THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

Evening Star, Issue 4027, 22 January 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

(By Promptk.r.) Mdlc. di Muska (I suppose wc ought to call her Madame Anderson now) is expected to arrive by the direct steamer which leaves Melbourne ou the Ist of February. Just now she is appearing in Melbourne in opera with great success. I understand that her representative hero has engaged the Queen’s Theatre, and that during her stay in Dunedin Steele and Keogh’s company will proceed to Invercargill. From Christchurch 1 have very little news. Mr Hoskins’s company and the Combination Troupe arc dividing the public support, but tbo lion’s share of it continues to go to the theatre. The pantomime, which was a very creditable production, had an excellent run, and Mr and Mrs Dixon (the latter’s theatrical nom oe phniic is Fanny Power), who were respectively harlequin and columbine, have established themselves as firm favorites. Mr Hoskins promises his patrons a season of the divine bard and the legitimate. An esteemed Wellington correspondent writes “ Since my last the pantomime has been a great success. It played for twelve nights and two matinees. The feature of the piece was in my opinion Miss Morgan’s singing, which is really good. Darrell as Tiuculentos is much above burlesque in general. The comic scenes were passable, and Deering as clown good. Last Monday Darrell produced his “ The Struggle for Freedom,” which played four nights to good business. This was followed by “Shyloek,” with Mr Perrier in the title r It to a very fine house, but his reading and his brogue did not exactly coincide with the generally received idea of a Venetian Jew. Darrell’s company plays here one week more, aud then leaves for Napier for a short season, and then to Wanganui to avoid the circus aud John Smith’s troupe. Burford leaves him to join Hoskins. J should not be surprised if a few of Darrell’s company, including himself aud wife, go south in a mouth or six weeks on a travelling tour. They have done remarkably well here.” From Auckland we hear of Mr DeLias resuming the management of the Prince o; Wales Theatre vce S. W. Cotter, who has sought the protection of the Bankruptcy Court. Mr DeLias opens with Mr Wheat leigh in “ The Shaughvauu.” The latter has been in Auckland some time waiting for the financial difficulties of the management to be smoothed over. Davies, the ventriloquist, aud Natator, were in Auckland a week ; but the attraction there just now is Wilson’s Circus, which is big in more senses than one. No previous circus, save Chiarini’s, can be compared to it. They have a pavilion fitted up with taste, and capable of seating 2,000 persons comfortably ; a stud of twenty-three horses ; and an excellent company, including two old faces - Omai G. Kingsley (Ella Zoyara), Gonzales and Leon Saniwells.