AUSTRALIAN STAGE GOSSIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2151, 16 May 1895, Page 37

AUSTRALIAN STAGE GOSSIP.

(Specially Written tor the Otago Witness. Deui Pasquin,—" A Gaiety Girl" was repkeed by " In I own " at Malbourne Princetf", May ♦. Florrio ("Bubbles") Forde took a bcg-a-bit at Brisbane Royal, 2(ith. The Cturt B&lkd and Variety Comj any closed 27th. J Hamilton's Circus was booked at Kyneton bin, DaylesfordTih, Creswick Bth, BalluratOch. Brough and Boucicault &t Brisbane Opera Houee produced "Sowing the Wind" 27th, 29th, 3)th ; lJ An Ideal Husband " May 1, 2, .1 The Wah-Yin-Lock Chinee Opera Compauy (recently finish edi nine-months' ccason in Si dncy) made its firtt Brisbane appearance at the Royal, 2t»th The period of their play goes back 2"j00 years, and consists of 51 acts, 2tJ of which were performed the first n'ght. , F Murkan Clark opens with a variety company at Melbourne Bijou, May 11. „,,,.. " Work and WagM " w*s produced for the first time in Australia at Sydney Her Majetty a, May 4. Mrs G B. W. Lewis opened a six nightb' season at Melbourne Bijou, 4tb, with "L» I'ompadour " (firat time in Melbourne). M,ty-Mavsh Conceit Company at Melbourne Town Hall, Bth-llth. " Fun on the Bristol" went up at Sydney School of Arts, 4 h , _ , T Rovtil Comic Opera Company at Sydney Lyceum staged "The Gondoliers," lat-3rd ; 'The Mikado, 4th -7th; "The Mountebanks," Bth - 10th ; "Madame Angot," llth-17th; "Dorothy, lbtli21st- "View of Bray," 22nd-2Jth ; " Mainzulle Nitouche" and " La Cigale" to follow. Maggie Moore's Burlesque Company are drawing crowded houses at Sydney Royal. " Little Jack Sheppard" was replaced, May 1, with "Aladdin, Jukior." Aladdin MaftgieMoore Widow Tvvanky Hairy Roberto The Groat Chow Chow (Emperor . of China) Oily peering TheGroneYirghr i*'«K iUuel ? WasheaWashee • R ; r btewa ll'fcl I ' fc Abanazar E. D. Haygarth pp t t ] {oe ... Eoße Conroy Princess Balroulbadour Lauia Roberts Slave of the La=nip ■•• *£. Ray Slave Bf the Ilitg ... ... „ Stella Esdaile SouChing Nellie Osgood Moore The burlesque is localised by J. Steel Robertson. A SyJn&y writer says that Wallace Brownlow as an actor i% behind his predecessor (Charles llylo), although vocally no previous exponent of the character 1 ippo has perhaps done so well as Mr BrowDlow. , " L^ura Roberts (Princess Balroulbadour) used her light soprano voice with advantage in >\veet spiiit, hear my prayer' (encored). —Sydney Morning Herald. When travelling MaonJand with the Mohawk Comedy-Oper* Company in 1857, Liura Roberts, as Aladdin in the burlesque, used to score four encores nightly for her singing of " Sweet spirit, hear my prayer," in the cave scene Mark Twain (Sam L. Clemens) vintB > Australia on a lecturing tour under 11 S. Smythe's managen.ent at the end of the year. W. and M.'s "Cinderella" Company open at Bendigo, Victoria, May 10. Bri-bane to follow. Good old Jimmy West is to be tendered acorn, plimentary beat fir, May 15, at Sydney Royal (kindly lent by Maggie Moore). May it be a Florence Young is a native of Melbourne, and made her first appearance at Mtbourne Opera House as B.atrice in "Boccaccio" with JSellie Stewart's Opera Company, IS9O. Amongst her many parts are— Casilda ... ~. ~. in -''The Gondoliers " Muriel - „ ..."The Old Guard Lady Psyche „ ... P»nc c ss Ida Yvonne F^H 01168 .. Chopinette , ... "} dll Ll on T Yum Yum "The Mikado Hudson's Surprise Party were at latest at Perth, " . . . Candidly she was weak in the little pathetic scenes scattered here and there in the opera— her exit crying in the first act was forced and unreal— and some of her biz was over-done. — Sydney Referee on Nellie Stewart's Bottma. From Quiz : Theo Kremer, author-actor, who was with the Maichel Greenwood Dramatic Company in Adelaide two years back, and whose Teutonic features and accent quite mashed some Adelaide (jirls, is now "starring" in his own sensational drama "The Nihilist" ia country towns above and below San Francisco. One critic says: "Theodore Krcmcr received rounds of well-deserved applause for bi.s natural and spirited acting." Kremer tried " The Nihilist " here and at Broken Hill, but it fell flat. However, the drAma ran for a fortnight at Morosco's Theatre in 'Frisco, seat prices being 20c and 10c (or lOd and sd), with Kremer in the lead. Then for months Theo was unemployed, but since '95 set in he has been "on tha road" with a small company, and ia meeting with fair success. Brough aud Boucicault clo3e their Brisbane season May 27, and open at the Melbourne Princess June 1. Their Adelaide season of five weeks commences August 27. Maoriland to follow. . Holloway's Dramatic Company closed tneir Brisbane season at the Opera House April 2G, with " East Lynne." Maud Williamson played the dual lole of Lady Isabel and Madame Vine (played by ChiKtinc Darrell with George Darrtll Company in Maoriland '80-90). George Chalmers (Winkle in " Kindred Souls " with Gourlny- Walton Company in Maoriland 93) is now at Melbourne Oxford, where also are Isabel Webster, John Gourlay, W. B. Warner, Alma Grey. Stella Tudor, Dave Gardner, Evelyn Harte, Collins aud Brown, Georgie Loighford, Charles Norwood, Ethel Clifford. " Hi tiddley-iddley-um te-um-te-ay ! Mr C J. Stevens (conductor of Adelaide Orpheus Society), P. A. Howells, and J. J. Hardy (two members of the society) left for London by Chorus rfrls in the Sydney theatres get 16a a

