THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2299, 24 March 1898, Page 47

THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL NOTES.

Br Pasquiw. Tuesday, March 22. •. • My surmise last week that the reported dcftth cf Miss Katherine Hardy was groundless" receives confirms! ion fn in Ina following Daragraph fiom" Wellington:—"A paragraph has been £,o:ng the minds to the Effect that Miss Kitberine Hardy, who was fornseily a resident of Wellington, acd littedy with Brough acd Boucicau't's Company, died aaefd'enly'in Indis. Mr T. M. Ha'dr, a brother oi tEe young lady, who 1 lives in Wellington, 3?.jß_th6t..,it canuob be true, because her sister, ■who is with her, \?ouid have cabled had anj - thing happened. He had heard from them rnly last week, and they were both in good health, and, at the-time of writing, preparing for their . trip to China." ' •. • Mr Howard Chambeer, the baritone- of s"oHeiJ& Myriorama Company, was charged at Kuniara la*t week with atirg a " thasgbai" in a public place. The- informant; said that a wincow in his cottage was broken by a stone from a •* fhaeghai " fired by a fair man with ' red whisker;}. As the case v?a,s evidently one of nrstaken identity, the summons was dismissed. •. • Mr G. Callender, manager of the Heller Mahatma Ctmpany, writes me from Clyde, March 18 :—"Dear 'PaFquhs,'—Just aline to let ycu know that bupines^ keeps up very well. I-nave started making arre-iigtments for doing QiieenstowD, Axrcwiown, Banucckburn, Cromwell, but frcm ail these towns the people are leav'ng for the Jubilee in your city, so I *m afraid we shall not fare very well. So far the fields look no different since I lasb visited them, four years 8 go." •. • The Wilson Barret.!. Cooaptny were entertained afe the Ausfrp.! Salon, Melbourne, on Monday, February 28. by-22 hostesses. Mrs G. B. W. Lewis was entruste < with the addrf-ss of vte'eome, and Mr "Wil-on Barrett replied in a speech tbafr delighted the ladies ima^ensely. Mr Wilson, Barrett admirts ihose woman who, like members of the Salon, have to earn their tron living, and sometimes that of their relations. He never pze'umts to ss*ert any great authority over ladtes, knowing, bk'j a wise man, that they contrive in ecme mysterious fashion to get their own way in most things. Mr Wilson Barrett and Miss Maud Jeffrits were presented with white satin programmes most bsautiful:y painted by Mr Charles Taylor, an artist member of the Austral Salon. • • G. Harmston, " flip-flap " rider in Fitzgerald's Circu*, met with a painful accident a.t Greytown. His horse fell while the rider was turning a somersault aud rolled on H&rmstoa and crushed his aekle severely. •. • Miss Mary Boueicault-, whose glorious ycice has been the bope and promise of her n;ai>y friends here m Ausiralia for the last few years; bas just made a wonderfully successful first f.ppearance at Florence. ■ . May Pollard is the next to take wing for London to join Messrs Williamscn and Musgrove's company at the Shaite&bury. •.• "Last Call" sends me the following items from American papers-: — Augustin Daly has obtained tbe American lights of "La Poupte." Qfcar Hammer&tein originally held the rights cf this play, but recently was forced to assign bis cafcata. Owing to the illness of Nat Goodwin, the Knickerbocker Theatre, New York, was closed foE aehott time. Mr Gcodwin is now better. Colonel Wiiliam F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) is to visit Germany in the spring to prepare his "Wild West Show" for the Paris Expoeition of 1900. After that he hopes to retire, aud give each employee so minded a pension and a home on. the Big Horn Basin. Marie Corelli has dramatised her powerful novel "Barabbas," and the play is to be produced by James O'Neill in New York. Patrice, over here with " A Trip to ChiDatawu," has made a, big hit at the 'Frisco Orpheum in "A New Year's Dream." Her next production is described as a new spectacular fairy playet, " The Genii of the Vaee." The Damrosch-Ellis organisation were afc Philadelphia January 10, their programme for the week being " Theßitber of Seville," with Madame Melba.; " Gotterdammerunß," with Madame Nordica as Biunnhilde and Madame Melba as Aida. Bladame Melba w»s confined to her room in Cleveland with a severe cold, and owing to her inability to siog the performance of "The B-üb?r of Seville" was pofitpouedl •Villiam Gillette, the Auiericau sctor-play-wriglit, is to appear at the Garrick, London, in hi* farce, " Too Much Johnson." Miss Jullie Opp is to sustain » leading role in It. C. Carton's new play, "The Tree oi' Knowledge," at London Lyceum, Walter Howe, who will still be remembered by Australians as partner with W. E Baker, now with Bland' Holt, has been engaged to replace Fritz Williams ia tha " Never Agp.iu " Oompa&j.

Vesta Tilley hay made a tremendous hit in Boston.

Enielie Melville has made a certain hit at the Columbia, Boston. Ethel Barrymore, uo^v a member of the London Lyceum Company, is reported to be betrothed to Lawrence Irving, son of Sir Henry Irving, snd author of "Peter the Greaf," the currei't Lvffum play. Rudyard Kipling h said to be preparing for O!ga Nethersole a drsrn-itisation of his novel, " The Light That Fail, d." Forbes Robertson aud Mrs " Pat " Campbell will visit Germany, oppciag *t the Rojal Opera Hou?e, Berlin, Febru-iry 27, presenting in English "Hamlet," "Macbeth," aud tihe " S> cond Mrs Tanquersy." Weedon Grossmith is resting at Nic?, where Le arranged a benefit for the English hospital. Be»s;e Clayton's dancing is still a feature cf tbe Broadway Music Hall, New York. Water Howe, havirg secured the American rights of Shirley and Landick's " Hue and Cry," will sail for London to see the English representation and get model?, music, &c. The New York production will be about March. Julia Arthur's company was at Baltimore, January 24, with " A Lady cf Qaality," which wa« wtll received. Kindly mention was made of Scot Ingiis. Mrs luglis has r«s : gaed her position in the Cuban play in which she was appearii g owing to an acute attack of muscular rheumatism.

Frank Lavtton is very enthusiastic over Australia arjd its people. He says if they like you they cannot do too much for you, and he has nothing but the pleasanlest recollections of his stay -aniO'ig them.