AUSTRALIAN STAGE GOSSIP

Otago Witness, Issue 2170, 26 September 1895, Page 36

AUSTRALIAN STAGE GOSSIP-

(-'pncruxY Wiuttkn for the Otago Witness.) De\h Pasquin,— ls. C. Clitherow is now bupiness manager of Stanley's Opera Compiny in the East. Elto-i's Company at Sydney Criterion oa Sat-irday 7 btagert '■tim: JunGE." Kir John Pye W.Elton Shuttloworth E. Thomas Mrs Shuttleworth K»te Bishop Mrs H'cketts Mrs Walter Hill Daplm-j Pyd Harrio Ireland Prufes3or T. A. Kennedy, "The Ktng Laughmaker." was born in Dundas, Canada West, in IS>2. Wallace King, the colourel tenor, ii at Sydney Tmli. Jack Hall, son of the lale John L. Hall, and who married Billy Leakw's widow, has gone fco South Afr.c«% At any rate so a member of Pollard's Liliputianb writes me. Walter Bentley is at Bti-, bane Royal. Minnie BrandoQ is playing juvenile lcids. Maityn H.igan and Lucy Fraser, two clever artist) who may shortly go through Haorilund, aieat present filling an engagement at Sydney Euipiiy War.-en's Svivprise Party (reorganised) at Brig. bauo Gaioty iuc!ud»B, Hel*n Gordon (Cnnard), Sisters Fanning, Nellie Marshall, Hilda Youne, Wai Rickloy, (" Tho red headed nigger," through. Maoriland with the Perman Family in 1888), Clarence Lyndon, (through with Emerson's Alabama Minstrel* iv 1893), the Cunard family (inclii'iing A. Litherlin'l <'.), tenor Henry Clay, 6kat-rj NorriH and Will'arna, Carltaa and Sutton, Di k Da* is, Will Wallace, an I Williaui Ball. Mr Guorg.' Wan en (the man with a cognomen) is sole pioi>ri-;tor ; U R WOOll (of Wellington, Maorilaml), representative. Frnuk Hawthorne, who m s t with a severe accident while out ridngat Tarn worth recently, fa rapidly recovering, and is now able to carry his arm without a splint. The Australian Team— Delohery, Craydon, and Holland — ac now at SyJnvy Empire; aUo A.da Colley, Will Speed, Maste- Da-U-y Wysitt. the calculating Ettie Williams, Faust Family, Fiank Yorke, George A. Jones, T. O. Jones.— Yours Miss Onflow Mackay, at one time wi;b the Royal Comic-", is now a member of Tommy Hudson's Surprise Party. At Sydney Tivoli :— Ada Colley, Priscilla Verne, Florri'j Esdaile, Georgia D<jvoe, Floirie Forde, Millie Herbert, Chas. Fanning, Leslie Brothurs, Pope aud S.iylus, Foreman and Fan nan, W> D'Euscm, Wallace King, Harry Shine, Lcs Tinea and Martini. Tae three brothers Ad»ni, who made their first appearance at Sydney Empire last week, performed a somewhat sensational aerial act, which might have had a more than sensational termination. ■ In presenting th* "Pout dv Diable" (devil's bridgf-), one of sha brothers let the performer slip from hits gui^p. Ho fell into the net below on his neck, and one of the stays broke from its fa* eaing. Tho result was that tho acrobat bumped upon the piaao* Had auothet stay given way he might have received serious injury. As it was, he was little the worse for hiß shaking. The act was a very clever one, and it was unfortunate that the fall occurred. A " Gaiety Girl " Company closed their seasoa at Sydu-jy Lyceum 19. Fillis'a Circus was tho scene of a distressing accident on Saturday afternoon, 3td in<;t., the victim being a three-year-old son of S<r>:eint Collocott, of the local police force, Rays a Oupo correspondent wjiting from King Willumstowu. Before the performance a largo black bear, which appears in a wrestling match with a man, was chained to a pole beneath tha seat occupied by the child. First one of Mr Collocott's daughters sat down, her Httle brother being placed beside her, and whilst another daughter waa about to seat hertfi If on the other side of h'm, the unfortu* nate littlo fellow suddenly disappeared through the opening between tbe seats, the animal having Bei?,;d him. The child was quickly rescued, and convoyed to the hoapital, when it was found that he had been severely bitten about the back of tho

Bknll, and it is feared that the fright has affected the brain. The Gourlay-Stoko3 Combine, which only retentJy finished a tour of Maorlland, have reor{anised, and will open in Sydney Royal to-night, 4th, in "My Sweetheart. Tho company includes Maggie Ford, Nellie Mortyne, Hope Nation, Ro3e Trclawney, Ralph Roberts (" Tho New Boy "), Charles Field, Leonard Keith, Lachlan M'Gowan, E. G. Oogblan, Mario Maieroni, F. C. Sherbourno, and Milton Mobs. Charles LyndBay is acting manager. Alf. Lawton and Clara Spencer, last through Mooriland with Dr Oanaris in '91, are with Cogill Brotheis' New Minstrels in Tasmania. Hobart Mecury states that Kate Bishop is at the Cape, whereas sheia amomberof Billy Elton's Company playing at Sydney (Jiitsrion. Martyn Hagan and Lucy Fraaer, who may accompany the Family to Mainland, Neva Carr Glyn, Dudley Wyatt (tha "Calculating Boy"),

Ethel Clifford, May Arlone, and the Gray sisters. Tom Perm m is in advance. The Royal Comic Opera Company open at Sydney Lyceum 21 with Madame Angot. During the season "Tho Old Guard" (first time for two year*) and "11. M S. Pinafore" (first time for eight yeare) will be revired. Walter B:>ntley and Company ara playing Shakesperean pieces up north. The company iaeludes Edwin Kelly, A. Boothman, Oily Deering, Alice May. Minnie Brandon, Linda Raymond. One of the Anderson sisters, in Ad-laide with Hudson's Surprise Party, in an attempt to be more acrobatic than usual, met with a slight accident one evening last week, but she has by this thus completely (recovered, and with her sister continues to give a very excellent pictorial representation of a north-eastern mori9:on in a state of insunvctinn. Lynch Family of Bcllringers touring South Australia

Abbey and Royol Institute lecturer. Horace would't fuil to elucidate to the Eatisf notion of his audience all about music and morals, al?o tho mysteries of vibrations and acoustic? ; but ho would have to loam a little bit before he could get the donkey's hee-haw out of a violin. Tom Queen, who made one of the "World's Trio"— Queen, Stowe.and Ryder — with Emerson's Alabama Minstrels in '92-3, is now with Cngill Brothers' New Minstrel-'.— Yours truly, Poverty Point, September 14. Bis.