WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS

Otago Witness, Issue 2660, 8 March 1905, Page 69

WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS

Bt P. IRoMrsmn.

March 3

Dear Pasquin, — Williamson's Bio-tableau has been providing entertainment at the Opera House during the week. The pictures are cf the usual cinemat. kind, but a great deal of "business" is developed with the showing of the films. Some very lengthy records are turned off, and much enthusiasm is aroused by the realistic business got off during the production. "Whilst Riisso-Jap. war pictures comprise the pieces de resistance of the threehours' show, "there are others." One of the best of these others, in my opinion, is that portraying the activities of a terrier when he hears "iiis master's voice"' through the phonograph on a table. It is the most natural and realistic picture ever thrown on a screen.

Miss Maud JBeatty (Mrs Milburne) returned from Sydney this week to prosecute her case in our Divorce Court for annulling her marriatje with her partner. Adultery was the ground of the petition, and there was no appearance of the respondent (Milburne) at the hearing. Tke case was heard yesterday before Mr Justice Cooper, and a decree nisi was granted, to te made absolute after the usual lapse of three months.

Next week J. C. Williamson's G-. and S. Repertoire Opera Company is to arrive from Sydney, and open the New Zealand tour at our Opera House with "Patience." ' During- the revival, the order of the old favourites will be : "Patience," "lolanthe," '"i'he Pirates of Penzance," "H.M.S. Pinafore," "The Mikado,"' and "The Yeomen of the Guard." . Miss Dolly Castles, who is the prima donna of the company, is the younger sister of the much-adver-tised Amy C., and is still in her teens. She became a Sydney favourite in quick time.

Fuller's Entertainers are still going strong at His Majesty's Theatre.