THE GHOST WALK

Otago Witness, Issue 1851, 30 March 1904, Page 60

THE GHOST WALK

By Pasquin, Juit.

Holland's Variety Co. is at present touring 1 Queensland.

Wm. Anderson's Melodramatic Co. is appearing m Auckland.

The Majeroni Company were at latest touring in South Australia.

"Ferry the Frog" is returning to Australia with a company of his ov.u. /

Wirth's Circus are booked to open a season in Christchurch to-night (March 30). Hawtrey Comedy Co. arc having a successful The piop-oseJ South African tour of the Maggie Moore Co. has been abandoned, season in the Criterion Theatre, Sydney. George Titheradge, of Brough's Co., is appearing at tha Court Theatre, London. "Tapu" will not be produced by the Royal Comics on the present New Zealand tour.

Charles Holloway Dramatic Co. have concluded a siicc3se|ul season in Wellington. Eland Holt begins a 12-inonths' season in the Theatre Royal, Sydney, on Easter Saturday. J. C. Williamson's "Marriage of Kitty" Comedy Company opens in Adelaide at Easter.

George Stephenson's American Comedy Co. follows Willoughby-Geach at Melbourne Princess.

Miss Florence Menkrneyer commences a short ct/ncort season in Invercargiil on Wednesday.

A Johannesburg correspondent says the liigli cost of living makes South Africa anything bub an actors' paradise.

Mrs Sims Eeeves, widow of England's famous tenor, was at latest appearing at the Opera House, Melbourne. Ttie marriage is announced of May Lewis, a, serio-comic round these parts recently, to W. M'Carthy, of Beit's Entertainers.

The Frt'.niaurice Gill Dramatic Co. follows Holloway's Co. at the Opera, House, Wellington, opening on Easter Saturday. It is notified that the Bijou Theatre, MclBourne, will bo reopened at Easter, rud by no less an actor than Mr George Bignold. The Melbourne season of Ihe Royal Comio Opera Co. concluded) on Monday evening last. Next Monday the co. open in Ducedin.

Fred Graham will play Captain Coddmgton in "lii Town" -with, the Musical Comedy Co., which opens in Ohristchm-ch at Easter.

Roy Murphy, the trick cyclist, through New Zealand some months ago, is appearing at Perth 3?oyal under Ri clear cTs's management. Carrie Moore is in the cast of "Sunny Ceylon," the musical extravaganza, which is to succeed) "Tho Country Girl" at Daly's Theatie, Lcmdon.

Cyril Tyler, the wonderful boy singer who visited Australia vi 1895, has become a. very fine tencr, and is now singing on an Ameiicaix vaudeville circuit.

"The Sign of the pioss,"' with Julius Knighb and Miss Maud JoftYies m the principal paits, was revived in Ss'dnsy the other evening befcio an enorruous audience.

Tl'iiteen relics of Charles Kean, the actor, were recently sold by auction at Sotheby's for under £10; 10s was all that was given for the dagger he used in "Othello."'

Mr John Lemrnone has received a cablegram! fiom the celebrated musician Paderewski to the effect that he will leave for Australia by the R.M.S. Ortona on her nest outwarcl ■\ oyagc.

"A Chinese Honeymoon" is rearing the enril of a three-years' iun. at the London Strand. ''A. Country Girl' 1 ran just over two yeais at Daly's, and "The Girl from Kay's" ran for 14 months.

Miss Beatrice Holloway, the clever young Australian arii-tc> who heaclis the Chsil»3 H,r.I'oway Dramatic Company, possesses the grea,( gift of being charmingly natural both on and off the stage. A tender has been accepted for the erectioi of ai new theatre at Gisborne. to be bin It 01 Ihe site of the old premises known as Mt c failaiie's Hall. The cost of the theatie will b a little Short of .£IOOO.

In the theatres of Russia. Greece. <v Austria regulations ars iv force which piohio

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the admission of ladies to amy part of the the-atro except the gland tier, upper boxes, promenade, and stalls.

