THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 280, 16 March 1877, Page 3

THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

(V"; o u tin- Dmi'dln " A. competent jud;e of theatrical estimate that t!i:' Lingards eluaiv I i.'!"'•>.) to £-000 by their engagements in this Colony. The descriptions of the Christmas pantomimes and novelties sent by my correspondent occu >y ii«':i.i'ly fifteen columns of closely print*, d matter. I am obliged to content myself wir.U a passing reference tt> (i 10 or two houses. At Hengler's grand cirime " Cinderella " is played entirely by juveniles, as is '• Little-Goody Two Shoys " ut the Adelp'd. At the Aliiambra I see the Girards ti,'uri! the three broth* -rs (in spite of their reported deaths) being as liv -ly as ever. " < Mir F.oys " u:is pi tying at fie VatideuviUe on January '2) with undiminished S'lccss. Mr. E'.arry Sullivan is seriously lU. e<av sentient fiptm the injury to his eves when • .... .... ••v.....rt rrr". - .--..• w:\-k- i.•■•■'•■ '.!. ... ,\I. ■ . •: - '-a... -.-M r. •■• '. ■ i ...' :■'■ .V, i,n.v" ; •■ ~ ; .1.1. . ; '" i '•..: i-. . ';.. : ...I. wis i.i'i m :;i •' • i . i:i'i'! '" i'! ..... [>-v\<. .:; ip which .V!':. ■■■■■l '•*- (_.'(:. i.."! 'S Yyii r. . :;J. wh,< pi :./.• ! ..- M: • Cleveland) sought to recover ii"U. J.;i. Edmund Donaldson, an actor, a sum of £H(>, tent to him some years ago by i\£r. Stirling, when playing in Australia arid at places on the road home ciii Honolulu and San Francisco. The answer to t!ii' aefton was an agreement for joint theatrical p.-c----formatices at San Francisco, which had nob been carried out. LVtr. Justice Lope* suggested an arrangement, hut it win not consented to. Mr. .Dumpier is pronounced to be the greatest theatrical success Sydney has seen for years. Mr. and Mrs. Bates are playing at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, to fair business. George-Collier & in Brisbane with a dramatic- company, gainer's Diorama of the American War is doing good business in Melbourne. The Lynch family of bellringersare/»i. ronk for Gippsland ; thence they* go to Hobart Town. Cooper and Bailey's monster circus and show is doing the "Victorian np-conntry districts with success. They took i"S(X>O at Sandhurst for two nights, and £loooat Maryborough for one night. Emmett is ''do'ng" Gisborno and Napier. Miss Christian, the vocalist, is now on her way to New Zealand. Wellington is likely : ""ii to bo well supplied with places «>f urn Moment. Fn addition to the proposed Vf, utters-street theatre, and the hall being •■r. tited in Torjj^'*vet..it is understood to • ' fthiv intentinWfjpMr. A. A. Barnett to • ict a forge theatre and hotel on the site ' th-.' present Odd Fellows'" Hall.