AUSTRALIAN STAGE GOSSIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2310, 9 June 1898, Page 39

AUSTRALIAN STAGE GOSSIP.

(Specially ■VVkiWei Job the Otago WiKfsss.) ' Dear PASQ^rN,-- J'lorence Young, of Royal -j C'.«a)ic O;>e>"& t«.ate, \y\\) malve her Australian re»ppaar»ncs. i-* V> r ii;;.<K>fc-D and Mnsgrove'e'prod'.irli'H. r>l *" Yh? Geisha." Tbt rirK-V Royal Ceraiet are nl&vtagr at Te'.fk ■ llf.ya" :u opposition to Msggie Moore at tbe To\vi> •' Ha.ll Maggift's tioubies I Prtb&biy Oartw right's ie&ding lady I& tbe only \ person Ib. the co. who reaHy loses reputation over " The Mici&leruau." Jiiss Beatrice-. Lam)) 1 ? paiiifu'. sliffnc?? and her mode of hanging her armn hke Hvo def'tuct objects at her aides nassprl ah firpi for restrained force ; new the writer begins to suspect > ib:<,f it isn't restrained force— only Sifc ; fFnes>s •-- ' Falictin. 3 [ Mesmerist T. A Kennedy ope»«d b''s "laugb.- « J3g season " at Adelaide Bijou on tha ?.lst. | „ Adelaide poets aie lattice themselves loc-sp on j Ada Reeve, "The French Maid." Here are" two c-ftusions ; — Laughing, saucy Ada Reeve, Oao's you keep a jnonvjnt still? Herd's my beart (tror/j on my sleeve), Do wji.h it just as you will I Sparkling Ada, You'ro a raider, And yon* lightest stances kill. Pretty, perky Mb. Reeve, Dancing with poetic skill, I would hove yon. dear, believe I am youis tbroiigh good and 111, YWav your bloomers (Perisb^umours !). You shall dsr> tbe trousers still !

