WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS

Otago Witness, Issue 2929, 4 May 1910, Page 68

WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS

By Peter Pan. April 29. Dear Pasqu in,—Business continued so good with Clarke and Meynell's "The Night of the Party" Company that it was not necessary to change the bill, and the farce was played to tne end of tho. season to large audiences. The company has gone to Christchurch, ind after a short season there will return to the North Island. Mr Willoughby announces that a return season will bo played in Wellington in January, when " Mr Preedy and the Countess" will be staged. So great was the success attending the exhibition of MacMahon and Carroll's moving picture drama, "For the Term of Hia Natural Life," it tho Opera House, recently, that it is to be shown again in the Town Hall to-morrow and Monday night. Dannevirke is to be visited after Wellington, and then the picture will be taken to Auckland. After that town '.a tour of the principal inland towns of this island will bo made, and then the South Island will be visited. Mr R. B. Young, the touring manager for " The Scarlet Troubadours." and who is well known in Dunedin, writes me from Melbourne stating that he was to leave on the 27th inst. for Capetown to arrange a tour of South Africa for the "Troubadours." The "Troubs" leave Melbourne on the 18th May for Africa. Mr Young also states that it is probable that a tour of India will follow. George Marlow's Dramatic Company opened at the Opera House last night. There was a crowded house, and the play, "Married to the Wrong Man," was followed with much interest. The four acta are brimful of sensation, and no one can, cavil at the lack of excitement for his admission money. During the season ."The Wedding Ring," "A Life's Revenge," and "As Midnight Chimes" 1 will be staged. Tho latter piece will receive its first introduction to Australasian audiences here. The season will' conclude with a version—not billed as a new one—of the moisture-com-pelling "East Lynne." Armstrong and Verne have returned to Fuller's Theatre Royal, and met with a fine reception on Monday night. This popular house is being largely patronised, and vaudeville, despite the moving-picture craze, has come into its own. West's and Royal Pictures at The Kings Theatre and Fuller's Pictures at His Majetsy's are doing good business. The latter house is resplendent in a new coat of paint, whilst the ventilation and seating accommodation have been vastly improved, even the sixpenny natrons being provided with a. comfortable tip-up chair. Mr John Fuller has also installed an orchestra of five performers. Yet another Dicture company for Wellington ! "The Comet Pictures" have engaged the Victoria Hall in Adelaide road. This makes two picture companies in the suburb of Newtown. Mr Lao D. Chateau, who has been representing Messrs Clarke and Meynell in New Zealand for some time past, is to arrange the tour of the colony of the Harry RobertsBeatrice Day Company in "Peto" and "The Hypocrites." He is already busy forwarding- arrangements. 1 Mr Edward Montgomery, of moving picture fame, has laid aside his biograph for the present, and is forming a dramatio company for a tour of the colony. Ho and his partner in the new venture, Mr Frank Devonport, have a staff of mechanics and scenic artists busily engaged in building and painting the scenery, whilst the actors and actresses engaged are busily .ey.yloyed rehearsing general ciiramas. Tho

«F e # i 5 will be entitled "The Web e- The tour commences early next, month, and the district between here and iv§ ler wUI be nTSfc visited. Mr Alfred Hill, of this city, will return nere as deputy-conductor of Williamson'? wand Opera Company. The following is the itinerary of the Koberts-Day "Pete" Company:—Auckland, c? n t, 6 to 18 : New Plymouth, June 20; btratford, June 21; Wanganui, June 22 and «=?; Palmerston, June 24, 25. 27; Danneyirke, June 28; Napier, June 29. 30; Hastings, July 1; Masterton, July 2; Wellington, July 4 to 23; Christchuroh, July 25 to August 3; Tima.ru, August 4; Oamaru, August 5; Dunedin, August 6 to 16; Invercargill, August 17 to 20.