Unassisted Inward Passenger List to Victoria
(Used their 'stage' names?)Whampoa July 1877
F. Laroche, age 32
Mrs Laroche, age 30
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/indexes/index_search.asp?searchid=23Voyage details ~from Plymouth
http://www.rootschat.com/links/09zf/The South Australian Advertiser, Tuesday 17th July 1877, page 5
VICTORIA.
Melbourne, July l6.
William Creswick tragedian and a variety troupe are progress by the steamer Whampoa.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/09zg/The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Ad. 29th Sept 1877 p4.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2ND, 1877.
CAPTAIN HAYWARD'S GRAND COMINATION of
ENGLISH STARS - ENGLISH STARS.
JUST ARRIVED FROM ENGLAND.
THE GREAT LAROCHE,
ENGLAND' GREATEST COMINQUE.
"
LAROCHE, the Great Comique from the Crystal Palace, is worthy of the reputation he has won, Full of the absurdities of every-day life, he never in the midst of his highest pantomime,draws near to the precipice- which sends so many artists into the abyss below. Mr. Laroche is an artist. The enter- tainment is clever, satirical , and amusing."-Herald (Melbourne), August 3, 1877.
Messrs. Brown and Newland, Ethio- pian Buriesque Artistes. - " If you really desire genuine amusement, I counsel you to go thither, if you laugh not at the two Minstrels until yon are fain to entreat them to desist, you are made of the solidest basalt."-Australasian (Melbourne), August 25, 1877. Miss Willie Walton, Charming Serio-
Comic Singer and Dancer.- ' Miss Willie Walton is a delicious little creature. -Her smiling face almost infallibly puts you into a good humour, and that of itself is a blessing, considering how many things there are in the world to put you into a humour otherwise than good."- Australasian (Melbourne). August 11,1877. Mesers. Folloy and O'Neil, Hibernian Duettists and Great Dancers.-" Messrs Folloy and O'Neil are two very clever artists of the 'Irish persuasion,' and their singing and lightning clog- dancing have made them immense favourites with
the audiences."-Age-(Melbourne), August 17,1877."
Madame Laroche, Sweet Soprano.- Madame Laroche is a pianiste and vocalist of a, high order of, merit. She delighted the audience with her rich soprano voice and was repeatedly encored"-Telegraph ( Melbourne), July 31,1877.
The Greatest Treat Ever Offered to the Public of Maitland. | ,
MILLION PRICES :-Reserved Seats, 3s.; Body of Hall, 2s.; Gallery, 1s.
A CARD-Captain Hayward has much pleasure
in announcing to-the public of Maitland that the above artistes are all holding the highest position in their several lines of business, Messrs. Brown and Newland having played at all the first-class theatres in Great Britain, and Mr Laroche having performed, on three different occasions before his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales. '
Doors open at half-past 7; commence at 8.
6495 J. BARRINGTON, Business Manager.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/09zd/The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, 29th Sept 1877 p14.
CAPTAIN HARVARD'S COMBINATION COMPANY. - Our readers will see in another column that Captain Hayward's Company of English Stars will give two entertainments at the Maitland School of Arts next week, beginning on Tuesday evening, October 2. The troupe includes
Mr. Laroche, a comic singer, Messrs. Brown and Newland, Ethiopian burlesque .artistes, Miss Willie Walton, a serio-comic.singer and dancer, Messrs. Folley and O'Neil, Irish singers and dancers, and Madame Laroche, a singer. The Vic- torian Press credentials of this company are in the highest degree favourable, and judging from them, the entertainment promises great excellence of the amusing sort.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/09zb/ Edit - Hi Laroche I had to retype some of the electronic translated text (the left column), to get the text, which you can see.http://trove.nla.gov.au/ is an excellent site for old newspaper articles.
