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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 73, 27 March 1895, Page 5

Joseph Hurst, the box office manager a. the London Lyceum, has been tailing aa interviewer how he manages the booking for initial productions. It i 3 always difficult for the outside public to obtain tickets for any Lyceum firsb night. 'After the claims of tbe press aud Mr Irving _ private friends have "been satisfied, it is " Firsts come, &_t served." I received applications from the public for the firet night of '." King Arthur " four monbhs beforehand. These were entered on a lisb in the order they were received, and tickets were issued in rotation until the house was full. People who co.uld nob now get seats had only themselves to blame because they did notj apply earlier.' Mrs Justin Huntly McCarthy will positively re-appear in London next May, and bas Bignod for a lengthy engagement at tha Palace Theatre. The'terms will be the tame she now receives in America, viz., one hundred guineas a week. Sir Augustus Harris has, according to report, offered even higher terms than this to Lady Clancarty (Belle Bilton), who will re-appear (if at all) as heroine of the next autumnal melodrama at Drury Lane.