Miss Grace Egerton, gave her entertainment at the Music Hall on the 24th of July to an overflowing audience. The dramatic and comic representations of this fair artist, her correct delinetion of character and her versatility of talent all combined to form a rich source of amusement, added to which was the musical ability of her husband on the piano. the violin and the English concertina.
Madam Card and Mr. Thurton separately entertained full audiences at the Music Hll during the week which ended on the 30th of August. The former (as before noticed) was a clever illusionist and an equally clever mesmerist, whilst the latter (an ex-compositor) was one of the best mimics and laughter evoking ventriloquist that ever visited Hastings. It was said of him that his only fault ws that of giving too much for money.
Various Entertainments Under the heading of "Public Amusements" the St. Leonards Gazette of Sept. 20th remarked as follows:- Not to speak of the various bands of wandering minstrels that the pedestrian meets at every turnng, there must have been, the last few weeks, a sufficiently extensive programme of amusements to satiate the cravings of any moderate pleasure-seeker, and such as cannot fail to render fabulous the statement of Punch's correspondent that "there are no public amusements here except throwing stones into the sea." Cricket-matches Cave exhibitions, Sol-fa rehearsals, its-meetings, lectures, pic-nics, bathing, boating, swimming and other diversions have been as plentiful as blackberries, but those of a more special character and whose recognition is more immediately the province of the journalists are noticed in the following paragraphs:-
First on our list is the entertainment by Mrs. George Case and her husband the two celebrities whose familiar faces at the Music Hall on the 11ths and 12th of September secured to them a large attendance of admirers and won for them repeated plaudits, appreciative of their uncommon abilities.
The equestrian and other performances of Sanger's Circus and Menagerie next claim attention, not so much for their routine character of amusements as for their semblence of respectability, their numerical superiority and the absence of that degenerate taste which of late has converted the arenas of similar establishments into mere boxing rings. About 4000 persons patronised the two performances.
The next in order of enumeration is Mr. Edwards's grand Diorama of the Holy Land, which commenced exhibiting at the Music Hall on Monday, Sept 15th and continued all the week. It was visited by many persons of distinction who expressed their gratification of the pictorial representations of the classic soil there placed before them. This colossal work of Art was said to be the joint production of several members of the New Water-colour Society, assisted by a great Eastern traveller, and to contain 20,000 square yards of canvas, woven for the purpose.