week, and have to rehearse two weeks for nix and nixpence. Adelaide Harmonic Society produce, with tho following cist, "the grand duciihss." The Grand Duchess Mrs T. H. Jones Wand} alternate nfghts {JfSg^S Fritz ... -« ,„ «« — M £ A - I'unoan Pr.ncePaul «, .„ MrLooßryco Baron Puck.., „, »» m. ... Mr Glover Nipomac ... ,M, M .*, Mr Stevenson General Bourn „, ,M, M Mr R. 11. Nikchke Grog Mr F. White There have been one or two alterations made in the performance of " The Gaiety Girl." One is an alteration in the cast -temporary only— ln consequence of the iudisposition of Mr Bantock. Mr Louis Bradfield was, therofoie takon out of the part of the most mercurial of the four guardsmen, which fitted him like a glove, aud put into that of the judge, which does not fib him at all. There are some actors whom a white wig and a double eye-glass can never make old, and Mr Bradfkld is one of them. It is in vain thatsuch a man affects to totter or (stumble at a flight of steps, or to pick his way warily across the static. Tho robust, resonant voica. the brisk deciiion of carriage, which the mincing head cannot quite conceal, give the lie to his assumption. Besides, Mr Bradiield delivers tho judge's dialnguo with a rattle and a rush. Ha tills his suggostive anecdotes of the Divorce Court, not with the chuckle of garrulous senility, but with the slap-dash enjoyment of a wide-awake man about town.— Ex. Some of the clever Harrjs Maoriland is responsible for : Harry Jewatt, Harry Hall, Hai r.y Robeits, Hairy Diver, (the late) Harry Marshall, Hariy l'Jimmor, Harry S ockwell. Wmtcn, the clever vtiiiriloqui-t, is now with Coai 1 Brothers' Oxford Company, Melbourne. " Miss Laura Roberta, who nightly makes a hit as the petite Winifred Wood in 'Little Jack SheppanV B»y.s a Sydney writer, "is both a clever dct7wcui<e and Kinger, and a 9 such will eie Jong make a name for herself." It may be news to some poople that Laura made a name for herself as a danseuM and sirger seven or eitfht year-i ago, and for a long time was "parti ers " with Johnny Collins, and then with the ialouted Pcnnau Family. Aa a male impersonator Lima Roberts was btifure a few who don thu evening drc«3 suit. Sardou's income from royalties on his plays in Frnnrc and other countries is .£30,000 a year. Kmery and Kit >n's Cgmedy Company opened in Adelaide Royal, May 4. MutnyandSt. John's Empire Variety Cornpony, after playing a three months' .season at Adclaido Bijou, have gone to Broken Hill. A benefit to Midi! Murray and Sinjin, May 2, cksel their Adelaide season.— Youis truly, Bis. .Poverty Point, May 11.