THE GHOST WALK

Otago Witness, Issue 2504, 19 March 1902, Page 57

THE GHOST WALK

(By Pasquik, Jrx.) Camilla Urso dead. The Au«trj!ian B'ondin is in Tiniaru. Harry Shme is with Jones and Lawrence in ihe '"'est. Edgsr Gianville great success at Dunedin Alhambra. The Dartos were at the Winter Gaidens, Berlin, at latest. Miss Jennie Opie and the Rianos are appearing at Melbourne Bijou. The Black Family have returned to town after a successful tour of the goidfields. A new arrival at the Aihambra is Mr Edgar I Granville, an English society entertainer. The Craggs opened at the City Hall, Auckland, on Monday night to a bumper house. Miss Lizzie Kirk and Frank Leon left by the north express for Chri3tchurch on Saturday. lyror.e Power is in New York under engagement to Mrs Fiske for her dramatic company. "Ben Hur" is" being made the subject of many sermons and much clerical commendaI tion. Oui next visitoj - s to Dunedin Princess will be Montgomery and Co., with a kinematcgraph. English-entertainer Stevenson and a British has secured the Garrison Hall foi Easter. Daiivers, who pzloled Frrnk Clarke and his "Muldoon Picnic" Company through the goldfields, ia in town "resting." Miss Caia Dalby ar.d Johnny Collins mad^ their final appearance with Dixs Gaiety Ccm pan}-, Chiistchuich, on Saturday. Mr Williamson has secured the Austral nn rights for » new musical comedy, "A Courtrv Girl, or Town and Country Lite." Miss Amy Castles, who is a passenger by the Polynesian, will give her first Australia l concert at the Melbourne Town Hall on April o Broughs had a tplriidid c e-nd-off at Dunedn Princess, and their iarpe circle of persona' friends assembled on the wharf to say "Gocdbye " Mrs Brown-Potter has resigned her part of Ca!vp=o in Stepho'i Phillip's "Ulysses" o\v n^ tq a disagreement as to how certain lines should be read. Mi~s O'Neil ga\e two matinees in aid of the Soldiers' Comforts fund, one at Capetown and ai. other at Kirnberley, and handed over £250 to the fund." Mr Blend Holt, who is playing at the Ly ream, Sjdney, "Hearts are Trumps," intends to open again at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne', during Cup week. Wnth's Circus brought a successful f-eason in Christchurch to a tsrminatioji on Saturday meht. They opened on the Town Hall site, Wellington, on Monday. Charles Hauls, o.ie time of Broughs has let the boards anu takon to quenching thir-t3 m Canipbelltown, IS'ew South Wales, where he lijis taken o"cr a pubhehouse. Mr Tregaski, who piloted the Steele-Payno Fami'y of Bellrmgerb through New Zealand, has been doing a similar duty for Miss Annie Ma\ Abbott the "Georgia Mapnet." P(we/y Prycie is singing "The honeysuckle and the bte" \, ith much success at Sydney Tjvoli. Thi« is the tuneful melody which the Luifraid sisteis iijtroduced to Dunedin. Ex-Dunedin theatrical proprietor Ben Fuller has clr pel down Sydney Empire from March 1 until Easter Saturday for cleansing, repairing. ai;d plague-scaring and rat-hunting. The Steele-Payne Family of Bellringcrs wtre m the Gipppland district at latest. A line from a member o r the company informs me that they aio ill well and doing splendid'y The majority of the members cf Williamson's Italian Opera Company, who touied as a concert campjny after the exmration of their op?ra season, lc r t foi home by the Arcadia on March ?.

Coppia's Royal Dramatic Company are tomn.g the Manawntu district with "When London Wakes»" (this must be the reverse of the picture "When London Sleeps") and "The Miner's Daughter." A sad fact •', connect-on with the death of Miss Ada Lee (sdvs Melbourne Punch) lies in th^ immmi'ioi) that the popular actress was engaged to bo mimed to .1 gentleman in India, whiihiM Mi^s T. >c i-umo-ed poirtc "liortlv (hm» to Svdnp> Criterion l>emc; plu^up-"-trukpn, Kddi" (leach hns made ai rangements fo.- piodui uiR "The Wrong Mi Wright" at the Bijou, Melbourne The Xcw Zealand toi'r of the Willoughby-Geach management commences in May. "Ben Hur" is to bp produced nt Drurv Lane Theatre for the (list time in London at Easter. Immense preparations arc already being made, and in the ehaiiot-mcing scene four char.o's will be shown at full gallop, instead of two, as in the. original production. Pollard's Opera Company ut time of writiu* arc in Wanganui Tlie local paper (Hera'd) has got ■into somewhat of a tangle with the names of seveial members of the company. "F'nnstance," Bertie Campion, Wilmont Karkeek, Rosie Gresson, and Connie Battell. Interpreted, reads Gertie Campion, Wilinot Karkeek, Rosie Everson, Connie Buttle. London Punch artist Plul May is to make Ins debut on the stage "under the immediate patronage of the Duchess of Fife and Princess Louise" in one of a .series of tableaux to be lirld early next month in aid of Charing Cross Hospital Phil will appear in "The Career of a Dnchess." a three-scene tableau — (I) Gainsborough's Studio (21 Chiistmaß Saleroom, and (31 A Few Nights Aftei . And in the last scene the artist would-be-actor is to be the Burglar 1 A benefit la being oiganised in Sydney foi Ted Gallaugher who piloted Pollard Opera Company through Brisbane. It was while ir> advance for the P.O. Company that he ruptured a blood-vessel in his biain, which resulted in partial paralysis of the left side. After a long treatment in the hospita l , he was discharged, but with his left arm helpless Owing to this he has been unable to pursue his ordinary duties. Hence the benefit, and hence, again, his want of assistance Mr Ernest Toy, the Queensland violinist, gave two recitals at the Assembly Rooms, Bath, on the afternoon and evening of January 20. when he had the assistance of "Princess Te Rangi" (Mrs Howie, Mpori eantatrice), and Miss Amy Simpson, an Austtahnn soprano The attendance was good, the audience enthusiastic, and the press notices very favourable. Mi Toy left London a few days ago for Monte Carlo, where he has secured a number of engagements for the musical season now at its height. Under the heading "The Greatest Villain "Cnhung," a London paper in an outline of the career of dramatic crime ot Mi W L Abington, for some time crimincl-m-chiei at the Adelphi, gives the 'following us his output for om year — Murder o , 320; Tobbcries (with vio lence), 016: robberies (without violence, including embezzlement*), 125 : threats to murder, 75§i. i&lxc jritaws (.afiaicst near jiej&libours),

102, arson. 27, conspiracy (generally with a ccmic M.lain). 320, treason-felony, 80; ordinary treason, 94 ; forgery, 203 ; riot (and unlawlul as«emb'y), 17, attempts to murder (asserted). 700, miscellaneous felonies and misdemeanours, 1265, — grand total, 4227.

On board the ex-convict hulk Success, now lying in the Thames (it is "lying" in more senses than one, as you will perceive la:er on) may be seen a waxnork group oi ' the much-dreaded Ned Kelly gang, who for their numerous crimes were confined for a, lengthy period on the Success. ' As a matter of fact not one o; the Kelly gang (says Sydney Daily Telegraph) was evei on board the slap, which had indeed gone out of use as a convict depot long be .'ore the Kellys we.c heard of, while only Ned Kelly, I believe, ever saw the in3ide of a gaol. Dan Kelly, Joa Byrne, and Steve Hart were killed at Glcnrowan. That, at least, is my reading of the history oi the Kelly gang.