MIMES AND MUSIC

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 30, 4 August 1917, Page 11

MIMES AND MUSIC

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THE SHOWS, Grsuid Opera House.— i J. and N. Tait, "Very Good Eddie".- Company, Sth August. . Town Hall.— The Dandies, in season. His Majesty's.—Vaudeville. Tli* Kine's Theatre.—Pictures nightly. Crown Theatre.j-Rctures nightly, ; Star Theatre- -Pictures nightly. Our Theatre.—Pictures nightl). Meir Theatrg.—Continuous Pictures. : Empress Theatre. —Continuous Pictures. Shortt's Pictures. —Uontinuous Pictures. ; People's Picture Palace.—Continuous Pictures. Britannia Theatre.—Continuous Pictures. Everybody's TUeatre.—Continuous Pictures, ' Queen's Pictures.—Continuous Pictures. ; Paramount Theatre—Continuous Pictures.

Dorothy Grard'ner, here with one of the "Dandiss" Companies, has gone to South Africa to produce for the Steel-Paynes. Cuth-bort Rose also goes to South Africa.

Amongst the members of the "V6ry Good Eddie" Company,' which opens lierf next week, is Mr. Andrew. Higginson, who was first seen hero as Danilo in "The Merpy Widow." The" Royal Comic Opera Company .revived "The' ■ Arcadians" in Melbourne this week. It makes way to-night for the first production of "The Bed Widow," with Florence Young in the star part. : - . . .

"Turn to the Right,", which the Tajts are sending to the Dominion shortly, has been running in Australia since last Easter. Ben J. Fuller states that the war has made it so difficult to get English and American artists that of the 4CO vaudeville performers on bis circuit 300 Australasian acts.. . Cyril Mackay has joined the Peg. o' My Heart" Company, and is appearincr in Melbourne' in the company's new pk "Out.There," This play is by Hartley Manners, the author of "Peg." Miss Muriel Starr has achieved--.; a striking success in Chicago in the production of tlje Hawaiian play, '"Hie Bird of Paradise."/ Miss Starr, who, is under engagement to J. 0. Williamsoji, Ltd., will appear in " The.Bird of Paradisa" when she returns to Australiain the near future.

"The Story of the Eosary" is in. its sixth week in Melbourne, under the Fvj Her direction. When needed the Allan Wdlrie Co. will produce "Seven Days' Leave," a drama which is having a big run in London. Arthur Styan joins the company for this" prodnctiou. The three Cherniavskys—-Leo, Jan, and Mischel—after their Sydney season,._ retuin to America. Immediately on arrival Mischel is to be married-to Miss Mary Bogers, the daughter of. Mr. T. B.Kogers, a "sugar king" of Vancouver.Florenz Ziegfeld, husband'" of Billie Bu L'ke, has found a play to bring this "star" back to the 3peaking_ stage from the retirement of- domestic lifo and the motion pictures. The vehicle chosen is "Trje Avenging' Angel," a comedy from the pen of Clare Kuminer, the authoress of the Marie Tempest success "Good Gracious Annabelle."

Priscilla Verne, of vaudeville, celebrity (Fuller patrons will remember:her patter and sketch acts with Tommy Armstrong), -was petitioner in a divorce suit at Sydney' Divorce Court recently, applying for a decree against Joseph Patrick Kelly, solicitor, on ,tbe ground of The parties were married at the Perth Anglican Cathedral on 26th March, 1897. Petitioner stated that respondent left her after about _ six years of married life, and she entirely lost the fun-.of hini. Seven years ago. a great friend of his informed her that Kelly had died in South Africa, but nine months ago she, recognised him in Elizabeth-street, and accosted him—then he incontinently made, himself scarce. 1 The decree nisi was made.

New York Dramatic Mirror on actors and the war ; " Tho American actor wo*, heard from in fhe war , between the North and South in the L 'sixties, and always with credit. It 1 is said that many American actors are now in London and the provinces. Our Ambassador a,t St. James's lias made a special appeal to them to report to the Embassy, for.service, and it • has been. suggested that they and the British actors who are already in the.field, and -those who, are expected to enlist,' be formed into a separate arm of the fighting-forces. . We. assume'that there are British actors in the United States who are subject to a. call to the colours. . These might be amalgamated with American actors who have enlisted or who may enlist. Such an arrangement, we believe, would necessitate the sanction of the two Governments. If the war continues much longer American and British actors may yet figure -as a, fighting unit. Think of 1000, or 5000, or 10,000, or more Hamlets, Richard lll.'s> lagoa, Macbeth's, and others who have been in notable casts, lining up in battle as one body! Singly or collectively, the a«tor-soldier will do his part in war as he has done when peace was piping. Any actor who goes into the contest' and survives will need no publicity man when he returns to the stage." Thus Mr. H. W. Dee, in New York Life:—"There seems to be 'a growing conviction in this land of ithe unjustly free and forward that amateur tenor singing should be regulated by' law. Those 'who deem such extreme- paternalism 1 advisable maintain that all tenors should be examined, licensed, and tagged, and that ibheir fields of depredationbe clearly defined and. advertised. They also hint that steps -will be taken to have the less responsible hitters of high 0' placed under bond to keep the peace. Everybody knows that ait present it is impossible for one to come within two blocks of a,meeting of any amateur musical organisation in America without laying ones-self liable to the influence of a .tempestuous "solo, by some huge and podgy person with a thick .throat, a red face, and a nasal whinny at least a half tone flat. We instinctively feel whenever we enter, a music zone that some ■ such man is -going to set pur inoffensive tympanums into unsympathetic vibration with his taut ; and rusty vocal chords. And we further realis_e--that there will be enough perfect ladies of both sexes present at his might} performance to politely ajid effect an encore. It is such a situation that the agitators for more stringent regulation are trying to ameliorate. They assert that the time for vigorous action has come. In a cause such-as this the end will justify'■any means short of poisoning, and good people everywhere should lend a hand in anything Ithat is proposed to rid us of the predatory.tenor."