THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

Evening Star, Issue 3783, 9 April 1875, Page 3

THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

Cbiarini’s famous circus is reported to have broken np. The east was too much for the Italian who had done so much in the west. The breaking up took place after the Signor had visited Canton, and it is said that under the hammer there was a frightful sacrifice of property, some of the finest of the horses going for an old song. A sad change appears to have come over the fortunes of those who commit them selves to the higher walks of dramatic representation. Mr Bothroyd Fair dough is a verv talented actor. He is a highly-educated gentleman, and a devoted student of Shakespeare. He played in Auckland several nights, and was greatly appreciated by intelligent but thin audiences. Mr Fairclough, we (* Herald*) notice, has been compelled to acknowledge his inability to meet his indebtedness. Be states the cause of his insolvency to be that his travelling expenses • have been in excess of receipts. We know that the last time when Mr Fairclough played in Auckland a sympathy was expressed for him that] so talented an act t had met on the whole with such poor encouragement. And we know that poor Fairclougb, with the tears ready to start from his eyes, exclaimed, “ I cannot play against legs. Had I been born a woman, had lost all sense of modesty, padded my calves and danced in short petticoats, I could have earned more money in one week than I can earn in a month playing Shakesperian characters, to embody which I have given years of close application and study.” Such is life at present among Shakesperian actors. la London, M r Irving’s Hamlet is still drawing good houses at the Lyceum Theatre. ' By the way, lam told that Mr Irving’s true name is Aveling, and that he is the son of a well-known dissenting minister who has a chapel in the north of London. Mr Byron has written a new play for the Vaudeville Theatre,Jwhich is called “Our Boys,” Mrs Rousby, who some few months back took L ondon by storm in her splendid impersonation of Elizabeth in “,’Twixt Axe and Crown,’ has arrived in New York, and was to appear on the 4th of January. After a tour through the States it is said she will virit New Zealand and the Australian Colonies. The authorities of New York are about to enforce the law against theatrical and musical exhibitions on a Sunday. Madame Marie Du ret has been giving a series of parlor entertainments at New Westminster, in British Columbia, with very considerable success. Dramatic criticism is sometimes very sultry in the States. Miss Emily Soldene and her tronpe have got it rather rough One writer avers that “ the lady is elderly,” that “ her mouth is large enough for a dozen singers,” and that ‘’her companions, par ticularly the male actors, are dummies.” This critic had evidently not been “interviewed 1 ’ And this is how they metaphorically slaughter a man, AMrJ. W. Barnes, certainty a mere tyro on the stage, accompanied Miss Nielson to New York, and made a fiasco. Hays the unsparing scribe, “ His Benedict was as bad as it could be, bub his Borneo was infinitely worse.” Mr Barry Sullivan, well known to all Aus tralian theatre-goers, has been guaranteed LIO,OOO for 150 performances in New York and L3O extra for each matinee, Lizzie Watson and Harry Braham are still .at the Bella Union Theatre, San Francisco. Master Johnny Gourlay was also at the same theatre. Madame Therese and Mons. Schmidt have had rough times of it. At latest they were in San Francisco doing nothing. Miss Fanny Young (Mrs George Daniels) sister of the late Charles Young, has again entered into the “ bonds of wedlock,” and is starring at the Bella Union. R. 6. Marsh, well known in Melbourne some time hack as the proprietor of the Marsh troupe of children, has arranged a variety company to travel through the town s of the Pacifle slope. “Billy Emerson” and Harry Sefton, the dancing spider, were in full fig at Maguire's Opera House, San Francisco. RGarry Richards and Lottie, the femal gymnast, with Katie and Frank, were lately at Salt Lake. The Opera House at San Francisco has been made lively by the gyrations of Mr Oats, the leader of the Oats Opera Troupe Giorfle and Giorfle, the latest Opera ouff sensation, is just suggestive enough—o avoid the law. It takes. [The Oats troupi mends to visit Australia and New Zealan> Very shortly.] Madame Goddard was exceedingly well received in San Francisco, and has left for pa; tures new. 1

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