AUSTRALIAN STAGE GOSSIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2785, 31 July 1907, Page 69

AUSTRALIAN STAGE GOSSIP.

(Fbou Oub Own Cobrespondent.) SYDNEY, July 20. Miss Maud Hildyard makes her first appearance in Australia at thie Theatre Royal tonight in "The Beautiful Fiend." Mr Harry Clay's Dramatic Company commences operations at the Standard Thea'tare on Monday night, producing "The Dangers of London." At Her Majesty's Theatre to-night "Dorothy" will be revived, with Geo. Lauri ' as Lurcher. Mr William A. Crawley, for the past 10 years theatrical editor of the Referee and Sunday Tinxes, has taken, » long lease of the Oactord Theatre, and 'opens to-day wirtJi a new company of vaudeville artists and a new moving ■picture machine. The Palace Theatre', where £h© Empire pictures axe being shown, is attracting good audiences. A record in quick production. The football match New Zealand v. New South Wales was played on Saturday last, and <xn Monday night it wae screened by a moving picture machine at the Lyceum. Every night money is being turned away. Mr West deserves all his success, as the entertainment, apart from the football picture, is the best in the moving picture line ever given here. At the National Amphitheatre to-day first appearances will be made by Green and Gibson, Tod Cailoway, and Watts and Lucas. Mr Edwin Geach will introduce "Mr Hopkinßon" to the Sydney public next Saturday nigh*. "Full house!" is the invariable cry at the Tivoli nightly. The programme is a particularly good one, headed by the Svengalis, who present a novel thought-reading act. Mdsa Agnes Hazel, an English performer, appears to-day. Next Saturday Mr Michael Nolan reappears. A private note informs me that Grossa the Marvel wi\l shortly be seen at the Empire Theatre, London. By the Maheno, leaving next Saturday, Mr J. A. Matheson, Mr Edmund Montgomery's. Australian representarfcive. will leave for New Zealand, taking with him a film over 1000 ft long ci tie football match between New Zealand and New South Wales, played last Saiturd^y before a crowd of 52,000 people. Two thousand feet of new pictures will also be taken. The football picture haa been a great draw at the Lyceum this week.