STAGE AND SCREEN

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 75, 30 March 1933, Page 16

STAGE AND SCREEN

■a- ITfto Rayner Sisters. ' Word from the talented Eayner Sisters, ."whose Troubadour performance in the Concert Chamber is remembered with enV' joyment by all Wellington residents who were privileged to see and her them, , shows that the Strolling Players are bav-. ing a happy time in England and France. v-They have been living in a flat in Lonv.don. Joan writes that in Paris, where they had a wonderful reception, they 'hired outside players, a dancer, and a ' -"cellist, and did exceedingly good busi- ■ ness. They spent a weekend with the ,' do Chairs at their country home. Lady :• •de Chair was always interested in their v work, and on one occasion when the : sisters were on a caravan trip through jthe country, allowed them to stage a ,": show in the grounds of Sutton Forest, *-and invited half the countryside to come •; and see them. The sisters managed to' ■■'•• satisfy an ambition to play in the Arts *..; Theatre, London, an '.. ambition that ; started when they saw Yvette Guilberfc ; play there on their first visit to London. -; Many Wellington friends will wish the ';*!; Troubadours another happy tour. /Leading Man. *i Colin Clive, the English actor who was ; imported to Hollywood to repeat for the i-. American film version his original role ; of Stanhope in "Journey's End," will be " Katharine Hepburn's leading man in her first starring picture, "The Great De-' sire," ' from Gilbert Frankau's novel, "Christopher Strong." . Clive, who waa iii England at the time; was engaged for his role in "The Great Desire" by cabU from the KKO studios, took a boat the same day, and went to Hollywood where ' production on this film is already under way. While he has made a number of English films, "Journey's End" and '■Frankenstein" were the only pictures in which Colin Olive appeared during hi* previous stay in America. He also played on the New York stage in "Overture." Ready. , . , ; ' ; Everything is practically set for the beginning of action on "Warrior's Hus-: band" starring - Elissa LandL with Ernest Trues in the principal malo role. Walter Long will direct. Elissa is also scheduled to make the tentatively titled "Diessmaker from Luneville." • About People. Mrs. Basil Hughes, formerly Misal Norah Blaney, has made a, successful reappearance as a classical pianist with a symphony concert conducted by Julius Harrison, at Hastings, according to the London "Era." Mrs. Hughes, is an associate of the Royal College of Music, and before her stage career .^specialised as a classical pianist. ■-■ : ,'; .■■ -•;'.■:. ' . Leonard Gautier and hw dogs, who were Buch a success': with Willitmeon Celebrity vaudeville a; few years ago, were on the bill at London Paladium recently with their bricklaying act. Debroy Summers and his Band were among the hite of the show.'-•■'■'."'. •".- : James Bridie, author of "Jonali and the Whale," haa translated - Chekhov's- "The Proposal" into Sco.ca from the English of Constance Garnett. "The Scotch version was "played by the Scottish National Players at Glasgow, and proved -'■ to . be., thoroughly enjoyable. Wilkie Bard waa on the London. Vaudeville Theatre programme 'recently, with Harry Champion, Vesta Victoria, Florence Smith6on, and other favourites. ' Claude Dampier, "of costume-comedy company fame, has been appearing in the revue at Shepherd's Bush Empire; Luighton and Johnstone, Cardini, and Jean Florian were also on the programme. Claude Dampier at the piano, to the songs of -Billie . Carlyle, was repeating the "idiot", numbers ..that have helped to make him famous,. * " _ Cecile; Sdrel v(C6mteߣle de' 'Segnr) famoup.- French actress, is . retiring, from the .Comedie Francaise after more' than thirty years before the public. She is 57. Annette Kellerman, the swimming Venus, waa in Sydney recently" on her ■way to the South Seas with her husband, Mr. J. R. Sullivan, to do travelogue "shorts." It is ten years since Mies Kellerman was in Australia, ani her • welcome was sincere. ' ■ Lord Inverclyde is petitioning the Edinburgh. Courts for a divorce, mentionr ing Lothar Mendes as co-respondent. The former Lady Inverclyde is June, the actress, and. it will be remembered that she petitioned the Scottish Courts some time ago for annulment. o£ her marriage, which the Courts refused. She then obtained a divorce ■at Reno, but this is not .legal in England. '■■■'"■ , . ' Marie: Burke is playing the femmme lead in the.musical version in London of "Ambrose Applejohn's Adventures,' 'entitled "He Wanted Adventure/* ' Pirie Buah, formerly of Wellington,; and now of Adelaide, has a family _ oj four girls, twins having recently arrived .to swell the family total. . Florence Lawrence, the Biograph star of the first days of motion pictures, is •working as an extra at £1 a day m Hollywood. She was a charming actress ■twenty years ago. pome Back.. . , ■~.....'