THE GHOST WALK.

Otago Witness, Issue 2561, 6 May 1903, Page 57

THE GHOST WALK.

.By Pasquin, Jun.

Wallace King .9 -dead. Fred Duval leaves Auckland foi 'Frisco on May 8.

Stevenson's Royal Entertainers have reached Tasmania.

Fitzgerald's Circus tour New Zealand at the clo c e of the Sydney season.

Rickajds's American Burlesque Company are expected to arrive in Sydney this month.

"Is his new play a tragedy'" — "It must be. There are two marriages in the first act "

"He got the stage fright.' — "He! How?" — "Married the plainest girl in the company.

Carrie Mcore is to be tendered a benefit prior to sailing for England. "San Toy" probably.

Fitzroaurice Gill -Company opened in His Majesty's on Monday evening with "The French Spy."

Way Down East Company, from America, will be asked to open His Majesty's, Sydney, when finished.

Murphy and Mack, those somewhat indifferent comedians, were at latest appearing at tho Orpheum, Frisco.

Marietta Nash \Mib George Lauri) will be in the cast jf "My Lady Molly," the next production of the Royal Comics. Anderson's dramas proved so palatable to Auckland playgoers that Michael Joseph and Co. extended the sea Eon a week.

Rumoured that one of the beys at the Lidustrial School has joined a circus which passed through Dunefiin recently.

Jim Bain's Variety Company is raking in the stray shekels in Hobart, while the Gourlay Company is doing ditto in Lrunceston.

More Castles in the air. George Castles, brother of Amy and Dolly of this ilk, has gene to Paris to study under the best masters.

Mr Mark Hambourg, the distinguished pianist, who is about to tour Australia, arrived on Monday at Auckland from San Francisco.

Australian actor Cecil Ward, who has been quiet since the Broughs' departure, is a picaBant person ta meet in "Are You a Mason?"

Tlie Earl of Yarmouth has married Alice Shaw, daughter of an American railway millionaire. She has a dowry of £20,000 a year.

The Cambry Sisters, who were to have joined Ben Fuller's Company in Dunedin, ere members of Gourlay's Variety Company in Launceston. - Kate Vnughan, who died il. dire poverty in Johannesburg recently, was the inventor and the unapproachable espone.it of the graceful skirt dance.

An old iady with whom he was unacquainted bequeathed M. Coqu^'un, the famous French actor, £12,000. M. Coquehn liar handed the money to the Retired Actors' Fund.

Mr John L. Sullivpn, pugilist aud actor, has jii'-t received his discharge from the Court of Bankruptcy. Mr Sullivan say= he has not yet deeded whether he will return to the stage.

When not playing in the productions of Musgrove's Comic Opera Company, Lempricrc Priugle, Madame Slapoffski, and Lilian Boana* go on tour as Musgrove's Concert Compary.

An injunction has besn gTar.ted Mr J. C. Williamson restraining Maurice Gerald, theatrical manager, from playing the dramas "Struck Oil" and "The Silver King" in Victoria.

Wallace Brownlow, who is a star turn with Hickards's Company, which claims Jacques Inaudi, Grace Emmett, and others, was last in Dunedin with Harry Connor's "Trip to Chinatown" ' Company. "I have gone on the stage," boasted the ambitious Thespian, "to make a nam-a for lnyeelf." "You will find," said the candid friend, "that the ' gods ' will save you all that trouble, once they see you."

Mr G. H. Chirgwin, the White-eyed Kaffir, has become so popular with audiences at the Palace' that he has been offered and has accepted a. contract for another li weeks at a great increase of salary. M. Bouhy, of Paris, under whose tuition the Misses Amy and Dolly Castles, the young Victorian vocalists, are now pursuing their musical studies, has pronounced the voice of Miss Dolly -Castles "to be a dramatic soprano. "A delegation -waited upon me to-day," said ithe young playwright, proudly, "with a request about the performance of ray new play in the interest of charity." "Indeed 1 " said Crittick. "JReauested you to stop the performance, eh?"

