STAGE AND STUDIO.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 226, 29 October 1887, Page 7

STAGE AND STUDIO.

[By Euterpe.]

Mr Barry Sullivan, in compliance with the advice of Ins physician, has cancelled all engagements until Christmas. On dit that Mr Simonsen talks of bringing out a French comedy company next year during Exhibition time, the expenses to be paid by subscription. [Messrs Herbert and Fitzgerald's London Circus Company are toming the country towns of Otago. The Lynch Family of Bellringers are now ' in the South Island, doing well. They appeared recently in a costume cricket \ match with a Blenheim club. | At the London Adelphi, "The Bells of Ha/.elmere " has proved a splendid success, I the house being crowded from floor to ceiling every night. I The French diapason is to be adopted in all German military bands at once, and the necessary changes in the instruments weie to be completed by October Ist. At Dunedin so far the Majeronis have drawn consistently good houses and the short season made will be a highly satisfactory one. The Trevo Brothers, three acrobats who get on each other's heads and form a column 17 feet high, and then come down with a neck- breaking crash, form the principal feat me at Sydney Alhambra. According to the London club flaneurs, W. S. Gilbert ha 3 been greatly tickled by the Buffalo Bill furore, and is half inclined to lay the scene of his and Sir Arthur Sullivan's next comic opera in the Wild West. A cheap edition of "Bevis," by the late Richard Jefferies, is in preparation. Good news this for our boys, to whom poor Jefferies' delightful, imaginative woik has hitherto been an impossible luxury. The Italian Opera Company at the Melbourne Theatre Royal continues to do fairly well. "Don Giovanni" ran for five nights, and has been succeeded by "Gli UgonoLti." Miss Braddon's Jubilee novel (her fiftieth) was to be published early this month by Mr Spencer Blackett, who has succeeded to the business of the distinguished authoress's step-sons, Messrs John and Robert Maxwell. The title is " Like and Unlike." In English newspaper circles the latest on dit is that Mr Labouchere means to start an evening journal on the plan of the " Pall Mall Gazette," and call ib the "Clarion." Nothing further has been heard latterly of Dilke's projected venture. Mr T. P. O'Connor will edit the " Clarion." Mr Barnett, a Christchurch dramatic author, intends producing there one of his pieces, entitled "The Schemer," on the 14th inst., at the Theatre Royal. The various parts will be filled by Miss Gladys Fitzroy, Miss Porteous, Mrs Jerman, and Messrs Davidson, Arbuekle, Ingleson and Sinclair. The following advertisement .was published in the Christchurch " Telegraph" of September 29th :—"lf: — "If I have in any way made U6<? of defamatory statements regarding Mr Harry Lynch's character, I beg to apologise for the same.— Alfred Santley. -Dunedin. September 27th, 1887." The " vagabond's" ftJwsfrive libel e»ction against the " Wesley an Spectator " has inspired him to make capital out of hts Welladvertised failure. He advertises to lecture in Melbourne on ' ' One Farthing Damages," treating of " the true story of mission work in the South Seas, of the real King Thakombau, and of the law oE libel in Victoria." A new Jiigh-claes magazine for girls of between 11 and 15 will make its appearance this month under the editorship of L. T. Meade (author of "Scamp and I," &c.) The publishers are Messrs Hatchard, of Piccadilly* and the name chosen for their venture is "Atalanta." Mr Rider Haggard will supply a short serial called "A T*ilc of Three Lions," and other stories aro cromised by tho editor* Mrs Molesworth, £nd Mrs Comyns Carr. A characteristic pover has been specially designed by MiAlfred Crane. By the last 'Frisco mail steamer Frank Clark passed through to Sydney with nine-first-class pros. They consist of Mdlle. Garvetta, who does a big act with fifty pigeons, and her husband, Ouda, a flashlight gymnast, who are stated to bo getting lOOdols a week ; Wilson and Cameron, grotesque comedians ; Frelos and Hanson, who will make a big hit ; May Cameron, known as tlie human serpent ; Monte, an apo contortionist; and Harry Cushman, a smart character impersonator. The new volume of the "English Illustrated Magazine," which commences with the October number, contains an historical novel called' " The Mediation of Ralph Hardelot " by Profeisto Minto (author of " A Crack of Doom ") and a Cornish tale " The Story of Yael," by Mr Baring Gould, as its leading serials. The last named author is sadly over-writing. Three novels by him arealready in course of publication in the magazines, and "Longman's" for September contains the opening elm oi

k f ..» . i i J. ————————— ajpurth called "Eve." " The Story of Yael^ will make tho number up to five. Bub 'tis always the way. Directly a man makes a hit, magazine editors run after him and till he shows signs? o£ collapse give him no peace. Mrs Alexander Henderson, who iB better ' known to playgoers as Lydia Thompson, • has, taken the SivAnd Theatre for a season, and will produce an amended version of Celiier'e " Sultan ot Mocha" there. The Novelty opens with "The Blue Bells of Scotland," and Miss Anderson sends oil' tho autumn season proper with "A Winter's Tale," at tho Lyceum. The cast of the latter, which does not read very strong, includes Forbes Robertson (as jevne premier), F. H. Machlin, John Maclean, Arthur Lewis, Fuller Mollibh, Charles Colletto, Sophie Eyre, Zeilie Tilbury, and Helena Dacre. The piece has been in rehearsal several weeks, and tho scenery and appointments aie said to be fully up to the Irving level. A bloodand-thunder melodrama of fehe sultiiest description has achieved a semisuccess at the unlucky Olympic Theatre. It is called " The Pointsman,'' and aspires to exposing the grio\ ances of a large class of railway servants. Mi- E. S. Willavd playp the villain, a depraved and bloodthirsty publicun, and the most powerful scene in the play is one in which with intense ferocity he murders a young sailor for his money. Nothing ghastlier than this has been witnessed on the stage since Warner's "horrors" in " L'As&oinmoir," and it will probably draw many people to the Olympic of itself. "Twelfth Night," says the Sydney "Bulletin, "continues to delight a crowd which is three-fourths ..masher and onefourth old hyiena with a large family, at Sydney Criterion. Sundry newspapers have lately been engaged in denying (seemingly for the purpose of circulating) a report that Miss .Essie Jcnyns is about to be married to a, rich lawyer ; we now authoritatively Icain that the nimour is only an empty weapon with nothing in it. We truhb the lawyer will be consoled by the recollection that his loss is plain Bill Holloway's great gain.