. After an absence from the screen o£ twelve years, Rosco ("Fatty") Arbuckle. is definitely- back as the grand old comedian that he always was. He has been signed by Warner Bros. to. make a series of two-reel comedies, of the type that . made him one of the greatest of screen comedians. Arbuckle has not lost touch ■with his work, as until quite, recently he lias been making personal appearances on the stage and previously to that directing pictures, but'he. has alwayß longed to return to his , old job. His first comedy is entitled "Hey, Pop." Included in the cast of his , second comedy, which is to follow,, immediately, is Al St. John, Arbuckle's partner in the old silent 'days. ■Amateurs' Own Theatre Amateurs and Sunday, play societies ;j:e in future to have their own theatre in London. Judith Wogan of the "Red and Silver" Theatre, the Grafton, situated in Tottenham Court Road, has decided to let it-to,amateur producers, and has made, moderate terms for amateur dramatic societies.. for single or season performances. One of the first to seize the chance offered by Miss Wogan was the Play Society, of which Dame Sybil Thorndike, 80 recently in New Zealand, is president. *'The Invisible Man." With reports of the unusual success of "The- Mummy" coming from all parts of the world, Carl Laeinmle, jun,. announced .recently that Karloff is busy preparing 'for the eerie character, he will pdftrayxin.'The Invisible Man," from the story.: by H. G. Wells. R. C. Sherriff, noted British dramatist, who wrote "Journey's; End," and who has been signed to adapt and write the screen play for "The Invisible Man," will lend his personal aid in picturising the Wells novel. .Beethoven at Five. David, the five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. 'G. E. Maddison, Chatswood, Sydney, astounded members of the Forum Club in the New South Wales capital recently by his playing of Beethoven's early sonatas and Bach's first The astonishing lad has never been to school, "but can. read the newspapers and all his brother's books, though he has never been, taught except by himself," and ' ih'e' sight of his small figure, his feet upon a footstool, surprised his hearers, who were Dot prepared for the singular playing of the lad. He had to sit on two fat books to reach the keyboard, and he startled his audience with his pianoforte work. The infant prodigy played before Sir Philip Game and Lady Game at Mr. Justice Harvey's house prior to his recital, and. the Governor remarked: "When I hear this boy playing in the Albert Hall I will recall that I first heard him at the age of five." David has been awarded the Carreno scholarship for two years by his'teacher, and as thid is.only his third term, she is naturally looking for. great things in the future. He is a healthy youngster, with an appetite for cricket and ice-creams,

"The Masqueradcr." Ronald Colman's second production this year will be . "The' 'Masquerades" one of the most successful novels and stage plays in history. The play of John Hunter Booth was based upon the Katherine Thurston novel. Guy Bates Post spent six years touring the world in it.. The picture, in " which Colman, for the'first time, will portray a dual character, will be directed by King Vidor, who directed the star in "Cynara." This will be a United Artists release. Featured. Mr. Shechan announced the other day that Spencer Tracy and Sally Eilers will be co-featured in "A Modern Hero" from Louis Brom field's best selling novel. This is a mid-1933 release. The Tracy-Eilers team is not new, having first appeared in "Disorderly Conduct" last season. "Emperor Jcnos" as Opera. The operatic version by Louis Gruenberg of Eugene O'Neill's play "Emperor Jones" was an interesting novelty at the New York Metropolitan Opera House recently. The occasion enabled Lawrence Tibbetfc to make the greatest triumph of his career. Critics were not in accord over the first-night performance. One said it was the finest American opera yet produced; another waa of opinion that if it held, the boards it would be because of the 6uperb work of Tibbett. Another wondered why sp much time had been spent ■■" on preparing "so difficult, so unsatisfactory, and so unsympathetic a score." A dramatic effect was secured in a wild dance entitled "Formless Fears" seen in fantastic silhouettes behind the» terrified face of the negro Emperor visible in the foreground. O'Neill approved of certain modifications of the

original plot, notably the ending. In the opera, Brutus Jones, instead of being shot by the soldiers, kille himself with his silver bullet. The opera was , in seven scenes/but was. so short .that it had, to have company, and 'Vivas;'*'followed by "I Pagliacci." .

