FILMS' CIRCUS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1106, 12 May 1893, Page 32

FILMS' CIRCUS.

Mr Allan Hamilton reached Wellington on Friday morning to make arrangements for the forthcoming season of Fillis' Circua and Menagerie. The huge pavilions, opvflr. ing an area of 400 x 250 ft, will be pitbbed on the reserve ground in Victoria street. The 'show' will arrive by the specially chartered steamer Pakaki. due to arrive here at daylight on Tuesday next, and the first performance will take place on the same evening. Two performances will be given daily thereafter until Saturday, May 27. The same programmes that caused the name of .'Fillis' to be so well received everywhere in (Australia will be repeated here in their entirety. A great feature is the comfortable manner in which the Beating accommodation is arranged, whioh enables every visitor to find his way to seats' without auy oonfusion. Another material improvement is the substitution 'of a string orchestra for the usual noisy brass circus band. Arrangements are In progress with tbe railway and tram authorities to enable country visitors to attend the afternoon or evening performances, and return home the same day. It is nnw many years since Wellington was visited by a company of the size and merit of fillis' Circus and Menagerie, and there is no reason why tbe success aohieved elsewhere should not be repeated here.

An endeavour is being made to induce the Pollard Juvenile Opera Company to give a peiformance in Feilding.

A well-known Dunedin young lady, Miss Florrie Belcher, has gone on the stage in Australia, and is appearing in the drama ' Light Ahead,' in Sydney. Miss Belcher is the daughter of Dr Belcher, Rector of the Dunedin Hifjh School*

Bignold has at last announced the withdrawal of 'Man to Man,' at Her Majesty's (Sydney), and railway collisions, until further notice, are 'off' after Saturday, when 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' will be staged. Eignold will appear as Bottom; Miss WattsPhillips, Oberon; Hilda Spong, Titania; Ethel Buckley, - Puck, &c. Great are the reputed stage preparations.—Bulletin.

Organisers of entertainments should pleas 9 note that they can get programmes or tickets printed in a better style and with «>ore de» spatch at the Mail office than in any other place in Wellington.