LEVY THE CORNET PLAYER LEVANTS.

Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 879, 7 February 1878, Page 2

LEVY THE CORNET PLAYER LEVANTS.

Levy played on Tuesday night, not the Carnival de Venice on his cornet at Cam- . bridge, whioh he was engaged to perform, but the doable shuffle on his company m Auckland. * Aa our readers are aware he was, with his company, engaged to appear m one of his performances at the Publio Hdll Cambridge, where an overflowing audience would have awaited him. But Levy had other work on hand. He owed his company a months Balary, it ia said, and their pajsage back to Melbourne* and had got the remainder of their engagement with him to fulfil. These obligations clashed with his interests, and he has -.squared the eagagemenb, the baok salaries^ and the return passage with a flowing sheet, or m thebe days of steam, we should rather say with a smoking funnel. Levy and his wife 1 ft m the City of' New York yesterday for San Francisco "at nve o'cleck m fchj injrning," while as yet his deluded company were safely detained m Hamdton The swindle was worthy of the veriest mountebank, and the report of it, we trust, will follow the man who boasts of toeing the first comet player m the world •wherever he goes. j The disappointment to. the people of Cambridge was great, and we heartily I sympathise with them. Had Signor : Gioma even arrived with Miss Pittsn i and Signor ftosnati it might have bee- I possible to have afforded them an enter ! tainment worth attending, but it would have been useless to have undertaken it without his assistance. They returned to Auckland yesterday, but, of cpurse, to . fiud Levy flown, as the City of New York ' left Aucklaud yesterday, for San Francisco at 5 a.m. Levy's busines agent, Mr Jteeth, is one of the heaviest losers by him.