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Cirfei 'lie Mexican i^ in "Welhrg-ton ""*ir{lic' Cn-r-11« «linw= in Svd-»V <1 ♦ F'«f»r. Tnagprmcni" sre beiivc entered into for tha Xo' 1 o o'pwirt Australian tour. \V><tV« Cum? ovi«>ne in fhp Brill Hall in CVm«=+rhurch on Monday 24th in<d. Pcl'arcl'« Opera Comrjar.v is due in Dun* edm in May mioT to touring Australia. Eleven hundred phonic werp on thr oa^ary list of Drury Lane Theatre during the pantomime feaoon. Fred GraVinm a>id X«lhe Dent ar-e a/r>r>earir.g -with Fuller's Company at the Opera Hru«e. Auckland. Miss Nina O shorn e i* in with Mi«? May Beatty m the- cast of the pantomime »t N«weastle-on-Tyne. Mi&» Jennie Itp* and her daughter. Mi<»« J-ca-ia, came in for much attention at th* Theatr« Boyal, Melbourne. Pnlltn' Vaudeville Company at the Princess is quite one of the best seen her* und»C W».e well-known mtuiagemenl.
Arthur Crane, who has finished his engagement with the Comic Opera Co., intends to take out a. company shortly.
The great attraction in tbe Julius Knight repertoire — " Monsieur Beaucaire " — has just been revived again in London.
Allan Shaw, the coin manipulator, nuade a successful first appearance on tbe Fuller circuit at the Wellington Royal.
Mr Harry Hall, the well-known comedian, is adveitised to reappear with Montgomery's Entertainers at Masterton this week.
Henr Slapoffski, who has been appointed conductor of the Sydney Amateur Orchestral Society, has entered upon bis duties.
Rose Musgiove is returning to hei o!d love — musical comedy, — and is studying singing in London from Madame Minna Fischer.
The cash takings at the Glasgow theatres last year amounted to £330,001;. of which .£178,000 was spent on admission to music halls
Arnold Foldsey, tbe Hungarian 'cellist, who •was a member of Mr J C. Williamson's last concert company, gave a recital recently in New York. Miss Elsie Moore, of " The Chens Girl " fame, once in Dunedm, announces her engagement to the only son and heir of a New York millionaire.
Ihe Wheelers, the trick cyclist^ now showing at Sjdney livoh, have just returned from «. two-years' tour of .the East with Harruston's Cncus. M. Marcus, manager for Allan Hamilton's "Home, Sweet Home" Company, lepoits that for the New Zealand season of the play ovei £1000 was cleaied. Alfied Sutro's powerful study oi modern tempeiaments, "John Glajde's Honour," will be done for the first time in Melbourne at the Princess Theatre on Maich 7. Wet's Pictures are doing splendid business at His Majesty's Theatre. The pictuies will be shown for another two weeks. Changes are made every fourth night. The name of Miss Rosy Barton appears in the cast of "The Night of the Party," the 20715t performance of which was given at the Apollo Theatre, London, on December 16. The chorus of Meynell and Gunn's Comic Opeia, Company, which opens in Mellr urne at Easter, will be mainly made up of the chorxsters of Musgrove's Grand Opera Co The licensing of stage plays first became law in 1737. The act of 1843 is the one undsr which the Lord Chamberlain's department now exercises its authority in pl-ay matteis.
"Les Cloches de Corneville" was first produced at the Folies-Dram.atiques, Paris, on April 19, 1577. and was given for -the first time in Loiidon at the Folly Theatre on Febiuary 23. 1878.
Miss May Chevalier is appearing in a oneact play. " The Kelson Touch," written by Mr Fredenck Fenn. and preceding " The Education of Elizabeth, ' at the London Hn\ market Theatre.
The London County Council recently agreed to permit smoking in certain of the outlying London theatres. It was maintained that it was illogical to permit smoking in music-halls and not m theatre*.