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r ' Ada, Ada, Ada Reeve, I You're a tairy, I believe ; Where on earth hay:> you bestowed your wing 3 ? You're co frisky. I declare You could float upon the air, J'}\ joir; you when I've just pufen icy things. Sydney shows, 21/5/98 :— " Bisn of the Cross." Her l Mafcsty's "A Life of Pleasure" fioval " The Middleman" „. ... ... Criterion "Tba Shamrock Rud the Rose" ... Lyceum "The Relief of Luckcow" ... Royal Standard Eickards'a Company ;.. Tivoli Melbourne shows, 21/5/38 :-— j Wilson Barrett Farewells .. ... Princess "T^ro Little Vfcßabonds" Royal "DrBill" T Bijou Saturday Shilling ''Pop? " ... ... Town Hall Prof esscr Bristol c IIo?f;es ... St. George's Hall Rickarcis Variety Company ... Opera House Madame Aloani sums up Neva. Carr-Glyn a3 one of the best contralto's she has heard for a long while, and lecornmends Neva to go to Lending. Kj'sr Gljn is a sister of MrsW. E. Baker and Mr Arthur B. O. D. Glyn, who wats through Maoriland in 1892. It la not offcea theatregoers give way to excessive emotion, but a case occurred lately at Adelaide which was of a decidedly genuine character. "A Royal Divorce" was tbe play, and the scene had been reached in which Miss Ferrar, as Josephine, implores the British Admiral for permission to accompany Nacolson in his baniahinent. The situation so woried upon the feelings of one young Indy in tbe stalls" that, rising from her seat," she clanped her handa in entreaty and, with teats streaming down her cheeks, exclaimed, " Oh, do let her go 1" Then realising where she waf,- she sank back into her seat covered with confusion. Miss Millie Tree Chapman, a Melbourne amateur singer and actress who made a hit as Maritana with the Victorian Operatic Society at Easter, will play second leads in the firm's newly-formed comic opera company. Fred Her.Biugham, a Maoriland boy, who was business manager for the Taylor - Carrington Dramatic Company for over 10 Years, is now with Mesmerist Kennedy. in the same capacity. _ _ It is nearly nine years since Mesmerist T. A. Kenuedy'iirst arrived In Australia from Amurka, and his boom biz has not yet bu&t.' Dear Bis,—" The French Maid " is the second maid character Gladys Leigh- has iniporsonated, the other being "A Barmaid " for one week in a Wellinaton (M.L.) hotel.— Jim the-Penman.— Mr George Tirfeeradge, aay» Quiz, was much more satisfactory in " Two Little Vagabonds " .than Mr Gaalou Meivale, the previous exponent of the same part ia Adelaide. Still, Titheradge rould not make much of the character, and he nmst have been glad wben the four nights of melodrama were over. Miss Lily Titheradge, a3 one of the vagabonds, lacked just a trifle of tbe dash and devilry of Miss Marie Neilson, but otherwise acquitted herself admirably. There is a future before thjs young lady. Bis wishes Mr Titheradge and his family all possible success in the old country. Greymouth, May 22. Dear Bis.— lf I had any enemies I would cert&inly advise them to go to Dennistou, Coalopolis, M.L. In order to reach that celestial locality it is necessary to travel four f miles (by foot)— this is not a joke. After we had climbed a steep road for a mile, tb& town looking as distant as ever, perched "on a mountain some 2000 ft above sea level, we swore eteraal vengeance ou our advance agent for sending us to such a God-forsaken country. Well, we finally arrived there after a weary struggle of three hourp, and maybe we didn't polish off that table. Parker, the landlord, thought we were carpenter* and able finishers using knives and forks for tools. All I know is my appetite received a very rude shock in the right direction. Bu&iness manager Blackstone is now constantly inquiring what we are going to have at tho next meal. He is expanding visibly, and will soon bo like one of Bland Holt's. Mr Charles J. B?ll, a member of Mr Charles Frofiman's "Too Much Johnson" Company, scored a clever point in his contribution to, the controversy on Clement Scott's attack on the stage. Wrote he :— "Finally, could you not start ' a mis3ing-vrord competition about the identity of that Miss — — , whom Mr Scott labels virtuous? It would give us of the profession much innocent fun, and as a prize you might offer a volume of Mr Scett's Cpociße." . . . Clement Scott, by the way," said that a man must be either a fool or a knave who permitted his wife "to become an actvess unaccompanied by himself." Yet the Era states that Mrs Clement Scott, as 1 an amateur, has taken psrt in several public performances, and has stated that she has been trying earnestly and actively to get a permanent engagement on the stage. Isn't it funny that so many actors and actresses have a strong objection to their children going on the stage? Mr and Mrs Kendal, of whom everybody in Australia has heard (for doeß not the lady as " Matron of the Drama " give little moral lectures which find their way into the news■papaw ?) have liad a bad time with their son and daughter. Miss Ethel Kendal has quite recently gone on the American vaudeville stage. Her pare»ts would not let her gratify her love for acting in England, so she left her nest and flew away. The son was out here a few yeara ago as a member of the Brough. and Boucicault Company. He called himself Dorrington, and it was generally tiuderstood that he had been cut off with a sh.illiug because he had dared to do what his father and mother had done' before him. I met Mr Dorrington when I was in Melbourne. He was a tall, 'i rather ungainly, youth, with weak eyes (he wore ' glasses), and he did not impress ice as being a j genius eithet on the stage or off. His particular { weakness was cigars and cigarettes. ,1 heard the I other day that his latest piece of acting was as ' the prodigal son, and that he is now engaged in | commercial pursuits ih. London.— "Gertrude," in | Qtm. 5 I have to acknowledge receipt of autograph i photos, Gpachiana ana Maorila&d's oiiginal S Cleopatra, both often mer«tlon«d in the " Round the World" letters of Jiblet Guilivan, Esq. Wallace King, *hiough Maoi-Ilaisd wifcL IJuo.ton's Surprise Party, aud I.'lian Traa are giving i the miseree s^ece from Verdi's "II Trovatom 1 ' — Leonora, Liiia-c Tree; Manrioo, Wallace King. Mr "Pete " Hughes, Williamson and Musgrova i, manager, has leceivtd from Mr Julius Knight a present of ft vory handsome stick, silver-mounted, and beating tho inscription " Marcut Suberbus to Pete Hugne», 1898." Marcus am? Pete have travelled over c. good deal of Austw^asic together during the lasii Bfcvci> months, and the preseDlation Is tha result oi' genuine good feeling.— 1 I Jtxchaage. ■1,, £hsit{ rubbighiag nrtonft, "Xwo litfcU Yft£a»

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