ADELINE GENEE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1881, 15 October 1913, Page 7

ADELINE GENEE.

Mile. Adeline Geneo will mnlco her farewell appearance in Australia on Tuesday evening at Her Majesty si lie- , atro (says last Saturday's issue or the; "Sydney Morning Herald"), and in this • way our playgoers are now seeing tor tho last- time the supremo gracoj ot a»; groat dancer. \ Sbmc interesting disclosures as to i her next year's season in London havoj recently beeu published in the London.' 1 "Referee," but these do not affect tliorj movements originally mapped out for*- 1 ' herself by,the diva when sho left AnieN ica for this country. Although Ml o, : Geneo opens her five weeks' tour of tlu» Dominion at Auckland, closing on fio-l vembe;- 21, she will not return to Eng»: laud via San Francisco. Her intention, is to meet her husband, Mr. l'rank S^ 1 N. Isitt (secretary to the Duko of Ne\y-< castle) at Colombo, and thence to Egypt, sail up tho Nilo for a week or two, and journey in a leisurely way.' through Italy and France before reachins London. Tho diva has another starring engagement before her for February at thft London Coliseum. In the vestibule of that great vaudeville theatre her do-« ings abroad are on view for visitors by, moans of cuttings bonratli glass in oak. ller iutoiuiou is to produce for the iirst time there "La Danse," a,i unique and instructive entertainment,-j iirst originated by her at the Metropn-: litaiL Opera House, New York. Be.gin-' ning with an impersonation of Mile.' Prevost, tho teacher and predecessor in! Paris of Le Camargo (who retired in IT'll), Mllo. Geneo will present in character all the most famous ballerinas up to her own day. Tho diva was fortunate in securing tiie co-operation ot Jlr. C. Wilheim to design tho costumes, and Miss Dora to compose range tho music, and sho has. £5000 worth of old furniture, and other art material, which was employed in tho Now York production, Her stay in Sydney has proved enjoyablo, and sho hopes that some day sho may return lioro tor another season. Her present stage-manner, Mr. l'rank Rigo, well-known also in the same capacity, with the Molba Opera venture, will leava Now Zealand in time to join the Montreal Grand Opera Company at tho opening of the January, season.