THE GHOST WALK

Otago Witness, Issue 2505, 26 March 1902, Page 57

THE GHOST WALK

(By Pasquix, Jun.) Fitzgerald Bros.' Circus opens m SvcHey at Eastei. " Fiogm&n " Ferry is touring the V.ctoiian province? Ben Fuller's birthday last Thursday. Congratulations. Mr Robert Brough's mother >s en her way out to Australia. John F. Sheridan is in Melbourne reviving " Widdy O'Brien.' M'Adoo's Jubilee Singers are touring the Victoiian districts. Aihambra i'.udiOnces laugu at the jokes they are oest acquainted with Collet-Dobson is in Sydney teaching stage deportment and elocution. Ernest Baritone Fitts is now stage manager for P. R. Dix in Auckland. Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney, was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday last. Miss Nina Boucieault is playing m '" The ICew Clow n " at Terry's, London. Bland Holt continues to do good business in Sydney Lyceum with "Hearts are Trumps. " Philip N"ewbury and Emily Spada loft for Wellington, en route for England, on Friday 'Cellist Gerardy's American tour closes in April. He sails for Australia in the Sierra on June 12. Miss Amy Castles, the Bendigo contralto, has at lived in Perth. She received an enthusiastic welcome Ale( Hurley and Mane Lloyd appeared on the bill al the anniversary of the Oxfoul on Fr.day, Febiuary 14. Charles Arnold has ordered a monument lo be p'aceel ovr i the graves of actresses Salhe Booth and Ada Lee. Mi Jean Do Lacoy, of Jo=pnhine Stinior. Com pun' 1 , was recently mairied to Mips Maud Vinci in Perth, W.A. Lerton Trio of hat twirlers. lately through Dinted in with P. R. Dix Gaiety shows, are now at Sydney Tivoh The Brou°hs open in Melbourne Princess on Saturday next in " The Amazons," for a farewell season of five weeks. The Craggs were greeted by a record lions? when they opened m Auckland on Monday, lTtli inst. They deserve it Joe Cowan, late of F M. Clark's show left for Auckland on Frul.iv to rejoin P. R D x's crmpaiiv in the northern city. Mrs Patrick Campbell was the well ki own actress o\ er whose contemplated visit to Au=traha there was so much secrecy. Lieutenant Tiuws, the ventri'ociinst. who v\a<= out in Anstia'ia was at latent at the Rrival St lr.dard Mu»n. H.t'l, London Mdlle Dolores (Trebelli), assisted l>v Mr Clarencp Xevvell. uve<- a recital m the Choral Hall C'msteliurch, on F.a=ter Mo' d.iv ni«»ht Ai'Tie Lachaume. the French pianist accompanies Jean (ierardy, the world-ienowned 'eel* list o^ his Australi.tr and Xew Zealand tour Miss Fitzniaurice Oill, o'>e tir>e of Bla> d Hull, w row Icac'irp laJv with Anfler«-oii's Dramatic Company, at present in Xew Zo,i land Petal's Xew Orleans Juverile Mmstr-1-o;-)?ncd for a short season of three nishts v the Theatre Royal, Napier, on VTednes-dav last. The fa>lur° of Edv.T-d Jakobow=ki. th*» enm»o=er of "Ermine" anrl other comic opera 1 -, has been announced in the Lordon Bankruptcy Court. The suddei death is announced fiom Card'ff of the nndiret known as "Major Mite." He was 31in hi^h, and had appeared before Royalty. Marie Lloyd was apneanns at the Empiass Theatre of Varieties, London, when ths» mail left; also at the Tivoh in "The Bond Street Tea Walk." Pollard's Opera Com par v »!ayed four meh's in Wanganui last weM; " Florodora," " Tic Casino Girl," " The Rose of Peisia," '" La Pexichole " The Alh=on = , du°tn-<t« and dancers, are the latest atar= from the Ritk^rds firmament to outshine all other 0 in their particular line at Wi llmsrton Thr vaca'T-v in the cast of " Thp vTrnpf Mr Wiielit caused tliroueh the deoth of Mits bailie Booth will b- filled by Mm<= R^and Watt-Plul'ips. The A'uu Granville^Tsramatic Comiidiiv gave a performance oi A Man oi Honour

