WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS

Otago Witness, Issue 2205, 4 June 1896, Page 39

WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS

By P. Rompter. ft • • May 28, Dear Pasquin,— Our Dramatic Students gave us on Tuesday a most enjoyable evening in help of the funds of the Society for the Freven- | tion of Cruelty to Animals. "The Chimney Corner," a pathetic little piece with come fine character touches in it, formed the opening piece, and the lively farce j "Chiselling" was the fini&her. Of those in the j first cast, Mr Nicholls easily took honours, and Mr Bastin was fitted with a part which suited him. In the farce Mr Axel Newton and his sister gave the piece juat that vim and go necessary for such winding-ups, and the whole force of keeping the pot a-boiling was lively enough to send a big audience away in a very merry and quite satisfied mood. To Mr Nicholls, us stage manager, much thanks are due for the success of the evening, and it is easily told who is our leading amateur actor. Mr N. delights in character work, and the more one sees him in the part of an elderly, forceful man the better one likes his playing. And off the stage he is cultured withal— a quality too often lacking in the professional. What we have to look forward to. is a return season of the St. John Burlesque Company, followed by Alf Lawton's company from the north, then the Royal Comics— all in the Opera House. I see Tom Pollard has bad as good a time in Dunedin as he had in Christchurch. This has been the best of T. P.'s Maoriland tours. Mr J. St. Glair, who has been doing this colony pretty thoroughly with the Faust Family, is to go before the Royal Comic Opera Company for the firm during their tour of this colony, He got a cable which said so yesterday. You may expect a j drop-in-to-see-you from the "genial" in a little while. He was up Woodville way when the good news arrived. George Warren arrived in town yesterday with the Trilby Specialty Company, a catch which has caused a rush for Trilbyana. This company will flash their trilbies at the Criterion next wetk. I had lost all sight of great big J. J. Kennnedy, and I regretted very much to see that he was laid by in the hospital at Auckland, and to hear of his subsequent death. J. J. X., HkeTimaruFitz., the slogger of U.S.A., started life as an 'umble village blacksmith; but he also, like Flash Bob, was ambitious. Pity for both they didn't stick to a giving-each-day-its-daily-bread biz. For some fellows I know it's a heap easier knocking out life cut «f a hammer than out of the drammer I

The New Plymouth Amateur Opeia Club is rehearsing "Dorothy" with a view to an early performance. Mr Maughan Barnett's. piano recitals at Hastings ana Napier last week were 'kapai" all round. Musician Maginity (a Wellington boy) suffered much loss in the recent Napier fire. He will in future abide in private digging* andje?chew pubs, as a dwelling place. Herr Tutichka, a well-known Auckland musician, who was also in Napier not long since, died last Tuesday week. Scots wa' naed to the Skating Rink last Monday evening to hear Wallace (Archie o* that ilk, frae Loondtn) sing at the pop. Our visitor (for health's s^ike, o' coorse 1) has a tenor voice, which he uses with much force, and he " Holy City'd " that song most vigorously.