WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS.

Otago Witness, Volume 02, Issue 2420, 2 August 1900, Page 55

WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS.

By P. KoMPTEa.

July 27.

Dear Pasquin, — In matters amusementical we have been enjoying a lively time of late. Not counting the House of Cornedy — Parliament — which is in full swing foi its three months' season, we have had the Opera House occupied, the • two music halls, and numerous concerts and lectures.

Montgomery's Kinematograph and Concert Company have occupied the Opera House all the week, and finish to-morrow night. Good biz.

Vaudeville is flourishing in Wellington, both at the Exchange Hall and Fuller's Choral Hall.

Mr Dixs latest additions to the roster at the Exchange Hall are J. C. Bain (of whose previous visit to the colony all who saw this humourist will have lively recollections), Johnny Collins, Bob Hall (a Wellingtonian), and Charlie Hugo. The Leslie Family hav*e caught on at the Choral Hall, and on Wednesday Miss Lily De Vere, serio-comic, from Sydney, made her first appearance.

At the close of the first act of "The Christian," which was played last week by the Douglas Ancelon Company in the Hawera Opera House, Mi Walter Bentley came before the curtain and asked the audience to look leniently on any little delays in the action of the piece, as the theatre, contrary to expectations, was far from satisfactory. Under the circumstances of which Mr Bentley complained, Hawera folk could not expect good companies to visit them, and he would have to write to that efiect to an Australian manager who purposed including Hawera in his itinerary.

Mrs' Hannibal Williams (of N'York) gives us an Afternoon with Browning next Thursday. Miss Julia Moran, whe won the gold medal for violin playing at the Wellington Exhibition, and who has been studying for three years in Melbourne, gave a concert m Sydney street Schoolroom on Monday, and came off successful. Lady Douglas organised the concert, the Countess of Ranfurly was present, and Miss Moran was assisted by Misses Jeanne .ftarnsay, Medley, and TJpham, and Messrs Leon Cohen, J. W. and E. J. Hill, Roland Boot, and Harry Smith (the last-named four being our Meistersingers). Miss Moran, I understand, intends taking up teaching in Wellington. We had a theatrical case before our - Magistrate's Court on Tuesday last. A. Brandon Cremer and John R. G-oodall, teachers of elocution, etc., and well known in the purfesh, sued J. P. Lyon (a livery stable keeper) for damage done to themselves and their pupils by an accident which occurred to them by reason of the breakdown of a drag hired from defendant. The accident occurred on the Hutt road, near Victoria street, when the party were returning to Wellington from a suburban performance, and one of the party was so upset that medical aid was necessary. Damage was done to the wearing apparel of several of the occupants. Mi Williams (who was the sweet tenor in the first party of Fisk Jubilee Singers who visited the colony) appeared for plaintiffs and Mr Skerrett for defendant. Plaintiffs were non-suited, defendant being allowed costs, amounting to £4 Is.