Dramatic and Musical

Free Lance, Volume V, Issue 229, 19 November 1904, Page 14

Dramatic and Musical

By Footlight.

FULLER'S Vaudeville Company, at His Major's Theat le, attracted a packed house on Monday night. Evidently the fame of Miss Nellie Kilbuin had gone abioad. Miss Nellie is eminently bright, and more than ordinarily original. Then, she has a chaimmg stage oppea. ance, and he. wai drobe is extensive. For each song she weais a new "creation," and she instils a lot or native humoui into her wmk "y 0 " 1 songs, "They Say I'm Mad" loused the audience to the gteatest enthusiasm, and the dainty seno had some difficulty in getting away. « * • Miss Gertrude Emery, a plump and pleasing lady, is doing a clever contortion act, and not the least clevei pait of it m, the assistance given by a tiny Chaihe Hayes, a little boy not long out of the feeding-bottle stage Another very 7 uvenile artiste is little Eva Loftus who as is usual with small musichall artists, does something in the coon hn<?— "Ma Tiger Lily." With her bigger sister, Lillian, she gets through "Zulu Queen" with happy results. • ♦ • Victor, the magician, is back on his ventnloquial "turn," in which his haltdozen timber pupils have the usual disputes with him. Sorry to know that Mi Wallace, of the Scott and, Wallace double, is ill. Mr. Geo. Scott solus sang "Oriental Goon," in his bright way a.nd Miss Lottie Southwell, always welcome, is again on local boards, dome an excellent sons and dance she calls lie Electric Light." Mr. Hai ry Hart the tenor, is still a big draw, while Mr. Charles Moody, the descriptive songster scores a big hit with "Navaio — the latest coon craze. • • * Messrs. Fuller have made a. hie hid for still greater popularity bv conceding Beats to ladies in stalk and circle at half-price Ladies, although unaccompanied bv gentlemen, may occupy peats

in the cuole for Is, and m the stalk for bd. , * Dixs Gaiety Company, at the Theatic Royal, ha. been pat, on.sed by n^ stihcd cowd; since the Howaid Biothens have been doing then ne« business Fonneilv when the Howards «e«c with Fitzgerald's circus, the cuily-haned menU telegraphist *ent lapjdly inough the audience, and, handing vaiioul .11 tides, chatted aunv to Ips brother all the time, the brothei desciib ng minutely the article handled. The brothers do this still but the, more marvellous manipulation of their ■ mental mysteries is in the silent turn that Slows The brothe! m the circle or the stalls, handles any aiticle-a watch that has been "put back/ a railway ticket, and so on— and the hi othei on the stage, with his turned^ and blindfolded, wnteson a bl«ekboard the thought that is in his brothei , * headat least, T presume that it is the thought The correctness of the ansvi ers is invariable M,^ Goldie Collins, a newcomer is a blight little girl of thirteen or fou, teen of the serio or coon brand. My Honolulu Lv" went well on Monday night Another newcomer is Miss Jjyla Thompson, of the dashing type of seno, who m "My Last Night Out," utters a warning to'giddv sparktete generally, her ooster business 'Tvs " is good Mi . Harry Shine, expert watterer and songster, h still a {rood; thine while actor-vocalist Samuel Gale sings On His Majesty's Seivice" in a hke way. Miss Dora Taylor, the tmtop tip-toe terpsichonenne, is stMi standmg on her very end. and the Gotham ouartettists can sine like anything. Sam Rowley is still aboveground, thank goodness. But, you ought to see' the Howai ds » • ♦ Mr Harry Rickards closed hus recoi d season in Wellington on Tuesday night last. Avenedthat more tickets sold during the nine-days season than in any similar number of days since the Opera House was k«"J>'j£" ch is a big thing to say. King's Birthday night was a record, the ticket bonces being closed at 7 20, and it was a, good show. Marzella and her birds will remain a memory for a long time She, of course, was Harry's real reason for a descent on an already strongly-held vaudeville oitadel. ♦ • • The Fuller management paid out £2000 in faies last year. ♦ * * Mr. Cuyler Hastings recently went to Sydney Lyceum as a spectator, or "to see some acting," as a critic caustically remarks.