AUSTRALIA' STAGE GOSSIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2734, 8 August 1906, Page 60

AUSTRALIA' STAGE GOSSIP.

SYDNEY. July 28. Both the Palace o.nd Criterion are m the hand<= o f amateurs for the time being. Business at the Royal is still booming "In London Town" is set dowu for production nest Saturday night The last nights of the Collier Company are announced. "The Dictator" has pro-. cd every whit is entertaining as its predcce»=oi The skd-tiiig nuk at the Exhibition Biu'd in^ Sydney is doing ■splendidly, but it to a certain extent drawing patrons wlij would otherw'se vi^it the theatres.

Moiton's Pirhires ajid Entertainers, at the Atheiueum Hall, fejdney, are still attracting audiences which completely fil' the co=y little hill. Freda Maher, Fred Dinal. Beatrice Gordo 1, ay.d Hairy R-ocks pre the eiiieit&mers. Reported that P. E Dix ha-, 'truck a little god mine at Newcastle though opposition has been plei tifu! Aiu ther variety show is biHed to open in the coaly city tln = evening

Sam Marion, last m Maoriiand with "Trip to Chinatown" Co is> reported to h.ne died in New York George Bentley is now appearing in sketches with Miss Liheth Leyton at Sydney TiYoli.

IWord from 'Frisco states that Dora Taylor ard James Hughes survived the earthquake. Tittell Biune commences a return season next Satuiclay. The Fibk Jubilee Singers have suffered nothing by transferring to the Lyceum. The attendances throughout the week have been good, and it looks as if this clever combination is good for another month Miss Beatrice I Mercer sang seven songfr, and was encoied ' again and again. Miss Gibbons and the Messrs I Aewton, Tisdaie. and Collins were also very j successful. The second part ol the entertainment is mainly taken up by the Thaumaturgic > tab.eau, a splendid display of moving pictures, j The Tivoli bill this evening will contain a startling item by Bnnn. the European maarvel, who tiill ba.ance a M'axiin quick-fhing gun and man on his head the man meanwhilefiring tiie weapoj Pre^s notices to hfud speak favourably of tbe Willoughby-"\Ya.rd latest production, "The Talk of the Town." which saw Australian light last Saturday for the first time. On Monday night next Newcasfe will be invaded by Bostock Mid Wombwell's Circus and West's Pictures. The star film of th« latter will be that depicting the Spanish Royal wedding. Altogether there will be seven shows on that evening in Newcastle ana suburbs.