STAGE JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 149, 23 June 1906, Page 10

STAGE JOTTINGS.

I Mr. William Anderson's pantomime proved a capital eDt€rtsinment—br [varied, and full of colour. Miss Marie (Campbell make* the brightest of pn-.to-l imime 'boys." Mr. Fred. Graham and Mr. j QueaJy are fresh in their hurrorous sali iics. and some splendid vaudeville items .' 'are contributed by the B cknells, a num- \ ! ber of first-rate acrobats, the musical I Gardners, and others. The staging and I costuming is uncommon! 3- good. j Mr. -John Be.;nchaznp. whose London j reputation ia 'oid man."*" parts, i« said j 1 to be eeeoiid to none, join* the Titte'l i j Bruite Company at Fn'mantle, and will straightway take \irs his appointed parts ( •nth that company Mr. Edward Mackay, i "horn it may be remembered Mr. J. C. j "Williamson errraged at the same time as j Mr. Eeaucham" and who c»me ovt : r. i tne jive steamer, w... coTJtSaue h.s o -- jney to Melbourne, wnere he will await; the arrival of the Waldron Cciiipaay. to ' w hi -a be has t-c-en assicned. i A monumeiit to Sir Hfr.ry Irvin? if j .shortly to oe ere.r-ted in Am°rii-si. The I Fniscooal Church of St Cbrr*o*t-mn. it | Seventh Avenue. N*w York. the vicar I j of wh.'ch. the Rev. Thc-35 H. Sill takes: ; a deep interest in the Actors' Churcc Al- j jhane». is the p]»e*> selected +0 the) I-"ernoria" It ■=-*!] --'-•» th" f'—m of a; ;bmre tablet, siv feet ir< height with a j I half relief of Irving at the top. and an 1 Imention, givlr.c a sarrrr,ary of his! life, beneath. Aboi:t £ 2000 ha* been! : ra:-ed by subscription for the cost of j the work. j Mr. Charles WaMron uassed through I Auckland or. the v-toss en route for 1 Melbourne to pby "The Squaw Man" and ; : other piece-: for Mr. J. C. "^Uilliamson. Frcm iat-est "Britich Australasian - : ! i "An Australiat! T'^ €llornell oii,' as Mr. ' , Vincent Crummies would have called her. j is creating some sensation in private 1 circies in Berlin just now. Miss tVatjda i j Radford, who is said :o be a native cf' I Adelaide, and only eight years of age, ' i sings, dances, and acts, and is haP.ed as a j child-actress of exceptic-ai natural oifts. : lit is £nnotm"ed that Mis* Ellen Terry ; has interested herself in the little Aus [ tra]ier.ne. and will endeavour ro 'place" j her in a production when she arrives in I London nest month. .