Williamson Notes. Messrs. J. C. Williamson announce that their Easier attraction at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, "will be "Our Miss Gibbs," in which Madge Elliott and Cyril Bitchard, with Gus Bluett and other favourites, have made such a striking success in other parts of' Australia. The firm has every reason to be satisfied with their engagement of Nicholas Hannen, his charming wife, Athene Seyler, and their Fnglish confreres, for the season of the new company, is proving a triumph. The Hannen-Seyler combination has played Galsworthy's "Escape" and "The Middle Watch (already seen here in picture form, but reported to be even funnier than the talkie version), and has an extensive repertoire for the- Australian and New Zealand season. Another importation, Theo Shall, the Viennese stage and screen star, is proving a big draw with his latest piece, "The Command to Love," a sophisticated comedy drama of the diplomatic' corps. Messrs. Williamson intend giving New Zealanders a feast during 1933; for these companies are due for the Dominion later, as well as a Gilbert ami Sullivan company playing musical comedy. Learning. Joe E. Brown, who knows something about almost every sort of sport, learned a lot about swimming during the recent Olympic Games. He took under his wing the Japanese swimming girls, who taught him some new swimming tricks he will demonstrate in his next picture for Warner 'Bros. "First National Pictures, Ltd., entitled "You Said a Mouthful." Also, Joe learned to yell "Banzai!" In support of',the star in this picture is Ginger Rogers and Farina, the latter being of "Our Gang".comedy fame. New M.G.M. Contract.

• Vieki Baum has signed a new long-term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, according to an announcement from the Hollywood studios. ■. Miss Baum assisted in' transcribing" to the''screen her successful play "and novel,; "Grand Hot al." She ■will .write., original stories for M.G.M.

"Tho Big Cage." Anita Page will try to emulate the colourful Lilian Leitze!, the great aerialist, in Universal's great film, "The Big Cage." The blonde actress has assumed the yart of a feminine acrobat modelled after the career of the great Leitzel. She is hard at work learning the tricks of the trapeze. "The only net I' was ever very apt with is a hair net," Anita was heard •to remark to Clyde Beatty, the famous animal trainer, featured in the film. Tlgor-Talk. Nineteen Indian tigers, appearing in Paramount's "Tho King of the Jungle," received their, camera cues in three different languages. Workers on the set were amazed at the babel of English, German, and French that friable Stark, the trainer, used to control her beasts. "Words mean nothing to tigers, only the sound counts," she explained. '"To make them work, eight start at 'go.1 Three others won't move until they hear 'lieb,' the German for love. One animal must be started by the French exclamation, Allex'.". Revue in New Zealand. The three new revues in rehearsal by the Frank Neil-J. C. Williamson Kevue Company for presentation on the return visits, are "Clowns in Clover," "The Laugh Parade," and "Whirl of the World." The Auckland • return season commences at Easter, and thereafter it is hoped the company will re-visit Wellington. The season for New Zealand has already been extended beyond expectations, in view of the success of the presentations, and it is possible that a further postponement of the return to Australia will be necessary to fulfil all the requests for return visits. George Wallace and Ella Shields have been repeating in the south their northern triumphs. Mr. Neil is planning surprises in the new ; spectacles and has been in Australia gathering fresh talent to augment,his clever company of singers, dancers, sketch artists, acrobats, and comedians.' New frocking and settings will enhance the show.

