THEATRICAL MEMORANDA.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 644, 5 March 1870, Page 3

THEATRICAL MEMORANDA.

The chief theatrical topic of colonial interest is the approaching departure of Charles Mathews for Australia. He takes his farewell benefit at Co vent Garden, under Royal patronage, on 4th January ; and a public dinner is to be given to him at Willis's rooiU3 on 10th January. All England will wish him God-speed and prosperity on his distant tour, and the colonists will assuredly give him a warm and hearty welcome. It might with more truth be hazarded of him than of perhaps any other living actor, that, in his own peculiar line — " : take him for all in all. We shall not look upon his like again." The Lentons are still at the Holborn Amphitheatre. Lady Don has been indisposed and absent from the stage for some weeks, but I am pleased to hear she is recovering. George Fawcett is playing at the Olympic. Charles Walsh is engaged for the pantomime at the East London. Miss Julia Matthews impersonates the " King of the Gold Mines" at theCovent Garden Theatre, in the pantomime entitled " The Yellow Dwarf." 1 hear that those clever artistes, Mr and Mrs George Case, will shortly return to England. Barry Sullivan has gained fresh laurels by his production of "Love's Sacrifice.'? His Matthew Elmore is a splendid piece of acting, and all the newspapers in London have been unanimous in praising his performance. Mrs Vezih, and Messrs Cowper and Rayne sustain different characters in this charming play, and have helped to make it a great success. Madame Celeste has been performing at the Greenwich Theatre, which is once more under the management of Mr;Sefton Parry. Charles Wilmot, the comedian and burlesque actor of Dunedin, has been engaged by Messrs Mansell to appear at the Lyceum in Opera Bouffe early in January. Australians will regret to hear of the. death of their old cricketing friend Tom Lockyer, who died of consumption on 22nd December, at Croydon. „.'.-•