AMUSEMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2413, 30 January 1909, Page 10 (Supplement)

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS AIAJESTY’S:

LOCAL FIXTURES

February 1 and 2—Cooper’s Biograph February 3 to G, Florence Baines

Aliss Lancashire Ltd., Coy. February 10, 11, 12, 13.—Anderson h

Dramatic Coy. February 22 to 2.7.— West’s Pictures - ,rch 1 and 2.—American and (An

tinental Entertainers. March 4.—Mi Mi Rosemary Rees,

His Alajesty’s Theatre on Alund.iy jid Tuesday evenings iviil be oc.upied by Cooper’s Operaucopc and .lie Royal Entertainers, A good display of pictures and bright lunrm / promised.

For four nights, commencing ■ n iVt'dnsfeday next, liis Alajesty’s.Tut acre will be x scene of hilarious minh, ••hat time Mies Florence Baines and .ior company Avail produce the gnat aughtcr-making comedy “Aliss in nxisiiiro, Limited.” Aliss Br ines u not -d .or ilex' bright and clever acting and .or In r ability (none too common nowadays) to make her audience •. njoy themselves. She lues iui exc- p ■ i'onally line voice and i: *r singing is qniken" or in high term:, of praise fey on', hern critics Miss Baines, w:w .s hersvli a Lancashire girl, is sure :o draw good houses, iiotwithst.u.d]ng that (Jioboriie hats had a leant oi jkoAVs lately.

G. R. Snazelle. who was lately sing mg in opera in Australia, is 'about to go on tour as a monologue cutvrcainer.

The Knight-Day Company is nr boari-iiig in Svdney “'Jim Breed -ff tho Troshams,” trie play in which - L Martin Harvey lias achieved so much iucccsvs in England.

Wirtif's Circus commences u t< ur oi New Zealand at Dunedin tod y. j'lio “star” addition to the menagerie is a very fine giraffe.

It is understood that Pollard s ;:n> Li play “Bluebell” in and to vfeh Tasmania before coming bae.-: to New Zealand. Their Adelaide eea■■son lias keen big. and "The Gay Hnsar” was very succe .mil.

Air. T. J. West has secured the entire Auvtiviasian rights of a series, oi dramatic films special!'- arranged by t'h • well-ku.nvn dramatist Air. George R Sims ;mi the first production •Lady Leti'ier-fes Jewels’ _ will yc ;een in con hum-linn with Aa c-'-t s J m Tires.

Air. J . A. E. Malone’s hi lest k*H’ ! ' roiri London ecu tains the grat fy:ag nformation tint the "King of ( mioiii.o J. C. MilJian'xoii'ff latest. cajiii itiriii in the musical conn dy lmc, s still playing to very fine busimrs mlci-d there.

The Oscar Asclie-biiy Crayton LV.mgiiiy. which will arrive from London •ibiiut the middle oi die year, uno-n tile management oi Aic.-srs. Alcyu -o and Gunn, will be one ot the higg-si .uid most conqilete organisations tool have ever been imported.

Miss Nell.ie Stewart was in Lorn on recently. She has been spending Pm? greater ]):irt of her lime since she arrived in the Old \\orid at Lausanne, where lier daughter is at school, f. lie ix l 'acted to return to Alelbournc ab .ut Easter time.

’fi. J. AYest, of picture fame, has g no t<) Sicily and promises pictures ol tlie results ol the disaster there. He has cabled out that films slunviug the ruins of Calabria and Alessina have been despatched, so that it Avill not be long before they will bo seen in Australia and New Zealand.

Mm A. AL AliUer, New Zealand manager for W est's Pictures, has ju t paid away over £IOOO in deposits, coloring bookings on behalf of his firm to 1913. The dates include Christmas. New Year, Easter, and Carnival week's in Christchurch, and Christina-;, New Year, and Easter in Wellington ior the next four years. This is booking ahead to some purpose.

According to the "New A ork Dramatic Mirror,” Air AVilliam A. Bradv and Mr J. C. Williamson have closed contracts by which Air Robert Mantoli and a company of American actors will tour Australasia next .reason jn a repertoire of classical plays. The arrangement includes a short season in Honolulu en route.

Aliss Fanny Wiseman, whoso faiml- lived at tbe Thames in die early days ol the field, played Tops;, in the recent Audersonian product ion of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin ’ in Aielbourne Sho is said to have been the original of the part in Australia, and to have set the stage, lor most other* Topsies - that followed her. Ernest Fitts was in the same east, as UncleTom.

Alias Rosemary Rees, who has achieved more than a little success on the London stage, has hooked His Alajesty’s Theatre for March 4th, when she will, with the assistance of local amateurs, produce a play. Aliss Rees, it will be remembered, is tlie daughter of Mr. W. L. Roes, of this town, and has but recently returned from London on a holiday.

Bv the latest English mail. Aloes:rs. ,J and N. Tail received the news of the death of Air. Walter Brcarley. wliut- was a nuMnbor oi tho Reuses o th’ Barn Band, and on the recent lour oi Australia and New Zealand l>v this organisation made many friends in this part- of the world. Mr. Breavlev died in Al-aiiellcstcr some lew weeks ago.

Aliss Katherine Elhert-Grtun. hauling lady with Juliiialv night in “Robin Hood,” has come with a rush to the front in America, where sho has taken the name of Katherine Kaelred. Alter performances in “Zira” (in winch she wit's compared to Aliss Al-argaret Anglin! and “The. Freedom ol Suzanne,” ' Aliss Elbert-Orton apnoarecl in the sensational nlav. “Ihe Devil, .supporting Henry Dixey, and Rcoied a triumph. Hardee iCirklancl. ■v no •nJayofl tho IndiTffi hi Tho Sqiuiw Afa n.” was also in the cast.

The'Boattj'-Mointosli Co.;* which ■visited Gisborne -a few months ago, concludes a Sydney season shortly. Then Miss Mclntosh returns to Enghind. having completed her engagement of 18 months.

the end of the year the New York run of- “The Merry Widow,” came to a termination after a sea-ton of 400 nights—which is a decided record for a lyrical attraction in the big, bustling American centre. The same number of performances given by the four or five touring companies entrusted w;th it ihrough the States, stood to its credit up to the same date, and as there Ts-still a large territory as yet unvisited by Lobar’s famous opera, there seems little doubt that the 1000 performances register will be passed.

Four complete outfits of the JlurnsJohnson Championship scries or moving pictures have ‘already left Sydney —one for New Zealand and others to cover Queensland, New South M ales and Victoria, have started; and Tasmania. South and West Australia have ‘already been arranged. The Philippines. China, and Japan arc to bo toured, also the Straits Settlements, South Africa, and India. In three months time there will lie oyer thirty outfits of-these pictures showing almost in all pirts of the globe.

Mr Hall Caine has had performed bis new play. “The White Prophet-.’ In America the play will be known as ‘•The White Christ,” hut this title was not. considered suitable t<w English tastes. The story is laid in Egypt, and di als with an Amb tradition that a White Prophet of Peace will abolish kings and sultans, and will put an end to all warfare. The characters in the play, the scenes or which, tor various reasons, will be laid in IJIO or 1911, are all English, with the exception of one Egyptian character.