MIMES AND MUSIC.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 114, 10 November 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)

MIMES AND MUSIC.

[By Orpheus.] COMING EVENTS. Ol'ttlU HOUSE. Wellington Orchestral Society, 12th and 13th November. Prof. Anderson (" The Wiaard of the 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. Nance O'Neill Com»pany, 23rd January to 2nd February, 1901 (pencilled). Stanford Dramatic Company, four weeks' season, from 4th February, 1901. Norlhcote's " Pepper's Ghost " Opera Company, 25th February to 9th March; 1901. ' Montgomery's Paris Novelties, Ist to 20th April, 1901. In view ,of the reveal of " Djin-Djin" at Wellington on the following evening,' Mr. T. Pollard, so the story goes, ordered the property' men to be in attendance at the Opera- House on a recent Sun* day night, so that the earthquake scene mighv be tried, to see that everything was in a staie of readiness. Jusfc as the gong sounded preparatory' to the fall of the temple, the theatre was moved by a real earthquake shock, and holding .up his hands in horror at the visitation, Mr. Pollard declared that there should be no more Sumv\y rehearsals under his management., ■ > Mr. King Hedley, a popular Australian actor, who recently went to London, has been engaged by Mr. Beerbohm Tree for a part in "Herod" ,at Her Majesty's Theatre. Mr. Frank Linooln, the droll American humorist wh,o has twice visited Wellington, was doing what is described as "the best turn" at the Palace Theatre, London, in September. Mr. Will Jameson, manager of Mr. P. R. Dixs Christcnurch company, write* that J. C. Bain, is just as Dig a draw down thelre as, he was in the North. ' "We also have little' Clajude Sullivan, amidget comedian, wiiom you wili have shortly. This mite sings and dances with all the go of an old performer. Last Saturday night Miss Ivy Scott, a dainty serio, made her first appearance £n New Zealand, a-nd had a good reception." Mr. Gerard Coventry, who came to Australia with "The Belle of New York," will produce Mr. J. C. Williamson's Christmas burlesque, probably in Sydney. v , j Miss Jennie Qpie, recently ftith the PoJUartPs, is p'lajying Miss jjorothy Vane's former part oi Dancing Sunbeam in the Melbourne proid)n,cldoin of "The Rose of Persia." I There is a. prospect of Messrs. Roscoe and Holland- sending out to Australia from America in the very near future ' a comic opera company, "entirely cpmpossd of co.oured people. It is said that Madah A. Hyer, known in tho colonies as t^e "Bronze Patti," will be prdmadoima, and several members .of the lshmaai's Octoroon Company will be includ- • ed in the cast. Ernest Hogan and the "Country Coon" Company. i& contemplating another tour of Now Zealand. Owing, however, to the illness of Mi*. Hogan, the proposed trip is "hung up" for the time being. Mr. Frank Lawton, the whistler, was at latest advices appearing as a nigger minstrel in the new ballet, "Sea Side," | at tho London Empire. j Mr. H. Diederiehsen, the conductor, who has so long been associated with t«ue B rough Comedy Company, was recently, at the Perth Royal, presented by the members of the orchestra with a silvermounited baton. Tho clever iittl© New Zealand violinist Cella Dampier is making slow but sure progress in her profession at Home. On a recent Sunday she played with success an obligate for Ludwig, the p-opular singer, at St. Joseph's, and a few days later performed 1 at St. Nicholas Cole Abbey 1 during the highly? appreciated "dinner hour" eiitertainlmiewt for City mem. An American musical critic who heard Miss Dampier play at M. Ludwig's house was much impressed by her talent, -and predicts a bright ' future for the young Maorilander. Speaking of Miss O'Neil's future engagements, Mr. M'Kee Rankin, her manager, said the other day : — "We play -at" Her Majesty's, Sydney, until 15th December. TheA a visit is td be made to New ' Zealand, opening in Auckland en Boxing Night, and Tasting until just before Eastei'. We fleappeair in Melbourne at Easter, and 1 after that go to Brisbane. It is not settled whether a rettaT visit wilt be made to Sydney. At any rate, we leave Australia just a year from now for India and South Africa. After that our dates include Rome, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and Paris. London follows, but we do not reach the British metroipdlis until 1903." Jottings.!— Joseph Tanley! has developed into ,an enthusiastic golfer. . * Mrs. Brown Patter has purchased the Australian rights pf "The Heart of Maryland. . . . A 'par is going the rounds that Misfii Henrietta Watson has thus early discovered that marriage is a failure, and will be on active service Very shortly. . . On dit that Manager M'Kee Ranikin paiesemted his protege, Miss Nsince O'Neil, on. her last birthday with a 100-guinea diamond, and emerald bracelet, which she had! the misfortune to lose the same night. . . * Lottie CoKins, of "Ta-ra-boom" fame, is the highestsalaried artist in Harry Rickards's list; she draws £150 a week from, his treasury ; Billee Barlow about a century. Miss Elsie Hail has been appointed acting-professor at the Elder Conservatotrium (Adelaide) during the furlough of one of the staff, who is proceeding to the Old Countay" Sir Arthur Sullivan and Captain Basil Hood have just 'handed to Mr 1 . D'Oyley Carte then, completed score and libretto of a, new [ opera- for the Savoy Theatre. The' subject is said to be purely Irish, both' acts being laid in Ireland 1 about the end of last century. The author describes his new libretto as "light, bright, and slight." Of Miss Lottie Collins's first appearance in Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald says : — "Notwithstanding the trying heat, Miss Collins displayed a dash and abandon, as well as a thorough appreciation of gesture' and archness of explosion in her songs. Her singing voice, though not 'strong, is tuneful, and ,is used with such artistic appreciation of the word's sung that tke common music hall suing assumes an entirely new character in her hands. In the dances that accomipanied hter son£B there was a striking suggestion of the new dance which made Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay such a success. Mr. George Edwardes, says the London correspondent, of the Australasian, woiild like to send a first-class company to Australia next year to play musical comedy, including the best of the Gaiety and Daly repertoires. If the plan comes to anything the season will commence in Melbourne about th& date of tho arrival of the Duke and Duchess of York. Mr. Edwardes finds it difficult to secure cotapeten.t artists. In all seriousness lie offers' toi teach any young lady endowed with a fair voice a.nd attractive features everything requisite for her profession, and to ensure her £500 a year to begin with, and £2000 per ansnum at the end of the second y«a<r. He ridicules the talk of an overcrowded/ profession. Mr. David Glassford, who was last in New Zealand with the Knight -Ferrar Company, has been touring the English provinces with Mm. Langtry's company.

