AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE STARS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue LXIV, 13 September 1902, Page 5

AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE STARS.

The above company arrived in town last evening, an<ll will open their season in this «city at the Opera House on Monday evening next. The reputation which Messrs. Kelly and Ashby made during their recent visit with the World's Entertainers should ensure them a hearty welcome. Morris and Wilson the new comedy and knock-about team, ore making their first appearance here, in a new tap entitled "Scenes in Chinatown." * In addiliou to the already lnrge number of. turns already advertised, the full strength of the company will appear in a laughable pantomime sketch, "Over the Garden Wall," in which the fun is said to be of the hurricane order. On Monday afternoon ' at 1 o'clock, Cunning, the "American Magician," will give a public exhibition of mental telepathy. A committee of citizens will leave the Opera House, drive round the city, and select a spot at which to conceal a bunch of keys. Cunning, blindfolded, will leave the theatre hnlf on hour afterwards and will follow tiie route taken by the committee and find the object concealed. In every city visited this exhibition haa created much interest and wonderment. The box-plan was opened yesterday at Holliday's. A local syndicate has made arrangements for a complete set of kinematograph films of the Coronation procession to be sent to Wellington, and these will arrive here next week. The films are expected to- be equal to those exhibited her » of the Diamond Jubilee. There will be one film alone of the procession measuring 2000 ft, and another depicting the review of the colonial contingents in Alexandra Park, and the naval review at Spithead. The Opera House has been engaged, and the season will open this month. A spetial machine for tho reproduction of the pictures has been procured. The keen interest that i» taken in ambulance work was shown in the splen- 1 did attendnpee at the Mission to Seamen last night, whan Mr- Moore tpoke on "Accidents I have seen." Mi*n M'lntyre was most successful with her programme of music, irr which the following were performers: — Mwdames Barker and Lindsay, Misses Burnett and M'lntyre, and Messrs. Forrest, Robin, and Best. On Wednesday evening, a social gathering under the auspices of th« juvenile | , contingent of St. Patrick* Branch of the Hibernian Society will be held in the Druids' Hall, Tsmtnaki-street. ' I Mr. Robert Parker's sixth lecture-con- I cert will be given in the Sydney-street ■choclroom next Thursday evening. A return ping-pong tournament took j place in the Bowen-street schoolroom last | night between teams of five from the Social Unions of the Terrnce and the Newtown Conjrtegotionnl Churches. The Newtown team won by 73 points, the totals being 370 and 297 respectively. Refreshment 1 * were provided by lady friends of tho Terrace Union. | The first annual "social" tinder the auspices o r the employees of the Bradford Woollen Company was held in the Foresters' Hall last evening, and proved a grent success. There were about 160 | persons present, and dancing interspersed with vocal items, was kept going merrily until a late hour. Messrs. M'MilKn and Parsonage acted ns masters of ceremonies. The arrangements in connec- • tion with the " social " wore made by a committee coniiisting of Misses Waters, Fuller. M'Cluggnge, and Pnrsonnge, with Miss K. Burke as hon. secretary. The Pioneer Lodge of Good Templars will celebrate their twenty-ninth anniversary on Mondny next in the Reohabite Hall, Manners-street, by holding an entertainment, for which they have arranged fm excellent programme, which is to conclude with the farce "Box and Cox." The Mayor has consented to pre•ide. The determination of Mr. Musgrove to send us comic opera instead of nis dramatic company has had one unlooked-for pfft'et. Mesrlnrnps Smith and M'Donald, who hnd secured rights of the programmes for the tour throughout the colony, had prepared a special souvenir programme for the occasion, and the work was well advanced towards completion when the news of the rhange of plans enmo to hand yejrterdav. Th« result is thnt the enterprising firm mentioned hns a lot of artistic printing work on its hands, for which it has little uSe. Theatre-goers and advertisers, however, will benefit inasmuch as Mesdumes M'Donald and Smith hnre decided to include the souvenir pro- " grammes prepared for the dramatic tour M'ith the programmes they will prepare for the comif opera tour, thui giving away an cvi 1 more attractive souvenir than was oriainally intended-