THEATRICAL DATES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2171, 3 October 1895, Page 37

THEATRICAL DATES.

Pbincess Theatre. September 28-Oetober 21.— Bland Holt's Dramatic Co. November 18-30.— Brough-Boiicicault Co. J Tuesday September 24. t \ S * Running a London theatre is a very cosily amusement, said a well-known manager. True, if you play comedy, and have a success, it's nearly all profit. Penley's receipts, with " Charley's Aunt," are said to average £900 a week, and the expenses not £200, but a burlesque or comic opera's another thing entirely. The salaries oripple us. Arthur Roberts demands £130 per week, Lonnen £85, J. J. Dallas £35; May VoW insists on £100, and Letty Lind won't dance a step under £40; and, roughly, your expenses are £100 every time the curtain goes up. Rent is £100 a week, principals' salaries £250, ohorus £90, orchestra £95, ihusicri director £8 upwards (Meyer Lutz got £20 at the Gaiety aDd a big royalty on his music), author £40 (burlesque tees), advertising £90, ballet master £6, acting manager £10, stage manager £20. bet-idc? stage hand-*, &c. CoDtumes co^t £2000 ; scenery, say £150 per scece— i.e., carpentering £90, painting £60 (few know that it's the earpeutiriog of a scene that costs the most — not the painting.) * , ' Paderewski must look tohis laurels. There has arrived iv London a pianist; who, according to all accounts, has taken tbe critic*, and tho public also, literally by the ears. His name is Moritz Rosenthftl, and it appears that he has so devoted himself to tbe acquirement of wh&fc is usually called technique, that some of his countrymen have disparagingly dubbed him the 11 Apostlo of Teiifingerdom." Such criticisms have, however, had no deterrent effect upon Herr Rossnthal. Difficulties have vanished cs if they bad never existed, so patent in the skill of tho performer, who now, at 33 yeatsof age, ha« doubtlens reached his fuUojt development. Jud^iug by his playing cf the slow movement, Herr Rosenthal has quite an much command of expression ai of " teiifingerdom," to qujfco the Qerman phrase applied to him. Evidently his style io as mssterly as his prodigious commaud of the keyboard. His debut was nothing «hoi % t of a triumph, and the rumours about him wvre more than verified. ) ' .• The arrangements for erecting a public memorial to Mrs Siddone, in Paddirjgton, are nearly completed. The committee, of which Sir Henry Irving is the chairman, has decided that the memorial shall take the form of a monumwit, representing Sir Joshua Reynolds's picture of " The Tragic Muse." ■ There are enough Russian and Polish Jews fa New York to support threo theatres, of which two— the Thalia and the Windsor (says the.New York Sun) — rank among the largest in America. The performances in these houses are given in Yiddish, and the plays which enjoy the greatest vogue, next to the local farces, are Chose taken from the Old Testament. / ' . * It is announced in London that Pattie Browne is to marry Dot Boucicault in Melbourne next year. ' . * The oldest of English actors is Mr James Dot], who played first gravediggcr to fiSr Edmuud Eean's " Hamlet." He is now 92 years of age. • . ' Vrrdi, wbo was supposed to be Fettled down for life as an hotelkeeper near Johannesburg, has arrived in London, bidding for another turn in op&ra. * . * " For men, unquestionably the greatest part is Hamlet," s*ys*S»rah Bernhardt. " For women, tho greatest part is that of Lady Macbeth. If you turn to comedy, the greatest part is in 'As You Like It.' The greatest single emotional scene is the great tceno in 1 Olivia.' "