in the Oddfellows' HpII, Christchurch, on Tuesday night. The New World's Entertainers, with Salerno, the juggler (rival of Cmquevalli), as 'he "star," open in Palace, Sydney, od March 29 (Easter Saturday) Mr Frank Thornton, the comedian of fhe Andersor Dramatic Company, was last through New Zealand with the Stanford Dramatic Company. John Fuller, sen., and John Fuller, jun., have secured a first slice of Fullers' earth in Tasmania. The new company opens on the new site during Haster. As the Pocket Dartos have b^en re-engaged by Mr J. C. Williamson tor another 12 months, it will be that length of time and logger before we see them ir> Maoriland. The Payne Family of Musicians weie in the Bendigo d'Sirict at latest. Mr James Williams, the basso who was through heie with P. It. Dix, has rejoined the company Mr and Mrs Charles Arnold aro to leave New Zealand, where they have been doing the Hoti Lakes, on the 26th inst. for Fiji, and will there join the Moana en route tn Vancouver Siguor Borzom, well known in this city, i« to give his giand spectacular display "Britannia's Call to Arms" m the Wnngann Opera Hcu=e for a few nights, dating from April 23 to May 3. Mrs Sharman, of Auckland (Miss Juliet Wray, who played Kitty Hethertoa in the first production of "In Town ' in Dunedin), ha 3 been soendng a holiday with her people m Ballara"t. A record price for a Stradivariu° 'cello is i"eported from Berlin. It is stated that the 'cello, by Slradivarms, has been bought for £400 Cby a banliei who is a graVid-nephew of Mendelssohn Several members of Anderson's Dramatic Company passed through Dunedm on Thursday en loute to Wellington, where they open a season of melodrama. Dunedtn follows, then. Christchurch. Miss Beryl Faber, just leleased from "Iris," makes a successful and distinguished appearance in "A Country Girl, ' the Australian rights of which have just been secured by Mr J. C. Williamson. Mr and Mrs Herbert Ross, who passed through Dunedin last week, and were passengers with the Brough Comedy Company on the Mokoia to Tasmania, left for England by the Omrah on Thursday. Tridy a wonderful record ! Mr Van Biene, who is playing at the Princess's Theatre, London, in "The Broken Melody," gave his 2500 th presentation of the now famous role of Paul Bonnski on February 8. After the Dunedin season of English entertainer Stevenson " Srtuler ' Harry Abbott, who has not beeu enjoying the best of health of late, puiposes going to Napier and there recruiting his lost energies for a month. The Lenton Trio, Chffoid Heath, Peggy Pryde, Colby and Way, Casselh sisters, Wilhims quartet, Lundgreens, and Md'le. Lotty (the moder'i Venus) ore included on the pay sbert fo Rickards's Tivoh Ccmnanv. Sydney. Australian biritone. "Tom" Hamilton Hill, ! u<=band of Beam? GeUateiy, one time tip-to? dance o* Blard. Holt's company, and loader of Violent Gray, Nellie Farren, Joan Campb.'ll, and Co , is reported to be getting nearly £50 per woek in. the Big Smoke. Mr Williamson has received news that the ne-vi musical comedy, "The Country Girl." oi which he has secured the rights for Australia, '-> a <;icat success at Daly's Theatre, uotwthst?ndirg that something went -wrong with the se<?n&ry on the first night. The Alice in Wonderland Company disbanded in Brisbane after a successful sea-on in that city. The members of the company go on tour with the Musical Comedy Company, playing " FlorodoTa," ' A Runaway Girl" " The Belle of New York," " nnd " French Maid." William Anderson has c- gased George Darioil to star at the head of a dramati'- corn pany he ia sending out west Ardy HoJcje who was to have come over to Xew Zea'and with the present Anderson company, received a wire at the last raomeut to jom T)arre'l for the west. Youug New Zealand actress, Mi=s May Beatty, is guttma on capitally in " A Eunawav'Girl" H»r portrait adoins the latest Melbourne Punch. May will return to New Zealand to compete T>er three months' rontract time with Pollard's Opera Company at an early date. The Greenwood Family have been doing immense business in the Victorian districts, and everywhere have met with a nattering reception from press and public. A letter from Miss Manbel Greenwood, from Port Fairy, state 3 that the family is having a charming time, and that the lady advance agent is sti.l a gTeat success. Mr Diosv, who has recently been decorated with the K.C. of the "Rising Sun of Japan," "japanned" "The Geisha" — i.e., put a correct Japan^e gloss on its mi=e-en -scene. A charming girl r»n up to him "How do \ou think I look, Mr Diosy''" He gazed at her for a moment, and then, quickly observing that her kimono was folded from light to left— as is done only at interments in Japan — instead of from left to right, he smiled and said 'You are the liveliest corp9e J. ever saw'" There is a probability of Mrs Patrick Ca aubell and her excellent company, now in America, visiting Australia within a few months Mr George Musgrove has recrt\cd a cable message from Canada from the English actre=s offering to play a three months' season, with a modern repertoire, in Australia, commencing m Melbourne ou '20th June. Although the terms asked !>v Mrs Campbell are considered to be rather high, negotiatio-is. it i« believed, will result in arrangements being made for the Viol i,.-t Ben .iru WaHncr p'.aved the "Barrwrd" composition at Wa'i«anii' (M.L ), and a local paper expressed re?ret that he should descend from the classic to the vulgai, so to «l-eak X*xt Mght Walther'^ company gave a Ml\<'i-coin '-how . and uftoi gazing ■-orrowfully at the array of battered threepenny-bits, he said, per Bulletin. "Ze panier take exception to me plavmt? ze 'Barnyard' ,> ccc on Saturday. Quite right. I should huff pahformed him toi i°ht und I t-pek so L<iciie- and f hentltnieiifc. 1 "will now pla\ you ze threeponnv niece to match so K?uanou« contributions, and zen I make ze quadrupc-d with ze lour legb a pek. Bah 1 ze small =i.\er coin'