STAGE JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 65, 17 March 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)

STAGE JOTTINGS.

Dixs Gaiety Company completes its fiftieth week at the City Hall this evening". The anniversary of 'the Co.'s firs* performance in, Auckland will be celebrated by a special performance on Monday, April 2, when the Company completes its fiftysecond week,'a record for any theatre show in this colony. 0. special SOUvenir programme will I.*; prepared for the occasion. The Company continues to do good business, thanks to the excellent, bill of fare provided.

Tussiuul's Waxworks closed a successful season at the Agi.ucultu.ral Hall last Wednesday evening.

was at one time thought, remarks a London writer, that Sir Arthur might reconsider his decision, but the favourite English composer will in future only conduct the first and special performances of his own works.

Sir Arthur Sullivan, though still the honorary president of several musical societies and institutions, no longer holds any position asa permanent paid conductor, having resigned the last, that of the Leeds Musical Festival. It

During- the run of the pantomime "Little -lied Hiding Hood" at Her Majesty"*, Sydney, Miss Dorothy Vane sang "The Absent-minded Beggar" to n constant hail of gold, silver and copper nig-htly, the sum total for the panto, season being1 £i! 00.

The Broughs are appearing- at Wellington, Bland Holt at Christehureh, the Pollards at Wangatmi, the last named Company beiny en route for Auckland, via Hawera. and Ts Tew Plymouth. The Pollard's Auckland season commences at Easter.

! It, is announced in several German 'papers that Paderewski, who has [bought an estate of. HOOO acres in a val|]ey of the Tatra Mountains, between iGalicia and Hungary, will build an [orphanage there for children of niemibers of the musical and dramatic professions. ' The Brough Company, at present appearing in Wellington, are due back lin Sydney on March 31, and after play- ■ ing- nine weeks there and paying brief visits to Adelaide and Brisbane, will sail for Calcutta. The Sydney public are to be treated to two new pieces, ! Haddon Chambers' "The Tyranny of (Tears" and 11. A. Jones' "Manoeuvres jof Jane."

Mr George Musgrove and Miss Nellie Stewart will return to Melbourne in September next, and Miss Stewart will appear*in pantomime at the Princess' at Christmas time. Miss Stewart has been appearing- with success in pantomime boy parts recently, and Mr Musgrove has been conducting' with great profit the Shaftesbury Theatre, in London.

Sara Bernhnrdt's theatre will be opened this year. It was planned by her, and will bear her own name. It is said that the lighting alone will cost £3000 a year, and the saloon will be decorated with ten panels painted by the most renowned French artists, and showing- the lady in the chief characters she has played during- her glorious career.

The Valdares, a. couple of clever trick cyclists, are at present in AVanganui with a .circus and variety company. The local "Chronicle" devotes half a column, to a eulogistic notice of their performance, winding- up by saying: "The Valdares, in fact, seem to'be able to do everything- except the one feat which the beginner finds it most easy to accomplish—they ean.nofc fall off. Their bicycling1 feats are undoubtedly superior to anything1 of the kind we have yet seen! and are on]j' capable of adequate description by the one word—brilliant."

■\s ;ui instance of tin1 popularity of tl>« suit's by Mr <!• 11. Cliilmini, U)'J New Zealand composer, Ins .ua Curly-hetideil Hubby" realised .COW) in "a'siilc of copyright recently held in London. Six snugs l>y (towen were sold for cm:; to/, two <ii-«]j? song iilbmnH for el!'I, "nil « Kjcnili: album of son^s for ClilO IV. Mr .lolin Fuller and Sons' Waxworks oiul Vaudeville. Company celebrated their first anniversary at. the Alliain|)rn. Theatre, Duncdin, last Wednesday an,d generously handed over the whole of (lie takings on that evening to the Fourth Contingent Fund. As lien Fuller says: "it is a bit of a record, you'll lulmit, playing ■>■'■> weeks night ai'rter night consecutively, and i to'consistently good business." J Mr J. ('. Williamson announces having- received assignment of the following- operas for a period of three years:--"Patience," "Pirates of I'eri- : zance," "I'innforc," "Gondoliers,'' {"Mikado," "lolanthe," "Princess kin," "Yeoman of the Guard," "Jluddigore," '"Trial by ."lury." and "The' Sorcerer." lie has also purchased "The Rose of Persia;" music by Sir Arthur' Sullivan, book by Captain Uasil Hood; and I "Floradora," comic opera, by Owen I Hall, music by Leslie Stuart. These | operas are to "be prod need by the. reI organised Koyal Comic Opera Company shortly.