THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

Evening Star, Issue 3467, 2 April 1874, Page 3

THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

i Albion I have my Christchurch letter, from which I make the following extract Things have been frightfully dull With us, and we are now taking a round of benefits.' Messrs Keogh and Steele, have token theirs, and on Tuesday (March 31) Mr Geddes, our business manager, was to make his first appeal to the Christchurch public He offers them a tempting bill—“ Broken S ** Pal grave Simpson ;an interlude by Bent; and “ Faint Heart Never Won Fdir tady.” 1 Arrangements have been made with the Opera Company to take the theatre from April 13, so we finish here on the llth. We proceed to Wellington for a month or so.” j I have had put in my hands a number qf * Melbourne Punch,’ in which is humorously told the story of Miss Lizzie Watson, the serio-comique, having on a New Zealand coastal steamer-been taken for a stewardess ky; a lady,“young,and.lovely: and magnificently dressed, but dreadfully affected,'arid stuck-up. ’’ According to the versifier, Miss Watpon reclined against the steamer’s'bidwarka inhercustomsiry self-satisfied manner when accosted by the aforesaid lady.,, What .happened is thus, related sh« raised her doable eye-glasses ; the busy she.scanned _ with elevated nose, as if resolved to do the-: grand ’ r She certainly expected great attention to he paid ' •(- " ■ ■ ... .*■ ■ .■ Herself, and kept regretting that she hadn't ' brought'her maid. , . , She wanted to be Awaited on. at once, and got enraged . ' Because the ship's officials then were otherwise engaged, ■ And putting all importance and all dignity aside ■. ■ To find the stewardess herself throughout the ' -^Sabintried." '-‘"i - On deck and downbelow she sought, but vowed she’d not be beat When, seeing Lizzy leisurely reclining on k seat, ; Thought after all her searching she had made a stunning; guess, And asked in pompous, accents, “ Pray are you the stewardess?’’ Jesusaleml you mightpiave fancied Francis > rather wud With Parkes : hut he’s an angel to Miss Lizzy t ; when she’s riled 1 With indignation she exclaimed, as soon as she could speak, : "Find out, you ugly creature, Pm astonished . at your cheek 1” Ail unabashed,.the, other dame addressed hot once again. As proud as any peacock, and with unconcealed disdain,' So freezingly polite (the sort of courtesy that chills), :- ■ :■ - —. • , -• . \ That showed she didn’t care for either Lizzy or her frills. ; ;Gnce more she spoke, f* Young woman, L’d he

. ■ very to get , ■ An answer tbmyquestionj which I’ve not ve lceived as yet • , . ; ! Just say are you the stewardess ? because I’d haTe you know ( Your place among the servants, andlwantyoti , ; down below.’". . ■ HissLiMiegot more ropeable-r-she fretted andi ishe fumed, 7 5 , \ While themost tragic attitudes on record she .v. assumed. • ■ ; , -JJOI look like a stewardess?-just think of such a snub,” ... phe cried); “from such a creature, with a figure ; like a tub.” . , . , “ Coarse, vulgar,, and conceited, she’s gone be- : yond the mark . ■ By such a most? undignified unladylike re-’ mark, , . 1 She took me for a stewardess, that creature: ‘ short and fat, And on my tenderest feelings has intentionally J SAW ’ v ,Just then their fellow passengers abruptly interposed . To separate the ladies till their minds were; more composed. ■■’T ; Kow Liszie says with anguish, twenty times a 1 day at least, : • „ To: take me for a stewardess : ain’t She a, '■ vulgar beast?” , ■ t,,;; •.