MUSIC AND DRAMA
RUSSIAN BALLET COMPANY FOR NEW ZEALAND. So good was New Zealand’s reception of the Russian Ballet Company which toured the Dominion last year that it is quite certain that the ballet company which is to leave London this week for Australia will also tour New Zealand, according to Mr E. J. Tait, managing-director for Australian and New Zealand Theatres Limited. The company which consists of 70 artists with a repertoire of 30 ballets is to open its Australian season in Melbourne about the end of next month. Six weeks will be spent there and in Sydney and then the visit to New Zealand will be made. “Belle of New York.” A favourite for many years, the musical comedy “The Belle of New York” is to be presented shortly by amateUr societies in both Palmerston North and Blenheim. Mr Stan Lawson who has just produced "The Vagabond King” for the Auckland Operatic Society, will be producer for the Palmerston North show. In the Family. The talented English actress, Miss Fay Compton, who was’-'in New Zealand recently, has a very clever son, Anthony Pelissier, who is something of a playwright. The son of a distinguished father (the late H. G. Pelissier) he has turned his talents to writing and has had some of his works performed. “Talk of the Devil” _to mention one production is quite an excellent little comedy in its way. The young playwright should go far in his chosen- profession.
Tauber in Sydney. Richard Tauber, famous tenor, is enjoying remarkable success in Sydney on the concert stage and over the air. “Into a small space on the platform sufficient for a piano, Mr Percy Kahn and the singer,” said a writer in the “Sydney Sun,” “camo Tauber at a few minutes after 8 a typical figure of a German tenor well-nourished, blond and very pleased with himself and his audience, a pleasure made manifest in his beaming smile and his rather otiose gestures of acknowledgment. He opened witlf a group of Schubert songs and it may be said at once that never has, Sydney heard Schubert sung more beautifully.” Artist’s Gracious Actions. Pleasant memories of the visit to Dunedin of Miss Ruth Draper the celebrated American stage artist will be retained by three young women school teachers who called on her aftet her performance on Friday night. Their request for her autograph was readily granted and after discussing her sketches and various aspects of her art she refused to part from them until she had driven them to their respective homes in her car. For the taxidriver the. visit of Miss Draper .also provided a pleasant as well as a novel experience, for, instead of dismissing him at her hotel, she remained in the ear to discuss with him some of her experiences in New Zealand. She expressed a fondness for Dunedin and added that she regretted her season there had been limited to two nights The Dunedin audiences she said were the most appreciative and responsive of any that had attended her performances in this country. “That Certain Age” is Deanna Durbin’s latest starring vehicle. She is supported by Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich and John Halliday. It was originally announced that Deanna would appear as Cinderella, but is now stated that she will make another “Three Smart Girls” picture with the same cast as the original production. “100 Men and a Girl,” starring Deanna Durbin, will commence a return season at the Regent Theatre shortly.
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