THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 707, 30 July 1870, Page 1 (Supplement)

THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

Miss Glyn (Mrs Dallas) has been engaged by Mr George Coppin, and may be expected in Australia within a short time. Carrie Nelson is becoming as great a favourite in the North of England as she was years ago in Australia.- The Yorkshire papers are full of her success. Miss Julia Mathews has, by the advice of her inedicar attendant, declined to appear tn public for the present. The fatigne consequent upon her long tour as the Grande Duchesse has made a period of rest necessary. Mr H. Talbot is seeking an engagement in London.^*. He purposes visiting Australia again at an early date. Count de la Chapelle has opened a theatre at King's Cross, a somewhat out-of-the-way district at the north end of London. Rumour speaks somewhat disparagingly of the propriety, or rather the improprieties, of the Folies Parisknnes, as the Count's entertainment is denominated. From the latest American papers we learn of the doings of certain persons well known in the theatrical world of Australia and New Zealand. Mr John Dunn, and Mr Harry Jackson have joined the Lydia Thompson troupe in New York, and both hare been received with fcivo»r. The burlesque in which they are at present playing is entitled '.Pippin, or the. 1 King of the Gold Mines." Professor Risely is at the Tammany-hall in New York. Louis Aldrich, formerly with the Marsh troupe of children, is at the Boston Theatre, Backus, of Backus Minstrels, who were so popular on the Australian^, gold fields a few years ago, is playing in a Broadway theatre. Dominic Murray and i his wife, known as Miss Josephine Fiddes, who have been making a successful and profitable tour through the States. Mr J. F. Cathcarfc (of the late Charles Kean's company), and brother of the favourite actress who is best known by the name of Mrs Robert Heir, i 3 "starring" in Philadelphia. While Edouiu is a favourite in San Francisco ; Frank Drew (who made his appearance at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, during the past year) is not. Mr M'Kean Buchannan was lately at Illinois, in the enjoyment of his usual eccentricities. Mr Joseph Jefferson will shortly pay a visit to England. His Rip Van Winkle career is, perhaps, the most extraordinary in the' history of the drama. He is playing the- character now in Boston, on a salary of 700 dollars a night, or, according to the present value of currency, about L7OO a week. He has amassed a very large fortune since he left Australia. Mr G. F. Rowe has been . playing Micawber in Liverpool with the most complete success, and is now starriug in the character in Leeds. Thence he proceeds to Bradford, and then returns to London to the Standard Theatre. His success in Liverpool has led to a second engagement there in August.

The Postmaster-General must have started some lively mail routes in Virginia. The Richmond Enquirer does not approve of the mail from the city to Yorktown Deing carried on a "cadaverous, raw-boned, slab-skied, crop-eared, shaved-tailed, clay-bank old horse."