FOOTLIGHT FLASHES

Evening Star, Issue 16779, 6 July 1918, Page 9

FOOTLIGHT FLASHES

[By Loiteiieh.] Mr Bert Roylo. lias now booked September 24 to September 28 for Kathlene -M'Uonell's return season in Duuedin. Mho will play two new pieces. Sydney advices stato that Ada Reeve will leavo Australia for Sooth Africa at the end of July, and that Sydney James, of " Stioileis " fame, will go with her as partner in the enterprise. Miss Reeve plans to return to Australia next Easter t" stage a Lancashire dialect piece, ' Hobson's Choice.' Andrew MacCunn, musical director for •J- U. Williamson, Ltd., has gone to America, partly on holiday, but also partly on business.

Tho Walter Gecrge Company's fifth piece, for presentation at tho Princess on Monday, is entitled 'ln Arizona,' and dea.l- - as it dots with eowpunchers and Intt'au girls .•houid be a distinct novelty in the. masical comely line. On the vaudeville aide the new act will be Jack Coco, who will present a sensational comedy balancing act, culminating in a dangerous head slide. Allen JJonne repertory at the Grand Opera-house, Sydney, tor a three-weeks' season which commenced last Saturday, is 'Lucky O'Shea,' '.Molly Pawn,' and 'The Bold Sojer Boy.' At present, there are no less than 16 complete Fuller companies playing in AusI tralia and New Zealand, Unhiding six dramatic and one comic opera enterprise. Large picture interests are also hold by the firm, and their vaudeville acts are working in conjunction with shows playing from Charters Towers in Queensland to Tirnaru in New Zealand. Supporting Signor Capclli in his concert tour of New Zealand, which commences at Wanganui on July 13, will he John Ainaiiio [flautist), Miss Bedford (soprano), and Harold Whittle (pianist). Pearl Livingstone, a well-known Fuller artist, is a member of Victor Prince's comic opera, company, now playing ' Oar melita ' at the .Palace, Melbourne. A well-known actress figured the other day at Sydney in a suit for Uje, restitution of conjugal rights, heard before Mr Justice Gordon, sitting in divorce jurisdiction. The petitioner was Louis Schat-z, a commercial traveller, who Said that he was married to Constance Evelyn Butte] on May 6. 1903, at the Registrar-General's office at Sydney. They lived happily together after the respondent went on the stage (which she did with his consent) until recently, when his wife went to Melbourne as a member of the Williamson Pantomime Company. Fi om that- city he received from her a letter, in which she appeared to have grown cold towards him. Following the receipt of this letter, his wife re-fu.-ed to live with him any longer. His Honor made a decree for the respondent to return to petitioner within 14 days of the service in Sydney of'the order after her return with the company from touring New Zealand.

Melbourne 'Punch,' after extolling the work of Graham Browne in ' General Post.' proceeds to dheet the spotlight upon two of the Australian cast. "Good as these were," the critic says, " it was Miss Mor rison's and Mr Styan's play.-a fact that tho audience were not slow to realise. Mr Arthur Stynn, good as ho always is, wa? never seen to such brilliant advantage, or to such humorous effect, as Sir Denny? Broughton; and, good as he was. Miss Ethel Morrison, as Lady Broughton, was even better in her restraint ant the pathos with which she reviews that ' situation ' when it comes to the game of 'General Post,' " !ho English actor, Leslie Faber. was killed in the retreat from Messines Ridge, one of the engagements of the present German invasion on the western ft-ot. He played the original production of 'The White Feather ' in New Vork, and laler was in ' Diplomaticy ' at the Empire The. atre in that city. Re was the son-in-law of Henry Arthur Jones. " Harry Lauder," says the New York 'Dramatic Mirror,' "playing a brief engagement at the Metropolitan Ope.-a-house. is using art for patriotic purposes. About half of his act is devoted to the singing of songs he has made famous, supplemented by a few new ones, whereas the remainder of his period on the sta e is utilised in an eloquent appeal on behalf of the Liberty Loan and the Harry La-ider fund for crippled soldiers. It is all to the credit of'the, comedian that he more heart and feeling into his w-ir tab; than inta'anything else he does. ' Marching with the President from the North. South, East, and We?f.' 'l'm Going to Marrv "Array, on the Fifth of Jan-u-ary,' and ''We A' Go Game the Same, Way' are among the most effective of Mr Lauder's new numbers."