In a small town of Sicily a uoor o'rl mou was found dead from want. He was identified as -the violinist Cuvilber. from Paris, once a prix de Rome, ai:d employed as musician at the Vatican.
Mrs Yeaniena-Titus, who trave'leel the Fuller circuit some time ago, i 9 a daughter o( Mr 2^ed Yeamens and Maggie Guflith". who •were celebrated during the early days of the circus business in Austialia.
Mlss May Granvillo, fornaeily with the MacMahons, is the heroine in Mr William Anderson's production of " Her Luck in London," Mr George Darrall's new melodrama, at *he Melbourne Bijou Madame Clara Butt's sister, who sings •under the name of Miss Ethel Hook, save her fir=t recital at the Beckstein Hall, London, in December Arnold Tiowe'.l. a boy 'colii^t from New Zealand. a= o isted
Daisy Harcourt. the Australian soubret f e, TURcte a hit in New York with " A man without a woman," the smart and clean song ■with which her sister. Gertie Everett, made <!;i Australian success nine month= ago.
Rumoured in London that Mi" ETlen Terry is contemplating a farewell tour that ■will take her around the world, beginning in Australia. continuing through tbe United States and Canada, and ending in Eng'and William Anderson, interviewed by Sydney "Daily Telegraph, states that he made more money out of " The Squatter's Daughter than any other piece; while next in order oaroe " The Ladder of Life " and " When London Seeps."
Ha^rv Lauder, at the close of hi= five■weeks' New York engagement at £550 a week, signed an agreement to return in 1908 for a similar season at £ICOO a, week— nearly doub'e the salary previously paid to any ■variety artist.
Mr "Herbeit Flemming has been very seriously indispo c ed in Melbourne. He was inV^n for a shoit drive, by medical advice, recently, but the exeition proved too much for him. and be was taken to his home m a e'lte of collapse. boasts of having stasreel tbe mo=t BTtistic pantomime. "La BeHe an Boi= Dormant " is written by M Jean Richemn, a real poet. tr.S. tbe "piincipal boy" is apt*d by fie preatp=t living tiagedienne— ?r--'"me? r --'"me Sarah Bprahaidt
'• lip Squaw Man ' was arnounced for P'-ocluction last month in London under the 'b=rrd tit'e of "The White Mar." Mr T ?wis Waller was oa&t for the part nf Jim Tvu negate. Miss Nora Lancaster th^t of D'Vna, *nd Mi*s Dorothy Dix as Nat-u-Ritch
Miss May Yohe. once a »hining light on ■*'}«> musical comeclv stoee was la-le-W sniping
-' i o ruus-ic-hall in San Francisco. In London ■■•pars aeo Miss Yohe's extraordinary voice attracted much attention, and she rap'.d'y advanced to the position of a heavily-salaried pfpi- artist.
There are 500 moving picture shows in New York, and 250 in Chicago France leads in film-making, and more' ingenuity is exhibited there in arrpnging scenes for biogiaphmg than in any other country One Pan« firm keeps 12 men constantly employed m thinking out new subiects.
The Julius Knight . Company's revival repertoire is to bp strengthened by the inclusion of "The Prisoner of Zencla. ' aid Anthony Hope's popn'ar to inane? should leceive full iu=tice with Mr Knight m tbe Tole of Rudolph Rasspiidyll and Mfs Ola Humphrey as fie Princess F'avia
At Her Majesty's Theatie. Svclncv, "The TJairymmids " i= in fuH swing the iii-f week of the Royal Comic Opera Compai >'« ieiideriug of tbe merry piece having been niaikcd by consistently crowded houses. " The L?dv Dandies." which is to Le the next pioduction. is- meanwhile m active rehearsal.
