THEATRICAL & MUSICAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2173, 17 October 1895, Page 37

THEATRICAL & MUSICAL NOTES.

Ooatrlkatton* from tto Profewloi chronicling tbelr maremenU B&J dtlnp ue lnrited. AH oommnnloaUoai to be kddreaxed c "PuqulD," Ot»R« Witness Offloe. THEATRICAL DATES. Princess Tiikathe. September 28-October 21.— Bland Holt s Dramatic Co. November 4-9.— Frances Ros? Dramatic Co. November 18-SO.— Brongh-Boucicault Co. December 2tf-January 9.— Burlesque Co. Tuesday, October 15. ♦ . • A complimentary smoke ooncorb was tendered to Captain Fred Thomas by a few friends in the Orchestral Society's H&ll, High street, on Thursday evenfog. The »ff.iic passed off with every success. Captain Thomas has recently been an inmate of the Dunedin Hospital, wh«re Le suffered from a trying illness, and op all hands he was heartily congratulated on his excellent recovery. A seleot and enjoyftble programme was gone thiough, and tho musical items were so much appreciated by the large Dumber present that in many instaßoes encores were ir si-ted upon, Contributions were made by Mesam Arthur Salvini, W. F. Young, D. Hutton, Qarrick, O. Eager, Craydoo, Wood, Collins, Browne, Btapleton, and Captain Thomas himself. At the close of tho proceedings a vote of thanks to Mecsrs Salvini and Roberts, who promoted the affair, wai unanimously carried. The Fauet Family, whioh Mr J. St. Clair is piloting through tho colony, opened in Wellington on Thursday to a large house. The ptr-formarje-r, we are advised, was a great ruosess, Messrs Martin »nd Hog an and Miss Lucy Fraser being especially succejsful. * . * Mr A. E. Greennway and Miss lua Laurence (Mrs Greeoaway) left Wellington last week for Sydney, wh^re they join the jlbcrdeen liner Damascus for Capetown. Mrs Greeoaway, as well as her husband, has received *n engagement from Mr W. J. Holloway for a toar in South Africa. ' , • According to the Sydney Referee Mr Bcott Inglis ia only 28 years old. He was bom at Creswick, Victoria. Mr li<g'i3 has recently been representing AU, the Egyptian rriesb in "Joseph of Canaan," ac produced in Melbourne. • . • By the death of Mr Neville Barnetfc, which occurred on September 27, Sydney loses an accomplished musician and composer. For nuny yean be has been organist at St. Mary's (8.C.) Cathedra.!. He was also musical director at the Synagogue. * . * Shiel Barry, well known in Australia as as excellent Irish comedian, is now playiog at the Holloway (London) Theatre his old part of HtrveyDuff, the police spy in "The Suaughraun," a character which he sustained on the production of the play at Drury Lane nearly 20 years ago. • . • Mis Robert' Broagh'6 name, nays theTasminian Mail, has to be added to those oF competent Australian actresses who could not geb a show in London. Metropolitan play-goera like to make a reputation, not to stamp ono. Myra Kemble and Nellie Stevravb shared the same tefca. f. • Tbeatrioftl^ managers in tlio>olonios are

t«.keu to ta*k by liusirgrutuuiiijgi.MOOiioi 1 ah rutnight performance lasts after 11 o'clock. At Covent Garden Theatre they manage these things better. On Monday, July 16, wheu M. Maurel btgan " O Star of Eve," near the boginning ot aot three of "Tannhaueer," it was already after midnight ; and when the critics left in a body at 0.35 a.m. the housa was almost empty, avd the performance was still going on. Tno intervals between the acts are so long at Covcnb Garden that a famous prirua dorm* lately excused them on the gronnd that «s s)i had to visit her friends dusing the day, th "waits" wera the only time in whioh the hat 1 to write her letters! • . • "Charley's Aunk" (says Footlights) ha? been acted, m different parls of the world, about seven times every d»y during the past three years. • . • A uniquo occurrence in dramatic authorship, and one that is without priced-Tit in the annals of the stugo, i» that Mr W. S. Gilbert's name has appeared on the London plajbilU for a quarto of a century without a single break. ,