THE CHARLES GODFREY COMPANY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XVI, 17 October 1896, Page 493

THE CHARLES GODFREY COMPANY.

ALL last week Mr Charles Godfrey and his Company gave good amusement at the Auckland Opera House, and drew large audiences every night. The entertainment is very varied, as a variety entertainment should be, and in its funny parts it is sufficiently mirth-provoking to move the most sober. Mr Godfrey’s songs and impersonations never fail to bring down the house, and in Mr J. C. Bain he has a very valuable coadjutor withanabundanttalentforcomicalities. The dancing of Miss Galletley, the infantile ditties of the precocious little Trixie, and—in this age of bicycling—the splendid cycling performance are all genuine and good, and should carry the show anywhere with credit. Last night (Tuesday) Mr Godfrey presented for the first time to a New Zealand audience that wonderful machine, the kinematograph, by means of which whole scenes in everyday life are enacted again on a screen before the audience. It is not easy to describe the pictures shown by the kinematograph. Perhaps the best term to apply to them would be ‘living pictures,’ for every figure in the scene is individually in motion, and moves independently as it would in real life. The kinematograph will form part of Mr Godfrey’s entertainment for the rest of this week.