STAGE GOSSIP.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 217, 27 August 1887, Page 3

STAGE GOSSIP.

" True to the Core " has been riming and "A Run of Luck" at the Theatre Royal, with " Alone in London" to follow, Miss Agnes Thomas as the chickweed sellor. " Boccaccio," with Miss Annette Ivanova in tho title role, rules the roost at the Gaiety, and the Zerbeni Quartette company are giving fashionable concorts at the V.M.C.A. Hall, assisted by Mr Armes Beau- ' mont. Mr Locke Richardson is doing remarkably well in the same place. " The Pickpocket," at the Criterion, has been produced by the Brough and Boucicault company, before a crammed and enthusiastic house. The Gaiety and the Academy of Music have been condemned. Mr Fergus Ilumc is said to be writing a comedy (" Dolly ") tor Miss Amy Horton, The Majcroni Company have been playing in Geelong and Ballarat ; and Simonsen is playing " Rigolctto " in Adelaide. Miss Florence St. John, tho popular comedienne and burlesque actress, is so beiiously ill that her recoveiy is doubtful. The Mammoth Minstrels are still playing at Wellington, where they opened on August 3th. " Babiole," a weak comic opera, was produced at the Melbourne Bijou Theatre the other day. The music is by Laurent de Rille, and the English adaption by Mr Robert Recce. The heroine, Babiole, was played by Miss Grace Plaisted. Mr G. B. Allen, a candidate for the Chair of Music at the Melbourne University, and woll known in the old days of the Opera House, writes to " Table Talk " that he has been advising Mi- Cail Rosa to bring out his English opera company for a colonial tour. Friends of Madame Lucy Chambers—unrivalled in these colonies as a teacher of singing — will be sorry to learn that she is dangerously ill at Melbourne. While driving home from the theatre she was taken witli a tit, and it was some considerable time before she could be brought to consciousness. Madame Chambers was wellknown on the colonial operatic stage of the early days, as Lucia Chamberi ; and although a Tas>inauian by birth, she looks more Italian than anything. Many yeais ago sho mairied Signor Dondi, an unih ailed Mephistopheleo, but the union was an unhappy one. Mr t hil Robinson, the distinguished war concspondent, whot>e lectures were just beginning to be appreciated, has been recalled to England, and has to break up his colonial tour suddenly. There has again been a hitch in the negotiations for the return to the colonies on a lecturing tour of the Rev. Charles Clark, and Mr R. S. Smythes mission to London is to clinch matters, if possible. Miss Madeline Schiller, a pianist of repute, who made a successful tour of the colonies many years ago, arrived in Sydney by the last tSan Fiancisco mail, intent upon another peregrination. A Melbourne daily paper announces :—: — "George Paul Caiey, of titutt's Hotel, Bourke-stieet, Eas>t Melbourne, comedian. Cannes of insolvency, want of remunerate c employment, heavy expenses in connection with piofe»-ion, having received no leturns, and .sickness of self. Liabilities, L.SB 7 Is 8d ; assets, 10s ; deficiency, L3M) UsSd/' Until now ladies have taken no part in the woik of the noble troupe of Molier Circus ; however, in Paris there are many spot taw omen, and very toon we may hear of the Countess This and the Baronet That jumping through hoops or turning somersaults on horseback. Mr Snazelle, the baritone and reciter, late of the Carl Rosa Opera Company, has been selected to give his entertainment, " Music, Song, and Story," pictorially illustrated, in all the towns of Australia and New Zealand, in the place of Mr H. Stanley, whose engagements had to be given up on it account of the Emin Pacha expedition.