Noel Coward in New York. The enormous success in New York of his play "Design for Living," in -which he himself was associated with Alfred iiimt and Lynn Fontaine, decided Noel Coward, the youthful British' playwight, actor, and author, to break his iron rule about playing more than three months in a city, for the New York run was extended from 12 to 21 weeks, a great concession for the author-actor to make, lhere was a great deal of criticism directed towards the morals of "Design for «v' IngC Percy Hammond, of the New York Heraid-Tribune," came to the detence of the play by saying that it dicta t shock his young susceptibilities in tne least.. Coward has a reputation for daring, and many of his plays are as sophisticated as the censor will allow them to be. The dialogue often borders on the risque, but theatregoers do not seem to mind, and there is no doubt about the success of his writing. His "Cavalcade" broke new ground and was hailed as a masterpiece. It is a triumph in screen form and all America has hailed it; it is thoroughly British in sentiment and sequence. "Reunion in Vienna." "Reunion in Vienna" has gone into production at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, with John Barrymore and Diana Wynyard in the roles created by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on the Broadway stage last season. Otto Kruger, New York stage actor, who was recently signed by M-G-M, will make his talking picture debut in this production. Other members of the supporting cast so far selected include Frank Morgan and Henry Travers. Sidney Franklin, director of "Sinilin' Through," is directing "Reunion in Vienna," from a script based on the play by Robert E. Sherwood. Musical Rebel. The director of the Milwaukee Orchestra, Frank Laird Waller, has gone radical m the seating of his band, according to the "New York Times." He felt that the usual arrangement swamped the woodwinds in loud passages, when they played with the strings and brass So he placed the flutes next the audience, on his right, with the oboe, clarinet, and bassoon families behind them, the brass and percussion still further back. Lhe first violins occupy their usual place, followed by the seconds, violas, and 'cellos, lhe result, it is claimed, is excellent. The -strings are unified; all their resonating surfaces face the audiences, and the woodwind, instead of blowing into the coattails of the 'cellos, have developed a more sensitive ensemble. Can it be, queries the 'Times," that the fighting influence of Fighting Bob" La Follette has filtered even into the music in his native State? "S.O.S. Iceberg." Natives of Greenland, where Dr. Arnold Fanck took his company to film "S.O.S. Iceberg were of course familiar with gramophones and radios. They had never seen a moving picture sound apparatus, however, and were intensely interested in the first sound equipment ever to be brought to Greenland. Carl Laemmle sent Zoltan Kegl, well-known Hollywood sound engineer, all the way from California to operate this apparatus. It required experience as well as skill to get sound results which would be commensurate with the photography which Dr. Fanck brought back with him. Versatile Woman Conductor. . Rita Desmond, musical director and solo pianist of Maskelyn's Theatre for four years, is probably the only lady musical director in the West End, comments the London "Era." She studied the Leschetizky method of the Vienna Conservatoire for recitals and concerts, and started on the concert stage at the age of eight. She comes of a musical family, and is the niece of the well-known conductor, Jacques Greelie. Miss Desmond also ' plays the vitaphone and xylophone. She arranges nil the music for Maskelynes, and also composes numbers for various illusions. She specially arranges numbers for two pianos. Russian Story. Wallace Beery and Clark Gable will have leading roles in Metro-Goldwyn-Alayer s story of Soviet Russia, now announced for «arly production. Frank Capra will direct this picture, which is based on an original story delineating the rise to power of a Russian peasant. Beery and Gable appeared together ia M.-G.-M.'s "Hell Divers." Since then Beery has played in "Grand Hotel" and Flesh," while Gable's filma include "Strange Interlude," "Red Dust/ and a newly completed role opposite Helen Hayes in "The White Sister." Mrs. Jack Hylton Conducts. The wife of Jack Hylton, the London dance band conductor, has been keeping the name of her famous husband well before the public at Home during his absence abroad with his band. Mrs. Hylton, who was formerly Ennis Parkes to the theatregoing public, has been conducting a band at London Hippodrome, and doing' it well. She resumed after an absence of three years from the ranks of performers, and had eleven stalwarts to ' help her in her re-entry. Large audiences have been giving her a warm welcome. She interpolates her baton x work, with song and dance, having always been a graceful dancer. Always on the move, she and her players presented. an item that was vivacious and in complete accord' with the musical requirements of audiences. "Rain." Skeletons .of aboriginals who. inhabited Catalina Island hundreds of years ago were discovered by film workers during the construction of sets for "Rain," United Artists picture . starring Joan Crawford. The bones were unearthed near the beach at the Isthmus, which has been transformed into tropical Pago Pago, the locale of the romantic tropical drama based on W. Somerset Maugham's famous story. Amateur Shows. Mrs. Malcolm Thomas is to take the part of Mrs. Rooke-Walter in the Hamilton Playbox production of "Lilies of the Field," set down for April. Thomas Greenin, a player with English experience, is to play the harrassed vicar, the Rev. John Head. The Canterbury Repertory's first production for the year was the one-act ' drama, "Sicilian Limes" (Luigi Pirandello) ; with the two-act comedy, "The Women Have Their Way^' (Quintero Brothers). ."Sweet Lavender" ia to be staged by the Auckland Libtle Theatre Society. "The Kid From Spain." The old line out of the cowboy'song about the fellow who had. plenty of sky between him and the saddle will have some vague application to Eddie Cantor in his new picture, "The Kid From Spain." For there will be a good view o£ the mountains, either the Hollywood hills or the Mexican Sierras, between Eddie and the bulls that are being trained to bounce him around like a feather in a windstorm. A bullfight is the comedy high-light of the picture. Six bulls were brought from Mexico. So ferocious are these animals, a cross-breed between the deadly toros de Miura of Spain and the native Paidras Negras tribe, that Samuel Goldwyn and his staff distrusted the wooden and cardboard fences and walls that customarily serve as motion picture sets. A concrete arena was built. "Triumph." The beautiful and human love story of Antoninus, the • Roman general, and Dorothea, the Christian martyr, is told in "Triumph," a stage play by Thea St. John. This was produced at the Century Theatre, London, in aid of the Actors' Church Union, .by Ralph de Rohan, who featured John Clements and Dorothea Flower in an impressive presentation. There was a simplicity and stateliness in keeping with the atmosphere of the play, and convincing acting assisted to make the production a notable one; Miss Flower gave a performance of great delicacy, and Mr. Clements one of dignity and reverence.

