GOSSIP FROM STAGE AND STUDIO.

Te Aroha News, Volume 1, Issue 47, 26 April 1884, Page 5

GOSSIP FROM STAGE AND STUD IO.

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Mil Bland Holt Ims arrived safe and sound in England, and at the latter end of Januaiy last, appeared at the Theatre lioyal, Norwich, as Fanfaronade to his father's (Mr Clarence Holt) Belphegor. Both gentlemen were most enthusiastically received. Bland Holt comes direct fiom England to New Zealand about July with some Drury Lane uovelties. Mr J. B. Howe, the -well-known actor, was, at latest date, giving a series of dramatic recitals at different music halls in London. It is stated that, at the close of his present engagements, it is his intention to return to Australia, and that he u ill bring with him several novelties, including "Glad Tidings." When Patti was first offered £120 for singing at an evening party in Paris it roused the whole musical world ; but long before that Mario had refused £200 for singing ono song at the entertainment of an importunate maiden lady, saying, "M. Mario could not for that price make up his mind to put on a dress-coat." Mr J. A. Fronde will contribute a preface to a forthcoming work on the Irish Massacres of 1641. The volume will consist of a selection from the unpublished sworn depositions taken verbatim from the original MSS. in Trinity College Library, Dublin. Miss Mary Hickson has written an introduction. Messrs Longmans and Co. are the publishers. Rumour has it that there is some thought of the Messrs Harper starting an English edition of their illustrated weekly — " Harper's Young People." The yearly subscription in the United States is 1 dollar 50 cents. Possibly, in England, the journal may run with tho twopenny juvenile weekly papers. " Fortunes Made in Business " is the title of an elaborate work of about 700 pages which is being prepared for the press. It purposes to be a series of original skotches by various writers, selected from recent events in the history of industry and commerce, and will be mainly biographical and anecdotic. Miss Jane Cowen, daughter of Mr Joseph Cowen, M.P., has a volume of sketches in the press, chiefly reprintod from the " Newcastle Chronicle." Mr Cowen himself has collected materials for a biography of the Newcastle poet John Cunningham, to whose memory he some years ago erected a stained-glass window in the parish church of St. John, in that town. Professor W. G. Whitnoy will contribute the article on " Philology " to the new edition of the " Encyclopedia Britannica," and Mr E. Maude Thompson the article on "Paleography." Under the title of " Journalistic Jumbles ; or, Trippings in Type," Mr F. C. Williams will publish a collection of newspaper misprints, collated and arranged. Mr Williams's experience extends beyond the mother country, he having been a judge in the West Indies and South Africa, and he is the newly appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Mauritius. The finest poem which Mr Whittier has written for a long time will shortly appear in "Harper's Weekly." It is entitled "Banished," and is to accompany a beautiful drawing by Mr Abbey, which reprej sents a mournful group of Quakers driven from the Massachusetts shores b,y tUe persecutors of 1660.