Night after night a large audience assembles at the Princess's Theatre, ami to all appearances Mr Godfrey and Lis company could keep on here to payable business for some time to como if arrangements permitted. The new attraction, a burlesque on ' Trilby,' is long enough to form a fir*t part, and decidully amusing, the author having seized the (joints of the drarrn which obviously lend t emselves to travesty and made fa : r use of his opportunities One commendable po'ii* about the burlesque is that the old custom of making the heroine hideous in appearance and manner has been discarded in favor of an improved method. Mr Will Bovis, it asqueiading as the girl with the "tootsie-woutsies,'' makes up cleanly and acts the part capitally in all respects, and Mr Bain's impersonation of Little Biltee is funny without being in the least vulgar, while Mr Godfrey takes the part of Svengali with a considerable of cleverness, his mimicry of Mr Fax in 'regard to the voice being a point that everyone acknowledged from the outset. Mr Charles Bovis metamorphoses the Laird, repre senting him as Scotch in dress and Irish in speech, and the other characters are vigor ously played, Mr Josephs as Jacko and Mis 3 Baker as Madame Vinard taking prominent places in a performance which serves its imme diate purpose, and is throughout laughable. The burlesque was followed last night by a variety enteitainment, in which Mr Godfrey sang 'Half-past nine,' 'The Don,' 'Dreams,' and 'After the lall.' Miss Beanie Galletley danced and went through some wonderful f. ats of limb-stretching. Mr Frank Abosaleh did his gun-spinning act, and Miss Baker secured a double encore for the best singing she has so f r given in Dunedin ('Dear heart' being her best contribution), while Mr Josephs, the Bovis brothers, Trixie, and the Sisters Lingard were all more or less serviceable in their specialties. A matinee was given to-day, and tonight the company appear for the last time in Dunedin.