Mr T. J. West, of nioving-pictiue fame. has no fewer than four show = lunnmg at the present time — two in New Zealand and one each in Sydney and Melbourne. He is also a. member of a London firm which turns out films at about a mile a minute, or anyway at " moving picture " speed. Recently located at the Gaiety Theatre. Melbourne. -were Frank Herberte, Ivy Nicholls, Morris ard Wilson, tho Aurelios, Harmonious Huxharns. Maude Fanning, Arthur Elliott Andy Roberts. May Reid. UHle Violet Elliott, Golden Diw>, fSkarlea
Pope, Freda Maher, Tom Leonard, and Clara Keating.
"Little Tich," the well-known comedian, who visited Australia under engagement to Mr Harry Rickaids, has left London for Capetown. He has been engaged for mi c weeks in South Africa at a salary of £500 a week. Foi six weeks he will appeal at the Empne. Joham esbuig, and foi thiee weeks at tii& Capetown Tivoli
The departiue of Miss Joan Burnett for Australia and the aniiouncernent that the Imperial Theatre at Westminster will Le put up for sale in Februaiy aie lemmisceiit of Jennie Lee (Mis Burnett) The Impoual was opened in 1576 by Jennie Lee m " J'i,"
which she aftei wauls plajed at the old Prmces c Theatie m Melbourne
Mis Biown-Potter i° appairntly going to make more money m a auc!»\i'.'e thr.n =be e\er did on salary m the legitimate. She has been engaged" for an Arneiican season at £600 per \Ceek foi 10 «eek= Durn.g that time phe will pie^ent the " =ciee>i <=ctrt " from "The School of Sciiidal," mid a play'c. entitled " Maiy, Queen of Scots. Recently engaged at the National Amphitheatre. Sydi ey, were Delavale and Gilbert, Olive C.irr. Musical Millsis, The Lenton«,
Joe Charles, Ivy NicholK, Dodcis Sisteis, Laura Ro 'o, Vera Kcarn 0 , Oc<.avia and Warne, Waid Lear, Row ell Smeis, Jack Kearus, Vere Fenace. Alice Fane, Dolly Keldie, A«lice Johnson. Dick Stead The retv tlieatie that is being built in Melbourne for Wiiham Andeisci at a cost of £A 2 000, is making gocd headway, and the le^tca expects to open it on July 18. When fil ished it will be a magnificent structure, and, being centrally situated (m Russell "tieet. one door from Bouike stieet), it should become a veiy popular place of public amusement.
Caruso, the far-famed tenor, when he was a youth of 19, was drafted into the Italian army. His drill sergeant reported him to his major for singing, but the 'alter discovered something musical i^i his voice, and promptly allowed Private Caruso to spend all the leisure that his military duties allowed in st^dy with the teacher of the legiband.
The following vaudeville artists were recently in the bill at the Tivoh Theatre, Sydney: — Edwin Boyde, Ray and Caldeu. Tom Burrows, Herbeit La. Martin, Ernest Leicester, the Whee!er=. Clarence Tisdale, Grace Compton, Eileen Lyoi.s Ethel Preston,
the Lewis Sistci s, Jack Russell, Geitie Johns, Pearl Livingstone, Carl Collier, and Eileen O'A'eiH.
Au excellent indication of tlie way in which " The Merry Widow " has capiuied Great Butain is afforded by the fact that when the George Edwardeq Company began a season in Glasgow last December the whole of the theatre was sold out for the entire month to which its stay was limited before the curtain rose on the fiist perfoimanee there
A charming Dick Whittinston has been found ( c ays the Newcastle-on-Tyne Chronicle) in the per-on of M'ss May Beatty, an actress and vocahst of exceptional ability, who is also gifted with a happy manner and a fine stage presence. With such qualifications 33 these Miss Beatty fairly revels m her- role, and is de c tined to become a great favourite with the Newcastle public
As soon as tlie date of the race for the world's sculling championship became known, the custodi-an of the Opera House, Wanganui, was inundated with applications from manageis, local and travelling, anxious to book the theatre for that week Mr Edmund Montgomery, of Montgomery's Pictures, had, however. j.n agent on the spot, who lost no time in booking dates for the week.
