MIMES AND MUSIC. [BY ORPHEUS.] COMING EVENTS,

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 102, 27 October 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)

MIMES AND MUSIC. [BY ORPHEUS. ] COMING EVENTS,

Or-ERA. HOUSE. M'Adoo'a Jubilee Singers, 27th. October to 3rd November. Physical Training School, sth and 6th November. Fabian Dramatic Company, in "Arrah-na-Pogue," Bth, 9th, and 10th November. Wellington Orchestral Society, 12th and 13th November. Prof. Anderson ("The Wizard of tha North "), 14th to 17th November. American Biograph, 20th to 30th November. Trilby Company, 3rd to 22nd December. Charles- Arnold Company, 26th December to 22nd January, 1901. Nuice O'Neill N Company, 23rd January to 2nd February, 1901 (pencilled). Holloway Dramatic Company, four weeks' season, from 4th February, 1901.

The welcoming back to Melbourne of Miss Neljie Stewart and Mr. George Musgrovo, according to Melbourne Punch, was v vrary excited 1 and sincere aft'air. Miss Stewart, who eagerly greeted a small army of relatives and friends, disembarked in a frock built of dark serge, the front of the bodice pouched with tine lace and finished with rows of gold buttons. Round the waist was a back, and front gold and silver buckled belt, and a great string, of turquoise* ; and a unique hat as regards shape, and made in black and white, fiuished the costume. Th© whole effect was wondrously smart and fetching, and Miss Stewart, who is looking younger than ever and extremely well, has, judging by 'her, figure andi the grace of her carriage, like most smart English and American women, eschewed corsets and releigated them. to, tho past. As aoon as it was known the returning players were in port the flag was hoisted over the Princess's Theatre, the most attractive Saa*t of, the interior of which w/as Mr. eorge Musgrove's office, which was gaily docked with flowers, and where the po'pulaor xnaiuigep.' held. a sort of reception later in tho afternioon. J Tho Wellington Orchestral Sbciety's next concert, to take place on 13th November, will introduce to local audiences two singers, Miss Frazier, soprano, lately arrived from England, and Miss Hunt, the Nolson contralto. The programme will include Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, Liszt's Fantaisie for piano and orchestra, and small pieces by Paderewski and Rubinstein. Tho Auckland Amateur Opera Club plays "The Yeoman of the Guard" next Thursday. Mr. Frank Marshall, well-known in amateur dramatic circles both in Masterton and Wellington, has been appointed stage manager to the Fabian Dramatic Club. Ho will superintend the staging of "Arrah-na-PogUe," to be performed shortly in aid of furnishing th« new Convent at Newtown. Mr. Maurice Nevanas, now of Oamaru, but formerly a resident for a. time at Nelson, has been appointed conductor pf the Oamaru Garrison Band. Mr. Nevanas will be remembered locally as having given organ recitals during the progress of the Wellington Indxistrial Exhibition. Mr. C. Trusaell, bandmaster of tho Nelson Garrison Band) and conductor of the Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society,has been nominated for the position of judgo for boblf' tha 'Canterbury Jubilee Exhibition band contest and tho North Island Brass Bands Association contest, to be held in Wanganui. The final choice is. made by the Executive Committee from the nominations recsived. Lady ,Halle intends, according to an announcement from Berlin, forthwith to relinquish public \{[ Q /^^ to se ttl© down in the German capital as a teacher. Lady Halle's association with England dates back to~3obh April, 1849, ' when, at the old Princess's Theatre, under Maddox, she, as a child of nine, took part in a concert with her brother and sister, after the performance of Carafa's opera "The Heart of Mid-Lothian." The extraordinary capabilities of the young Wilhelmine Neruda, says" a contemporary critic, "were then displayed in Ernst's • 'Oarnaval de Venise. She played at the Philharmanic as a juvenile prodigy in the same year, but she returned as a finished artist in 1869, since when, at the Monday Popular, the Crystal Palace, the Halle, and other concerts, she has, until a very few years ago, been a very prominent figure in British musical life. She was- acknowledged to be the greatest of all the lady violinists of her time. Some rare and quaint old Scottish melodies, seldom hoard now-a-days, are to bo given in choral and orchestral form at a concert early next month under the patronage of the Gaelic Society. Mr. AlacDuff Boyd is arranging the programme. Miss Grace Palotta is leaving the London Gaiety Theatre for a time to. fulfil an engagement in Australia with Mr. J. C. Williamson. Mr. Charles Frohmari has secured the American rights of a new farce by Herr Gustav yon Moser, the author of "The Private Secretary," called "A Child of tho Secession." Tho difference between Mr. Henry Arthur Jones's new comedy and the old "High Life Below Stairs" sort of farce, is that Mr. Jones has treated the servants' hall with as much respect as the drawingroom, and has * given character and individuality to each of his personages. "Folly Corner," Mr. Henry Dudeney's latest novel, is being dramatised by Miss Joannetto Gilder, the editor of The Now York Critic, and one of the many stage adaptors of "Quo VadwV" Madame Mota Pelham, well known in Melbourne, ,' has brought out a one-act play— "Her Young Man"— at Her Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen. The play was performed for the first time in August, Madame Pelham and her youngest daughter* both filling parts. Tho Washington Post says: — "There seems to bo some kind of fatality attached to the 'When we are married' song in 'The Belle of New York.' Phyllis Rankin, who first sang it, was divorced a few weeks .afterwards. Queenie Vassal*, who was the second) Fifl, had beon married and divorced twico. Merri Osbarno, the third Fifi 1 , was divorced just before she wont to London to sing the role. And then, queerly enough, Toby Claude, the first unmarried actress to sing the part, decided to marry the young man to whom, in 'Tho Belle,' sho discoursed so sweetly on the beauties of married life." The simile might be, carried to this colony, where Miss Maud Beatty, who was the first Fiti of tho Pollard Company, soon' idler went and got married. Madame Mel&a rucentdy gave a concert in Dublin for a chanty. Tho prima donna, will sing in New at Christmas lime in Mr. Maurice Grau's Opera Company, and hasi also been engaged for the next Convent Garden season. Mr. Qrau started a four months' season of the English opera at the Metropolitan Opera House on the Ist ult., his company including Mr. William P&ull (late of the Royal Comio and Pollard Opart* Companies). Air. Bland Holt's Sydney season closes to-night. From Sydnoy Mr. Holt goes to Melbourne, opening at the Theatre Royal on 3rd November with "The Ab-sent-minded Beggar." During his stay in the Victorian capital, which will extend over twelve months, Mr. Holt purposos staging "The Great Ruby" and "Hearts arc Trumps •" and very likely the latest Drury Lane production, "The Price of Peace." This piece had been written by Mr. Cecil Raleigh, and, according to an inspired paragraph, "is one

