THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

Evening Star, Issue 3415, 31 January 1874, Page 3

THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

The only items of news I have from Australia are that the Italian Opera season in Ballarat has concluded, and that the comEhas broken up, most of its members j now in Melbourne. Signora Coy has been assisting at the Clan.s-Rekel concerts ; and is is just possible that she may proceed with the company on their iNew Zealand tour. Whether she does so or not depends, I believe, on the date Mr Lyster fixes for the commencement of his new season. If he opens in March, Signora Coy will remain in Melbourne. He has not yet issued his programme, but it is whispered in Mel bourne musical circles that the importation of new talent is to be followed by increase of prices. The Juno company remain in Tasmania to reap the rich harvest, which shows no signs of diminution. Mr Georgt Ireland has joined them, and met with a most flattering reception from the Launcestoniaus ; and Mrs ateele is likely to go with them.

Do any of my readers obtain flies of the ‘New York Clipper?’ because, if the should do, I should be glad to be allowed an occasional glance at what may be a goo* theatrical medium, bub is very deficient ii> accurate information, as the following extract from a recent number shows “Signor Susini, late of the Agatha StatesOrlandini tronpe, has married Miss Fannie Carandint, the charming ballad singer, who we so recently heard in California. It ip aho to be regretted that Signor Alessandn Biscaccianti, well known as an impressario, and lately agent for the States-Urlandin. troupe, died in Victoria, just previous t< the departure of the last mail received from there.”

A short paragraph concerning some stagfolk, whose names are familiar in the Colonies, appears in the ‘European Mail’:— John L. Hall is playing “leading business” at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Liverpool, and has secured the favorable opinion of the Liverpudlians. His wife (Emily Wiseman) commences an .engagement at Manchester in the Christmas pantomime. Fred Younge has taken the Norwich Theatre, and will produce Byron’s Babes in the Wood at Christmas. Lady Don has gone from the stage proper to the musichalls, and is constantly before the public. She has just concluded a successful engagement in Dundee. Carry Nelson is travelling with La Fille de Madame Angot, who seems to be both an agreeable and profitable companion. ClarHolt is now an established favorite at the music halls. His entertainments consist of character sketches, and he advertises that he has already accepted engagements for the whole of next year. His daughter, May Holt, does not appear to have met with any great success. Mr Akhurst’s spectacular play is having a very successful run. Marion Nathan, the principal member of the Nathan troupe, is eneugaged for the Christmas piece at Drury Lane. The favorable impression which Mr G. F. Howe’s new play, The Geneva Cross, created at the Union Square Theatre, New York, has been confirmed by the manner in which the people nock to see it. Prompter.