STAGE JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 240, 7 October 1916, Page 14

STAGE JOTTINGS.

Mies Florence Young is shortly to make her reappearance in Melbourne in the title role of "The Cinema. Star."

Mr. Harry Lander, the famous Scotch comedian, has been booked to appear in revue. It is understood that Mr. Lander is to visit Australia again next year.

The "Echo Beige" announces that one of the most popular dancers at the Brussels Opera House, Paulette Verdoot, committed suicide in Brussels, and left a letter to the police saying: "I Mα unable to live in Brussels under the German rule. I ■would rather die." '

Olga Pennington, a clever Sydney girl, Who was in vaudeville under both the Fuller and the Rickards banner, was married on 17th June to Theodore Fenton, musical critic of the San Francisco "Chronicle." The -ceremony was performed on a motor-launch just outeide the city area, the-bride hieing under age.

"There will shortly arrive in>Australia a new comedy company "under the management of J." C. Williamson, Ltd. This company was organised in London, and contains several prominent comedians. A season in South Africa precedes the visit to Australia, with a repertoire which includes such pronounced "comedy successes as "Fair and Warmer" and "A Little Bit of Fluff."

Mr. Walter Gilbert has won the first prize in the Panama lottery, amounting to £10,000. He purchased the ticket some yeara ago \ for three guineas. Gilb#rt .was at one time the leading tenor in the D'Oyley Carte Opera Company. Mr. Gilbert accidentally destroyed his ticket, but his claim has been admitted 'by the authorities, and the money will be paid at the expiration of a specified period.

A music hall sketch which is now the rage in Berlin, cays the "Daily News and Leader," seems to throw an interesting light on tie real state of the food question there. The sketch in question represents a burglary. The thieves rifle a safe and take from it bags full of precious stones and stacks of bonds, and reject them ai). Then in its inmost recess they find —2oz of butter, and depart with it in triumph while the audience Cheers.

Harcourt Beatty, the fine actor who supported Nellie Stewart in "Old Heidelberg," "Sweet-Nell of Old Drury," and other pieces, is numbered now amongst the wounded. He has been doing his bit since early in the war, when he gave his age as thirty-six, though he is decidedly more than that. The last news of him was to the effect that he was lying in hospital, his right arm shattered by a German bullet. To add to his misfortunes, his wife could not visit him, having fallen from a motor bus and broken her ankle.

The death of Tom Daweon, comedian and dancer, will (says the Sydney "Daily Telegraph") be regretted as much by the many vaudevillians who worked on the same circuits at intervals M by the patrons whose acquaintance only extended across the footlights, but who relished his. quaintly original style. Tom died ac the result of wounds - received on the west front, and was such an off-band and genial good soul that -i.the could communicate with hie friends'., now it would probably be in the. words of one of his beat songs, "What d'ye want to talk about it for?"

The approaching marriage of Miss Maud Allan, the well-known classical dancer, to Leo Oherniavsky, the violinist of the Russian concert party of that name, was announced in Victoria, 8.C., at the end of last August. It was stated that the wedding would probably take place in New York this winter, which means probably about the end of the year. When Miss Alien toured New Zealand a year or two ago she did bo in conjunction with the three Oherniavskye, who afterwards made a return tour of. the Dominion without the dancer. - ' .