AMUSEMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2151, 28 March 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

AMUSEMENTS.

LOCAL FIXTURES. HIS MAJESTY’S. April 0, .10—Montgomery's Euterl •tillers. April I!ice- Dm matin Company. May .!!, J2, Kb —J. C. Williamson. Lino A i>, it!.—-J. 0. Williamson. June l.‘j.--Gi-:u'h Dramatic Company. .! uly 1. - -Muy'iioU and Gunn Company. August Id. t.'j, 1-I. Frank Thornton. October (.-.'•>;?• week) —-Maskelyne and Dovanl. John' h l . Sheridan’s pant online company, which opens at Wellington on flasher Saturday night, comprises 108 people. Dix members of the. staff of J. C. Williamson have been with the firm for over 25 years, one holding tho record with till years service. Harry Rickards, Mrs? Rickards, and Edward Mae.:; and wife and family, leave for London •by the Asturias, they will be absent from Australia for about ,y; veil month:;.

Vl:.■ note ! American actress, Lillian ilu-se!!, cr.uleniphitcs a visit to Ausi ;:d;a. Australia promises to bu- ! • the happy hauling ground for .U.ueri-.Mii artists. Ade Fcrrar and Athol Fordo arc new in the produr-tjon of ‘Stingarec,” Lho new Australian hushrnngiiig play at Uu; Queen’:; Theatre, London. Jt in ’ described as a very tamo melodrama. V ' Mr.; Pl.aul Halt and Miss Lucy Coppin, who were attacked by typhoid fever in West Australia, and were seriously ill, their condition arousing eon iderrb!,: anxiety, are now recovered, and have arrived in Melbourne. Mark .Uambourg is already on bis way to fulfil his Australian engage-, incuts under J. and N. Tail’s direction, playing through America, where he ia enormously popular. Ho leaves Vancouver on June 11), and is due to open in Sydney on July 18. In a recent issue of the New Zealand “Gazette,” under the heading of unclaimed moneys at the Bank of New South ’Wales, New Zealand, wan “Iren:; Franklin (deceased), care of .Dix’s Gaiety Company, Auckland, £3O 155.” Now, Irene is very 'much alive in America, but it appears she is very casual in moiicv matters.

It is now forty-seven years since Paderewski, the -famous pianist, was born in Poland, and in tint period lie has risen from extreme poverty to groat wealth. At one time ikulerowidd lived in Paris -poor and unknown and was glad to accept a fee of 100 francs for a private performance it the house of a fonvgn prince.-;';. ll.i» ordinary fee now for a performance of twenty- minuter? is anything over £'sooo. In one- short American tour he made £300,000 and in oho season -of about 100 concerts in huge towns he netted £200,000.’

A curious case is to shortly engago Hie . attention of the law -courts j-u Mdie Lantehno, a young Pari:::!:] actress of great- {.dent and beauty, 1.-, suing Mr!me Rejaj; >, claim-i-jg damages an the ground lhajt, having engaged her i:> prevent -her appearing on any other stage. Mdme Kcjaiiv will not allow her to play on her own M- nor anywhere else, but systuimli:::ti-ly leave-? her out of ilia case of ail the plays which arc produced at t'ne .Theatre EejaH-a. The point to be determined is: Gan one artiste, niter loygtging anoiier, (prevent the latter horn ever appearing. Jealousy is .suggested in this instance.

The names of Maskelyno and Cook arc ii-oiixeiioicl wor'Cs ail over the j£ng-Ibh-speaking - worUl, and th f j entertaiument of mystery and magic which tlie firm conducts at the Egyptian •u:d St. George’s Halls in London is regarded now as an institution- of tho metropolis. It will, therefore; prove of interest ia learn that through the enterprise of Air Ilcnry Hayward, whs was micecssfuY.y associated with West's Pictures, that- the great magic!.: :i is to tour Australasia with. a .comprehensive company, and will open in Sydney at the Palace Theatre on April I.” During one long season of thirty-five years, Mnskelyno ami Cook have entertained eleven millions of people at 19,000 performances —a world’s record. A ladies’ orchestra, jugglers, and conjuring in every possible' form will be included in the- programme.

Sarah Bernhardt is considering tho ad'\ isabilit.v of going to Japan next lU'.-r and touring with a full company in'thelsland Empire, instead of spending a quiet month or two on her little island oil’ the coast of Brittany (says a London paper). Mine Bernhardt lias become very intimate with Sada Yucca, the clever little Japaui actress who is called by her admir-

er.; tl: :■ “Bernhardt cf Japan,” and Urdu Yaeco declares that Tokyo would welcome “Camille,” which lias never been played there by a European. Japanese versions of “Camille” have hr; .1 produced, as well as “i/Aiglon,” “La Tosc-a,” and other plays in Mine. Bernhardt’s repertoire.' “I shall if ii can manage it,” Mime. Bernhardt said, “for 1 am very anxious to do .something that no European actress has done before.”

Alamo Tetrazzini’s debut in New York, where she appeared at tho Manhattan Theatre -as the- heroine in "1 raviatu,’ was marked by a -demonstration of approval unsurpassed in (he history of the New York operatic -stage. _ V. hen she finished ‘Ah, I*or.s ct liii’ (lie noise suggested a grc-afc political meeting. Inarticu- ! it'e shouts drowned the- ordinary hand-clapping, and bouquets fairly showered on (lie stage during the iprima donna’s eight recalls. A pretty scene, which was- entirely unexpected, added to the enthusiasm. The curtain rose too quickly for -one of the recall- ,;uk!_ -revealed M-dine. Tell izzini ecstatically hugging ilier b i-i >t h e'r-i u-1: i w (Go ml u e tor Ca nip an!iii). The New a ork critic;, cannot undrrsiun;! the unquestioning verdicl of approval tint has greeted Tetrazzini's appearance. Their judgment. bo.v: is unaminions that she cannot be roimnrcil ivifli Patti and liber great coloraturo- uf the presen'. goner;: '.ion.

THE" PRO* (From the ‘'Bulletin.) The; -actor thickly paints Jiis face, lie darkens up his eyes, l util tli'-ic-’a scarcely left a trice Of his own elemental grace— Which, possibly, is arise. Ho area::; another fellow’s clo’s, Another fellow’s hair; Me efrike:; another fellow’s nose, lid spoil!:; another follow’s prose ’Neath a -fictitious glare. MB legs arc i t rely unite his own. Nor ye! his chest of pride, Hiln. in this- terrestrial zone, 'I boro is no other creature known Who’s so self-satisfied !