FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 156, 8 September 1883, Page 14

FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.

— Sniythe is running Poussard, the violinist, in Melbourne. — The Choral Society is rehearsing Haydn's "Creation." — Horr Carl Schmidt gave a concert at . the Thames last evening. — Woodj r ear's circus opens in Auckland about the middle of September. — Little Synathe's next big boom in the Colonies will be with Oscar Wilde. — Kudarz had a benefit from the amateurs of Christchurch the other day. ■ — The Polk and Pomeroy Companies come to Auckland for the Christmas season. — The Auckland O-yninnstic Club will give an athlotie entertaimuoufc in'fche Farnell Hall, on Wesdnesda.y, Sopt. 19th, at 8 p.m. — Hegarty's Hibernieou and Court Minstrel Trou}je will open at the Opera Houso on the 22nd iusfc. The troupe has been very successful in Australia. —Captain Jackson Barry has sold his skeleton; at least, the skeleton of his whale, to the Otago Museum. Of course, it may be considered a boney jide transaction, which the ancient mariner and ex-Orom-ivellian Mayor will nut he icliale. — Mr Gordon Gooch will repeat his concert (selections i'rom " Lurline ") on Thursday n ex t, at the Opera House. The concert %yill he preceded by an ! amusing skei.ch, entitled " Up in the "World," and will he followed hy the comedietta, "To oblige Benson." jrtr and Mrs McGowan and Mr Welsh will impersonate the leading characters. Visitors to the dress circle will receive enamelled cartes de vkite oi Mr Gooch. We would remind our readers of the entertainment to be given in the Newmarket Hall on the 12th September by the Temperance Dramatic Club. The programme I'Ul consist of, the laughable farce of " Broxhor Bill nnd Me," as played by the Club in the Lome-street Hull, also, the ever-popular " Box and Cox." As this Club proposes to hold itself in readiness to play for a,ny deserving object, wo hope to report a bumper house. A select ball will terminate the evening's amusement. — The unpropitious weather had the effect of throwing: a damper on Mr Pooley's tenth concert last Saturday evening, but this had no effect upon the performers, who played and sang with their usual spirit. The various operatic selections by Madame Pooley, Miss Green, Messrs Gooch, Hantm, and Mr Burnhain were efficiently rendered. The pianoforte solo, " Don Pasquale," the harmonium overture, " William Tell,' 4 .and the pianoforte performance of "La Polka de la Eeine," hy Mr Angelo Forrest, were amoHs the perns of +he programme. The concert concluded with a Tyrolose chorus from " William Tell," by the company.

imperative cnll before the curtain. The mnfb^. characters - were all creditably sustained. On Wednesday arid' Thursday evenings, Mr Slieriaii' appeared in hia v favourite character of "Louis XL"; and on thia (Friday) evening "Camille" will be produced, on the occasion of a complimentary benefit to Miss I)aveaport» To-morrow evening thg season will close with ',' Arrah-Na-Pogue." As the season is rapidly drawing to a close, those of our readers who have not erobraoed the opportunity of witnessing Mr Sheridan's splendid actingBhould take advantage of the few remaining jSerfor- ' rnances. ' • ■