THE GHOST WALK By Pasquin, Jun.

Otago Witness, Issue 2571, 24 June 1903, Page 56

THE GHOST WALK By Pasquin, Jun.

Madame Rejane is ill in Paris. Hilda Spong contemplates returning to Australia. The Boxing Harvey Boys were at latest in Johannesburg. Madame Dolores gave her first concert in. San Francisco on June 20. The Neill-Frawley Company will open at tho Palace Theatre, Sydney, on July 11. The Elmore Sisters have made the Alhambra Theatre brighter and better for their presence. The 'Weßtminß-Ur Abbey Glee and Concert Party commence a return tour of New Zealand in September. Madamo Melba's only London appearance this season was to have taken place- at St. James's Hall on June 10. It is difficult to carry away scraps of & "Wagner opera, although it leaves a general impression of a "free- fight. After a season i£nMe)bourne and Sydney the American Company (Neill-Frawley) will probably tour New Zealand. Harry Roberts is starring in America in si round of characters, including David Garrick, Hamlet, and Charles Surface Composer: "That sailors' chorus was awful. What -was .tho matter?" Stage Manager : "The tara couldn't get the right pitch." Alex. Middleton drops a line in parting to say that he is off to the mysterious East in front of Charlie Pollard's juveniles. The Royal Comic Opera Company has gone to Perth, but will return at tho end of nexb month to reopen Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney. They do things in a hurry in America. Margaret Mayo, a New York actress, is alleged to have written a play inside 24 hours for a bet of a dinner. Mr J. C. Williamson contemplates sending hia comic opera company, with "A Runaway Girl" and "San Toy" in the repertoire, to Taamania next month.