WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS

Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 26 August 1908, Page 69

WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS

By Peter Pan.

August 21. Dear Pasquin, —Mr Charles Saunder.s, the eminent tenor, who was engaged to sinjs Ihe tenor music in "Judas Macabaeus, "Stabat Mater," and "Faust," was very un-. fortunate. He charmed the audience in the firat-named work, but he suffered from* a relaxed throat on the Friday night whent "Stabat Mater".was produced, and had t<S retire; he could not sing at a- concert onl - the Saturday evening, and had also to ffiva Up "JFauSt," Mr B. J. Hill ver« shor^ notice taking his place. Dr Kington Fyflfei his medical adviser, has ordered Mr Saun^ do is to Rotorua for change aud rest. Con* certs in Wanga-nui, Hawera, a-nd New Ply« mouth have had to be abandoned temporarily. He will probably sing at tbesa places and at Wellington on hie return trip to the South Island. "Humpty Dumpty" opened on Monday night to a packed house, and has> succeeded! in fitting the Opera House nightly since. The management of this company -aleo suffered a disappointment, for the principal 1 comed'an, Mr Bert Gilbert, who plays KLinR. Sollum, wa3 unable •to appear, and up to the time of writing has not been able tx? take up his part. When in Auckland play,' J ing in ''Mother Goose" he met with" an accident to one of his eyes, the result of a kick from the pantomime horse (played by Queen and Le Brun). Mr Gilbert's parfc is being played here by Mr Oswald Cusling, who has made a successful understudy

*'The Merrymakers" also were not. without %h«rr share of T*ad luck, for Miss" Betty Ohls, a, brilliant little artist, was only able to make one appearance in a. five- j nights season, owing to illness. j Mr Wynne Jones, representing Meymell and Gunn, has concluded arrangements for the appearance of Mr Albert llallinson, the famous English song writer, and Madame Anne Steinhatter, the Danish soprano, at the Town Hall. These two artists will give two song-recitals on September 2 and j Taylor-Carrington's Riograph Co. had a j successful tour of Hrwke's Bay and Wairarapa, and ' re now ir Canterbury. Mr M'Artney leaves for Palmerston on Monday to arrange a circuit of the Manawatu and Taranaki districts for the Royal Pictures Syndicate. Bob Lloyd, Blanche Carelli, and Nellie Power -will be the stars of a small company to play the Waikato district shortly. They .will also have a moving picture plant. Mr W. J. Lincoln is due here early next week to arrange -for the opening of Meynell and Guxtn's "Little Breadwinner" Co. _ i The Royal Pictures are still drawing big j Houses at His Majesty's Theatre, and FuJ- j lers' Vaudeville and Biograph- Company is j also doing big business. i Mr Claude M'Eay, of Mr J. C. Wil- j liamson's staff, who paid a flying visit to j the North Island, acting as press agent .for j the pantomime company, returned Ho Syd- j ney by. the^Moeraiki on Friday.