Portion of the World's Entertainers (says Indian Planters' Gazette to hand) were at latest playing in Mauritius. Violet Elliot, charming wife of Johnny Shine, comes in £ot high praise. Salerno is ako with the company..

"I'm determined," said tho amateur playwright, "to produce this play at my own expense." "Well, well," remarked Crittick, "most people don't enjoy jokes of that sort. "Jokes of what sort?" "At one's own expense."

"Critic" on one we know, but did rot sufficiently appreciate: Phihp Ncwbuiy, though billed as a, New Zealand tenor, was bom at St. Hehers, Jersey. His mother was ade St. Croix, an-d so Newbury's mother tongue is French, and not English. A young musical student is bringing an action, against a concert company in Pans for refusing to admit him u> a concert after having bought a ticket. The defence is that he wa3 one of a band who systematically hissed the pieces of a csrtsm composer. Italian dramatic art has almcst at a blow lost the services of some of its most celebrated exponents (reports a Rome despatch). In one week three actresses — Signora Dma Galli, Signora Eeiter, and Signonni Galli — hive lost their reason. These la-dies belonged to different companies playing in difEerent towns.

A German paper recently printed, the following advertisement: — "Opera singer, of first rank, excellent recommendations and connections, fina figure, good talker, speaks German, French, and English, wishes to change his profession and find a situation as a commercial traveller for a large house in wines and cigars. '

The o'dest circus proprietor in the colonies, professionally known as Mr St. Leon (his prt-per name was John Leon Jones), c".ied last week at his home, at Oakleigh, aged 83 Deceased was associated as partn-er with the Messrs Wirth Bros.' father 40 years ago. He was considered one of the finest trainers of horses in the woi Id

Miss Marie Lloyd has undergone a slight nasal operation, and her many friends «.nd warm admirers will be exceedingly glad to hear that it was most successful. After a much-needed rest in the South of England the popular lady, who has but just completed her p»ntomiin<? engagement, will return to the halls, reports the Era.

Melba tells a s'.ory: "Ah, these countrymen of mine, these Australians, they are delightfully impudent. Fancy, at one hotel at which I was staying, when I complained of the delay between courses at dinner, the waiter said: — ' Well, madame, you might just tip us a song while you're waiting.' I told him he expected 100 big a tip, and the fellow seined quite hurt. He set a high valwe oti himself. But I'm not blaming him, bless you — so do I." A fond mother brought her stage-struck daughter to- the family solicitor, in the hope that he niig-ht argue her out of her resolution to go on the stage. He began immediately with, "Show me your legs ' The girl blushed, furiously, and Icolied like_ crying, "There you are," said the man of law, T 'you wouldn't show your legs to Tn-e vn+h. your rro'hcr present, yet you want to go before a crowd with next to nothing o :." An original Eort of argument; but a. trifie one-sidsd. A S?n Francisco pa^ar scys that Mrs Jas. Brown Potter is planning an American tcur for nest season, giving readings fiom classic poems to the accompaniment tof symphonic music. Edward Grieg, the eminent Norwegian composer, will assist Mr? Potter in providing the musical settings for these readings, T7h>ch are to include pae&ages from "Antigone" snd "Peer Gyut." The Lieblcrs will manage the tcur, and Kyrle Bcllew is assisting Mrs Potter in arranging the preliminary negotiations. — Mr Williamson has arransred for the Aus-

tralian production of "Resurrection" and "The Eternal City 1 ' by a company to b? led by Mr Juhu3 Knight and Miss Maud Jeffries, both aheady favourites here. ' Resurrection" is a dramatisation of Tolstoi's no\el by Heury Batailie and Michael Norton which has been running with great success in London since Febiuary, where it is being played by Mr Beerbohm Tree at His Majesty's Theatre. Hall Caine's version of his own novel was produced at the same theatre last October.