! John Farrell. of the Pantomime Oompanv, as far :is Wellington, has nov: COlie back to Auckland to lake chrircc ot the Willinmson Revue Company p'ayini 'The. Tlincc Boys Are Here.' .Apparently the musical comedy Jn winch Porothy Brunton is to make licv >;« v.' York debut is cue adapted by (Juy Bn'ton and P. G. YVodehouse from the French farce ' Madame and Her Godson.' At leapt, the New York 'Dramatic Mirror' stater- that, this is tho piece for which Kkur and !•>.'- lancer have ensured Donald Brian, and it wilfbe remembered that a recent announcement by the same firm was that PomtVn was to' appear with Brian in his next piece. A couple of dozen or so sharp oyer, trained to notice things, and quick to follow up a clue, watched closely, but without detecting so much. cs a tell-tale flicker, the movements of that prince of conjurers, Malini. when he calkd in _ one day last week to say " How <Vye do?" Jo some of the police officers at the local station, and tf> " a i■.-•.- thmtrs" with the cards for their entertainment and mystification. The superintend-uf. was there, and the chief detective, and a number of others, and Malini, r%ht under their very noses, made cards disappear and reappear in unexf>ceted places. produced chosen cards at will, changed into rjueens, hearts into clubs, or" any other old thins in a manner that wrung from one of the hiirher officers the earnest comment : " T wouldn't like to play poker with you f" while a buriv const able who had just drawn his monthly pay gripped tv: liter Hie notes and silver as be muttered : "By sosh. he's a, marvel !" or wnrds to that effect. As a parting shot. Malini threw the pack of cards aaairist th- -1 wall, and. while 51 fluttered on to the floor or sn--ronndimr furniture. one—previously cho-on but unnamed by the superintendent—stuck fast. In proof of which th< jack of snados tnay be seen still firmly amx-e-d io the wall above the. window in the chief clerk's office.

SWAPS EN THE STUDIOS. ! In the movie-play called 'The Marr'a?'.' Market-' a men psvs one hundred thousand do'brs for a wife, and a friend «nys he should have paid a milieu Srco June Elvidjre is thr» wife, everyone will a-crree with the friend's remark. Tho play U a " World " production. The opening attraction at the Kitvr's Theatre, under tho direction of Percy James, will bo a picturisation of Victor Hugo's great classic, ' Tho Hunchback of Notre Dame,' entitled * The Darling of Paris,' which will servo as a vehicle to introduce the distinguished movie trage-

clicnnc, Theda Bara. There are. sonic great I dramatic episodes connected with this j story, and the climax of tJie picture takes I place in tho belfry of the Cathedral, I whore, after a terrific struggle between the hunchback bolirii.'yur and the sc.oimI dre.l, Claude Rollo, the latter Is thrown from tho belfry on to the cobbkxl street below. When the Kaiser discusses war plan? his : feat is a. saddle -i'i>nrjt- tl <m a tiesUe. Tins carrier, pose a bit hevond insanity. American Ambassador Gerard actually saw this 'absurdity dun;)'.' 01:0. of hie visits I'.: tin; Kaiser, ft is reproduced in the ama/.iin,' pitfuie 'My Four Years in Germany.' which the New Z. aland Picture Supplies will he roloasi.'g u> due course. Of this p ct-nry, now i-howinjr in Australia, an exchance says: "Anyone who has visited the Imperial German Court and seen any of tho mini who appear en tho screen in the film vi rsion of 'Gerard's Four Yens in Ooimany.' will be almost justified in helievinv; that the entire Imperial Court "f Germany were imported for the express purpo-e of making this motion picture—so closely clr the actors resemble the men whose p.- its they play " C. J. Dcm-is's 'Sentimental Bloke' hj ben g lilmed iu Australia, and Dennis pets a nice littb cheque of f.950 for the screen rights. It will !e interesting to see huiv B 1' and }.)oioen behave themselves in a movie

It is reported,that the first Petrova production —'Daughter of TUstiny'—has done splendid busiue-s in, both Auckland and Wellington. patrons of the Empire Theatre will see the picture on July 12. The lafe=t Metro release in Xew Zealand is ' T!;o Call of Her People,' a gipsy play, with Et'i 1 . Rarrymoio in the leading role. ' Qe.o Vadis,' which was such a pop-lar picture drama, has more than a rival in

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