THE THEATRE
EBy Sylvius.]
Our Christmas Attraction. "The Girl in the .Train" was revived at Her Majesty's Theatre,' Sydney, last week, Miss Dorothy Brunton takings the name part. Mr. C. H. Workman appeared as' Van Eyck, president of the Divorce Court; Mr. Alfred Frith, who by the way, ha 6 enlisted, as Cornelius Scrop, the_ train conductor; aaid sdjss .Connie Edisj as Martjo. Other parts wcro accounted for by Messrs. Field Fisher,-Fred. .Maguire, Bjjr,'Grieg, and PaultjElunkett, and the-Hisses Marie Eaton and Madge Elliott. This is the company that will commence a tour of Now Zealand here on Boxing Night in "So Long, Letty," and will also present that cheerful frivol, "To-night's the Night." The scenery of _the first-named piece has already arrived in Wellington. A Fuller Pantomime. The rehearsals of the Australian pantomime, "The Bunyip," -the Christmas attraction at the' Grand Qpera House, Sydney, aro (says the "Daily Telegraph") well advanced, and' the show gives promise of being a bright, spectacular production. Miss Queenie Paul will be the principal hoy,. and, as the management has conceived tho idea of having two principal girls, Miss Violet Trevenyon, a smart soubrotte, and Miss Pearl Ladd, who will be remembered with pleasure for consistently good work during a recent comio opera season at Her Majesty's Theatre, will divido -the. responsibility for thatconnection. Mr. Villiers Arnold has been allotted the part of the bush demon, and his chief act of wickedness will bo that- of transferring Princess Wattle into a. Bunyip. It is . also the intention of the management'to introduce from the vaudeville circuit two novelty acts. • They will, include the turns of tho Fivo Manchuriains and a novelty by_ Lo Grohs. The big spectacle'promised is a bush fire, on tho mechanism of which many hundreds of pounds have already been expended. London Items. The title of Harold Grighouse's new comedy is "The Clock Goes Hound." Joseph Coyne, Lennox Pawle, Mary Glynne, and Iris Hooy aro in the cast; Among the rising young British offir cers recently killed in the fighting on the Sommo was Lieut.-Colonel Eric William Benson,' the only son of Sir Francis (Frank) Benson, head of tho famous Shakespearean stock company which bears his namo. Sir Herbert Tree expects to produce "The Great Lover" at His Majesty's Theatre sOon after Christmas. He will, of course, assume the'part played here by Leo Ditrichstein, upon whose performance' it will not be easy to improve. . "Henry VIIT," "Richard II," and "The Two Gontlemen of Verona" are underlined for immediate production at the old now under tho direction of Lilian Baylis. Miss Honiiraan has produced in Manchester a one-act play by Mr. D. T. Davies, a young Welsh playwright,' which lias been hailed by the local critics as of a very remarkable character. -The sWry deals with the mental agony oF a young widow, holding tho sternest tenets of Welsh Nonconformity, as she contemplates the eternal future of her asinostic husband, who has just been killed iii a mining accident. ■ ' BOOKS FOR HOLIDAYS. "Love and Lucff," Maurice Hewlett; post free, Is. "The Wave," Algernon Blnckwood; post free, 4s. • "Rainbows. End," Rex Beaah; post free, is. . , "Greenmantle,'' John Buchan; post free, ' 4s. ■' "Vermillion Box," E. V. Lucas; post ' free, Is. "Lightning Conductress," C. N. and A. N: Williamson; post free, 4s. "Supreme Desire," Gertrude Page; post' free', 4s. "Tho Girl Philippa," Robert Chambers; post free, 4s. "When a Man's a Man," H. Bell Wright; post free, 4s. "Tho Great Push,'" Patrick Macgill; post free, 4s. . "Men, Women, and Guns," by Sapper; post free, 4s. : ■ "The First Hundred Thousand," lan Hay; pott free, 4s. "Tho Dark Forest,"'Hugh Walpolc; post free. ■!•». "Fli-ralif "" •— " '•••-!•. V. "V B ' f:"- . u. an;» • oo„ Booksellers and Stationers, I'ALMEIISTON NORTH,
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2953, 16 December 1916, Page 13
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