THE GHOST WALK.

Otago Witness, Issue 2604, 10 February 1904, Page 56

THE GHOST WALK.

By Pasquin, Jujt.

Mr Tom Pollard is at present in Perth Westiaha. '

Black Family of Musicians are in the North laia.id.

Ben Fuller left for Melbourne on Sunday by the Monowai.

Tern Fitzgerald threatens to establish a zoo in Wellington. P. E. Dix has concluded his season of pantomime in Auckland!.

Miss Acla Crossley has left Australia ci her South African tour.

Michael Joseph has exieiided his season of melodrama in Dunedm !

Anderson's present melodramatic company cairy 220 tons of scenery. Sar.dford's American Company are playing in Auckland Opeia. House.

Fuller's Company in Christchurch are keeping- their financial end up. Edwin Geach was a passenger by the Monowai for Melbourne on Sunday. Bob Bell, the long comedian, is with Fuller's Company at Dunedin Alhambra.

Will Jamieson is now advance representative for Sandford's American Company. Fitzgerald's Circus is working its way triumphantly through the North Island. Tom Pollard's Opera Company have sailed fr.tm Capetown (S.A.) for Perth (W.A.). "Satmday Night in Lcndo i" is the latest nu-lodrama to go tip at Sydney Lyceum. Chas. Holloway cpened in AucklsuicTi en Saturday in "The Two Little Vagabonds." Claude Waite comes to New Zealand in advanco of society entertainer Mel. B. Spurr. Willoughby-Ueach Company are shedding the light of their presence in Christ ehnreh. Willcughby-G-each Company, barring smallpox troubles, open in Melbourne on March 7>.

Miss Gerhe Campion has recovexed from her attack of pneumonia contracted m Johannesburg.

Baritone Ed. Farley is to be presented with a testimonial prior to his departure for America.

Walter Fuller i<s looking after the Dtinedin Alhambra during- the absence of Ben Fuller m Austra'ia.

Melbourne Jonnydom lias taken a new leaso ol life since the airrival of several channels from London

George Siephenson's Company of Americans staged '"Brown's in Town" at Sjclney Palace on SaturcKy last.

"The laanngei says he engaged the 40 choius girls in '20 minutes." ''Gracious, but he's quick at figures."

M. B. Curtis, who intrcdvcec'l Sandford Coinpary of American players to New Zealand, has leturned to Sydney.

Fitzgerald Brothers have again secured Belmore Park, Sydney, for their circus — six weeks, beginning at Easter.

Johnnie Sheridan's show was quarantined in Melbourne and blocked out of their contemplated Tainianian tour.

•'The Eternal City," with Julius Knight and Maud Jeffries in the cast, is being produced at Her Majesty's, Sydney.

A correspondent advises that the Fitzmauiice Gill Company did exceptionally good business in Hamilton (N.1.) last weak.

''I'm always careful about my make-up." "That's right, o]d nian You want to look the part, .even if you can't act it."

Both Hawtrcy and Willcughby-C4each companies will be in Sydney at the same time. Former in the Criterion aud latter m the Pakce.

The Willonghby-Gcach Company intends io produce a new comedy, "The Noble Art," by Mr Eille Norwood, during the commg Aus traLan tour.

George Bull, formerly a reporter on the Australian Star, Sydney, is now piess representative of the Alhambia Music Hall, London, earning £1000 a, year.

Placing the Responsibility. — "'Hamlet' chew a miserable house last night." — "Ii did. Rantingdon doesn't know whether to blame it on to Shakespeare or the public."

Cliailey Albert, of Tom Pollard's Company, forwards from Bloemfontein (S.A.) handsome Christinas card conveying season's gicetmgs. The good wishes are heartily reciprocated.

Stated that Mr and Mrs Norman Menzies (Polly Vane] will go to England, from Japan, anct probably bring otit a tonne opeia company, of which Dolly V. will he the star.

The destruction by nic of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, removes one o£ the oldest theatres in that city. Most of the great stars, lyric and dramatic, have appeared in it.

Mr Dan Leno's house lat Clapham Park (London) has been bought by a community of French nuns, who will take up their residence there when the popular comedian's term expires.

Miss Ada, Crossley and her concert company left Albany for South Africa, on the 23rd ult. Mr Royle, recently Mr J. C. "Williamson's representative in New Zealand, is managing the Soiith African tour.

Mr W. H. Denny, who was the loading comedian of Musgrove's Shakespearian Company which recently toured New Zealand, is a passenger by the Sierra, which 13ft Auckland) for San Francisco last week.

V T hen th© last English mail left London, Wr Williamson was on the point of leaving for ISTcw York on his way back to Australia. He saicll in a letter to Mr Vincent that he had engaged a comedy company, but no details were given.

Felix Tanner completed his self-imposed task of a. 21 days' fast at Wanganui on Sunday night. He was Teduced in weight and his heart was weak, but after partaking of a little soda and milk ho was able to pioceed to his home.

