THE GHOST WALK.

Otago Witness, Issue 2730, 11 July 1906, Page 61

THE GHOST WALK.

The Brough Company is at present in Adelaide.

Tait's "Living London" picture show is in the Auckland district.

"Tbe Man from Mexico" is at present being produced in Melbourne.

Wm. Anderson has "revived" "Hands Across tbe Sea/ in Melbourne.

The Andrew Black Concert party will give two concerts in Tasmania.

"me New Zealand tour of Mr Anderson's Pantomime Company has been extended.

A new musical comedy, "The Lady Typist," is to be produced in Auckland in August.

The Steele-Payne Family of Musicians were at latest touring the Victorian country districts.

The "Sinbad tbe Sailor" pantomime has concluded its Auckland season, and is visiting .Napier.

West's Pictures and the Brescians Ore-best j a and Singers are doing excellent busin- <?s in Melbourne.

Mr James Bain has vaudeville co.s running in Hobart, Launceston, Ballarat, Bendigo, and Geelongr*

The- Royal Comic Opera Co. concluded its Sydney season- on July 6, and is due to open in Adelaide on July 14.

"The Fatal Wedding," which has been such a huge success wherever played, is due in Dunedir. on Saturday next. The Andersoa Dramatic Co. is at present in His Majesty's Theatre, Auckland. "The Ladder of Life" is being presented. Bland Holt was at latest producing "In Sight of St. Paul's," in Sydney, to packed houses. Prices: 3s 2a and Is.

Mr R. G-. Knowlos was at latest appearing in Brisbane. Mr Fred Duncan is now trea-eu-er for the famou.3 American humorist.

Mr Frank 'Ihornton, of "Private Secretary" and "Charley's Aunt" fame, is said to be contemplating another visit to Australia. Tbe Bovis Bros., comedians, and Lex M'Lean, the strongman, are the star attractions at Fuller's Opera House, Auckland.

Miss Tiltell Brune has scored in West Australia; At her opening night 211 Perth, the box office registered co less than 2000 reserved seats.

The next Shakespearian, revival at the London Adelphi will be "'Macbeth." Mr Oscar Asche as Macbeth and Miss Lily Brayton as Lady .Elizabeth.

The members of the Royal Comic Opera Company were granted a week's holiday hi cors:dei-alioii of their hard work during the receui Sydney season.

The i'rench Comedie Francaise is the only theatre which pensions its actors and actresses. After 20 years' service they are entitled to £200 a year. Irving Say Las, the comedian, is with Rickards's Co. at Sydney Tivoli. where also arc two other New Zealand favourites — Arthur Elliott and Ms. id Faning. The Town Couucil of Hamburg has -•>'.«£ an annual &urn 6! £5000 to vubsidise iLe orchestra of the Slate Opera House and to provide orchestral concerts for the people. Holland's Vaudeville Company at Brisbane Royal iuciudes amongst others Miss Beatrice English, the Bendigo vocalist. Post Mason, and tbe three Stagpooles. Business is excellent.

Tha veteran. Joachim is still playing in London, as leader of the quartet which bears his name. Though now in his seventy-fifth year, his playing is said to be as vigorous and fresb as ever.

Miss Grace Pelotta, ot the WillougnbyTVard Company, is at present engaged in writing a novel, to be called "A Viennese Romance." which will shortly be published in Australia. The authoress is a native of Vienna.. ' -.

Miss Dora Taylor, who will be remembered as a successful "artiste at the Tivoli, grader Mr Harry Rickaxds, last year, is playing in Chicago. She was at San Francisco at the time of the earthquake, and sustained heary losses!

Artists appearing at Melbourne G-aiety include Mr Maxtyn Hagan- and Miss Lucy Fraser, a couple well known throughout Aus.tralia; Mr Howard Thomas, a. baritone, from ■New Zealand; and Mr Harry Marshall, a female impersonator. ■Vr Chafes Santley (says an exchange) is

T about to celebrate- bis jubilee as a profes1 sior.al singer He had his first -engagement at the Crystal Pa"lace in 1857, and received lOgs for singing at three concerts. The distinguished baritone is now 73 years of age. 1" When the late Mr Tom Fitzgerald v/eni 011 ( his second trip to the East, tbe firm aaa a ' great deal of surplus plant in the shape of : animals, horses, printing, etc. The sxocnlors have announced that these are to be sold, as 1 the Eastern show will be brought back to Australia without delay.

