MIMES AND MUSIC

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 42, 17 August 1918, Page 11

MIMES AND MUSIC

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THE SHOWS.

Grand Opera House

Kathlene Mactlonell, in season. Allen Doone, 4th September. Concert Chamber

Scarlet Troubadours, in season. His Majesty's.—VaudevUle. The King's Theatre.—Pictures continuously. Crown Theatre.—Pictures nightly. Our Theatre.—Pictures nightly. New Theatre.—Continuous Pictures. Empress Theatre.—Continuous Pictures. Bhortt's Pictures.—Continuous Pictures. People's Picture Palace.—Continuous Pictured Britannia Theatre.—Continuous Pictures. Everybody's Theatre.—Continuous Pictures. Queen's Pictures. —Continuous Pictures. Paramount Theatre—Continuous Pictures.

"Katinka" commences its eleventh week in Melbourne to-night, and the final nights are not yet announced.

Miss Frediswyde Hunter-Watte (Mrs. Allan Wilkie), who has been visiting the United States on a health trip, returns to Australia shortly.

One of the most successful features of the new revue, "A Box of Tricks," at the London Hippodrome, is a burlesque of "Othello in ragtime, in which Desderuona is played by the clever Australian actress Daphne Pollard.

Miss Ve^a Pearce, the principal boy in "Dick Whittington," did not accompany the pantomime company to Brisbane. She has received a cable message stating that she had been "placed in tho United States, and she will appear under one of the principal managements there shortly. Bliss Connie Cayley (Mrs. Louis Schatz) will play the "principal boy" for the remainder of the "Dick Whittington" run. Miss Vera Pearce sails immediately for America. Miss Cayley played with the Pollard Company over 20 years ago as Connie Buttell, "making good" in "The Messenger Boy." One of the pleasing features of the revue " Samples," to be staged in the Dominion shortly, is the dancing of Elsie Parkes. Miss Parkes is a sister of Lizetto Parkes, at present appearing in. Australia -in "Th e - Thirteenth Chair." Two other sisters are also attached to the Tivoli Company. Guy Hagley and Rene Adore, also with " Samples," are described as two of the most brilliant dancers appearing in Australia. The latter is a Parisienne, and her partner an American. Eileen .Boyd, the popular contralto, is another star of the same company.

Press cuttings to hand show-that Allen Doone's Auckland season proved highly successful. "Lucky O'Shea," the opening piece, is described by the Herald as a bright comedy-drama with an appeal to a wider public than is claimed by many other Irish plays, and Mr. Doone and Miss Keeley are both warmly praised. The Auckland season ends tonight. Wellington will be played from 4th to 21st September, Christchurch from 23rd September to Sth October, and Dunedin from Bth to 15th October. The company leave for Sydney about the 23rd October.

Al. Bruce and His Rosebuds, a new American show imported by the Fullers, arrived from Sydney this week, and have gone to Dunedin. The company includes Bruce himself, a clever tramp comedian (as well as the producer), Walter Cornoclc (in Hebrew characters), Sani Clark, Robert Raymond, Sam Wallace, Mabelle Morgan (the well-known leading comedienne), Nellie Fallon (a highly popular soubrette and dancer), Muriel Dale, Ysabel Groves, and The Rosebuds, a bevy of eight choristers and dancers. -

The latest English papers to hand chronicle the end of the three years' run in London of Hartley Manners' delightful comedy "Peg o' My Heart." This comedy was originally taken to London after the New York run by Oliver Morosco, with Miss Laurette Taylor as Peg, and this magnetic American at once made an astonishing hit. "i.The many who- have seen the play and the many who intend to see it* on its return to Wellington, will be glad to leim that the newly-organised company, with Mias Sara Allgood at its head, is doing excellent business in the South, and in the smaller towns is establishing new records. Tlie company is daie in Chmfcchurch next week, and a season in Wellington will probably be played early next month.

The latest addition to the list of American successes secured by J. and N. Tait is "The Eyes of Youth." This play was produced in New York on 22nd August, 1917, and is stilt running. Mr. X, J. Tait saw in the star role then being played by Marjorie Rambeou a great opportunity for Miss Emelie Polini, now playing "De Luxo Annie" in Australia. He worked hard during his recent visit to the metropolis to purchase the Au&. tralian rights, and the news has just been received that the contract has been signed. Mr. E. J. Tait has left for America again, heartened by the solid success of the two big ventures which he secured on his last trip—Guy Bates Post and EmeHe Polini Companies. "I shall first of all devote myself to securing novelties for the new J. and N. Tait and Bailey and Grant pantomime, 'Jack and Jill,' which opens in, Melbourne at Christmas," says Mr. Tait. "Then I hope to clinch wish at least twe stars with whom I opened negotiations during my last trip. There are also some new plays with which I want to get better acquainted. I don't anticipate being away very long this trip."

"Something to His Advantage," a playlet from the pen of Mr. Dion Titheradge (son of the late G. S. Titheradge), is well spoken of by the London critics, who state that the playlet holds its interest throughout and provides an unexpected denouement. A woman has advertised for a "long-lost brother," who will hear of "something to his advantage" if he calls on her. A caller arrives, and the woman reminds him that eighteen years ago he went to Australia, and accuses him of having murdered their father, who had left him by will £5000, which will their mother had hidden. The man denies the crime, but pleads for the money, and the woman is about to telephone for the police when he "confesses that he is not her brother. He asks for forgiveness-, but promises to find the long-lost relative. "But I have no brother," replied the woman, who is a novelist seeking "copy" for her new book.