THE GHOST WALK.

Otago Witness, Issue 2572, 8 July 1903, Page 67

THE GHOST WALK.

By Pasquin, Jtjn.

Dan Godfrey, the famous bandm aster, is dead. Billie Barlow is touring tho English provinces. A brother of "Dante the Great" is touring Queensland. "Dante Leno from Drury" is comic vocalist Dan Leno's latest , Ben Fuller expects new people oveT by this week's Melbourne boat. Paul Cinq\ievalli was at the Empire, Stratford, when tho mail left. Harry Rickards intends giving Brisbane another trial with vaudeville. "Tho G-irl with the Green Eyes" is the latest addition to the "girl"-titled plays. Imra Cody, daughter of "Buffalo Bill," has married a captain in tho U.S. Army. A. G. Spry has returned to London after his Australian and South African seasons. Geach-Willoughby Company opened in Brisbane last Saturday in "Mistakes Will Happen." Sydney Catholic Press advises J. F. Sheridan to give his grotesque, Irish widows a rest. Oamaru Operatic Society produced "Pinafore" to largo and enthusiastic audiences last week. Herr Pagel's" latest feat is to stand the weight of Wirth's elephant, Gunhi Sab, on his chest. Luscombe Searelk was recently run over by a. motor in America, and sustained a broken ankle. Miss Brenda Gibson, late of the Brough Co., is at present in Adelaide nursing an invalid mother. Hr Charles Kcnnirgb.,m is retiring from theatre work, and is starting as a teacher of singing. Chas. R. Sweet is at the Liverpool Empire Palace, where the Jackson Family are also appearing. The "Sweet Nell" Company open in the Theatre Royal, Sydney, next Saturday in "Mice and Men." J. C. Williamson has anofher American company, headed by Flora Moore, on the way to Australia. • Thero are four circuses at present touring Queensland— Wirth's, Fitzgerald's, Baker's, and Eroni Bros. Latest news states that the Craggs were appearing at the Carlton Theatre, Greenwich, in "Laughter Land." George Musgrove's Shakespearean Company opened in Adelaide on Saturday with "Midsummer Night's Dream.' The presence of a wealth of talented Girl at punedin Alhambra makes that playhouse more inviting than heretofore. A whole menagerie, which was en route from Cfelcutta to Boston, U.S.A., has been lost at Ma, having been swept overboard in a storm. Miss Mabel Ward, a music teacher, has recovered £300 for slander against Abraham .Abrahams, musical instrument seller, Sydney. Regarding a Friend. — May. "How did Bessie rase the money to go abroad to study music'" Ethel . "The neighbours raise-d a subscription, I believe " Madame Melba has been commanded to sing

