WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS

Otago Witness, Issue 2545, 24 December 1902, Page 57

WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS

Bt F. Routes. 1 December 19. Dear Pasouin,— A quiet week. The Sandow season closed on -Tuesday evening, and next day the company .went south. The Strong Man gave innumerable expositions of his system of culture up here. It was hard to say whether he was mostly a business man advertising the physical culture appliances or a showman for the Rickardiar interest. But if this week was quiet, we are promised a boomsoine time from next week onward. The Arderson Company is to open its melodramatic season on Boxing Night, and on the same evening Mr Dix starts the panto. "Dick Whittington." The Royal is to be closed for four nights after to-morro^r in order that "Dick" may receive his finishing' touches. Fred Duval is assisting P. R. D. in getting this big booming business ready to hit us hard. To-night Chas. Carter, the ex-Pollardian, is to be benefited in Wellington. These who supply the programme are Misses Jenne Ramsay, Ettie Mnginnity, Sime. and Irene Morris, Messrs E. G. Hill, Harry Smith, Chas Carter, Max Hoppe, and T. Wilford, M.H.R. C. C. did not do too well by his benefit in Christchurch the other day. We are having a lecture season this week by Colonel Bell, ex-consul for -U.S.A. at Sydney. I heard the old man last night, and found him simply delightful on the subject-, "The World's Colonisers." He is a clever speaker, with a ouaint turn of wit, which keeps the audience on the gui vive for something good — which certainly happens along frequently, too. Michael Joseph has been busy this week painting tiie town multi-coloured with posters depicting scenes from the repertoire of the plays which the Anderson Dramatic Company is to give us during the holiday season. The following is the list of plays we are to have: — "Night Burds of London," "The Woist Woman in London, ' "Mariners of England," "Dangerous Women," "Life's Revenge," and "The World Against Her." The season starts with "The Birds." The following is the roster, of the company : —Harry Plimmer, H. W. Diver, C. R. Stanford, Edmund Duggan, Frank Hawthorne, George Chalmers, Walter Rivers, George Hassell, Walter Dalgleish, George Coates, Helen Burdette, Ida Gresham, Josephine Thynne. Katie Towers, Gladys Hughes, Patience Hughes. George Dean, is still doing well with his Waxworks and Vaudeville Company at the Choral Hall. , , _ , Once more, dear Pasquin and dearer .Header, it gives me pleasure to wish you A Merry Christmas.