MIMES AND MUSIC

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 114, 10 November 1917, Page 11

MIMES AND MUSIC

IT.V "ORPHEDS."> J THK SHOWS. i Graml Opera House: i Waller's " Look Who's Here" Comnanv season closes to-night. ">""l"u.. ; J. and X. Tait, 13th Xovember. iHis^g^uSr" =7th XoWmberThe King's, Theatre.-Pictures nightly. Crown Theatre.—Pictures nightly. Our Theatre.—Pictures nißhtly. .Yew Theatre.—Conti-iuoas Picture^ 1 Empress The;-.rre.—Continuous Pictures. Sliortfc's Pictures.—Continuous Pictures People's Picture Palace.—Continuous pictures ; Britannia .Theatre.—Continuous-Pictures Everybody's Theatre.—Contiuuous Pictures. Queeu's Pictures.—Continuous Pictures. Paramount Theatre—Continuous Pictures

Mdlle Antonia Dolores is contemplating another concert tour of Australia and New Zealand. J. and N. Tait, in conjunction with Bert and Jules Grant, will produce a pantomime at King's Theatre, Melbourne, at Christmas. Bc-rt Bailey will play the Dame. Joseph Blaseheck, the clever monologuist, is on the lUckards circuit, and is at present in Sydney. When Cyril "Maude returns to America, he will take Harry Sweeney, the Australian actor, with him. < C. B. Westmacpit is now manager in Melbourne for J. C. Williamson. Soiisa has written a new orchestral piece, "The Land of Liberty." A remarkable concert was given at Madison-square Garden, New York on the 27th September. No fewer than six world-famous artists took part: Madame Schumann-Heink, Mischa 'Elman, Giovanni Martiuelli. Frances Alda, Giuseppe de Lucca, and Percy Grainger. Vincent Dennis, of the "Turn to'the Right" Company, due here on Monday, is a well-known American actor with a smile as broad as Arizona. He ha.s appeared in that country in such big successes as ''Get-Rich^Quick Wallingford," "Bought and Paid For," "The Fortune Hunter," etc., and his characi ter work is accepted everywhere as j good.

The principal girl in Fuller's pantomime, "ITobinson Crusoe," which Victor Prince is to produce in Australia, will be" Nellie Fallon, who rilled the same role in a former Christmas production. Miss Fallon is one of the finest dancers on the Australian stage. When Miss Muriel Starr returns to Melbourne at Christmas, her first production will be "The Man Who Came Back," a remarkable drama by Jules Eckert Goodman.'

A particularly distinguished personage m the theatrical world will visit Wellington in the course of the next few weeks, in the person of Mr. Cyril Maude. Mr. Maude mustT be classed as one of the most influential and popular English star actors of the day. He is a Cambridge University man. and cousin to the famous Maj.-Gen. Sir Frederick Sta-nley Maude, the hero of the present Mesopotamia campaign, Mr. Maude has been the pro.' prietoi- of a leading London theatre for the past twenty-one years. He is recognised as the foremost character actor of the English stage. He will appear litre as "Grumpy" in the famous play :>? the same name. Mr. Maude is a great social rna.gnct, having been entertained, feted, and received recently in Australia n i mannei lever before approached by ii' othei -wiling theatrical'celebrity. Mr Scctt Colville has ai ranged with Melbourne, to bring the "Royal Strol- ' nn." now playing at the Auditorium, \telboiiTiif. to bring the "Ropal Strollei " OMI to the Dominion Easter ■time. The company will include Sydney •lames (and "Billy"), Madeline Rossiter, Connie Milne, Jessie Jackson, "W. S. Desmond, George Gravstone, Arthnr Pn t, C-vnl Northcote, anrl Zimmy. the fiek drum ncr

A story of the, late Sir Herbert Tree ]- told by Madame Sarah Bernhardt. ■\\] lung to \lslt His Majesty's Theatre on. one occasion, and not being desirous of trespassing on Sir Herbert's hospituliU she instiucted her manager secretly to engage a. box. In the- middle of die performance on the evening in question an official entered the box and I handed the celebrated actress an en--1 velope on which was written in Sir HerI berts rather illegible handwriting, "I vender unto Sarah the things that are Sarah's," and in it was the amount she had paid for the box. It looks as though Stecle Kudd's new Australian comedy, "Grandad Paidd," is likely to prove as phenomenal a success and'as big a money-maker- to the Bailey-Grant management as "On Our Selection." to which the new play is a sequel. Dad Eudd has become a. grandfather ; Dave and Lily have a grov.-n- ---! "•» son ; and Joe and Madge h.-tve a j family. Mr. Maloney has become Mr. i TJ.egan. .'lid Uncle has been transformed i into Mr. Banks, the hen-pecked husband of a, temperance reformer. The Melbourne press is unanimous in praise. of it. Some critics go so far as to say it is a better play than "On Our Selection," the characters being better drawn and better handled. Mr. Bailey, as Orandad. has been siven unstinted ppraise. Mr. Fred Maedonald Tilays his j old part of Dave.

Miss Margaret Calvert, the- English actress who plays the important role of Mrs. Blascom in "Turn to the Right." to be played in Wellington next week is the. daughter of a shipmaster of the R.N.R. She studied, elocution at .(he Guildhall School of Music, London, and after going on the stage married the well-known actor, the late Alexander if. t In marrying Alex. Calvert, Miss Calvert married into one of the most distinguished of theatrical fami'ies" for her husband's father, the late Charles Calvert, was an ornament to the English stage, and his wife, Mrs. Charles Calvert, was an extremly gifted actress, who only a few years ago appeared in support of Miss Marie Tempest in " Penelope." In 1911 Mrs. Calvert sen appeared as Dame Quickly in "The }r<HT,y Wives of Windsor,"' before the Amg and Queen, on which occasion the cast included Miss Ellen Terry and Mrs. Kendall. Miss Calvert's "Maw" in ■ Turn to the Right" i s Ea id to be a very appoidnif: creation.

It. is not often that the elements' can be so skilfully stage-managed as they were at The Playhouse in Melbourne recently. As the night was close, the roof of (he theatre was open. During the interval following the production of Galsworthy's play, "The Pigeon,- and before the curtain went up on the comedy "Over the Hille,"' there came a sudden tropical downpour of rain. Before the roof of the theatre could be shut (relates the Age) the audience in tha front seats of -the circle were thoroughly drenched with rain, and. as the wat°r started dripping from the balcony, umbrellas had to be put up in the" stalls By those, who were seated safely away irom under the roof the incident was enjoyed as a break in the tedium of the interval, but its poinjp only became apparent when the characters in the comedy that followed waxed enthusiastic over the joys of battling against a driving rain, of getting "wet, wet, gloriously wet." Even these who may not at the time have felt completely in agreement with the author generously cheered the lines for their appropriateness.