THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2241, 11 February 1897, Page 39

THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL NOTES.

By Pasquin.

Tuesday, February 9. *.* There w*s a fairly good attendance at tbe Princess Theatre on Monday evening, when the season of Mr Alfred Woods's dramatic company was brought to a close. The piece, "Across the Continent," was again produced, > and was gone through iv a satisfactory manner, ' the efforts of the principals eliciting apprecia- I tive rounds of applause * . • Tho J3rown - Potter - Bellew Company opened at the Christchurch Theatre Royal on Monday night under favourable auspices, "La Tosca " being staged. The company includes besides the principals Mrs Walter Hill, Misses Linda Raymond, Pollie Emery, Maggie Ford, Lena Brasch, Bertha Caldwoll, and Nellie Gihbod, Messrs J. F Catbcart, Oily Deering, \V. J. Montgomery, Cyril Keightley, C Berkeley, Edwin Kelly, Wilson Forbes, and others. • . • The kinematograph was shown for the last time in Danedin on Saturday, but it will be on exhibition in Port Chalmers for two days. • . ' Miss Hilda Spong's engagement in the "Two Little Vagabonds" at the London Princess is a decided ttep upwards, as her salary is nearly double what it was in "The Duchesi of Goolgardie " • . • According to the Era, Mis« Julia Arthur, who is to play Lady Anne in the forthcoming revival of "Richard III" at the Lyceum, is a Canadian who achieved a very remarkable position as an emotional actress in America. Some two years ago she deliberately "abandoned it in order to go to England, where she felt she could acquire much experience that America did not offer. For some time she waited patiently ; then, curioutly enough, she bad hardly joined the Lyceum company when Mr Hare invited her to succeed Mrs Campbell as the Notorious Mrs tfltmnith. Still more curiously, almost her first employment was to return to America as a member ot the Lyceum company. • . • It was correct, said Mr Sims Reeves to & South African Star interviewer, that he was going out soon to tour in Australia, and he added that he might take America, including California, on the way. He had never been to America or Australia before. Possibly, on the way home, he might again visit South Africa. In connection with the " perennial farewells," of which so much in made by the smart paragraphist, Mr Reeves said it vraa probably unknown that he had lott a great deal of money in speculations ; and therefore we oould only acquiesce with Falataff — " 'Tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation."