WELLINGTON WING WHISPEES

Otago Witness, Issue 2309, 2 June 1898, Page 39

WELLINGTON WING WHISPEES

I By F. PvOiipter.

May 26. Deat* Pasquin,— Although we have had nothing in the dramatic world of special interest, our people have had plenty of entertainment provided, what with Pops and Smjthe's Lely. All the same, playgoers are looking for si mething regular. Our amateurs are vigorously rehearsing " JDorothy," and the Ada Juneen Burlesque Company are also in immediate futuribus. The Queen's Night afforded Tenor Caclzow an opportunity to get up a monster Pop. in the Skating Rink. He was lucky enough to secure the Royal Arthur's string band and its gifted leader, a German violinist who has played before her Majesty. The night being so stormy the band wouldn't ashore with its £200 valuable instruments. Great was the disappointment of Ijhe great audience, but the violinist turned up, and was liberal with really fine solos" Miss Dora [ Mostyu wbs the comedienne of the evanins-, Find J had a gjeat leceptiou. She and Mr iMlziel also ■ gave a lively finale sketch. JJurward Lely finished a capital season in the Opera House. In fact, so good was the liiz that he stayed yet awhile longer, and is giving a f *rewell on Tuesday. He goes northward, does Durward, after his performance to-night. IVaulein Ellis Euchs who assisted L'jly during bis Wellington season, has been engaged by Mr ; Smythe for the whole -Australian Lely tour. j The Australian Nightingale exteiuled her farewell &eason here to three nights, giving a plebiscite concert on .Friday for the final. Ma<Aaine

Sherwip's Maoriland tour, I understand, baa bc-en very disappointing to her pocket, but she has made many warm admit ers up this way. She lef b for the south by Saturday night's boat.

" Dorothy " is developing iato a grown-up state uQ'ler the cultivation of our Amateur Operatic Society, and is likely to be all right by the 15th prox., when she will be on exhibition for a -short season only. We are told that the society will on this occasion have one of the strongest choruses it hag yet been able to put on the stage, and the expariment of entrusting some of the most prominent characters to new members ia proving eminently satisfactory. " I read that the menagerie attached to Fitzgeralds' Circus_ has been increased by the addition of five baby lion cubs — three born at Auckland and two at Ngaruawahia. As a bit of localcoloured nomenclature I would suggest to Messieurs Tom and Dan that the quintette be o illed Ngatimaniopoto, Ngaruawahia, Akeakekikaha, Ngaruhoe. and Te Raupahara. These are fullblooded Maorilandisb. names that are warranted to break the stock of the poster printer, make ideal ditplay lines, and cause endless inquiries as to what the stagaer-juice they mean anyhow. Take Akeake&c, for instance. Here you have the Maori war-cry, aad you call upon the King of Beasts "to be strong for ever." Then Ngatimaniopoto—what a lovely euphonium solo, a? Hall Twain would say, and to explnia it lleru Meyden would have to play it on his cornet. Juafc think of the pleasure it would givo adver-tisement-compiler Jones to send such a phat fancy as this to the Evening Argus : — MAORILANDISB MENAGE !