AUSTRALIAN STAGE GOSSIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2152, 23 May 1895, Page 37

AUSTRALIAN STAGE GOSSIP.

(Specially Wiuttf.n roa the Otago Witness.) Dkar Fasquin,— " lam the third Mra Twanky-ray."-H. It Roberts, in " Aladdin, Junior." Lily Dampier is a member of the Emery-Elton Company now playing at Adelaide Royal. Bland ILtlt is still suffering from a severe strain, the result of his acrol'atfc performances in "The Span of Life," but is progressing favourably, thank you. Jessie BUcey, of the Stacey Comedy Company, is now iv Sydney. Good business is being done at Her Majesty s with William Browne's new play " Work ano Wages " Tom Wenfcworth George Rignold Paul Bradford Harry I'limmcr Lord Arlingford Scot Inglis Jeames J- W. Sweeney Victor Innglois ... .-.. ... D'Orsay Ogden Counsel for the Crown Cyril Kneightly Judge Harry Hodson Kphraim Mose? Stirling Whyte Ollivia Graham Agnes Knight A'iele Langloi3 ...Athena Claudius Sally Minna Phillips Brough aud Boucicault open in tho Victoria Theatre, Newcastle, for five nights. 21 ; and Melb. Princess June 1. Syd D«?nne, for over three yeara w\th the Royal Comic Opsra Company, has retired from the Firm's big show. Hamilton's Circus and Water Pantomime troupe numbers 117 people. The show shortly falls on Adelaide. The Royal Comedy Company were recently travelling by coach from Brewarrina to Walgett, a distance of 100 mile*, a"bout 30 hours' travel. The company, which numbers 14, carried three tons of luggage, &c , and the coach, drawn by a seven-borse team, travelled 14 miles iv eight hours. In the next 24 hours 30 mile« were covered, The journey of 100 mile 3 occupied three days and three hours. Besides losiDg two nights the trip cost the management £40. Wybert Reeve played Marcus Brutus Snap (his old part) in " A Night Oif " with tho " New Boy " Company in Adelaide recently. How is it that English actors and actresses nre so bumptious when they first arrive iv Australia? Qniz (who asks the query) does not refer to artists of well-known ability, but to the smaller fry, who have nevar done anything conspicuous in England, and who, when they com*! to Australia, put on as much side as a plenipotentiary from the Sandwich Islands. As a rule there are to be found in Melbourne And Sydney members of the profession much their Buperior3, whose only fault is that they are local, and who are consequently out of harness. The newly-arrived English Thespian considers that he or she is conferring an honour ou the community. He or she believes | that hotel? were specially built for his or her convenience, and the consequence is trouble. Perhaps the change from a single room in some back street and an occasional rasher of bacon is responsible for the assun ption of arrogance. Put a beggar on horseback, Ac. , From the same paper : A good many people in Adelaide will have cause to remember the visit of "The New Boy" Company. Of course there ne members of the company who do know how to behave themselves, but others— well, they have proved themselves to be unaccustomed to the 1 muagea of polite society. Some of them have now left Australia ; otliera remain ; and yet no

one will drop a tear when they have all gone back to HingUnd. Cjptain B. Humphrey, the lion tamer, is now ringmaster with Allan Hamilton's oiicus. Bob (rlarwoo 1) B octer (through M torilaud with Gourlay and Walton) and wife, Alma Obrcy, booked for Louding per Ligun.t, 11. The Tiiylor-Carringtan Company are touring Melbourne suburbs. F. 0. Applcton is a member. Dan Tracey (" Cbcesj it for a minute ") intends opening with a variety crowd at the Vie, Newcastle. Pope and Sayles benefited at Sydney Tiv. May 9. The Greenwood Family contemplate visiting Maoriland, opening in Auckland with "My Sweetheart." The company organised by William Cos*rove and Stuart are doing payable biz at Sydney School of Arts. The followiug is the cast in " Fun ox the Bristol." Widow O'Breeon W. Cosgrove Nora O'Brien ... ... ... Maud Adrian Dora M' All ister .• M*iieDunoon Balla Thompson ... ... ... Maud Fanning Count Menaggio ... F. E. Leonard Captain Cranberry Herbert Ashton Thomas Cranberry «, „. Mil ford Haven Richard Sparks ... ...Hoimco St. George J rry Thompson W. G. Allan ILnvkshaw MrTyndally Bjlmont and Ovcrton's Mascotto Vaudeville Company are en tour with the following people :— Elfie Morella, Nellie Viviau, Gertie Sculthorpe, Mi*s LasceUes, Joe Hamilton, Master Harvey, and Mr Esmonds. Michael Davitt arrives in Melbourne, 18. Emily Soldeue is to benefit shortly at Sydney Lyceum. George D.urell should be with you by this. Ada Croisley is to make h-r debut in London, 18. Dan Barry's Company produced " Ransom at Richmond Town Hill, 6. Five members of Bland Holt's Company— Corlesso and Imnan amongatthe number- do not take part in " The Span of Lifo," and during the run of this piece "lay off," but bob upseruiely every Monday morning when the man in white parades. A Sydney writer says Harry Plimmer looked very handsome as tho gentlemanly villain Paul Bradford in '• Work aud Wages." Fancy Plimmor trying to look handsome 1 Little Ada Juneen, who was round Maoriland in 'ill with F. M Clnrk's Alhambra C mpanv, is now touring with Albert Bailey's Company. Irve Hayman is also a member. Ida Hamilton is i>»id to be making a hit with Willard'n Opera Company in Sydney. "Aladdin, junior," at Sydney Royal was replaced, 11th, by " Meg, the Oaßtaway." Dear Bis,— l noticed in your "Gossip" of a foitnipjht back a query from Jihlet Gullivan, Esq., asking the "stiength" of Emile Lazeni, the amateur pro., in putting himself up before the Sydney public as "a London prestidigitateur." As Lazern made his first appearance with my troupe you will peihaps allow me, »s one who knows, to give you his "strength" In the first place he left London at a very early age, which i>rob ibly accounts for his murdering the Queen's English. Lazern made his first appearance with Ro tile's Surprise Pmtyat the Oddfellows' Hall, Petoue, Monday, October 7, 1889. Sit.cc that date he has made about six— no more— public appearance ?.«. As to his London reputation ho never had aoy, nuttier did he at any time tour Maoriland.— Yours truly, Henry Rosclle, Wellington, May 14. Roselle's Surpiise Party. The Emery-Elton Company opened a season at Aduluidd Royal, May 4, with " The Guvnor," B-lly i Elton playing Theodore Macclesfield, supported I by Polly Emery, Ida GreUiam, Mildred B rllou, Lily Dampier, Jimmio Cathsart, Frank Emory, ] Alf. Rolfe, and Beresford. Slade Murray and St. John's Empire Variety Company were at Bi okeu Hill at latest. The Hcllera opened a shott season at Adelaide Bijou, I— Yours tiuly, Bis. Poverty Point, May 11.