POLLARD OPERA COMPANY

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 241, 19 October 1901, Page 2

POLLARD OPERA COMPANY

Thk members of the above company arrived early this morning by the Waikare from Napier, where they have just concluded a highly successful season. They open here at the Theatre Royal on Monday evening for a season of live nights, when I-’loradoi-a, Maritana, The Casino Girl, La Toupee, ami The Bohemian Girl will be produced on different nights in the order named. The opening piece " Florodora” comes with a big reputation from Australia, where it ran for over 200 consecutive nights, and its success there has been fully sustained in New Zealand, for wherever it lias been produced in this colony it has had a succession of triumphs.

“The Casino Girl” runs “ l’lorodora ” close in popularity; in fact many critics give it preference. The dresses for *• The Casino Girl " were made in Dunedin from models of the original, and arc said to equal, if not surpass, anything in the shape of stage dressing presented before a New Zealand audience. Indeed Mr Pollard was so pleased with the highly successful manner in which the work was carried out that he intends in future, where possible, to have all his new pieces dressed in New Zealand. “La Poupeo ” is a piece which Gisborne theatre-goers have not yet had an opportunity of witnessing. It is a comic opera, which had long and successful runs in Australia, and has been played with success in the chief towns of this colony. “ Maritana ” and “ The Bohemian Girl” arc too well known to require any introduction from us : suffice it to say that the Pollards arc more than equal to the task of inirepoting these beautiful operas, and the singing of Messrs Carter and 1). O'Connor, and Miss Agnes Smith, in their respective numbers, is worth going a long way to hear. Thoro will be a fresh cast in nearly opera. For instanes: Tbc Misses Beatty and Alice Pollard take leading parts in “ Florodova,” and give way to the Misses Karkeek, Gertie Campion, and Nina Osborne in “ Tiio Casino Girl.” Mr Pollard brings his company back to us stronger in every respect, and it is pleasing to notice, as indicated by tbc heavy booking that the Gisborne public arc not slow to show their appreciation of his (Mr Pollard’s) enterprise in introducing to us at great expense the latest London success in the comic opera world. Vvc need not wish our old and popular friends a bumper house, as that is already assured. Early door tickets to stalls will be on sale at Miller s on Monday morning.