One of the scenes in Belasco's "Barling of the Gods, ' to be pioduced at Melbourne Her Majesty's at Easter, is entitled "The Bridge of the River of Souls," smd represents the Japanese idea of Hades. Bain's Gaiety Entertaineis. .at ihe Temperance Hall, Hobait, include some wellknown perform ots : Elmore Sisters, Amy "Blackie, Bessie Young, Jessie Dell, Bob Bel), Sam Gale, Charles Naylor, and others. Miadamo Albani is touring South Africa coeiemporaneously wilh Miss Crosslpy. South Africa must have improved gieatly of recent -years in its musical culture to support at the same time the tours of two such 'eminent arlist3.

London papers state as a certainty that Sir Charles Wyndham will visit Australia after the liondon season is over. Charles Wyndham is ■lie representative light comedian of the English stage, where as David Garrick and Charles . Surface he has had no rival.

Mr John Pro-use, the New Zealand baritone, ■who accompanied Mdlle Trebelli on one of her icurs through Australasia, has macla a successful appearance in London at v. concert given by Madame >Ka,lliwoda. He is described by the AthcnEeuni as "possessing a well-trained and xt&eful voice." The Musical ComecSy Company with which Mr Fred Grahern.-'is to open a New Zealand, tour at Christchurch in, Easter week will include Missea Celia Mavis, Nellie Dent, Maude £ita, Aggie ''-Thorno, Mr J. C. Wh'itfield, «nd a chorus of 22. They left Sydney on. the-Sftfch inst. Mr Slapoffski will be musical director. The chorus girls who were burnt out by the theatre fire in Chicago met with) great sympathy everywhere, one special instance being the case of a big Chicago "store," which refunded to the eirls all money paid on certain costume goods bought there, and gave them, in edciition, such clothing as jackets, skirts, and Jhafcs. Mr and Mrs Robert Brough, Miss Brenda Gfibscn, and Mr J. L. Mackay have entered on a six-months' tour of South Africa, under the &nspiCfes of Messrs "Wheeler • and George Edwardes, at the head of a comedy company, io produce "The Marriage of Kitty," -"The Light That Failed," "A Night Out," and A "Village Priest." A popular American aotor. suffering iioni nerves and overwork — Ned Howerd Fowler, lea-ding man of tho Empire Theatre Stock Company, Columbus, Ohio — shot and killed himself "m the presence of his wife and Dr Wilcox. "He was broken down from over-study, and tihe doctor was prescribing for 'him when the tragedy took place. Miss Ada Ferrar has been winning- hearty approval, much applause, and the laudatory notice of the Washington press by her fin© pprformance as Madame de Semiano in The Marriage of Kilty" at the New National Tbe-alro-in the chsvei company iieadedby M:ss Marie Tempest, who has been warmly welcomed on her return to Washington > The farewell performance of Williamsons >It,rioal Comedy Company drew a large audience to the Theatre Royal, Sydney, when the irsfc acts of "San Toy" and "Florcdora weie ~ivea, as well as severs 1 variety turns. Mx Fred Graham made a farew&ll speeea, in which Ec intimated that the Musical Comedy Company mieht again re-form withm a year. Th/* following are the members of the concert company engaged by Mr Williamson for AuslaßliaT—Arnold Poldesey, 'cellist; Robt. Whii■worth Milton, tenor: Marguerite Thomas, conTval'to ; Miss Parkina, soprano. Miss Parluna is an American from one of the Western States; pretty, only 19 years of age. well trained, and the possessor of a lovely voice A few more plots like that of (T The Flood Tide" (says the Arena-Sun) wcu'.d be of immeasurable benefit to the w«ng Australian cemmunity. There 3 s none of the rctieme hero and heroine business; whaf villainy theie is i= of the mild and quite possible kind ; and -there is happily no sorrowing father and in-other reduced to beggary— an item usually conspicuous in melodrama. . At Chicago recently Sir Henry. Irving, at the, close of a performs.nee by hrs comply, made" a speech, in which he attacked the municipal authorities fca- the manner of the 11 efforts to safeguard, toe public Jrom &«»«» in theatres. -Sir Henry has suffered from the scare' which hes followed the great Chicago fire The theatres are sparsely attended, and, owing to the werv strict regulations now enforceS, the usual light effects cannot be obtained.