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Otago Witness, Issue 2622, 15 June 1904, Page 61

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(From Otago Witxi:ss Specials.) Wellington, June 7. Pear Posquin — Jn&t 9 few lines to let you know that I have finished my engagement -vMth SarJord's American Plnyeis. The. company leaves for Sydney on the 14th of this month, and opens at ths Lyceum, under the lranngen cnt of Mr Allan Hamilton. The Hew Zealand tour has been a financial success, taking it right through. We acre- to have a reaulsr invasion of American companies, there bsing four to my knowledge now on the wa T r out. Sanford's had a great house here on Prince of Wales' s Birthday. Fuller is still enjoyms; the feast of Wellington's golden returns. House full — standing room only, are the vsual rightly signs at the w«'U-knovn vaudeville hci.se, His Majesty's. Leijiiou, Hyman, and 1 Lennon, opened here on Friday night, having just returned from London ux.der engagenrent to the Messrs Fuller .and Eons. They have greatly improved, and introduce .some veiy ciever juggling into thpir turns. They are indeed well worth seeing. a;K I should turn cut frood money-spinnors for the Fuller's exchecuer. Altred Woods, will b? the next attraction after Sanford, opening at the Opeia House on the 15th June. The wave of melodrama in New Zealand is giadually calmine; down, snd the next wave will be comic opera, or musical comedy, which is sure to have a good lun. With be=>t wishes for yourself and the Oil Reliable I remain,— Yours faithfully, WILL JAMF..SON. Palmerston North. June 10. 190t. Desr Pasquin, — The long-talked-o-f ope.a housa has at last been started, op-erations comlrencir.g on Monday last, and it is to be compiled by March 1, 3905. Mel. B. Spurr pkys here 14th rr-d 13th. A? thfiro has be«n a cteaa'th of shows here lateJy, and judging fiom the way playgoers are talking, he will do splendid business. — Yours sincerely, DJIN DJIN.

JSTaipier, June 5. Dear Pasqtsin, — As an old Dunedin boy. I thought I would drop you a line. Your we-ekly cohimn is read by me with pleasure ever since my boyhood days, which, worse luck, was a t\i;» or two ago. I have taken a great interest iii the profession— l suppose owing to the fact that fov a number of years I was connected j vith ampteur theatricals when a, young man | v Duxiedin, and consequently mixed a. good deal with the professional a.rticle. By the way, they were not honoured and respected then as they are now, for play-actor folk and mountebanks, -as they were then called, had not too ro3y a period of it. My recollection of oldtimers such as W. Hoskins, J. B. Steele, J. P. Hydes, Wa,lt:r Hill, Henry Ta-lbot, Florence Colville, Alice Dunning Lingaid,- A.lice May. Ficra Anstead, Jessie Glover, a.nrl heaps of n-tVi e.vA. sut ai. ihj\ anasA \\\a? emit riof ,ny.e, suirl. I

tVlnk il tir.' pi a £■>•« paragraphs sLoul tLons voiiii- make )j"To)esii.ift re ><h']£. Jly the way. Mcl X bpair has just finished o i\\ o J'ights' reason heie 1o pachou houses. }Ie is mrnicist* Tiie- beat by fr.r. to lny way of thinking, ill?! lißb ever appeav&d in this colony. Jlirf rendering of Tom Bracken's. "jSTot UiieeTstood," was a superb peiiormantc. and 1 am quite certain that it will meet with, the approbation 11 deserves m your city.— Yours truiv, W. G. NIGHTINGALE.