DRAMA OF THE DAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17633, 20 November 1920, Page 3 (Supplement)

DRAMA OF THE DAY.

The Australian and New Zealand operatic stage will be considerably the poorer through the death of Florenr-e Younc The er-popular ladv w as rehearsing in the new play, 'The toy/' in Melbourne when she was stricken down by paralysis from the effects of which she eventually passed a way. Miss Young made her first appearance, in Australia under the old Williamson Garner, and Musgrove management. Hie came to New Zealand first m 1I he ( >ondi>hur.s with the original K"\.il (- I'iiiic Opera < ompanv. After that she was a regular visitor to the Dominion. t ind -hi 1 ,1a .' 1 numberless roles i„ all of vhl ; I, 1 l" i' smging was of outstanding quality. Most people will remember her Uvt lor_ her fine work in "The Merry Widow. Mrs. George Tallis, wife 0 f one . : i ihe one. tors ~f the ,1. (J. Williamson firm, is a sister of iho late Miss Youn<*, <md her two brothers, Fred and George are ",<..1 in the employ of the tame firm.

U". Frank Hutchens. a New Zealand ra:;.,! ' , has arranged to give throe re- - •< the. Auckland low,, Hall Jusl hr. ,e Chi ..-..mas Ho lias been tor some mi., past '"I.- of the principal pianoforte , 1 ' ' 10 b -" 0 >" conservatorium and i, p'oceedmg t, • huropo early in the •c ' ' 1 4,1 ' • ois , saul '•<> possess exce;» tpc-liisrjiie and the true artistic tempeiai'imt.

. inest Drake, the young Auck'ond o; " « .;•> recently created quite a oral lie Albert Hill, Umdon. has !)• en g.iC(M by Messrs. S. Roberts and W. K, ">* , ! " r season „1 n,.;., ,; ; , ni >!: l; i : .omvrts at , the v: T<,nau "" hu,:, 1 ~- r- "-• 1 I I '!' nd, "i- ]he season coirn" " f " l „si inuntil. Anion- arti.-ts of reno', ii '-I'P'-'fWi at these conceits are:-- ' ' "'in kmai; ; Arthur Jordan the lie- -•.ng!:.-h tenor; H.,-race Stevens an .-iii.-.ra. banior.e; Hubert Kisdell, the I'"-'.' :sn ~, ,' VVr ' gfi'.niajihotie fame: '. i:l "i K ", jl '- V I.the great opera! icoj.tra.li>: Harry Dearth, baritone. y ;l ,i T'\ others Mr. -Hake is evidently ciinilnng the ,adder ~t fame verv rao;dlv W!l1 tH -''••'t'f.ving to luttfij lovers oi in-, !i.u :\ i; tjiv.

ha'v,'.",|'• N '-" ,<r 7 " Tlanfi artist, who ha. . 1 .hi- >le .l s.uce their arrival m Enghind .i a . li, Kate Campion, who v.-as one of the - hue re,, i„ the old a rd's company. It will be remembered that Madam- (;• vo i. d'M-oxvrcd f " her in Auckland: •ifitP VLPS Tondon cu! respondent Mates that there lollov.ed three years' mo 1p t' n 1 1? a ccrtai " amount of mode.-t work in England For the past 14 m.-nth, however. ,i„. has hern playing lead with the ail R„, a Opera Companv" to,r„, throughout England, and has eUnrtl 10 V, " " :i r° - 01 " llei ' St ' ,f which should shortly bring her into prominence in London i t sell. An,.m S the parts she has Played during this year are Leonora, m Try. a tore, Hilda in " Rigoletto." MarflT T r"'f »' Vr ?t; ' Juliet, in - Romeo and Juliet 1- Ulna, m "Mienon," Sanl ™'" " Ca a lima. ' Antonia in "Tales of Hoffmann, . Elizabeth in " Tannhauser." Butteiflv 111 Madame Butterfly." and the name part in "Amy Rohsart." M; s , Camp-on was the first'in Great' Britain to play Amy I ;. ohsa V t 1,1 English. Critics fav that Miss Campion possesses, a beantifat- pure soprano voice, of fine range and volume, and most, excellently tfained. .She is also ail excellent actress.

Miss Manor, Day. 0 Auckland, has a pan in the new play, " Ihe Ri,-ht to HEr MD-f o ' 6 (~arrick theatre, »avs the Herat d 3 t London correspondent," The S 01 v has for its theme a strike of doctors to counteract, the threatened strike of rail wav men. Needless to say. the play is di X Ito arouse resentful feeling and divided demonstration, as the characters and lltteidn ee to heated arguments for titll a£a '/>, St ~uef:tion unbodied in the die of the play Miss Day does well in the sweetly pathetic portrait 0 f Marv j iller, the widow of a young doctor* who Si, 'th 6 "»"r' r - and on whose the play is"™. ' h ° moVement <*