WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS

Otago Witness, Issue 2317, 28 July 1898, Page 47

WELLINGTON WIN G WHISPERS

By P. KoMPTEft,

BOOKINGS. Atigurt 1 to 20— Pollard's Opera 'Co., Opera House. November 7 to 26— -Alfred Woods's Dramatic Co., at the Opera House. December 3 to 17— Robert Henry's Dramatic Co., at the Opeia House. December 26 to Jamiary 21 — Williamson and Musgrove's Company.

July 22.

Dear Pasqjik, — The Cowan Diamatic Cotupany ia still with us. After finishing here next week they go into tho back country for a couple of weeks, and then off down the Golden "West Coast.

Pollard's Opera Company close a most successful scasoii m Chrislcliiuch this week, and open a'j Ma&tcrton, for a season of four nights, on Tucrclny next.

Mr F. W. Duval, busines.s manager of the Pollard Opera Coiapany, has been in town duiing "the week making ttio preliminary arrangements for the coming season in Wellington, which will opon on August 1 at the Opera House.

The Firm ha« taken over Mr Chas. Hollo-w-iy'd Xmas booking at our Opera. House. Are we 'to have a second visit of the KnightFerrar Company in its romantic plays, or is it to be the JRoyal Comics?

The scenoiy used m the Wellington Amateur Operatic Society's 'production of " Ituddigoro " has been hired out to the Invercargill an.ak'iirs, and wa& south this week.

Says the Times of this ciby: That " TJucla Tom's Cttbii) " as a theatrical production still possesse? those essential qualities which go to make a 'financial bnoccss m the piescnt era uf gaudy burle&quo &,nd light comedy is a surprsing fact. Diiring the present month no le&s than three cempanies liave pioduced the piece in different parts of New Zealand — the Cowan Dramatic Company down south, Pollard's Opera Company in Christohurch, and a company m Auckland, who were 'coached by Miss Hcttie Howard.

Bland IloH sent me a copy of the Sydney Daily Telegraph containing a very eulogistic aiotice oi t.He first (Australian) production of " The White Heather," which the critic unqualifiedly dubs a giea-t pla^ fiom the Bland

Holtian point of view — the greatest of all the B. 11. sueco^oo3. The storj of the play reads well, and as Mr Roll, when along this way, saul he vionld bring it to this colony next tnp. why, I am just longing lor that trip to come aloi g. A.t this week's meeting of the committee of the Wellington Amateur Opeiatic Society, letters were read from the Auckland Opera* >c Club and the Christchurch branch of the New Zealand Natives' Association (both bodies contemplating tho production of " Dorothy ), inquiring as to the terms for the hire of the scoiiory and properties used in the recent \oz\\ production. Mr C. P. Powles also wrote soliciting the aid of tlie society in furnishing the new wing of Lite Home for the Aged and Nee-ly, b'lt the heavy expense and length of time which attend their prodiictioas prohibit anything oL the land being do 10 at present. The society will noli go into rehearsal until January next when in all probab-lity an opeia- entirely new lo Wellington vvjl Of lehearsad Messages from all p.uts of tlm colony 1 aye been lcceived coag-aiuljfjitiK the society ou the unprecedented succjss attanied in. their latest veil turc.