New Picture. '-/;. .Following their.rise.to popularity as q Btamug team in such successes as" "Orel °, •^"' and '"Dance Team" James Dun; and Sally Eilers have beei east togethei again in "Sailor's Luck" now in pro< duction at Fox Film Studios. The picture, directed by Raoul Walsh, tells tin story of a 'sailor with the Atlantic Flee\ (James Dunn) who becomes entangled' in a lo\-e affair -with Sally Eilers. Th« two get ajong famously until Dunn, thinki :■ ing she has been untrue to him quarrel» ■with her. and sails away with the Fleet, He learns later that it. was all a mistake, and he returns to patch things up ; only t« learn that she is not so ■willing to conn back. The'film, which was forme'rlj titled "Bad Boy," carries Dunn through every imaginable sort of excitement. . Cupid in the TheatrOi .; V • Mile, de Malkazoumy, of Paris, a beau* tiful young classical dancer, has announced her engagement to the-Duke of Leeds, ona of England's most eligible bachelors. H« is thirty-two years of age, and succeeded his father, the: tenth .Duke, in 1927. A quiet and retiring young man, he has lived mostly abroad. In 1930 his Hornby .- Castle and Yorkshire. estates -were sold for a quarter of a million. The castle-had, been in the family for over 600 years, arid -was reputed to. have been built in 1230. The Duke's sisters include Lady Dorothy Glamis, -wife of the Duchess 0! York's brother. Another'romance is that of.Lord Selsdon, a former British Post* master-General, who has married Mrs. Effie Johnson, a member of Pelissier's F,ol« lies (to which Fay Compton formerly belonged), and later of. the Apollo Theatre, - London. Her matinee teas at - ihe - Apq'ifo were famous among, the smart functions of the London social season. ■"■ Holiday. Janet Gaynor, having' finished "Statf .Fair" is enjoying a well-earned vacation, ■ Upon her return from Honolulu late this month she will prepare and start working in her next two productions; first "Paddy, the Next Best Thing", that William K. Howard, just'returned from Europe, will direct, and then "Princess at Your Order,'' in- which. 6he will cottar' with' Henri -Garat. . ;■..-.. New Garrick Theatre. . i Sir John Martin-Harvey- recently, open* ed at Southport, Lancashire, the new : Garrick Theatre, claimed .'by "its directors to be the last word in theatfa construction in-Britain. A Gamck-club, a roof garden, and other pleasant innovations are included for;patrons.' The auditorium itself ie bell-shaped and scientifically designed for the drama, and seats. 1600. Tha „' first occupant' of the :boatds'at the -Gar- ; rick -was Gladys Cooper, ;whowas followed ;' r by Strella Wilson, Australian actress (who -has visited New Zealand many times with Gilbert and; Sullivan and romantic musi- ! cal plays) in a "Maid- of the' Mountains"' L ■-. revival. ' ". ..■"-.- . •'■'- -. ■■-, :;'.. ■'< ' ■' ■ New. -.■.."": : ■: ■■-•'•' '\'."'-jy ;} • .- One of Loretta Young's many hithirta unexploited talents ■was called 'into -tisoi in the filming-of "They Call it Sin," a. Warner Bros. First National Picture. Tha script called for her to play the organ. , arid the piano in this picture, in which. ~ the musical show •world of New; York V serves as a background. Arrangements ' were being made for someone to donble for the actual playing when it--was 'discovered that Loretta •vrae nb;mean pianist herself, and bo all the scenes"' in this ■^picture in which she is at the piano: or ; : organ are actual recordings of ;;ner own playing. In the cast are George Brent,; David Manners, Vahd'.;Louisr; CalhernJ Others prominent" in the cast- are Una Merkel. Helen Vinson, Joe Cawthofne, Nella Walker, Elizabeth Patterson, and. Erville Alderson. : ; Veterans Teach Flappers. '> Audiences at the Prince Edward Theatre in Sydney -were treated recently to the spectacle of the "Veterans, of Variety" showing the ballet of the theatra how to