People we know: Carl Hertz is at the London Empne; Athas and Collins were at latest in London; Inaudi is the star turn at London Hippodrome ; Celina Bobe at the Sheffield Empire; Grace Emmett a^cl G- "W. Hunter in Eclmbur&U-

Manager. ''We musi pvut a great deal of lesihsm into this forest scene. Can you get scmcon,e to growl so as to lesemble a bear?" Assistant "I think so. Them aro six or seven choius men who have not received their wages {or throe weeks. I'll call them." A gumd mufical ftclival, in which upwards of 10,000 fciugeis rip expected to take part, has been planned for Riga, next summer. Preparations for an audience of 60,000 are being nio.de. The concert, hall is to be an enormous building, as may be anticipated. New Zealard at. present time appears to bd ihe happy hunting ground for inslodrapmtio shows. We have in our midst Chas. Hollov/ay Company, Woods-Willwanson, Alfred Danipier, Fitzinaunce Gill, Sane\ f ord's Americans, Anderson's, besides a legion, of melodramatic Email fiy. Mr F. Wynne-Jones, who spewfc 18 years in Wellington, and is at present in Christohureb as musical director for the Willoughby-Geach: Comedy Company, has accepted an offer to pioduce some of his musical works in America. He will leave Australia for the United States sjj the end of the year. Miss Ada Crosdley, who visited) the Perth! Fire Brigade station recently, had the novel experience of being 1 rescued by means of ropes and slings from an imaginary burning building. Subsequently, says the F.'esi Australian, Miss Crossley astonished the firemen by lifting a bar-bell weighing 135 ib four or five feet ficm the ground. Lcvcis of the morbidly sensational see » evneus play at the Grand Guignol Theatre m I'ans. All the interest is centred in an actor who plays the part of a corpse. Although ho has not a, word to cay duiing the two acts of the piece, he is constantly in evidence, aE<3 plays with such horrible realism itirat he hold 3 the audience spellbound. Mr John F. Sheridan will, it. is reported, begin a season in the Palace Theatre, Sydney, shortly. Mr Sheridan V/.13 to have followed the Majeroni Company at Hobart, but as passengers from New Zealand were not allowed to land at Hcbart owing to the smallpox outbreak at Christchurch, Mr Sheridan had to forfeit 'his Tasmania!! dates. Mile. Antonia Dolores writes from Paris on December 14. The distinguished singer was finding tho winter, after our sunny skies, very u n comfortable-. "Grey sky, rain, snow, and fios'u alternately." Mile. Dolores's engagements immediately ahead conxpiised Moscow on December 29, on which date she was to sing in Berlioz's "Faust," then appearances in Germany, Austria. Holl-and, and Poland. The lapse of Mas® Nance O'Neil into vaudeville business necessitated the sudden endv g of her season m ihe Cleveland Theatre, Chicago, and the result is that the owner of the theatre, Wm. S. Cleveland, has> attached i\\i whole of her ccytumss «nd theatrical propertiesi, as well as those of her manager, Mr M'Kee Bankin. The peculiar feature of the bu c ir.'pss is an allegation by Cleveland that Eankin h?3 Miss O'Neil hypnotised, winch she denies. The Royal Comic Opera. Company is to begin rehearsing the new Maori opera, "Tapu." This jiew work by Mr Alfred Hill was produced at Hobart lasi March by Pollard's Opera Company, when Messrs J. C. Williamson and Henry Bracy witnessed the performance, with the result that the opara was leserved for produotion on a great scale. Panapa, the mest celebrated "poi" cknseuse m Now Zealand, has bren engaged, as -.veil as 12 Maori braves for the "haka" war dance.

Mme. Patti has Been asked by an American lady journalist about the secret of her youth. The diva could offer no explanation, but she denied that she took any elaborate care of herself. "Why, 1 was reading the other day," said Patti, "a "minute description of my systpm of massage. Such rubbish! I never was massaged :n my life. But wherever Igo I am always happy, because I never worry. Have plenty of fresh air, and, above all, avoid steamheated roonr, if you want tc preserve your voice."

An eye-witness of the mishap reports! thab Paul Cinqnevalli was knocked senseless by his cannon-ball the other week when appearing in London. He threw it up, as usual, with the confident expectation of catching it on the aVI safe snot between the shoulders, but owing to a slip* of the foot or a miscalculation in the throw, or in the placing of himself, poor Cinquevalli got the ball on his neck. He fell upon the sage as one dead, was taken away to tho nearest hospital, and is said to have remained unconscious for many hours. "She's a clever girl and a great actress, said M'Kee Rankin to Mrs Quince of Punch one day when ?he pressed him to let Nance O JNeil accept a special invitation to a, big funcion, "but I discovered her, and trained her said 1 have sunk a lot of money in her, which 1. expect to gel back. If she goes into society she'll have a crowd of fellows -otind her, and coodness knows what may happen. You know that she's a bright, immeesumable gwl, and in a weak moment she might take a fancy to somebody, and get married— and Oier., wneie should I be? It is a part of Nance s contract with me that she will not go to any oi thena places, private or public, without my consent. She's a "sensible «?irl, and is in love with her piofe^ion, but when you've put your money into a business venture where everything depends upon an attractive single woman, l* does not do to take chances."