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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4740, 23 August 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)

The musical comedy, "The Circus Girl," has had a very short run at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, being withdrawn on the 9th instant in favour of a revival of "The Runaway Girl,” which was staged for a week. East Saturday evening the Eoyal Comics presented the comic opera “Eobin flood." The production was notable for the fact that it introduced to the Melbourne public the American tenor, Mr George Lyding, who toured New Zealand with the Josephine Stanton Company and also the World’s Entertainers. Included in the cast was Mr Harold Ward as Little John, Mr Hugh J. Ward as Sir Guy of Gisborne, Mr Claude Bantock as Friar Tuck. Miss Maude Chetwynd as Annabel, Mr George Lauri as the Sheriff of Nottingham, and Miss Carrie Moore as Maid Marion. The four Rianos ("The Monkeys and the Farmer”), who toured the Dix circuit some time ago, were at the Chicago Opera House during the first week of July. Messrs Wirth have secured for their forthcoming tour the two Saxons, who give an exhibition of feats of strength. The elder Saxon claims to be a better man at certain classes of work than Sandow. and shows a challenge which he states that artiste has not yet taken up. Captain Jack Sutton, who was round New Zealand several times with Fitzgerald’s Circus and Wirth’s Circus, was in San Francisco at latest advices.