at Buckingham Palace during President Loubet's visit, and also at the gala performance of the opera. Mr Ha-rold Ashton, Mr Ji C. Williamson's representative, has arrived in Wellington in connection with the forthcoming production of "Are You a Mason?" Miss Marie Corelh has paid off the debt of £230 on the Stiatfoid-on-Avon Church Restoration Fund as a tribute to the close of the Shakespeare festival. Mrs Musgrove, mother of the well-known Anglo-Australian manager, gave a dinner in London in honour of Miss Ada Cro c sl<?y's return after her American to-"-"You were at the opera last night, I understand. — "Yes; but I wjs lei, b > „ . ..u. I sat so far back that I couldn't see what the women in the boxes had off. ' Mario Majorom, of tho Majeroni Dramatic Company, was fined 40s and costs for disposing of a bicycle by lottery in the Dunedin Pnn- ! cess during the recent season. Tho London Stage says that Miss Dora Do Winton \Mts Jolin D, Saunders) had for nursery governess Miss "Holland, the unfortunate victim of the Moat Farm, tragedy. Mr George Musgrove's English "Belle of New York 1 ' Company last month celebrated its 2000 th performance at Birmingham, "before a full and very enthusiastic house." At Teignmouth a local barber and a musician entered a cage of lions in a visiting menagerie. The former shaved the trainer, while the musician contributed a mandoline solo. A very 'free translation of " A Chinese Honeymoon" is being produced at Berlin, with all the most amusing hits either left out altogether or distorted ouj, of recognition. It is taken seriously. ' The question of the right to lyss in a theatre is assuming proportions in America. The latest is an action which has been brought against 20 students of an American univeisity for hissing a performance. "Do you think that the theatrical profession leads to unhappy marriages ?' yy — "I have never been able to decide, ' answered the manager, "whether a stage career leads to divorce, or divorce leads to a stage career." Miss Cecil Engleheaxt, late of the Royal Comics, has been playing principal girl (Cinderella) at Bristol for ten weeks, and has been engaged for the pantomime at the Prince's Theatre, Manchester, next Christmas "What's Sam doing for a living now'" — "Oh, travelling with a circus. —"Jolly hard work, isn't it?" — "Hard? No; why, he's got nothing to do but to stick his Bead in the untamed lion's mouth twice a day, thafs all." The many TimaVu friends and admirers of Miss Irene Carlyon (Mrs Barrie Marschel) propose to give her a fitting send-off, and, with that object in view, the lady is to be tendered si well-deserved benefit in the Timaru theatre on. Tuesday, July 14. Shakespeare in Turkey.— Recently at Constantinople, the censor insisted upon the title of "Othello" being altered to "Jealousy," and prohibited "The Merchant of "Venice" altogether, on the ground that it would incite hatred, against the Jews. M. "Wicgand, foirnerly ciiy organist, is now church organist at Oswego, U S.A.. at a salary of JE6OO a year. He makes in addition about £500 from recitals and lessons. He says thero is only one country in the world for an organist, and that is America. Mr Edward Brarscornhp's Westminster Abbey Concert nnd Glee Party, assisted by Madame Marie Hooton, the favourite English contralto, gave four farewell concerts at the Town Hall, Adelaide, on the evenings of Juno 30, July 2, July 4, and the afternoon of July At a recent meeting of the San Francisco Labour Council, the request of the Actors' Union that all union men entering theatres should first ascertain if the actors engaged tbere were members of the union was received Tho motion was inscribed on the minutes of the counci'. Originally it was Intended that Sousa's band should visit Austra'ia during October of tlm year, but owing to the many impoitant engagements which the band had t*> fulfil a request was made to Mr Williamson to consent to a postponement of the visit until next year, and he has consented. The audience at Wirth's Circus at Brisbane recently witnes=ed a hair-raising spectacle in the fight between Hprr Pagel and his 1 on. The lion is nearly full grown, and is beginning to recognise its strength. The lion tamer hnd better start again with n younger lion, or he \, may indeed be "scratched. ' | Amenities of the Profession. — Rising Young Dramatist "Saw your wife in front last night What did she think of my new cornedy 0 " Brother Playwright "Oh, I think she liked it. She told me she hi>d a good lauph R YD. • "Ah —cr — whpn was that 9 " B. P "During the entr'acte. One of the attendants dropped en ice down her neighbour's neck " The artists of the Edward Lloyd Concert Ccmpany — with the exception of the t^nor and Miss Jean Newman- having remained in Sydney nfter tho season (Mr Peteikin for Ada Crossley's concerts, and Mis« May Mukle and Miss Emily Foxcroft for a little holiday), Mr Williamson has conceived the idea of forming them into a combination to tour Queensland, an^l. if successfu'. pcrhans oth<v Stntes. A good sdvt. for Tom Pollard- Un North Queensland there is a good scaFon nwaiting a decent comic onera and musical comedy company. We have had Dan Barn', Clay's Waxv.crks, a so-so vaudeville company, and a irst-so dramatic company in shock and shriek drnmas. Last eoo'l happening this way was Dolores. Send along a good singing and dancing show similar to, say, Pollard's Company. Henry Ainley the "prett-est actor in E'igl»nd." newly encaged as leading man for tho Empire Theatre Company, New York, is to be married to Suzanne Sheldon, the American actress who has bepn associated with him for some months at George Alexander's St James's Theatre. Thp nffair will create more than ordinary interest bprr.use of several rnmnnrrs in which Sh ol don hai b^pu involved, and on account of the popularity Ainley has won

in London among the matinee girls with his Adonis-like face and figure.

A passenger by the X.M.S. Orontes, writing fiom Naples, states thst "Madame Melba had promised us a concert after we left Port Said, and said that she hoped the sum of £ 100 would be subscribed towards marine charities. However, when the date for the concert arrived, ias there was only some £75 forthcoming, I Madame Melba declined to sing, and the money was returned to the different passengers. You can understand, no doubt, that this caused some little feeling among the people, as well as some other little things which took place." The stage Irishman has been a standing in- ! suit to tho Irish race for a generation and more. And it if to the discredit of the race that he has been permitted to go so long in his brutal caricature. But to-day a spirit of self-respect has been infused into the ycurg men of Irish blood, which asserts its life in action, and which, if only persisted in, is bound to sweep fnto contempt those wretches who are doing England's work in the caricature guis? in which our common enemy would have all Irishmen anpear to the world as their true selves. — Irish World, New York.