STAGE JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 116, 15 May 1920, Page 18

STAGE JOTTINGS.

. The tuneful combination of Auckland vocalists known as the Lytic Quartet, and comprising Messrs, A. Ripley, H. R-hards, Alan McE-wain, and J. Ky*n, -Wompanie* by Miss Jessie Bartlett and M__r meXfn Harvfey, have set out on a __r ____-* tour of the _*___*-_ The yKtif bat *r#ayS bee_ a popular one', and now that their engagement with Chata-qoa it e'onelhded. they ar"e got-g :fd-_ td' give" the* vrhor- DoWi-ion _ t-ste' of their o,u«lity. During the week they left fof Whtngirei, and their tention is to work from North to South; It win prdbably be seven months before they come home again.

: When the las. _ur_ feft. oM__ -fay Beatty was" appearing as Dame Agatha Boot at the London Comedy Theatre in "Wild Geese;" a ne* musical cbniedy .With book and lyric* by Ronald Jeans a-d music bf Cos-MT _«__«_.

Cable advice his' been received from Mf, Kevin Tint, New York, that Be has engaged Miss Dorothy South, an American prima donna, for the Australia- production of "Irene." She leaves San Francisco for Sydney on June 22..

' m J, D. O-fcif*. who i* li_v_lg a highly successful tour through -few' Ze_land with 'T_g_-U_7' returnsto Sydney towards the end of* this month. During the Prince's visit to Sydney Mr. -____ wiU produce ' _hree Wise Fdoßr* it'the Criterion. __■~ O'Hara calls this "comedy with a big punch."

! "S__ie-i __th" is st- pMy df a* un-_s-al type" which has been staged at a series of matinee* in London by Milt Violet Melndtte. The drama, which if froAi «_# pen of Mr. Herbert __b_l_s, dea- with the' pro Merit of the un_tarried mother, it in fonr _e_l r occupies two* boors in ptaying and -»nt_r_s only two I cht—(c'ters.

: Ge-nf- BWant, the", very able" actor whd the" f-fr of' tha mHdteaged m-Vsgyniet in ' D-kfies," iWI (says tHe ©__e__f '__»*••) rein-m-et- by Dtatedhf efaygoenr f_f- hst excellent portmß 6f the* beTHgere-t -lit fcindly old ehrm-ffg maipiate, -Spt-fn Wißiisii-, » '•Paid In Fun," a*} .Sheriff J-e_r __M_ i# _IJfl of €_* ! fM-.h'.West.*'.'

_e__«eve-', .Ward' ("l-fie*__.- : Not") «_> Maych 27 eaters- her _2__ *yeiy, md received lMiy tfotfgratulitkiw„ _K_#J—-if Tefi^r, ; -_r the same month, reached her 72nd birthday. Lady Bancroft is approaching the same age. A London writer recalls that many actresses of the past exceeded these moderns. For instance, Mrs. Bracegirdle BS, Mr«. Abingdon "84, Mrs. Kemble 88, Mr*. Wallsek' 90.:_tiss Besforil 54, and Mrs. Ann Kelly 10-

The announcement that Messrs. J- and -9*. Tait have secured a SO years' lease of * —-t—it block Of lind tar Queen Street, 'Auckland, tM. intend to erect ts_«so_ a _n--el-st the_t«* seed-d t* _e_i i_ jvetay ZesW—d, w_i be weleews flense si 'inliif tfitmitefd (iijfl_. tht '___-_* It ghdwa, foV inst-nee, thit this' yonng and enteip-smg _r_f, #-«j i hay. atre-dv tlmrWiem s. many good t__#*.to New' _«_««, -rWn_ «.___■# €h0 -)o__.H-t6lt' • p-Wfl_s_h.-irt lovvlMif' grc-ad. whist it aim __**» the tbsatre -_-e__y esaier. if ■'4»-,s»st«*f' : st_- (s. geWslp h-s it'*r. : in _-«_- ---hmd wilt be foHo#ed br one m WefKsg- ;«_?'<? .■.■■'■" '-. ■ '*■

"_en y For" Three," a play Which it it-' tr-ctmg. maty.; visitors to the Haymarket 'Theatre, 1-mdonV it of tht American dramatist Rbf-»tper _feg*o*, whose work is familiar to M__-Jil_a theatregb-f*. It is being pfe-Ws_e_ by Miss Fay Compton, Whose Stiffly srid cleverness usually ensures success for any production with which she is associated. Miss Compton is the widow of Mr. Edward Pelimier. origmatbr Of the famous London Follies, daughter of Mt. .Edward Compton; the actor, arid sister of Mr. Compton Mackenzie, the well-known novelist. The Australian ] fig-ts of "Tea for Three" have Been I secured by Messrs. J. and N. Tait. • - i

Mr. Allan Wilkie is so pleased wttb tht success of the comedy'___' Rotters"! arid the comedy-drams "A Temporary Gentleman,'; staged' byfits repertoire e-_p__y, that he is organising- a second company to tour tht smaller towns throughout New Zealand with those plays. Tbe No. 2 company. Which Win b«r a permanent institution like tht first compertv. Will . commence its first circuit on May 17 with "The Rotters," arid "A Temporary Gentle-' man" will be presented on a' further tony. "The No; 2 company will not interfere With tht itinerary of No. 1. This will be the first occasion in the hlistorV of theatricals in this coilritrf off which theft aft t*d • permsiff*n. stock cent pariies-if i ou- '"

In a lecture delivered at fie Sydney Comserv-torhi_», denlkig with musical criticism, .press .aridotherwi-e, t'e director (•_lr. : Verbr.upg' , e_) —t'd that —is great majorittol people knew nothing of music, Slid: rtaerff -re 'Ook—l j ..up" to thoet who did, even :•* they were' only one-eyed. .-"Hi*."advice was t-> a'.—ick unifferorfuliy what «*«' not thr very best.- Bot people should l>e very careful in judging the performance of artists. It was, perhaps, only two .of three times 'ia-the'life of'riff art—;-—the w_« at hia very bii_f..; T_e~ rdle; of the* eritiff W»« .to be saflicie-—y' ■ke'en._to detect, when' hearing a .^l_n_M-.for.,.the,.fir?-.tana' who was not playing: Well," whe——* be Was in the presence of an art : <—'■ playag badly, or in -*t presence' or #'__>o_e who Was-not an art _t at all A perfprajer. might miss man vr. bars in a concerto, aad yet be a great artist. ? ';.,-.,' :,.- ;j

"Mother Hubbard," says- the Sydney "Daily Telegraph," is genuine pantomime, the best yet-staged at the-palace. There - were fero—ous4ooking, pirate's With glistening cu-asses; gtllarit sailor lads;-.who-put the ocean robbers-to flight in the best Marryat. style; gloriously sun-lit tropic isles, where the adve_—ifeY's" found their hearts' desire, and lovely Australian' mttdent, who flitted across the" stage tb the delight of theif admirers. Tlit.funmaking principally is left to __*. Barry I—tpino. AssociA—ft' with him was Mr. Jack Cannot. There appetr's as priririnal boy Mies Marjorie Carlisle, with Miss Wensley Rri-sell as principal girl. Bolh are clever artists, who- know their business: "Specialty dances," introduced by Mis_ Daisy Yates and Mr. Kelso fieri' dcrsori, were among the numerous bright novelties'. Miss , Elsie ' Parkes, too, •showed her talents in the same art—tie sphere.