THE GHOST WALK.

Otago Witness, Issue 2686, 6 September 1905, Page 68

THE GHOST WALK.

Miss Elaine Eavensberg has sailed fo* South Africa. "Ferry tho Humaai Frcg' 1 is &lili aJive and ■(Tell in America.

Tho Crreat Thurston -will tcur New Zealand befoa-e sailing for America. Miss Nance O'Neil, the American ncUre&a, is now 'showing in Sydney. Miss Maud Beatty loaves Australia shortly to join ihe Orplieuni 00. in Manila. Reported that Mr J. C, Williamson may stage a pantomime in Sydney this ycaiMr Chas. P. Bates, late of the Stine-Evana Co,, recently left AustraJia for America. Modem Milo and Cruickshank leave Sydney to join the F-ulkr circuit on September 16. Miss Bella Gibbons, the lady baritone of tho Pisk Jubilee Singers, has been indisposed. Eeported that Hairy Rickards will sand another vaudeville company to New Zealand next year.

Fred Graham and Miss Nellie Dent are at pa ©sent playing at Fuller's (.Christchurch) Opera House.

Zeuo, the well-kncwn Juggler, late of Montgomery's Entertainers, is duo at the Aihambra Theatre shortly. The Howard Bi others, thought readers, hera with Wirth's Circus, are in America, and aro touring with success.

J. C. "Williamson has booked dates in New Zealand, commencing Boxing Night, for one of his musical companies.

Miss Tittcli Bruno a.nd the "Williamson Dramaxic Co. wi' 1 occupy the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, for Christmas. The Australian seasons of ''The- Orchid" and ''The Cingalei" have already be-at tha American runs cf these operas.

Brough-Flemmdng Comedy Co. ccemmience a Xew Zealand to-ur at Wellington in Octo-ber. Dunedin to follow in November next. Miss Freda Brandon, the lady cornetist, wli'tf was recwi'blv in these parts with Fulk-r's En> tertamers, is showing at Sydney Tivoli. M'Kisson and Kearns, the well-known, knockabout comedians, are appearing with a company of their own in the Sydney .suburbs. Strong man Pagel, who visited ]Nfew Zealand a short while back with a big circus, is vow out in Sc-uth Africa with a vaudeiillo show.

Miss Tittell Brune and Co. torminai-ed m record season in ]N><w Zealand at Auckland on Saturday evening. The company has departed for Australia!.

Maud Chetwynd will make her first ap--> pearance sinoe her marriage with the Stranct Farcical Oomedy Co. at Melbourne Princes 3 on September 9. Mrs l»angtry is the latest recruit to thgf vaudeville stage, and shortly plays a season in America. Mi's Langtry will receive a salary; of £600 per week.

Ada Perrar, the first Merck, of the "Sign of tit Oioss," is appearing with Marie Tempest in America. Geo. Titheradge is with the same comp&ny.

Siace their opening in Dunedin a few mouths ago over 150,000 people have paid foj admission to West's Pictures ?.utl the Brss« cian^' Concert Pfirty.,