The Jersey Lily is at present in Gay Paree after a new piece from her "own special dramatist." Mr. "Johnny" Sheridan is ill in Melbourne. It somewhat upsets the programme far his final appearances at the Melbourne Theatre Royal. Mr. J. P. Sheridan recently produced what he termed "The New Kast JLynne.'' "If," says the Australasian critic, "it had been Mr. Sheridan's intention to turn Mrs. Henry Wood's doleful story into something iigiiit ivnd! airy — say a few domestic misunderstandings, with the song and dance tlexuent thrown in — there would have been a general sense of gratitude. As it is he does something in this direction, but too little. The drama is preserved, with all its aching misery. The 'improvements' are connected chiefly with the importation into the story of an Irish servitor, Murty O'Flynn, who, as impersonated by Mr. Sheridan, manages to relieve the formalism of the Carlyle household. Viewed from the standpoint of dramatic art, the wholo thing is of course supremely ridiculous. It is streaking a domestic tragedy with, broad Irish farce. There is little else new in the version save a. sensationally-arranged tableau in tho second act, showing the wrecked train mi which Lady Isabel is supposed to have perished. While the curtain remains lowered $n orchestral device sta.gges.ts the panting .of an approaching locomotive,. Then, there is a bang as though a. lyddite shell had accidentally exploded in the' wings, and the curtain, rises ..to show the scene of the smash ruddily lighted — ambulance parties and nurses already at work among the lulled and wounded. A Paris message tb a London paper says that Yvette Guilbert, the famous singer, who has been ihl for a year, is now convalescent, but still unable to wait. J3he grates that having given up aU her contracts she intends in future to smg only\ occasionally, and as an amateur. • \ A travelling dramatic company, while visiting a certain town in Scotland, had the misfortune to lose one of its members by death. The dramatic critic of the local newspaper attended the first performance, and. his accpmt next aay Avound up as follows : — "A pathetic interest w.as ion* ta the admirable entertainment from the fact that that day one of the company died. The performance will be repeated fco-night." Madame Adelina de Sara, (wife of Mr. Kingston, leading man with the Nance O'Neil Company, now in* Dunedin), who has been, giving piano recitals dn Australia, is to visit New Zealand. She is said to be very talented. She is connected with (several celebrities. That well-known composer of a past age, Henry Russell, ona bis second marriage, espoused her aunt, and London Ronald (Russell), who is becoming known in London as a song composer and writer, is thus hep first cousin. W. Clark Russell, the sea novelist, is a son of Heiny Russell's by the first marriage. *