Pollard's Opera Company.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10818, 8 December 1902, Page 6

Pollard's Opera Company.

. "/The Toreador;"" to" 'be, proSuced r b- • the Pollard Opera Company at the Opera House this evening, is? says the AueJhand Hesald, so distinotly', goott that • o^e" wonders how BOme^otkerß of- its xlass — much, more jinaistenfty boomed — continue to exists. The new piece sets a standard ot'-all-tdunft excellence," which will inevitably be talscix as 'a criterion- in futwro, and which serves admirably to prove that JJiueical plays need 'not consist of a'mere haphazard slinging together of vaudeville specialities and cheap witticisms. Here is one which has, a humorous plot of genuine interest,' a ' host , "of legitimately - introduced and most amusing situations, and, abqve all, a connected musical scheme, not one 1 number of which is unworthy of a second' or even of a third- heating." The Pollards have, if 1 we mistake not, • the finest, prodtfetion of their repertoire in this new piece, for the instant success . of fc which each individual member of the company; is to share the credit. The company arrived ' this mo Aing_. from Feilding. As previously, announced, the season -is lim- ' ited^jto one night only^ a^' the .company iS due in Duoedin for Christmas week." A bumper -house is already assured for "Tlie Toreador."