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Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 99, 23 October 1897, Page 3 (Supplement)

MIMES AND MUSIC.

♦ [By Obphbus. j comingTevents. OPEBA HOUSE. Paulton- Stanley Company, 3rd to 16th November. Bland Holt, 17th November to 15th December. THE TRIMNELL TESTIMONIAL. As the suggested shilling contribution haß not met with the response anticipated, the subscriptions sent in and acknowledged in this column, amounting altogether to 42s 6d, have been handed to the Honorary Treasurer of the General Fund, and the Hit as far as thU oolumn is concerned v sow oloaed. In answer to a correspondent, ' Enrydice,' the sfage name of Mrs. Charles Turner, of the Montagne-Turner Opera Company, is Miss Annis Montague. She is, I believe, still living in Honolulu, and occasionally takes part in operatic performances there. The Paulton- Stanley Company open a six nights season at Auckland next Monday in 'My Friend from India.' They also play ' A Night Out ' and • Niobe.' Carnival week in Chriatchurch this year will be a merry one. The Bland Holt Company will be playing at the Theatre Royal, the Flying Jordans in an adjacent paddock, the Kinematographe at the Oddfellows' Hall, the Engineers' Band Carnival j at the Opera House ; there will be a Doll Show at the Art Gallery, a Geraisohter Abend by the local Liedertafel at the Temple, Convertazione to the Governor, races, and show, besides various other minor festivities. The pianoforte recital to be given on the 2nd of November by Mrs. Alfred Levi at the Art Gallery will be looked forward to by lovers of good music Mrs. Levi will have the assistance vocally of Miss Phoebe Parsons and Mr. S. Dyer, and will play the celebrated ' Wajdstein ' sonata of Beethoven, and works by Greig, Schubert, Liszt, Weber, Handel, and Chopin. The Bland Holt Company opens at Christchurch to-night in 'For England, 'a military dr ima by Sutton Vane. Miss L. Large, of Napier, who has been on an extended visit to the Old Country for ihe purpose of completinghermusical education, whs a passenger by the s.s. lonic this week, and it is understood proposes to give recitals in various parts of the colony. At a presentation gathering before the Broughs finally left Australia for India Mr. Brough Btated that the prosperity of the last sixteen months had convinced him that he should make Australia his home. Therefore in about eighteen months he and Mrs Brough would return and settle down and be Australians. ' Dandy Diok ' was played with seeming success by the Wanganui Amateur Musical and Draraatio Society last week. The St. John-Haymau Dramatic Company is now at Wanganui. Mr. George Alexander has secured a new play from the pen of Mr. Paul M. Porter, the adapter of ' Trilby,' and it will be produced at St. James's Theatre, London, this year. .' Ajistralia is preparing to welcome back one of its gifted daughters in music, Mias Elsie Stanley Hall. As a mere child she was a wonder. Some nine years ago she teas taken to Europe to pursue her studies, and her career eince then has been a distinguished one. At Stuttgart, when only twelve years of age, she scored a brilliant public success, and subsequently played by command before the Qneen of Wurtemburg. When Btill only twelve she won a pianoforte scholarship at the Royal College of Music, London, but did not avail herself of it, studying for some time under Mr. John Farmer, a famous tutor in the great metropolis of the Old World. Subsequently she untqred. the Konighjiche Hochsohule fur Musik, Berlin, of which Professor Joachim is the Principal. At the age of eighteen, Mus Hall carried off that much-coveted honour the Mendelssohn Staat Stipendium in open competition against all Germany. Before leaving Berlin she gave a recital in that critical art centre, winning the commendation of the press. Recently she has been giving pianoforte recitals in London with marked success. Miss Hall is a passenger by the incoming German mail steamer, Friedrioh der Grosse, which is due in Melbourne early in November. She will give recitals in Australia, and will probably visit New Zealand with the same object. Mr. George Clutsam, a New Zealand composer coming to the front in London, has composed an opera, which has been accepted for production at the Doke of York Theatre. Mr. Clutsam at present contributes music to the Strand Magazine. The Chevalier de Kontski, has been able to carry out the original scheme of his tour, and when last heard from, had started on his journey through Eastern Siberia. Abandoning his original intention to go to England, Mr. Titheradge has accepted an offer from Messrs. Williamson and Musgrove, and was to have re-appearel last Saturday night in the first Sydney production of • Two Little Vagabonds.' Miss Lily Titheradge was also in the cast, as one of the two little vagabonds, the other being Miss Terriss, who played in ' The Sign of the Cross.' The ' company also includes Miss Emily Hughes, Mr. Howard Vernon, Mr. J. W. Sweeney, and Mrs. Maesmore Morris, a Victorian beauty of considerable dramatic talent. ' The Babes in the Wood ' is the subject of ' the Firm's ' Christmas panto, at the Melbourne Princess Theatre. • An Irish Gentleman,' the joint work of David Christie Murray and L. J. Shine, despite the shower of adverse criticism which attended its initial performance, is meeting with success as a touring piece. Miss Ada Reeve and Mr. Bert Gilbert, two well-hnown English dramatic people, have arrived in Australia to join the Firm's Musical Comedy Company, replacing MJbs Ada Willoughby and Mr. Shand, who are returning to fill English engagements. Mr. Scot Inglis, now in America, has accepted an engagement with Miss Julia Arthur, a leading American actress, for an extended tour of 30 weeks, including a six weeks' season at Wallace's Theatre, New York. Miss Edith Crane, who played Trilby in Australia, has signified her intention of revisiting the Antipodes, with a company of her own. My London correspondent writes : — Messrs Williamson and Musgrove are in for a very big order indeed in London this season. When it was announced that they were taking over the Shaf tesbury in October it was understood that it was to run comic opera there, but such seems not to be the case, another house having been engaged for this venture. I understand that Miss Nellie Stewart is to be the prima donna, and will make another attempt to win her way into the hearts of London audiences ai she has done with Australian. Tho first opera that is to be tried is ' The Scarlet Feather,' an adaptation of 'La Petite Marine.' Miss Hilda Spong's engagement with Mr. Dion Boucicault, who has taken tho Court Theatre ia conjunction with Mr. Arthur Chudleigh, is for a period of six months. Another colonial is gaining honours on the London stage. ' Catados ' in the Referee remarks that ' the clever Australian jumping mare Waipera enacts the star part, Black Bpps (in a Dick Turpin sketch entitled 'TheKing'sHighway '), with more 'inxiirht' and with more subtlety than that difficult character has ever been represented in my experience.' It was only definitely decided a few dayß ago that Mr. Wilton Barrett and his Company should make the trip to the colonies in January pext (so I am informed). At ureaent ho is playing at the Lyrio. ' The 8 -'n of the Cross ' will be the pisCt & c mi§tance of fte fiojonjaj tour*