ACROSS THE FOOTLIGHTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10710, 14 September 1912, Page 6

ACROSS THE FOOTLIGHTS

(Contributed.) "H.M.S. Pinafore," as presented; at the Town Hall this week by the Masterton "Amateur Theatrical Society, was a performance of much merit. Of course, there wero.the usual weaknesses always associated with amateur performances—to describe the principals as being up to professional standard would be mere folly; but, on the whole, making due-allowance for nervousness, natural limitations, ignorance of stagecraft, etc., those taking Dart did exceedingly well, and are to be heartily complimented upon their work. Mr R. J. Young, the capable conductorj had his forces well under control. "Pinafore" would bear repeating.

Mr Charlie Gray, at one time a leading Masterton amateur, but for some years past a resident of Petone, has been ordered by his doctor to give up his present employment and to .seek a warmer clime.; He to seek .fnme and fortune on the Australian stage, either in drama or vaudevillo. In Masterton and" Wellington "Charlie" is well known, and he has been constantly before the pub-# lie either in opera, cpmedy, or on the concert platform. Amongst his many performances are those of King Laurent in "La Mascot," the name part in> "The Magistrate," Vere Queckettin "The Schooimistress'' and; the' Divor cer-general in Alf. Hill's "Tbo Moorish Maid." As ii; singer of character and comic ongs Mr Gray stands amongst,the I c«t Petone is'iniot. go- , ing to. let Mi Gray depart;M(Jur some tangible mark of' esteem, and the Mayor has called a public meeting to consider the matter. Mr Gray leaves for Sydney in a fen' weeks' \ time. I

Mr Oscar Asche and Miss Lily Brayton commence their New Zealand tour at Auckland on Monday night with? "Kismet/" - the gorgeous Eastern drama. jDilring the season, which, will last for* three weeks, "Othello" and Taming of, the Shrew''.' av ill be presented. Masterton is ..riot n:cluded in the tour mapped out ior this combination. Why? Surely local playgoers have a soul ibov o pantomim© and musical comedy. Professor M. If. Norwood, whose hypnotic entertainments created so much t amusement in Masterton reI cently, is fust concluding a highly successful New South Wales tour and contemplates'descending Tipon" Northern Queensland. The professor lir a letter tq tho writer of this cf>*:imn, wishes to be kindly remembered to i.tbe many friends ho made iu this town: H© expects to return to New Zealand early next year. There will soon be nine picture shows in Wellington, three of which are id Willis Street, within fifty yards of ,eacli other. The picture craze is evidently not ort the wane.

Ijovers of pantomime will soon be. given the opportunity of seeing "Smbadith© Sailor," which will bo produced in Maetorten on the 23rd inst. "Sipbad,". like many of its predecosscii's, is w'eak'on the musical side; but it <jsi;a gorgeous spectacle, and som l i 0 f tbo special tics introduced, notably , the i'lu onary hotel by tn; '*lxodes, a e decidedly novel. Mr P;p Powoll is dame —and a Very amusing Mrs ombuu liu makes. The dressiilg of tliQ pantomime this year is artistic ■in the extreme, the blending of colours in the Jewel and. Flower ballets being particularly harmonious. The company includes Miss Florence Imeson, principal boy; Miss Noll Finnis, principal girl; Miss Marie Eaton, the Princess;. Mr Charles -Howard,;- Sinbad ; Drew and Alders ("Smile, Bill, Smile").'

John Bunny, tho popular Vitagraph heavy-weight comedian, is l now | in England, where he is to appear as Mr, Pickwick in connection with .some Pickwickian motion-pictures; Bunny ,is said to have a rival in the Vitagraph forces. Hugh McGovem, who recently joined the company *is described as "taller, bigger, and better 1 looking than Mr Bunny." -The new. "heavy" left an undertaking business to go Before the camera. Miss Beatrice Holloway, well-known to "local playgoers, is'now appearing in the American farcical comedy, "Get-Ricli-Quick Wallingford," in Sydney. . Sho is shortly to be married to Mr Robert Greig (here with Hugh J. Ward in "Seven Days"), and the, young couple will then proceed to America to try their luck in the land -of the Stars* and Stripes. - The Countess will give two concerts/,' iii, * .Wellington next week. She is- jissisted on the present tour by M. Ta'Ul Dtifault, a Canadian i tenor, and Herr Liebling,' violinist, i Miss Nellie Stewart is not anxious I for 1' daughter to'adopt a stago ca- | ' 'There in not now the samo ior the young actress," said tho •••••:;*rr»iian- idol to an interviewer, ]

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From Mr II Millar, 83 P.rou''h:iiitVi J . Weoloompoloo, . Sydney, ; N 8 '\\\ 2nd September. 1911

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u'om S. Nktzen, storekeeper, 30 ll'blatid street, Poiisoiibv, Auckland, N.Z-, 15L!i; Novkribjr, 1911.

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"and she - will i) r. go on tho stage if ,it rests' with inc. Tho people now want : more novelty and plenty _of change, and it is very rarely that an artist'remains very long in public fa-i vour. T have been particularly for-tunate,-and. of 1 am extremely grateful to the Australian people for remembering me as they have. But as. I 'said before; there is not in w ; tho same school for art a3 in fonnor-i days." ' j Messrs' J. aild N. Tait havo within the past four years brought the to]--' lowing musical attractions to this part of tho world ":—Clara "Butt and TCennerley Humford, Mdllc. Dolores, Calve, Miss Amy Castles, Jean -Gerardy, Miss Marie Ilall, Mark Hambourg, -.Leonard Banrickj tho Huddersiield Bell-ringers and Margaret Cooper, and now*, through ■their enterprise, we are shortly to hear Madame Kirkby Lunn.' * Tiny Town is proving a great attraction at the Wellington Town Hall this week. .The midgets said to be extremely clever,. ' The Plimmer-Denniston Company, which is looked uixm as the strongest dramatic combination now touring Australasia, including as it, does jMra Robert Brough, Miss Lizette Parkes, Miss Beatrice Day, Mr Harry Plimmer, Mr George Titheradge and Mr Harry Sweeney, is making a • ftying ' visit to New Zealand. The reper- ' toire includes "Nobody's Daughter," "A Woman of No Ininortance," and "The VUlage Priest." Masterton. as usual, is not included in tho, tour. Londoiy is dvuck]ing over a fino bit of satire in connection with popuhr ideas as to what is right and wrong in stago productions. ■ When "Improper Peter" wa.s iiroduced at the Gsr-) vick a cry went *!*>• from an lexfronio I section 'of tho Puritans .'protesting against .the/-.'•.'suggestiveh^ss"tne-title. iAs it happened, there ,was nothing indecorous about Peter or nnybody ro arjything in the play; bvit there was a. fine chance, to score an • advertisement, so tho title was changed to "Proper Peter," and the;'result was packed houses London Kl* tin eh now suggests-thai other nianagenients and dramatists might follow suit, "For it says, '"why not turn '"^ellk®(tona , :-into'-/Ammqniated , Quinine,'" and 'Ben Htir' into 'Ben Him'?" • .-v' 1