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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2499, 12 May 1909, Page 5

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WILLIAMSON’S ROYAL OPERA COMP A 2 At His Majesty’s Theatg jug Mr. Williamson’s i Opera Company will make a lice. The .first piece tab is Franz Lehar’s celebrated “The Merry Widow,” ant ites who have been absent ft will again be with us, such as Miss Florance Young, ; of tho most popular artists' has known. Mr. Reginald‘i tenor, is another artist- ■ i certain of a cordial recepti tance also attaches to the; of the new English baritori< row Higginson, who, as Pi in “The Merry Widow,” i demanding not only vocal, tional acting ability, and j to fill all the exacting reqi: the character in an admirab: Victor Gouriet (the .princips upon the mantle of Mr. Gee fa’len, has fully sustained t putation he won as a hum! first rank when here with i Comedy Company. He has jutors in Messrs W. S. Pe New Zealand favorite), C. I. and Arthur Hunter. M Dango, a brilliant actress i dancer, who has for some been a strong favorite iii will also make her first here, while such artists as Wilson, Miss Marietta Nash, nie Milne, and Miss Alma stand out amongst a cast of! strength. To-morrow night almost equal fame with “ Widow,” but in tho light musical comedy, will be ] “The Dairymaids.” On Fr the season will conclude wit] tion of the famous London cess, “The Girls of Gottenl music of which is most fascii story romantic, the situatic in the extreme, and the da tary life adds to the bright! whole play. The box plan open at- Mr. W. Miller’s. CLEMENT WRAGG .j THE 1 MAJESTY OF CR3 His Majesty’s Theatre was ed last evening, when Cl Wragge lectured upon the ' Creation. The lecturer, in g guage, and by the aid of r lantern slides, carried the ii of the audience through t-h cosmos from the immensely! the infinitely small. Mr, dwelt at length on the physic of the planets Mars* Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter. The ii given was intensely interest!] he remarked, was the earth neighbor. It has rains, snot winds, and lands and seas earth. The Martian day is * longer than our day, and t nearly six months longer, he said, probably inhabited b intelligent race of beings; astronomers knew that itj sufficiently cool to support li: 2.ooo.ooo*years longer than! The planet Jupiter was the the solar system, its diams 85,000 miles, and its distanct sun 482,000,000 miles. Jupityet cooled down, and was ; sustain life, as earthly bein stood life. v The Jupiter day t 10 hours long, 5 hours light- a: darkness. Seven satellites; around this planet, four of j been only recently discover© superb photographs of Safari wonderful rings composed of small satellites, were also shot planet, like Jupiter, was des steamy, and hot, and by a- sq cent photographs Mr. Wragg trated that the planet had n sumed a definite shape, bul configuraion was changing as led on its orbit around the s princixial comets were next and described. The comet Donati’s comet, would hot! seen by the inhabitants of i until the year 4800, when,Wragge, in .passing, remark© dington workshops inquiry forgotten. Another comet j ever, due in 1910, or early in cording to the freedom of its obstructing stars, and again encc was asssured that if a coi the earth it would he aisas the comet. A fine series of vi great- solar systems in the va stedaiions followed, and the ; was asked to think of of the immortal cosmos, to ; niiso that, there arc v?or s ds s taut from our can that the li oiling through countless ages; yet reached us. that all is force, and energy, that deatl monly understood, does not e life was eternal, not- in the a but universal, that in spa<x great cosmos, there are ers tombs, births and deaths, ; does; another is bom. One ; ishes; another moves with li \fter the close of the let Wr agge again described the j radium, and passed around ai audience portions of that i and rare substance.