AUSTRALIAN STAGE GOSSIP

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

AUSTRALIAN STAGE GOSSIP

SYDNEY, April 25. Business st local theatres this week on!y fan, consequent on wet weather.

The event of the week has been the first appearance in Syndney of Mr Edward Lloya, the eminent tenor, which took place on Tues day last. A packed house greeted him, notwithstanding the wet night. The second concert of the season, given on Thursday evening, was also well attended.

Several artists are in their last nights at the Tivoli, notably Hili and Sylvainy and Sam Hoidsworth. Next Saturday w.ll bee the far=t appearance here of the much lauded Boise.ie troupe. Mdlle. Rhodesia, Lady Juggler La JJcTe Rose, and several other artists make a reappearance with Fitzgerald's Circus to-day. .Next week new attractions are announced.

Mr A'bsrt Gran, late ot the Musgrove Company, has this week been giving scenes rrom "Othello," "Romeo and Juliet." and other pieces at Manly, m conjunction with some loca 1 amateurs. They were not a great financial success, however. "Paul Jones" is advertised for revival at Melbourne Her Majesty's to-night, and will ba the last of l .he revivals by the Koyal Comics during the present season. The next new opera will be "My Lady Molly." At Rickards' s Opera House, Rudinoff is the star attraction.

Several variety ?rtists are returning to Melbourne from w estern Australia. Harry Shine, Jim Bell, and Ada Delroy, lately returned, appear at Melbourne Gaiety to-night. Mrs Wallace Brownlow made her first appearance on any stage at Adelaide Tivoli last Saturday, when she appeared in a sketch, "A Modern Mrs Caudle."

Musgrove"s Comic Opera Compauy will succeed the "San Toy" Company at Adelaide Royal. At Perth Royal during the past week the following artists hnve been appearing — Boisette Company, Lazern, Professor Maccanu, Maud Famng, and Harry Rickards. While Musgrove's Company were producing "The Thirty Thieves" and -a. Chinese Honeymoon" »t Hobaxt, Lempnere Pringle and Madame Slapoffski conducted a concert tour in the Tassy smills. Daisy Chard has left Wallace's Company, and, it is said, goes to Tasmania. Mr J. C. Williamson has secured a great attraction 'for Australia. Six months hence Mr Juhus Knight and Miss Maud Jeffries will come cut under special airangement with Mr Beerbohm Trae, and will pioduce Tolsio. s "Resurrection" and Hall Caine's "Eternal Victorian provinces are fairly well stooked with tourmg'companies. Alfred Dampier haa just concluded a successful seaion at Ballarat. "Wallace's Vaudeville Company, reinforced by several new artists, has commenced another sesisoa there, and D' Arc's Marionettes Company, which include J. C. Bryant and Marie WasWs have opened a season in His Majesty's Theatre ot the same town. Howard Veraon seems to be doing well in Geelorg, where Hodge and Karpur put in an occasional aupeai-ar.ee with their company. "H^rry Dunbar, formerly of New Zealand, is in Sydney, and intends going over to Auckland in the summer with a form of amusement which is hitherto unknow-i there, pnd which ought to be ft money-maker. Anothor New Zc.ilan'ler here is Fred L. Seager, formerly with Dixs Alhambra Theatre Company, and who is now employed at the Theatre Royal.

An agent has arrived m Melbourne from the East to engage artists for Potnoy's Entertarrer3, Calcutta. Good variety artists aie rather scares just now. Carrie Moore goss west with the Royal Comics, and then pioceeds Home. The popular little lady is to be tendered a benefit before leaving Melbourne. Miss Nora Kerin, of the "Midsummer Night's Dream" Company, is said to be the youngest star on the stage, bemg on'y 19 years of age. She is a cousin to Irene Vanbrugh and Julia Neilson.

Eaiher a coincidence that both Melbourne and Sydney should each have at the present time five theatres and one encua open

The death was announced ;n Melbourne last week of Mr M. St. Leon, an old circus performer and animal trr.iner, at the age of 84. Deceased had been m negotiation with Wirth Bros, to produce a new lion -t, °.nd was sitting in a chair lighting a cigarette, when he was seized with a fit, from winch he never recovered. Two v of his sous are, it is reported, touring -the East with Harmston s Circus.

THE TRAMP.