AUSTRALIAN STAGE GOSSIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2728, 27 June 1906, Page 68

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SYDNEY, June 16. Business at the various theatres has, despite very bad weather, been very brisk lately. The Royal Comics h.ave been delighting their natrons with "The Little Michus." " For England " will i»e withdrawn on Friday night, and on Saturday "In Sight of St. Paul's" will be revived. " Tho Man from M-exico" will positively farewell on Tuesday night. The company moves on to Melbourne, openmg there on Saturday next. A. trio of delightful entertainers, the Mason-Keeler combination, has faTewelled at the Tivoli, also the Carmos, who had a great aetid off. This afternoon Little Cliff, comedian, Miss Lilieth Leyton and Mr Harry Kendall, sketch artists, make their first appearance, and Miss Maud Faniug and Arthur Elliott re-appear. M-acdermott's Biograph and Entertainers ore still at the Centenary Hall. Moving pictures in which the late Mr S addon is depicted have found favour with the audiences. j Absolutely one of the best picture shows ever seen here is at the Athenaeum Hall The films shown would do credit to a far bigger show. The pictures are well assorted, and ] shown with great distinctness. ! Harry Clay has a compact and clever comp»ny of vaudeville people, and is doing well. George Warsaw, Harrie Alexander, Ted Anderson, George Sorlie, Blutch Jones. Chas. Pope, Lyla Thompson, and a few others comprise a company that draws full houses every night. The Haymarket Hippodrome still does good business at popular pricas. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" this evening. What is probably the most expensive vaudeville engagement yet mads for New Zealand ha 3 just been concluded by Mr George Marlow, the energetic Sydney representative of John Fuller and Sons, ho having arranged for Madame Lydia Yeamans-Tit-us and Mr Fred J. Titus to leave to-day by the Waikaare for Wellington, there to commence a tour of New Zealand under the anspicea of that popular management. These two artists, in. conjunction with Mr Leslie Harris, have been drawing orowded houses at the local Pilace Theatre for some week* past. The last time Madame Titus and her husband were in Australia they appeared under Mr Rickards's management. X am, informed that » motion picture en-

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tertainment well known in Australia will leave for Auckland on Wednesday next. This will be Cook's Pictures, a show thst lias just leturned from a long tour of 2Cew South Wales and Queensland. Mr Cook, the pro- '• prietor, has lately bjen engaged by the Go1 vernment-3 of those two States taking living reproductions of life and scen-es, and has secured some apl&ndid films. Yesterday afternoon a long fiim' was secured Df George street, Sydney, at a busy hour, -which should turn out well. The collection of pictures to be shown in New Zea-Land will be interesting j and varied. With the reputation he has from i ' this side, Mr Cook should find it a payable • trip. ; Spencer's Tbeatrescope will occupy the- local Palace at Christmas, and it is understood, | Mncdermott will be at the Lyceum, j Mr Harry Bickards has* arranged for artists ' eonring out to him to appear at Colombo en I route. " La Mascctte" is in active rehearsal by tho Royal Comics for production in Melbourne. The John F. Sheridan Company is Testing here preparatory to tickling Queensland. Frank Levy will be in advance. Czerny will make his first appearance in Sydney a.t the Criterion next Saturday. i Miss Marie Xarelle arrived in Sydney yes- ' terday. and gives her first concert to-night. The Brough-Flemrmng Company finishes at j Melbourne on Friday next. Anderson's Company is producing. "The I Death or G-lory Boys" at Melbourne Roys'!. I At Melbourne His Majesty's this evening I the Collier Cpmpany will produce "On th-e-Quiet," fci the first time in Australia. The Fisk Jubilee Singers are doing the northern livers of this State. Personal. — Harry Sadler ig said to contemplate running a variety siow round Nev,--cast'a suburbs. — Zeno. Bob Hall, and th« Coleman Sisrters are going to Noumea. — Bosie De Telia is" thinking of taking, a co. to India. — Mr Alec Verne is in Sydney hustling round in the inteiests of the Bostock-Womb-well show. — A report from Brisbane states that Mr George Wirth is very ill. — Jessi« Dell and Harry Leggett are on the bill at Melbourne Gaiety. j