WELLINGTON WHISPERS

Otago Witness, Issue 2516, 4 June 1902, Page 57

WELLINGTON WHISPERS

By 7. Eoimn. May 30. Dear Pasqnin, — The Opera House has been in the possession of the Anderson Dramatic Company throughout the week. "The Greed of Gold" has been the play, which has attracted large downstair houses. I heard one critic say, after seeing "The Greed," that he came away feeling as if he lad been » murderer! To-morrow the company is to revive J The Ladder of Life." The town is talking just now of the treat which it anticipates with the coming of th» two great vaudeville companies — the World's Entertainers and Ricksnrds's company. I ran up against Messrs M. Marcus and Joe Brown in town yesterday, bustling bnsrnessically on behalf of Rickards' a company. The company, which is to open at the Opera House next Thursday, is now playing at Wangaxtui. It has done big business throughout it* New Zealand tour. Cinquevalli and Madame Lydia Yeamsuns-Titus are creating * fnrore at each show place. The World's Entertainers — of wJiom you know more than I can tell you — are to open at the Theatre Royal to-morrow night. They are to give a. matinee performance on Tuesday next (Prince of Wale3 F s Birthday). In order to allow the Entertainers to come in, Dixs Gaiety Company is clearing out of the Theatre Royal, and is off on a country tour to-morrow. The Gaiety company will return to the theatre on the 9th pros, with a new roster of artists. Montgomery's Biograph Company has been running all the week at the Exchange Hall. We are having daily and nightly meetings of committees, arranging entertainments for Coronation Day. We are .apparently going to have a time on that day which we will long remember. The second of the Maughan Bamett-Max i Hoppe recitals took place last Tuesday night, and was as successful as it 3 predecessors. I understand that Mr Bamett contemplates making a tour of the colony shortly. The Orpheus Liedertafel opened its third season with a crowded Choral Hall last Monday. Mr Lawrence Watkins is && Orpheus conductor. . Mar P. DA. C. DeL'lsle, the -well-known, sporting story writer, is taking a benefit next Wednesday night, at the Exchange Hall, to enable him to raise sufficient funds to place his sporting novels and plays on the London market. Mr De L'lsle will be assisted by Miss Randall, Miss Maud Hall, Mcssts Walshe, Hobznan, OaJdey, Stratton, the Orpheus Quartette, and many other well-known amateurs. The programme will be a thoroughly sporting one, and well deserving of support. It is whispered to me that in all probability we shall see Sandow round the colony. Whether he comes under Mr Dixs or Mr Rlckaxds's management is still a matter of negotiation. He may be the bright particular star of th-e Rickards No. 2 touring company.