THEATRICAL ITEMS;

Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1024, 7 November 1871, Page 3

THEATRICAL ITEMS;

Barry Sullivan has recently commenced hu provincial tour, and it is reported that his engagements will last up till the end of March next year. He intends playing in the United Kingdom till the end of the year, and then proceeds to America, en route for Australia. Henry Irving has joined the Lyceum company, Julia Mathews is again playing the Grand Duchess at the Gaiety. James Addison is in London. George Honey opens at the Prince of "Wales Theatre, on 16th Sept. Mr Montague has dissolved partnership with Messrs James and Thome of the Vaudeville, and intends opening the,. Globe Theatre this month. W. H. Stephens, late of Sydney, has just terminated an engagement of eighteen months with the Vaudeville Company. 1 hear that he has had several offers made him by various London managers. Messrs Spiers and Pond have lately opened a set of very fine refreshment rooms in Scotland, at the Waverley Station. That enterprising firm is also catering for the visitors at the series of promenade concerts now being given at the London Opera-house. I was present at the opening night of these concerts, and, amongst numerous other Australians present, i noticed Messrs Barry Sullivan, D. Tallerman, Akhurat, L. Emmanuel, dayman, Eosenthal, Pond, Calvert, Easton, &c. In fact, these entertainments seem to afford a regular rendezvous for old colonists. Australians will be pleased to hear that their : old friend -and favorite, Farquharson (buffo Ringer), late of Lyster's opera troupe, will|make his appearance in opera at the St. James's Theatrt about the beginning of October, in connection with Mrs Eose, Blanche Cole, Bessy Palmer, and Sims Beeves. The opening opera will be the "Rose of Castile." Henry Walters, of Dunedin, Otago, has arrived in England. I anticipate a success for this talented gentleman, whose voice, I hear, is as clear and perfect as when he delighted his audience in the colonies a few years ago. Richard Young continues the management of this company so admirably organised by his late brother. A few nights ago he produced Robertson's "M.P." at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, when the audience strongly objected to the Irishman of the play, and would only allow the performance to proceed after Mr Young had appealed to them in a very forcible manner. Mr Charles Dillon is playing at Dublin to capital houses, Grace Egerton and Mr George Case are " doing" the suburbs of London with their very excellent entertainment. George F. Rowe has been playing Dr Primrose, in the "Vicar of Wakefield," and the Widow Twankey, in "Alladin,"much to the delight of the good folks of Liverpool. Barry Sullivan is playing at Margate.