DRAMATIC NOTES.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2512, 26 April 1882, Page 3

DRAMATIC NOTES.

[By Pbombtkb.] [From the " Weekly Presi."] Mr Towle intends producing " La Petit Mademoisslle " at the Theatre Royal on the 24th May, with Miss Amy Horton in the title role, the remainder of the characters being sustained by the members of hij opera class. Tn Wellington the Zulu Warrior is still doing immense business, his prima donna—the suites of furniture being highly popular, Mr H. Eastwood has joined the show as agent. In Auokland, matters dramatio are at a stanoatill, the onlj event for record baing the benefit of Miss Carrie Godfrey, who seoured a large house, with a miscellaneous programme. From Melbourne papers I clip the following with regard to Mr George Rignold'p latest venture, "Youth." The "Lsader" says:—At the Royal, "Youth" continues to draw crowded houses, and judging by the euooess that has attended the performance hitherto, it seems destined to have a protracted and profitable run. The pieoe has been placed upon the stage with considerable taste and artistic discrimination. In this particular Mr Eignold cannot be er.oelled, and he is fortunate in having the able assistance of Mr B. N. Jones as stage manager. Even on the first night, when the difficulties of producing no less than seven sets all entirely different must have neoeositated a severe r.tmin upon all the resources at command, not a hitch ooourrea. The intervals wore brief, the scenes, many of them highly elaborate, were complete upon the rising of tho curtain, and everything went smoothly. Mr Jcnes must be complimented upon his efforts, to which not a littlo of the success of the season will doubtless be due. The scene in the first act, representing the little churoh, with the quaintly shaped house behind, and a splondid stretch of rich, diversified country beyond, is a real work of art, and edicts infinite credit upon the skill, exquisite taste and judgment of the artist, Mr Hennings."

At the Princess' Mr Marshall was at last dates appearing in " The Guvnor" with great Fueoess.. At the Opera House Mr Harkins is still playing " The Oolonol," with Miss Blanche Stammers as Mrs Blythe, Mrs Stammers as Lady Tompkins, and Mr Wybert Raove as Lambert Streyke: At the Bijou the Montague-Turner Company are doing fair business. Speaking of the company as a whole, a Melbourne paper says:—" After a week of the 'Bohemian Girl' at the Bijou Theatre, whioh must have bsen from the minagor's point of view highly successful, Balfe's opera was withdrawn on Tuesday, and ' Lucia di Lammermoor ' substituted for three consecutive representations. It is evident that unless Signor de Vivo has singors in his company whose capacity is us yet unknown, the interest of the entire season will be centred in the achievements of Miss Montague and Mr Turnor. Mr Farley up to the present has aohieved a somewhat negative success in hio roles in both operas, and the remainder of the troupe may be all spoken of as not having as yet reaohed an artistic level of merit whioh warrants their special mention, The success of the Bijou opera season then must necessarily roet wholly on the exertions of the two artists whose names figure as the diatinctive appellation of the oompany, and although with support that can only be termed indifferent, this might at first sight seem a dangerous experiment, the result bids fair to justify it. Miss Montague and Mr Turner are by no means ordiuary singers. Their oultured style, intimate acquaintance with their work, and innate musical perception enable them to present very complete operatio impersonations ; and wherever the aclion of tho piece brings them together in vooal concert, the effect of the good fruits just referred to is perhaps more noticeable than when they are singing alone. The voices, and what is more important, the musical readings, thoroughly harmonise. The balance of tone, the nioeties of expression, are both finely rogulated to produce an artistic effect, and such at onoe arrests attention and admiration." Mr Went worth, of the " Carey" Pirate Company, has joined the company. Bent and Bachelder's Minstrels, after a moat successful season in Sydney, have emigrated to St. George's Hall, Melbourne, where their performances have been largely attended.

Miss Jennie Lee, whose impersonation of " Jo," Dickens' hapless little London Arab, has obtained n world wide celebrity, will appear at the Princess's Theatre, Melbourne, in this character on Saturday, 29 th April. Mies Jennie Lee is the daughter of the late Mr Edwin George Lee, an artist who has won considerable repute in his profession. Miss Lee is a native of London. In 1869, having determined to enter the dramatio profession, she obtained an engagement at the Lyceum Theatre in London, and made her fir»t appearance as one of the pages in Herve'e opera bouffe, " Chilperic." Her next part, the Crossing 8 weoper in " Petit Faust" was a brilliant sucoess, so much so that Mrs 8 <ranboroußh at once secured her for principal parts in the burlesque at the Strand Theatre, in July, 1870, where she remained for two seasons. Subsequently she entered into an engagement with Mr Sothorn, and made a tour in his company through the United States, her first appearance before an American audience being at Niblo's Theatre, New York, in the oharaot«r of Mary Meredith in " Our American Cousin." It has been, however, in the leading charaoter of Mr J. P. Burnett's adaptation of "Bleak House" that Miss Lae is best known, and we have very little doubt that her appearance will prove quite a dramatic triumph. Messrs Williamson, Garner, and Musgrove having purohased the lease of this thoa're, purpose giving entertainments of a first-class oharacter. They certainly intend to begin well. Miss Pomeroy has terminated a successful season at Sydney. Before closing, our old friend '•Jos," the indefatigable • nd enthusiastic manager, had a benefit, and a good one. He has piloted the fair Louise through New Zealand very oreditibly, considering his youth and inexperience in such matters, but we have no doubt that by the time he brings her into port at the London Haymarkot be will have echioved for himself no smnll distinction for his tremendous labors. [N.B.— This is evidently intended for a goak ] Miss Pomeroy, shorn, however, of her private secretary, Mr Herbert Fleming, pla? 8 B season in Brisbane. At the Gaiety Miss Leaf and Mr Charles Hardiog are appearing, in the comic 0P of " Girofie Girofla," " The Bohemian G» rl was to follow. Hudson's Surprise Party are still doing good biz at the Queen's, Mr W. H. Leake was announced to appear at the Gaiety Theatre, Sydney, on April 10th in " My Partner." I Bland Holt is at present astonishing the Sydney natives with " The World."