of the moat daring and brilliant that Mr. Raleigh has yet conceived. Ifc js full of high society people, und in at least one scene a very pathetic ciiord is struck, that of the departure of tho little girl from a convent school to face the world." It will be, as usual, a,' romantic drama in four acta, introducing well-known .London localities, the principal scenes being a ward in St. Thomas's Hospital, the River Terrace of the Houses of Parliament at afternoon tea time^ a convent school in the Marylebone-roftd, and Westminster Abbey on the occasion of a. fashionable wedding. Mr. Charles Arnold, whose success in "What Happened to Jones" has been so marked in Australia, i£ said to be one of the luckiest men in the profession. By adoption he is an American ; by birth he is a Swiss. His name as a player was firat made in London in 1883, when he played Tony in "My Sweetheart" for over forty weeks at the Strand Theatre. English managers were then so impress td by his ability in "dialect" parts that they strove to secure him/ to play the namepart in "Rip Van W inkle. ' Mr. Arnold, however, so confidently perceived his metier that he arranged with Mr. Clay Greene, then one of the foremost of Amorican dramatists, to write him a. play for himself. "Hans the Boatman" was the result of this arrangement. After playing forty-six weeks, in England, Mr. Arnold came to Australia and New Zealand under engagement to Messrs. Brough and Boucicault, and, with the success which is historical, played "Hans the 1 Boatman" in the principal towns. Altogether, in various parts of the world, Mr. Arnold has played Hans over 3000 times. Two or three years ago Mr. Arnold brought here the funniest of all funny farces, "Charley's Aunt," and in the ensuing season successfully revived "Hans the Boatman" and produced a new play, "Captain Fritz." In New York, on nis return, he purchased with characteristic luck, "What Happened to Jones," which proved ;for him. in London, as it is proving in Australia, a tremendous money-maker. Other plays of profit which the actor-manager lias "up his sleeve" are such British and American successes as "The Professor's Love-story," in which Wyndham made such a great hit. Incidentally ifc may be remarked that Mr. Arnold bought up the song "Tommy Atkins" at a provincial theatre, and made thousands of pounds, as is his wont, out of subsequent royalties.