Dramatic And Musical

Free Lance, Volume V, Issue 221, 24 September 1904, Page 14

Dramatic And Musical

By Footlight.

DIX'S Gaiety Company, at the Theatie Roy a], still has among its members Mdlle. May Duprez, the frolicsome fascinator, whose laugh l<s more catching than a P<* cem{ " 1 - Mivs new "turn" is, if anything, an improvement on hei last. She gives a ioke off You say to yourself . -Bah ! Pye heard that before." Then May laughs, and the world laughs with heinot at hei joke, but at hei laugh She talked some Dutch to a musician the other night An Afrikander in the hick of &c hall talked Dutch to May -Ah don't know what you ,c talking about," she said, but if ah did I A say something right smart'" and then the audience doubled itself up. * • * May's personal allusions to gentlemen with expansive fo.eheads in the audiare electufying and you think all more of them because you see that May is having a real good time and getting paid for it. * * * Kelmann, the magician, has a chemical experimental exhibition, which is vei-v pleasing and very clever, and his Ib htv to free himself from a complication of Lots is notthe least mtere B tanj thing he does. His five billiard-ball ti iok is quite novel. It is his own, and is probably the most difficult feat of "palming" seen here. * * * One has only to shut one's eyes when Mi Carden Wilson is on to believe that the boards are peopled by a multitude of stage stars, including Cuyler Hastings, Bland Holt, and many others. His is a most artistic "turn." The English Cathedi al Choristers file in as usual, and among other things, sine chaimmgly "Terry"— a pleasant memory, "Flow, Flow"— a vocal poem, and Hark to the Mandolin." Miss Alice Layton's fine voice is heard in "The Broken Promise." Hei soul is in her work, and she gets rapt attention. By the way, Freddy Graham and Miss Nellie Dent have been to Australia, and are due heie on Saturday, the 24th. "Fred" has secured new musical sketches. Mi . George Dickie also hits this location about then. He is said to be among the best in the ventnloquial line. * * Miss Dora Taylor, Miss Louis Peifect and the Wheelers will show on the succeeding Monday. Then, on the 30th Harry Shine appeals. Remembei Hairy? He is the best patteier this end of the earth, and anything else in the gag line fades and dies while he is around. Simultaneously with Hairy, Miss Maud Beatty appears, and, although she was late principal boy in the Drury Lane Panto., we remember her best in opei a. She will have a cordial reception. r * * * Fuller's Vaudeville Company, at His Majesty's Theatre, is bright with talent just now. The TTessems, whose extraordinary balancing "turn" is the greatest act seen on the Fuller stage, came back again to Wellington ye L sterday (Thursday"), and performed to a house that was crowded in every part. These two clever boy performers are interesting personally as well as professionally. A note 'about them appear; in our "Personal" columns * * * The Nawns have established themselves as firm favourites, and their Irish witticisms and excellent comedy in "One Touch, of Nature" are most happy, while the clever stating finish given by "Tom" is a hilarious piece of expert foolery that delights the audience. Professor Ohmy, the canine educator and possessor of two "kuris" that do most of the things dogs generally can't manage, is back again, and his two comedians show the sagacity that no show dog should be without. » * * The three Stagpooles, comedians of merit, have a new travjesty, entitled, "The Music Teacher," who is a most difficult person to give the "sack" to, and who causes broadsides of merriment before final ejectment. A new man, who is a refreshing change to the average comic man, is Mr. Ted. Anderson.

He lias a wealth of gestuie, gag, and vocahsm that ju&tifies his name being printed in fat black character in the bill He has several songs that have not pieviously been dug up in Wellington. # Age cannot either noi custom stale the infinite variety of Denis Carney, the perpetrator of stilt dances, clog dances, gags, songs, and other forms of entertainment calculated to bring a smile to the face of the most hardened prohibitionist. There are five other grave and gay people in the bill, all doing their duty in a highly diverting way. Denis Carneys- concluding "Loove in a Toob," which is a classic of Yorkshire parentage, is a farce. * * * Child-prodigy Vcesey, who is the reigning violinist at Home, has accepted an engagement to tour America, and will draw £250 pei peiformance. As he is only eleven, he should be ahle' to save enough to start business when he leaves school. * ->■ The lotund and cheeiful Stme, round here with Miss Olive Evans- and a ciowd of other smart Americans, struck a damp snap in Hobart, and got pneumonia The theatre closed, as Stme was indispensable. » • * Dolly Castles, now in London learning singing, is said to have accepted a twelve-months' engagement from Mr. J C. Williamson. * * + Miss Alice Comck, of the New Zealand family, is gaming much leoognition from the pens of Australian critics for her aitistic ringing The family is doinig an extended tour of the Commonwealth.