idea of the general effect produced. The Earl of Yarmouth, who was made up with a large amount of artistic detail and grease paints, sang with great nerve and danced with the utmost abandon. He threw himself into his part with a thorough obliieiation of self, which, from an artistic point of view, was admirable, and kicked as hiah as tie most exacting ballet mistress Cf.u'.d deßire.

Upon the conclusion of this item, w jich was loudly applauded, tKk orchestra sti uck np a good swingiug waltz tune which is the invariable accompaniment to the | Eerpentine dance. The stage was dark- I ened, and then suddenly in the centre tbo Earl of Yarmouth appeared iv a circlo of limelight clothad in an exa.- 1 facsimile of the flowing drapery which Miss Mary Weir used to appear in when giving the same dance at the PlinceHß's Theatre. Ho also had golden curls falling down his back, and in ' h's whole make-up quite equalled the best efforts of the most experienced female impersonater ever seen on any music-hall s^age. Tlw limelight 1 man was fully equal to the unprecedented occasion, and hi 3 lordship, w hiding h : s his drapery in each h«iil in tho most ap f proved fashioD, gyrated before the aFtonished throng in one wild blaze of kaleidoscopic colours, and danced with unabated vigor. in aid of the fuads of the Girls' Industrial School and tho Dorcas Society. Then the limelight man began to project pictutes upon the whirling skirts of tho noble earl, who displayed first of all Sir John Millais's well-known ivork entitled '■ Bubbles ; " and after the portraits of the Princo and Princess of . Wales and the Duke and Duclnss of Ycrk and Lord Gormanston and Lady Gormanston had been fhown, and etill tin Earl or Yarmouth whirled his whits silk skirts with the dexterity of Miss Bella Bashall combined wjth tho gracefulness of Miss Mary Weir, thunders of applause greo'ed him, and foverai large bouquets werj thrown to tho almost exhausted noblemanj who concluded with a qu'ck pirouette and a final bow of salutation. Responding to tho inevitable encore, he gathered all his energies for one more effort, and the curtain fell on the unique picture of a portrait of Her Majesty the_ Queen depicted on aballet-duncer's skirts worn t'y an Earl in the presence of an audience •who had paid 3s, 23, Is, according to the position of their seats, for the privilege of witcossing the spectacle.— Argus correspondent. Crease's "A 1 Coffee is the very best Sold by all gi peers.— Ad vt. All those who, wish their photographs fpr presentation to friends at Christmas should visit Mr Martin's Sluiio as soon aapossiWo, so that sufficient time maybe given to the work,— Advt. Histort epeated, — Thoutands of people saw Charles 1. beheaded in 1G43. Yet in all that crowd there was but one man who know why the blood spurted from the dis severed arteries in the Monarch's neok. That was Dr Harvey, the King's physician He had announced the circulation of the blood, and in so doing stat ted a tremendous scandal. 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