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Free Lance, Volume V, Issue 213, 30 July 1904, Page 18

Che\ahei Auguste Wiegand, tlio tamoib organist, is dead — appendicitis. " Tis better to lie a little than to be unhappy much "— Tlic Dai ling ot the Gods."* Miss Fit/,maanice Gill brings her oompanj to New Zealand again towards the end of the yea.i . It is "PaidrefKke," not Pad-ioosko," as ordinal llv pionounoed — piano and the soft pedal a!l the time. Joseph Jefreison placed "Rip Van Winkle" ")()00 times, and the piece earned one million pounds. Heie's a liddle foi jou. 'When is an actiess not an acticss.-'' " "Wlicu she's a star " Guess again." % Give it up." Nine time- out of ten." * * * Sandow is booming in South Africa,. In Capetown, wheie the strong man was at latest, the nightly leceipts at the hou>e wheie he is showing weie a recoid. .+ t * The little Georgia Magnet, who died under such sad circumstances in. 978 theatrical papeis eighteen months ago, is earn me; excellent money at the old business m hei own native la-nd. * * * The Leading Man "It's hard for a person to forget the past " The Ingenue "That's so. I've often noticed that you step on one side involuntarily when a bouquet is suddenly thrown on '" . • • They were rehearsing theur parts in an amateur diama. "Oh, I beg your pardon," said Herbert, looking at the book again "I kissed you at the wrong place." "Isn't that too bad ! exclaimed Amelia. "Now, we'll have to do it all over again'" * * * A new London music-hall regulation No performer is allowed to watch the "turn" in paogress from the wings. This does away with the intolerable "barracking" and jealous grimacing that all smart vaudevilhans have to put up with from less gifted rivals Maude Beatty (Mis. Millington), to the innocent reporter "I can tell you candidly I have no intention of marrying an actor. Further, if a person marry a partner off the stage the latter must be jealous." What will hubby have to say to Maude after this? — "Newslettea ."

Supcilatives aie fashionable — Three dramas a.t prese.it being pioduced m England 'The AVoist Woma,n in London," The Gieatest Scoundiel Living," The Biggest Scamp on Eaith." Fiank Sanger, biothei of Loid" Geoige Sanger, who together o\\ nod the iamouh cueus and lnppodiome, died lccently, and was accorded the biggest funeral New York has seen — foa one m«ui An Amenean papei sa\s that a theatncal manager in the States, ioi leasons of economy, had the back lows of his choius composed of cleveily-construeted dummies The superb piopoitions of then figuies excited tremendous mteje*t, and the inanimate thinking ladies w ould probably have continued to exercise their fascinating spell had not one accidentally lost het head This is not the first time a lady of the chorus has loist heir head, but the losultsm the oa>'e refei 1 ed to, it is lepoi ted, w eie decidedly moi serious. * * * Sir Henry Irving is retinue; fiom the stage It wais mlB ">6 that lie made his debut at Sundeiland. Dismal, too, was tha,t debut. The occasion was the inaugural night of the local Lyceum, ajid, as the cuitain rose upon "Richelieu," Ii ving, who played the. Duke of Orleans, had to pronounce the opening words, "Here's to our venture'" His heait was in his mouth , his voice failed He had stage fright in its woist form. He soon recovered , however, and entered upon a career that has had no comparison in the history of the staq;e. # * * The ' Don" gets to work — "The pity is that Messrs. Adams and Hill should have touched with meverent hands the traditions of Maanland., and that in 'Tapu we should have mingled with the myths and mysteries of a picturesque race the effeminacies of the modem drawing-room and the cant of tw emtietli century civilisation. A genuine comic op-era, cleverly constructed, with a New ZeaJand setting and a native 'colouring' would have been accepted. But this mixture of farce and fustian simply means the spoiling of a splendid subject."

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