OPERA HOUSE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 886, 28 February 1907, Page 16

OPERA HOUSE.

FULLERS’ ENTERTAINERS. This week there has been no change in the Opera House programme of artists. Good business has nevertheless been experienced. Miss Lorraine Tansley, the pleasing contralto, and late of the SteelePayne Co., has gained a place in the hearts of the Opera House patrons, arid her singing of “The Dear Home Land” merits emphatic approval. Mr Sam Wilson has established something of a record. During a long season of something like four or five months, he has never been guilty of cracking a stale joke, lor giving a repetition. His budget of original funnyisms is apparently inexhaustible. And just here a word of advice might be given to the would-be comedian. A stale joke is unpardonable, and though the audience may silently tolerate it, there is always a chance of the withering storm of

last penetrated, and, like the immortal Scotchman, the house might have exclaimed, “I see it noo.” On Monday the first change of bill will eventuate, when ‘‘The Cingalee” will be put on for four nights. . . Slade Murray, the Driscolls, A. IX. Cropp, Nellie Power, Les Warton, A.Tanaher, the Lewis Sisters, Dorothy Lestrange, and the Rollos are all contributing to the present Opera- House bill—and keeping the ball rolling right merrily.