dance. The ballet included such old favourites as Maude Fanning, Peggy, Pryde, Doody and Wright,s Martyn Hagon,Ward Lear, Billy '• Bovie, and Wally Bie* cardo. They certainly proved that though some of.them had been dancing for 33 years, they were still able to give a spleni did show. ■"■=" i Novarro Film. :" ; " Four players have been added to;.' ths', ■cast, of "Tlie Man on the Nile," Eamon' Ndvarro's nest starring picture for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. They are Reginald Denny, C: Aubrey Smith, Edward Arnold, and Louise Closser . Hale. Sam Wood will direct this fihnisation of Edgar Selwyn'a original story with Myrna Loy playing i.he feminine lead. J' Covent Garden Opera. ■ The Covent Garden Opera. Syndicata (1930), Ltd., is to commence a six weeks* ■■". season of international opera at the Royal Opera House, London, on May V ?ath Su? Thomas Beecham as chief conductor. The programme is to include two cycles ! of "The Ring," "Parsifal," "Tristan and ' Isolde," and several French and Italian operas, including two works unfamiliar t» London. •■"-.- j; Four New Films. '. '" : Four new films have been completed bjr, Metrp-Goldwyn-Mayer.. They include "Tha White Sister," '.co-etarring Helen Hayes • and Clark Gable, Joan-Crawford and Gary Cooper's "Today ,We Live," "Rivers, 1^ with, John .Gilbert, and "Hell Below," a} story of submarine •warfarel -• Cleaning up tha Stage. v " The management of the ;French rev&«»;. "Oho Milor," sued"" Mile. :Angele Dren, actress, for breach; of contract when sha refused to perform in a sketch against which she had protested, and Mile. Dren counter-claimed for damages. The Paris Court found that the test and scenes -were unquestionably undesirable, • and added that since the censorship was abolished it was gratifying to see that an actress refused to-perform a-part which shocked her sense of decency." The claim against ' her -was dismissed, and she ■was awarded the amount of her counter-claim, ■with costs, the. Judge expressing regret that shocking exhibitions and excessively-spiced "patter" should be tolerated by th« public. ' •- Musical Film; v j' ■ "Women Inc.," by William Hurlbut, which will be the first musical film to'ba produced at Universal City in more than two years, is scheduled to go "into ■work in the near future under the guiding hand of Sam Jacobson, former Universal Newsreel head, now ah associate producer "for Carl Laemmle, jun. Another Melba? Joyce Atkins, aged 15, who lives at Dar* linghurst, Sydney, may be another Melba, if she continues to make th? progress she has already made in her studies at the Conservatorium. - She has been described by Ronald Foster as-a marvellous singer, and her tutors have every hope of her becoming-a new Melba. She has a natural gift for singing; Mr. Foster intends interesting himself in her career. She has intelligence and poise, as well as purity of voice; her voice is pitched lower than Melba's, and she can sing two octaves easily. She has already won sisteen championships and fifty-one first prizes in competitions during "her four years of singing. Fortunately,.she is-a robust type, and will have no ' difficulty in surmountinc "the* trials and ' sacrifices of training. Her ambition is to becbme a famous singer, and to finish her training in England. . . • -. Facial Expressions. • ' - : . More than any other livine comedian, Gcorpe Wallace has the faculty for making his face express varying emotione, and express them so that they exaggerate to the right degree arid no more. The lift of an eyebrow, the downward or up■vvard twist of the mouth. These, as practised by George Wallace, are.sufficient to convulse an audience. Yet behind it; all there is just the touch of the pathetic ■which plays upon the sympathies of hia audience and makes it collectively like George -as ■well as laugh .at .and \irith him. __>.. " ~ ."'■'.