j Miss Titte" Brtme is nov beginning a | | tour of Western Australia, after which ! | she runs a short season m Xew Zealaud, • begjir-ting at Dunedin on August 7. In the opinion of the celebrated Teresa i I Can-en o. a new musical prodigy Va* I I arisen in Budapest in the person of j iMdlle. Mignon de Mars-Chalks!, a pianist iof 12 years of age, cf whom Mdme. Car- j jreno writos that "she is the greatest j i musical genius that has ever lived." j j Mr. Frederick Mouillot has made ar- j ■ rartgements f&r a three weeks' concert I I season at the Royal. Dublin, commencing j sin May. and bas engaged iliss Ada Cross 7 j j ley. Miss Amy Casties, Miss Evangeline j i Florence, and Madame MarchesL I The money collected by the London journal "The Tribune' - for the fund to j eomrr-.emcrate the jubilee of Miss Ellen Terry amounted to over £2350. | Mr. Forbes Robertson has been giving J some views oi things theatrical to a Manchester interviewer. Mr. Robertson , has no belief in the decadence of the ' drama. Tbe cry. after all. he says, is a I very old one. and there is nothing to | the decay. Ou the contrary, there ' is an extraordinary multiplication of theatres of various kinds, their atmos- ' phere bas improved, and the status of i actors and actresses has gene v? consid- j erabiy. Mr. Robertson is not in favour ! of a municipal or State-aided theatre. He says: " I don't approve of ' the peopie called upon, I don't care how little it may be. to support a theatre. A vote for that I purpose would be unfair and unpopular ■ with many people. But lam in favour of | the establishment of repertory theatres I by wealthy entnusia-ts if you can pos- i sibly ftnd them. Tne advantages of the drama, to the public, and the profession ; are obvious. A subsidised theatre would ; ensure that plays would be staged with- i out c-imr.-iereial consideration* coming r.rst and last, and it would tend to the j efficiency oi actors by enlarging their opportunities and giving them a sense of. . security which at present they do not always enjoy." Owing to the exigencies of a brief season. Mr. Collier's company stopped short with 'The Dictator." and passed on to "On the Quiet." a play of ;nuch the same character as its predecessor. ■I J. Mascotte' now in active re- j h.earsal by the iyv.il Comic Opera Com- , psr.v. aithr-uafa present indicat'on* show j ' nat it will -ct be wanted this season ii Sydney. It wi . however. Ie f» of th° •"!-'— attractions fr- M---bourne. "The ' L ; -t!e Michns" r-d •"The Shop Girl'" shar- j in_ with it that ro«rk of soeela] favour. In ai. interview on board the Orient i ot Fr»tcantle. Miss Mr tie Narelle said , that it wa; four years since she went; ito Londm from Australia. She sar.g . at iSt. James" Hali, the Queen's Hall. and the Royal Albert Hall concerts. In I her work at ballad concerts she travel- j ; led the United Kingdom, and bad 3 | • splendid time in Ireland. At Dublin, i the Lord Mayor presented her with a ] tiara of Irish scroll work, as the first Irish-Australian lady who ever sang J , professionally in Ireland. Afterwards I *he went t-i s*. Louis for the exhibi- j tin. and was the only vocalift in the ; world ior the er.t:re period of j the exhibition. She sang before all the ! distinguished vi*:tTS .here. "I met | Pres ; lent i.cosevelt. one of the most I c'.-;2-3JD3 men I ever met in my life." i : Miss Nareile said. "T was iniineiise'.y I impressed with his personality. He is ! always pleaded tn meet Australians, i Next to his own country, he say*, com tes , his love for Australia. He admires j j Australian literature, and i* conversant i with most of it. I did not get further | j ires- than St. I tcis. hut 1 did the Eastern States ;':. c-rc-a. Lly. I szvc con- i ! ce-r* in the c-ii.s of the East on my' -.--- s? v':tr. I will open in Sydney on ' , T at,e 18. lam tearing *he world I p t.\ agreemert with Mr. i ' r'-»deT:-.-k S>.i-n:»n. From Australia we ' ;?a to New Zealand, then to South j ] Africa. Ceylon. L-dia. <"h:na, Japan. ■ Canada, and the Stat =*.. I am lookin' : to o!q friends in Syd- ! I wy." * I Mr=. Brown Pott.-r at the ' J Herald-square Theatre ;n New York last I 1 rcor.th i- a slxrt v-;rs:cu of "1 Pagii- ; ! r.cci."" v "_;ch she h_d be?n playing in the I jLona-.n rru-:.- halls. Sh= recei-ved a sal- j ! B-- of 3000 collars a we.-k. A bitter and biting gibe at theatrical | life occurs in Mr J. M. Barrie"s I '"Punch,'" now playing ar the London 1 Comedy. Fin-ling that the J.J puppets jno longer attract the public. Judy re- | I marks plaintively to her husband, j ""For the good of the show I'm willing \ ]to pretend that I'm not married." , A mania for sprinkling peppor or snuff j lin crowded places recently struck New j \ork. At Hammerst-in's theatre in that I c.tv some w.iuid-be wa«r in the front row iof the gallery let ioo-e a handful of pep- : per. which settled like a gentle fall of j j snow upon the people in the orchestra J j seats, who were immediately seized with I a violent attack of sneezing, five-! tae I actors caught the infection, and for aj j quarter of an hour \ ie stsr-e the orcbe*- j Itra. and the audience v!ed with each [cher in a sneezing match, while the gal- ; leiy cheered them to tne echo. In responding to the toast of The j Drama"' at the annual dinner of the Gali lery First-Nigh:-rs" Club, st Frasoarfs I ,' Restaurant, London. Mr Arthur Bour- | chier maintained taat the public did i not want to po to the theatre to see i a re-hash of the sweepings of the divorce j court, offered to them as a picture cf English ho-ne-I'-'e in the ninetenth cenj tury. Tne dramatist of oar youth dit I j not radeavoar to persuade us that s i | presents to: of the abnormal, mdrcidu- i | ally and collectrre.y. was g prc-st-nta- ! I tien oT the t;. pieaL No play bad «-• j - ! j made far tae cood of its 3. tbo 7- . its pre I I'dncer. the actor? engaged in it or c f f.nyone else, whi?*" had a breach of t»if ! i the display of the s"stnj sifr c* private ' I life for its rsi*-o- d etrj. To h:m there- I i was £.iwsy*. snme"hirJ2 nauseous in tbe j rrcsettaticu of these things, either in | books or on the stag-e; we know they j exist. a-!d will always exist, as lons jas human nature is what it is: but n« jgo to the play wtshing to forget them, j rot tc see them. j Mr. T P. O'Connor devotes seveml j x-rrasT&vhs in "M.A.P.* to Miss EHer , Terry. rT"re is one- : 'h her personal 1 habit? this woman who has cor n -lapsed I such huge audiences and such large sal I aries is simplicity itse-lf. She is~ pr-.c jtiral'.y an ascetic in eating and drinking ! She lives in LorJon in a house in ' Cheisea. and in one of the old Cinque j | Ports she bas a s?n3il cottage. She | dresses with simplicity: is frmrai except j where her afTecticns make on! ;her purse: in short, is just the kind of I si—iole bome-lo—ing woman that hun- j dreds of thousands of her countrywomen j are like. Long may she Live to enjoy i her popularity and her fame."' 1 Madame Melba sang four soc~s for i j Mr. W. W. Aster, the American million- i aire, and received £ 1000. Some years j S2O Fsder£*sski played at one of the j At Homes given by the same parrcn and received 2 cheque for the same amount. , The rate at which Madame Melba was j jpaid works out at £50 a minute. [ THE DEaDBXAD.