THE GHOST WALK.

Otago Witness, Issue 2524, 30 July 1902, Page 57

THE GHOST WALK.

(Bt Pasquik, Irrs.)

Hawtrey Comedy Co. are in Adelaide. Cinquevalh opened in Sydney Tivoh on Monday night last. Violinist Kubelik is reported to receive 300 guineas a night. Reported that P. E. Dix pays a visit to Australia shortly. New Zealand is the "Tom Tiddler's" ground of the variety pro. Priscilia Verne ha<s sailed for India with an Australian variety co. Recently-divorced a-cli-ess ilay Yohe \a'.ues her diamonds at £'80,003' Mr P. R. Dix left for Chnstchurch hv the north express on Thursday last. Charlie Faning, Gporgie Devoe, and Alf Luwton ha - . e pone to South Afnca.

Dixs Wellington manager, Claude VThaite, lecves for Ensi-nd at a:i early date. D'Axcy Stonsfield, husband of talented E a Clements, is djing oi pneumonia in London Ada Reeve, who has been on the "indisposed" list, is now progressing more than fa/ourably. Tom Edwards.. Harry Fitzmaunce. Jam

Marion, and Beattie Galardi have left for Irdia.

George Buller, late of Dampier's Co., is ahead of the World's Entertainers in Tasmania.

Rtuorted that Mis Patrick Campbell and Australian fa%ounte actor Titheradge will visit Australia.

Jas. Moigan, last through New Zealand with trick cyclists Valdares, takes oxrt a touring co. to the East.

Strorg man S?ndow received 15 recalls on Ins opening i ight at Perth Royal on July 12. Very strong.

Miss Ruth Markey, of Mr J. C. WiUiamfou's Dramatic Company, left for London on Ihe 16th inst.

S:\rcm, late with Ben Fuller and Percy Dix shows, threatens to bring out a variety co. to Mionlend.

Eddie Simpson, who died in Sydney last week, was well krown a few years back m the variety nrofesf-ion.

Leslie Forrest, late with P R. Dix, is now v, ith the Globe Dramatic Company, touring the South 'end district.

Vesa Tilley, the English music hall artist, has refund £400 a week to go to the States to i>la> m "The Silver Slipper" l

Mr DiX spends o\er £500 per annum m cables and telegrams in. connection with his variety companies ij Duaedin-

Conjurer Carl Hertz informs Eddie Gecch that he will -visit Australia and iSew Zealand at th;> close of a S'African tour.

Wilboh Barrett Co. will remain in South Africa for some time longei then intended. The close of the war is responsible.

Madame Sarah Bernhardt began heT annual season in London (Garrick) on Monday, June 9, playing m "Francosca da Rimini."

Mr Wi.liamson produced "A Circus Girl" at Her Majesty's, Melbourne, on Saturday, July 19, for the first time in Australia.

Violinist Geigei, the newcomer at the Alhambra Gaiety Company, made a big and favourable impression on his first appearance.

Miss Ellen Terry has confessed to a London interviewer that she and Mrs 1 Kendal have cot arted together since they were girls of 15 and 17.

Perth (W.A.) is to have a new theatre at an early dale. Apropos of tl is. Hairy Rickards -ntends spending £1000 on rejuvenating the o.d cnc-.

Strong man Sando-v, present at Perth Rcyal, will appear at the Agricultural Hall cum "King's Theatre," Dunedin, in January. P'raps l

Bounding Ashby, of billiard - table act (World's Entertainers), is forming a co. of his own — "American Vaudeville Stars" — to tour the colonies.

Arthur Nelzi-ou*' and Elsie Foirest, patter comedians, of "Words Entertainers fame, opened with Dix Gaiety Co. in Christchurch on Saturday night. Miss Alice Crawford, of Bendigo, where the elocutionists and the Amy Castles come from, is occupying a handy position in Wilson Barrett's Co. in S'Africa.

Sam Rowley, the little man vwth the big voice, who looks on occasions more like Horace Bent than Sam Rowley, mad? a substantial bit at Dunediu Alhambra.

Thos. P. Hudson has received word from his chief in London that tlie postponement of the Coronation celebiation3 will r.ot interfere with Madame Melba's visit to Austiaha and New Zealand.

Percy Ay^mor, 22 ycais of r.gc, and a tenor of English reputation, joins Pollard's Opera Company. The new comer will probably fill Cha'. Carter's place when that vocalist leaves for England.

Th° will of the late Sol Smith Russell, the American corr.edi-an, who wa? reputed to bo one of the richest men on the American stage, has been valued for probate purposes at £30,000 by his widow.

Miss Kate Milner. the latent addition to the Comic Opsra Oompaiiy, is the wife of the new baritone, Thorley. She is the daughter of Major Milner, and niece of Sir Alfred Milner, of South African fame.

Magician Cunning, late with P. R. Dixs companies, lies joined Ashby's (late of World's Entei tamers) American Vaudeville Company for a tour of New Zealand. Said tour commences at Waihi (N.1.) on August 4.

Mr Henry Le>' oi World's Entertainer?, b'st known as a most entertaining impersonator, appeared at the Bijou Theatre, Melbourne, on 26th inst. in the romantic character of Cyrano de Bergerac in Rostand's famous play.

According to Miss Olga Nerh-ersole's own printed account oi herself in a London paper, "fchfi liquid fire, the burning emotion of my xveat-grandmother lives in me." "Who was I!ms O1O 1 ? 3 Nethprso'e's great-grandmother?

Wirth Bro3 , cuxus-show proprietors, present m Auckland, have engaged much new talent from Home. Said talent has already Bailed <or New Zcala-ad. Also, "Wirth Bros, have engag&d several new animals, cages, and other things. Theatres for the ir<iane arc to be staited in the State of lowa. Judging from some of the playa recently pioduced m town (saya London Pehcan), certain metropolitan managers may fitly be supposed to be trying to copy the American iclea

Albeit ChevaliT says — "If base individuals with jeekd palates war.t spice let them wallow it it, but let the piurient-minded have a hall to •them.^elves Call it the Obscenity, and make it punishable at law for anjone to enrrcach on the prerogative nf those engaged in pandering to the taste 3of the dirty and depraved.."

A. candid critic on tenor Dam —"I have heard Dam, much to my delight. I have not heard so clear ar.d full a C since the dajei when 'il divino Tamagno' was at his best. All the eairc, Dam is not \vi=e. LiPt him contiMie his preFent style of business for another five years, and he will prolvibly not hnv* the phost of a voice left. The B and C notes have the same effect on tenoT3 as gin has on poets — if they keep on long enough "