The Knight-Jeffries Co. staged "The Darling •f the Goda" at Perth before an audience who eppreciaited- the unusual setting and weird auelanciioly ctf tEe play. Mis 9 Maud Ohetwynd, Gregaji MacMahon, and Tom Cannam have been engaged for the new "J. P." Co. just to hand, and due at the 1 ■Melbourne Princess on, September 9. i Horace Lingaid, the comedian late with the "Broken Melody" Co., states that he will open & Sydney season with a comedy company of his own about the middle of January next. All Fuller's shows throughout New Zealand are doing big business. Considering the number of new artists constantly coming and going | the enterprising Fullers well deserve their sucoess. Md&s Nellie Stewart flaid Co. open at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, with Broad-"" Siuist's latest'farcical comedy, "The Marquis ck> Trsville/' and 1 the curtain raiser, " 'Op o' iMe Thumb." Horace -Bent," now veTging on 70, contributed en item at ft smoke social in Mefiourne tha ether week. In Bent's palmy days he had no equal in minstrel business. H© was a> genuine comedian!, not a clown. Said a young lady to her young nuan at the Crystal Palace: "Oh, 'Enxy! I wish you -iro-uM not sing- when the music's playing. Your notes-is that 'arsh, it arands 1 like the tea-ring' of oilcloth'" Miss Jennie Qpie* arrived in San, Francisco 3>er the <s.s. Sierra, on July 10. Smallpox Sroke -Xpt during tho voyage, and tho first thing that -happened-to- Miss Opio in. a new , country was vaccination. —~ ' Mr' Harry ~ Sleneham; for years leading ■"heavy" far^Mr Dan, Bairry," died in Melbourne recently, aged 60 yeaira. He first visited Tasmania (says "Jacques"),-playing George Haorria in""TTiicle Tom's' Cabin j" 26 yoars'fcgo. ' - , Gilbert and Sullivan's "Princess Ida 7' "The Sorcerer," and "Utopia Limited" will shortly lie 'added, to the> repertoire of th& company who'are meeting with "so TOiich success in the v better- known, of the D'Oyley Carfce-list of. operas. '" ■ ' > First HagMer: '''The man who writer the dramatic criticisms for your ■ paper,, 'does not know a-goodi play froinr a bad one." Editor: "J'Jsaovi itj-btit -what can we do? He is the only-man on the "staff who is tall enough to j -«ee''6ver tho- bonnets." ; " The.Discriminating Public. —The playwright laughed "fcrit'h'fine scorn., "Tba passage© which ■ ihey hissed lotidest were, stolen,from Sfcake-er*ai<e-!"-He sneered. "Buib-how were they to know 'that ?" . argued the manager/-ever confident of the '.popular.' taste. 1 One of the cleverest effects over produced j l>y "Mr Bland Holt/is in ,the present production of ''The Sie^e ,of Port Arthur^ at tho Melbourne Royal. . IjH is contained, in acts 3 arid 4, and cfepiets on ancl" under'the 1 sea., with tho' sinking of a huge ixoriolacu -On,.the cards thai; Miss Ada Reeve returns to -Australia next year."'Since the news that Miss Nellie Stewart was' rationing to us after iier .long absence "in "The Scarlet Feather," this is "(says Punch) the most pleasurable and interesting news we have had for years. 'Miss "Nance O'N>il is at prbsgnti in" Sydney. The' N«w" Zealand touar opens in -Wellington on October 5, and finishes in Auckland'on November 13. Mks O'Neil a/ncl! the American aoembci's of her company sail on November 15 for 'Frisco, where they open on DecernTjer.U..- 'is T&Q~.Orota.var<: "brought lonfr,'Miss Florence Lloyd;' Mr J. J."P«.llas, "and the -members "of tte'Straiid Comedy. CoT, by Messrs i MeynalTancl-GuJin, who -will feegin their Mcl- j 'bourne season on September 9%t the, Princess j in. "The. J.E./' a .farcical coroedy which has ; baeiir-a-gTeat .success in " „ ■ - At' a- meeting: ''of -creditors' of Mrs j Potter at -the London Bankruptcy Court the ; other day the statement of the actress showed th^t she first Appeared on the' London- stage about 16' years' ago-, and had'since acted in every part 'of the world. Her average earnings "on the"stage had 1 beea fromi £3000 to_ £5000 a year." ' Cora> Brfown-Po'tter's furniture ancl hovech iiold effects wore soldv co.ns3quent. on the big "Dv Band" failure, at London recently. The catalogue included a new 'Panhard motor - car, a Chinese ■screnn given' to th© actresa by Zd Huag Chang,- Collier's portrait of Mrs Potter as Mikdi in, "The King's Musfcete<er," three horses, and four carriages. Captain. Basil Hood 1 is once more to figure on the list of active playwrights during tho coming sea-son. The provinces are to have a Jcrotasta of his new musical play ''Tho Golden Girl," for which Mr^Haniish M'Cunn has composed some extremely . tuneful and an/usician!y numbers. The work is in two acts, both of a, very bright and light character, and will bs sent x>n tor.r ( by Mr H. Cecil Eciyl. Arrangemeata are being mad,', for its production in London, soin.ewh.jre about Christmas.