WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS

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

WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS

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May 8. Dear Pasquin, — Things theatrical are still brisk up here. Hawtrey's Comedy Company took possession of the Opera House last Saturday night, playing "The Lady of Ostend," which highly-divertitg piece is still in season. The first change of bill is to b made on Monday next, when we are to have a revival of "A MM3ige from Mars." Fuller's Entertainers continue going strong at the Choral Hall. By the way, you will be sorry to hear that Johnny Fuller, who was managing tha hall, has been laid aside with an attack of influenza, which developed into an attack of congestion of the lungs. Father John Fuller had to come up from Christchurch to run tho Wellington business during son John's illness. The Theatre- Royal has been closed during the week, whilst undergoing preparations for the reopening to-morrow night by the Majeroni Dramatic Company. This combination is to open with Hp.rvey's " Brother Against Brother." The compary should do well at the Royal. Captain Voss and his tiny cra't tha Tilikum are with us junt now. The captain is running his show at the Skating Rink. An egort ia being made to celebrate the anniversary of Mr Uobert Parker's twenty-fourth year in musical circles in Wellington by means of a musical festival. This week has seen the formation of a Wellington Shakespeare Society o.i the lines of the Dunedin society. The promoters, of whom Dr Findlay (one time of ycur city) was the chief, anticipated an active membership of 40. The list was closed the day after the meeting with 100, which is man" more than was r.eeded ; which is an evidence of the truism that one can get too much of a good thing. Mr John Prouse. cur primo baritone, left for San Francisco this week to join Mdlle. Do'ores for a concert tour through the United States and Canada. He has taksn his daughter (Miss Florence Prouse) to plsy hi 3 accompaniments, and Mrs Prouse is also making the tour, which is to extend over four or five mouths.