We have almost stopped writing tha rea 1; y human play in England, but the American authors are following it up successfully. And if English authors wiK only do likewise, they will have not only this country to appeal to, but tbe whole of vast America. — Mr Chas, Frohman, in a London paper.

Dr Arthur Kussell, of Melbourne, is at prssent on his way to Noumea with an entertainment, consisting of a judicious admixture of music hall and circus business, x. menagerie sufficiently large to restock the I ibyan desert is being taken, to strike sympa h >l ie chords in the hearts of the other captives in New Caledonia.

The remarkably clever and genuinely comic dancing of "Little Cliff" at Sydney Tivoli is proving a strong draw. The English boy comique sings and patters, but it is his dancing that is unique in its drollery, and though be suggests at first Johnny Co-teman aforetime, bis originality soon becomes apparent in various little touches.

There is (says tbe World) a simple standard by which dramas may be judged. Do they enlarge our stock of ideas, our knowledge of human temperament and character, our outlook upon' the welter of problems which face us at every turn? Do they provide actors and actresses with parts in which they can display their talents to the best advantage?

The late J. A. Bailey, who shared his fame as a showman with P. T. Barnum, started his circus career as a handy boy, and when be was tall enough he says he was made a billsticker. In- appearance the two showmen were utterly opposite. Barnum was "short, fat, round-faced, and suave" ; Bailey wa-s "tall, thin, sharp-faced, and strenuous.' The death is announced at Brussels of tbe once famous Madame Lermniens-Sherrington, who was born in 183-1. Madame Sberrington was one of the greatest sopranos of her time, especially in opera. She was the first one to sing tbe part of Marguerite in Gounod's "Faust" in English. In 1857 she married the Chevalier Nicholas Lemmens, the famous .Belgian OTganist, who died in 1881.

The deatb is announced in latest London files of Mi H. J. Dam, who was tbe author of "The Shop Girl," the forerunner of many musical comedies produced by Mr George Edwardes at the Gaiety. Mr Dam, who also wrote several other pieces for tbe American stage, was a Californian by birth, and died at Havana froni cancer.. He married, in 1892, Miss Dorothy Dorr, an American actress, who, with two sons, survives him.

A new addition to J. C. Williamson's Eoyal Comic Opera Co. is an Adelaide girl, Hilda Smith, formerly of- Musgrove's and George Stephenson's companies. With Stephenson she understudied May Garstang, and in the 1905 New Zealand tour played her parts a good portion of the time. Another smart Adelaide girl iv the co. is Grace Rees, who has also done herself credit with understudy parts. Mabel Morgan, late of Stephenson's, is also with the Comics these times.

Mr Boris Hanibourg. . the 'cellist, recently celebrated his twenty-first birthday in London. He was interviewed by a representative of the Daily News, ?nd gave some particulars of his Australian tcur, during which 65 concerts were given. Asked his opinion of the Australian musical taste, he said : — "The Australians seem to like music by nature. I fancy they are the most musical of all the .British colonists. They have the temperament of people who live in a warm climate, and that, in music, counts for much."

Mr Edwardes, in thinking of the new Gaiety piece, has given it as his opinion that the time for an alteration of type is drawing near. We are to go back to extravaganza — with a difference. The old days of burlesque are to be revived — without puns. Mr Edwardes has been thinking seriously of "Aladdin"; but he has by no means chosen it. The "principal boy" for it is already in his mind's eye — for the principal boy is to return. "The public is tired," says the manager of the Gaiety, "of the frock coat put to music, and I shall certain. y try extravaganza."

Miss Ellen Terry belongs to a theatrical family indeed. Her father, Benjamin Terry, was an actor, and he married Miss Yeirett. an actress. Miss Terry's brother, Chailes, is a stage manager, and another brother, Fred, is now at the new theatre. Her sister, Kate (Mrs Lewis), was the first of the family to go on the stage, while another sister, Marion, is now playing in "Mauricetto," at the Lyric. A third sister, Florence, now dead, retired from the stage to marry Mr Morris. Miss Terry's daughter has acted under the name of Ailea Craig. A n,iece, Minnie Teiry, is an actress, and 15 now Mrs Edmund Given, wife of the fine young actor at the Court Theatre. Another niece, Beatrice, is now playing in "The Bond of Ninon, ' at the Savoy. A thud niece. Olive, is playing in "Dr Wake's Patient," on tcur. her grand-daughter, Rcserna'y, fiist appeared on the stage at. the Coronet Theatie scveu years ago. This is a lecord which will take scuie beating.