THE GHOST WALK

Otago Witness, Issue 2565, 13 May 1903, Page 57

THE GHOST WALK

By PasquiN; Jrjir.

Woods- Williamson Company will shortly tour Tasmania. Comic singer Austin Rudd was at latest at Birmingham. "Marie Lloyd, after her recent operation, is zeeting in London. '•"* Barrie Marsohel's Company were at latest playing In Timaru. Williamson's "Are You a Mason ?" Company -rrill open in Aivekland. Florrie Ranger is appearing with Rickards's Company at Sydney Tivoli. John Fuller, jnn., is laid up in Wellington ■with congestion of the lungs. Hy land's Circus commenced a season in Chriatchurch on Monday last. There are several picturegraph shows touring tho south, doing fair business. Melbourne shows at latest were doing splendid business despite the bad times. Will Jameson's picturescope is stored for the time being in one of the local bonds. Frank Thornton was at latest producing "Sweet Lavender" to Sydney playgoers. Frank Gourlay has added Sam la Mert and the Clare Sisters to his Launceston Company. Sam Holdsworth, the veteran tenor with Rickards's Company, was in Dunedin 45 years ago! Dan Leno, the comic king, recently refused £250 per week and £1000 bonus for an American tour! The Westminster Abbey Glee and Concert Party gave one concert in Invercargill on May 9. Charles Warner, well known in these parts, is going to America to produce "The Man of the Hour. ' Madame Florrie Rhodesia, the "female Cinquevulli,' has rejoined Fitzgerald Bros.' Circus in Sydney. Molly Bentley, who made "John Bull, jun." f&mous in Mapriland, is at Sydney Tivoli for the first time. "The most persecuted and most beautiful we man in America" is the latest attraction m the States "smalls." Jos. Tap-ley, husband of pool little Vi Varley, lias returned to the stage after a duration of concert platform. Mr Arch: Newbuxy, brother of Mr Philip Newbury, the gifted tenor, has recently been singing in Melbourne. Frank Thornton Company, after an indifferent New Zealand tour, is making the most of its Sydney season. Jim Bain is in his fifth week at Temperance Hell, Hobart. The miniature Cambrys, Will Harvey, and Claude Guest are newcomers. Martvn Hagan and Lucy Fraser give ?.n entertainment in the South Dunedin Hall on "Wednesday — "O'Callaghan on His Last Legs," etc. Williamson's Musical Comedy Company, who w-ere recently in New Zealand, opened at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, on May 9 in "The Circus Gorl." The Soubrctte : "He 6ays if he had to do it again.be doubts if he would be an actor." — Tie Ingenue: "Well, perhaps he'd make Eome other mistake." The Majeroni Dramatic Company, which claims for itself a host of things, opened in Wellington on Saturday last in "Brother Against Brother." Albert Gran, who was to have toured New Zealand with the Sweet Nell Company, but didn't, has been giving scenes from "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet, etc., in Sydney. Musgrove's English Comedy Company, which claims Nellie Stewart, Harcourt Beatty, and others, closed a successful season in Christcburch with "Mice aaid Men" on Satxirday. Miss Marie D' Alton (Mrs Fred Patey) is playing an Irish cook in Williamson's farce, "Are You a, Mason ?" Stated that the present interpretation makes one sigh foi poor Sallie Booth. Mr E. B. Russell, -of the Musgrove Dramatic Company, has received the news 7 fthe death, at the early age of 27 of his eldest daughter, well known in th-. profession as Miss Belle Jtu&selL Miss Lilian Tree was recently married by special license to Mr Charles Lund, of Wellington. Mrs Lund leaves for Germany in February next to fulfil an engagement to sing in grand opera. A Christchurch paper, in chronicling the death of Wallace King, calls him the silver-

voiced warbler of " Sally Waters!" The Christchurch scribe has baea "sitting in the eun" alongside S.W. Miss Elsie Cameron, Mr Courtice Pounds, and Mr Joseph Tapley, all ex-members of the Williamson and Musgrovc Opera Company, are appearing in the revival of "Chilperic " at the- Coronet Theatre, London. Madame Emily Soldene, who played in the original London production, was amongst the audience on the first night. John Parmenter, the proprietor of a shooting gallery, skittle alley, peep-show, and what-not, was charged at the Magistrate' 3 Court, Wellington, with the exhibition of an indecent picture in connection with a penny-m-the-slot machine. Mr Jcilicoe defended the showman. His Worship said the picture was an indecent one, and Para-enter would be fined 20s and 7s costs for exhibiting it. An audience which recently attended the performance of the Broadway Burlesquers at Jacob's Theatre at Elizabeth. N.J.. showed its disapproval of tho performance in such strenuous style that the reserve police force had to be called out to suppress the flood of their wrath. The stage was mobbed, the lights put out, the windows smashed, and the signs in the lobby demolished. The company was escorted by a cordon of police. As a souvenir of the Royal visit to the "Wild West" Exhibition on March 14. ths King has presented Colonel Cody ("Buffa'o Bill") with a pin studded with diamonds, bearing in its centre the King's cipher, and surmounted by a representation of the Royal Crown. The gift was accompanied by an extremely kind letter, in which the Royal donor •expressed his great pleasure at witnessing the entertainment, and- emphasised the delight which the young Princes and Princess of Wales had derived from their visit to Olympia. An Actress's Humble Admirer. — Miss Kate Terry tells an amusing stcry of an admirer sh-e had «3uriug an engagement with the old stock company at the Bristol Theatre. Each night a bunch of fresh violets was sent to her anonymously. They were so sweet that one night she tucked them in her belt just before she went on to the stage. The next night the bunch was larger, and with it the T e was this badly- written letter : — "I've seen 3 - ou wear my violets, bo I know you'v-e had them. Look at me. I shall be in my shirt slee-**. and my legs hanging over the front of the gallery." And sure enough there he was, and Miss Terry smiled a kindJy recognition. Referring to the approaching visit of Ada Crossley, a London pa.per says: — "Miss Ada Crossley has now signed a contract with Mr J. C. Williamson for a concert tour of Australia and New Zealand, to open at Melbourne in September next. Mr Williamson has bought Miss Crossley out of all English engagements where penalties were exacted, he has agreed that the tour shall run during the months most agreeable to her, although these months are not in what is known as the Australian musical season, and he has further offered Miss Crossley the highest terms ever guaranteed to any artiste for an Australian season. As Madame Melba'9 concert scheme did not involve the guarantee of any particular sum, it is but natural that the record should fall to Miss Crossley.