DRAMATIC GOSSIP.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10144, 17 September 1898, Page 2

DRAMATIC GOSSIP.

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" Weekly Press and Referee. The "Westminster Gazette"publishes a." long account of the rescue of a boy from >. drowning in the Thames, near Maidenhead, by Mr Charles Charringtori, who dived u» ' : with his high hat and frock-coat on, and ;•; dragged the urchin to the surface. It seems that, on his return to the side of the theatrical house-boat from which' he . -,_.«, plunged, his wife (Miss Janet Achuronr \ \."\ declared she "really wouldn't have known - •;-• C, him!" Thus is heroism rewarded. _• • ; Mr Charles W". Anson, well known as.* "V* clever amateur comedian and playwright ;: has not had long to wait before making his debut in England as a professional actor. '. Mr Anson, who is a son of the famous actor George W. Anson, only left Sydney in. March of this year, but, thanks to Mr George Musgrove, he has already secured »- satisfactory engagement. When one of the , provincial "Belle of New York" companies opens the newly-built playhouse at Margate • Mr Anson will play a comic character, and as the tour will last until next April he may fairly be congratulated upon a good beginning. ■ '~ Madame Frances Saville, who has mads ' her reappearance at Covent Garden as Elizabeth, in ''Tannhauser," was by a large and brilliant house, to whom h». charming performance was an evident delight. She looked superb, and sang and acted with the most admirable art. Hex

next appearance was in "Gotterdammerung," the last of the Wagnerian cycle, over which musical London is at present bo «, greatly agitated. During the season Madame Saville will very likely be heard in . - \?i "Traviata' and "Pagliacci." , . >f;,j The musical comedy, "The Belle of New "-?!, York," which has been lately played' at- .",; » the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, under ,;' '. the management of Messrs Williamson and "_\v] Musgrove, is now being produced in Dub* -.-•,>;! lin. Miss Nellie Stewart, in the role, ia a great success, \\~ffj|f • -^W