POLLARD'S OPERA COMPANY.
"PAUL JONES." This much travelled rrganisation, after 1 an absonco of ten months, will renew acquaintance with a local audience on Monday night. Each time Mr Pol aid visits us he brings something new, and it is to his energy that we are indebted for the opportunities of seeing the latest successes in comic operaß and burlesques. Thiß time he will introduce what is considered the most tuneful and smartest written of all modern light operas, Planquette's masterpiece, "Paul Jones." The Auckland critics were quite lavish in piaising the manner in wbich these clever ->ouug people played this diffionlt opera, the Star going so far as to state tbat "for dressing, mounting, attention to de* tail, and a thorough entering into the spirit cf the work it was tbe best representation of cbmio opera ever seen in New Zoaland." It might interest our readers to knew that the entire dressing of this work was done' in New Z-aland, eveiy* thing in the op:-ra was purchased and made in the colony, the amount expanded being considerably over .£4OO. Tbe dresseß worn by Mibs Mand Beatty in the Becond and third acts, cost no less than £3*.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIIII, Issue 12123, 29 February 1896, Page 2
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198POLLARD'S OPERA COMPANY. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIIII, Issue 12123, 29 February 1896, Page 2
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