Miss HcLa Barlow who has beenb c en appearing a= Cinderella at S3'dney Palace paniolu'rae, is not, as many persons 1 think, an American. The little lady, who looks like NelliD Stewart when =be weais a fair wig. is a Melbourne girl. She has been some ten Tears on the stage — five as a member of John F Sheridan's companies. Her fir«t snow was with Percy St. John in a burlesque at Adelaide.
Mr and Mrs John Fuller, sen . accompanied by Miss May Fuller, will leave on a woild's tcur at the beginning of March. The party jo:n the Bremen at Sydney, by which steamer they journey to Naple?, where they wi 1 ! disembark and pioce&d ovei land to Pans A visit to England follows, after which America, Japnn, and China will be exploited The party expect to arrive back in the Dominion at Christmas
Mr Hairy Rickards's touring vaudeville cempany, en routs to New Zealand, has begun a season at the Theatre Royal, Hobait The combination includes — Thos. E Fing'as (the "Ideal Coon"), Teny and Bentley (comedy sketch artists). Tom Dawson (comedian and dancer), Giacie Ra'iie (English vocahst and dancer)), Post Ma=di (baritone). Lottie Kay (English sopiano) the thiee Gibson Girls. Geois;e Dean, and the jmemle aitist, Mi-ijorie Bray
Mr Sidney Dark, wilting in tbe Daily Express, =tates that the acting success of 1907 in London was undoubtedly gamed by Miss Julia Mailowe. the accomplished American actie^s. whose Shakespearean season at the Waldoif will lon« tea am a delightful memory. Among other playei« who have distinguished themselves are Mips Ethel Irving, Mi=s Marie Tempest. Miss Hennefia Watson, Mi=s Lena, Ashwell, Miss Mabel Hackney, and Miss Marie Lohr.
Late American files show that Mi=s Olive Moore averted a dangerous panic in the Grand Opera House, Manila, on the occasion of th& recent earthquake. At the first shock a wild stampede from the theatre seemed inevitable but Miss Moore, with perfect coolness, continued her song. " Alone and yet alive," and succeeded m calming the alarmed crowd. Her plucky conduct was recognised by seveial e;ifts, including a diamond ring, and two letters of thanks from the authorities.
In New Zealand both the J C. Wi'hamson companies now touring the Dominion are in " last night* " In the case of " Brewsfei's Millions," at Wellington, it means also a farewell, for on the conclusion of its season there the famous comedy will leave for Hobart, where they open on February 22 The Mu=ical Comedy Company bade gnod-bye to Auckland on Febiuaiy ]5, and after visits to Gi°borne Napier and Masterion betake themsehe» to Christchuich to opei the new theatre thei^
"Tbeie axe time= when riicuiri«tances combine to ap=et one's calcul it ons," writes Miss Ada Cios-ley in the Tatler. "Thus, I was once due to smg in Sydney one Thursday ni£;ht, and the steamer by "which I was tiavellmg was late. The captain piHied her an as well a3 he could, but the harbour theie is a very long on a. There did not seem to be much chance of my being able to land in tune; but in the end all turned out well, for they sent me on in a steam launch, landing me in full evening dress at the concert hall just in time."
Many stories have been -fold about Sir John Hare's wonderful power of making up as an old man, and on one acoasion even «o astute a person as the late Mr Gladstone was taken in. One night the "G.O M." went to see Hare in "A Pair of Spectacles," and wag much struck with the performance. Shortly ttftrrwarctg he visited 1 a friend's iivsej *w* "^i^o-6»f( Lafry'tUci in % clean-
shaven, youthful-looking snn who was dining at the same table, he asked his hostess who he was. "Oh, that is Mr John Hare, tho actor," was the reply. "Indeed," said Mr Gladstone. "I saw bis father act 111 'A Pair of Spectacles' the other night, and veiy fine he >vas Later tl.e gre.it statesman fcurd out his m "take, and laughed heartily o\ei the incident
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