TALK ABOUT TOWN.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 57, 2 November 1878, Page 2

TALK ABOUT TOWN.

" There's a chiol amang yo takin 1 notes, Ai.d faith ho'll pront thorn." The fact tliat " visions is about," and things are not what they seem, as 1 remarked last.wock, is being borne out almost doily. A considerable number of actors in the drama of Lite made their ■ exit from tlio Sarnoan boards, per the schooner Tongatabu, to Heek for fresh fields of venture in the still wanner latitudes of the Line. The 'Frisco clipper will probably take two or three inoro of our luombers. who are leaving for various causes. In fact the Sarnoan theatrical company is thoroughly disorganised, and the "tago managers—(we have more than one in this theatre)—arc driven out of their G6HMI, The scene-shifters uro ou strike, tho prompter has lost his prompt book and cannot give the new players the cues, and there is oven some talk of the scene-painter and the policeman joining tile ranks of the discontented, and seeking employment in another ami bettor house. \\ here can we replace our first walking gentleman, our heavy father with the orthodox number of holies and to be,tow ujion th'.ir b«HU.\ :

and, in these nineteenth century dramas, the inconsolable lover, and the poor, illtreated family tutor. Truly is the very nucleus of a strong and effective dramatic company leaving this theatre in disgiist. May they get better engagements aud a more appreciative audience, to play I to, arc the sincere wishes of t'vnii-