MISS COLVILLE AND THE PRESS DRAMATIC CLUB.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 70, 12 July 1876, Page 3

MISS COLVILLE AND THE PRESS DRAMATIC CLUB.

.u tin; last Performance of the Press l„ nlll( ,: ( : Club in Dnnedirt, Miss Cotville if* Hoskinsi. who was assist trig the L'urnw. kB P t fi "" 9ta S e W"^ 11 ? f»*-s»>me , m , Tlio morning papers very naturally ilmii-itti) this want of courtesy on her ,rt, iimt pointed out that it was anything ■it'ii proper manner to treat amateurs, to uuxt evening (Saturday), during the rst interval, Miss Cotville caine forward I,'d delivered herself of a grand speech. |,j g speaking before the curtain is be,miiiif pretty general now with Miaa CV>l- - iuhl otli'er actresses. It seems to jva Hi rule that if the- Press does not praise loiiutiugof a leading member of a eominjr,. the said actress must perforce corns tfuro the curtain, make a speech to the wittf tell the Press that it doesn't for it, and generally defy rorything and everybody connected itlt tlio Fourth Estate. It is not so long ■o that we had Madame Stnionsen towing an audience from before the irtain itt Christchoreh, in reference to miu remarks which appeared in a local innr, Madame went to considerable jubki to connect a certain individual with a penning of the critique, bnt in thia id signally failed, hot succeeded in holdgliai'MDlf np to ridicule. We have now luther instance in Miss Cotvitle, who on itunlay evening last, at the Princess liuutn:', made unite a speech on some Utoiumvts which tiatl appeared in a mornd oimtemporary. The fair actress does it appear to have had it all her own way i this occasion, for we notice that in rural portions of her speech she was Htnl. concluded as follows :—' ; I n» that in coming before the stage toght t leave myself open to criticism. I low tllut during my season here I shaft 'vorynmch cut up by the Press. FA liitonun voice from the pit : No !*} Welt, lliink I shall. I cannot say any more, pplause and hisses.)