Footlight Flashes.

Evening Star, Issue 8968, 29 October 1892, Page 2

Footlight Flashes.

[By Callßoy.]

There are now no less than fortytwo shows, including circuses, on tour in this colony. Twinning is piloting Mrs Alioe Shaw, the Yankee whistler, through the East, and will bring her to Australia in due course. The long flowing under-robe which Madame Sarah Bernhardt will wear in Oscar Wilde's one-act play ' Salome' is to be of cloth of gold, of splendid texture, costing Ll2 per yard, In resuming occupancy of Her Majesty's, Sydney, last week, Mr George Rignold produced ' The Silver King* with a strong cast. Mr Rlgnold was" Wilfred Denver, The Spider was represented by Mr Sass, and Nellie Denver by Miss Henrietta Watson.

Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company had a phenomenally successful season in Napier, and drew houses which constituted the record for that place. Included in the company are some well-known Australian crioketers, and their eleven are oertain to arrange a match against the Dunedin knights of the willow later on. Amongst the passengers by the lonic from London to Weljingtop were Mr and Mrs Greig, brother and mother of Miss Florence at. John, the well-known London actress.

Mr Clement Soott, the dramatic critic of tbe London 'Daily Telegraph,' arrives in Australia next March on a lecturing tour. His principal subject will be ' Thirty Years at the Play.' Melbourne papers state that Mr Armes Beaumont, tbe once popular tenor, is in poor circumstances, and it is intended to aooord him a benefit concert and substantial testimonial on November 10, Messrs Knight Aston, John Gourlay, and Edward Farley have joined the Emily Soldene Opera Bouffe Company in Sydney. ' La Fille de Madame Angdt' is the present production. Mr St. Clair has booked dates in Ootober of next year for the return visit of Miss Myra Kemble. The Princess's, Dunedin, has been secured for a fortnight's season. Mrs Molyneux (at one time a resident of this City) will be a member of the oompany,

the method of honest boslnesa management of railways, not only In New Zealand, bat In all the colonies. The paoiflo acquiescence of the Government Inthesaorifioeof all these measures tends to suggest misgivings as to the average degree of etooerity illnitrated in Parliamentary procedure, and tends also to suggest the oanse which in New Zealand, as elsewhere, has operated recently to introduce a new element of make-believe and unreality into the work of Parliament. Happily, amid the wreck of all these measures of legislation, the real Bill of the session—the Payment of Members Bill—in regard to which there was no reason to question the sinoerity of members, escaped the general catastrophe, and floated safely into port." It is stated that wasps' nests often take fire, supposed to be caused by the chemical action of the wax upon the paper material of the nest itself. This faot may account for many mysterious fires.