THEATRICAL JOTTINGS.

Observer, Volume II, Issue 40, 18 June 1881, Page 444

THEATRICAL JOTTINGS.

— The Simonsens were almost a failure at Wanganui. — J. L. Hall has played " Rip Van Winkle" nearly 3000 times. — The colonies may look out for another visit ere long from Emily Melville. — Amy Sherwin goes to Europe this summer, and will probably sing in London. — The "brown" edition of Tennyson works has already reached its 112 th edition. — The "Pirates of Penzance" had a run of 365 nights and fifty-two matinees in London. — Mrs B. H. Buxton, the author of "Jennie of the Princes," " Won," " Fetterless, " and other popular novels, is dead. ■ — Adelina Patti has been engaged to sing in the United States 100 times during 1881-2. Terms, £200 per night. — Mr Walter Reynolds has succeeded in engaging the Theatre Koyal, Hobart, for the ensuing summer season, commencing on Boxing night. — Carey has paid Williamson £;100 for the right to perform the " Pirates of Peuziuice" in New Zealand, and will produce it first in Wellington. — Jane Coombes, who was a perfect fizzle in the colonies, has turned up in Tiffin, Ohio, where " the theatrical critics gave her a very lively racket. — J. C. Williamson has received a cablegran from D'Oyley Carte, stating that Gilbert and Sullivan's new aesthetic opera is an immense success. J.C. has purchased the Australian right of it. — ShakeHpevian stiulents should read Lady Martin's (Helen Faucit) letters "on some of Shakespeare's Female Characters, by one who has personated tuem," now going through Bluckwooil's Magazine. They are singly delightful reading. —The ballet dress in " Olivette," at the Fifth Avenue, consists simply of a skiu-cloese Jersey and a pair of silk tights, with a narrow sash covering the i' unction across the hips. A correspondent says — "I lave never before seen anything so awfully awful." — Admiral Carr Glynn, to whom Adelaide Neilson left the bulk of her fortune, has set aside ±3000 to bo distributed ainoug indigent members of the pi-o-fession. He will superintend the distribution himself, assisted by Henry Irving and J. L. Toole. The act reflectd honour upon the Admiral. — The famous American actress, Fanny Davenport, is having a glass dress made. It is to have trimming of glass Lice, and a long Princesse train of one solid piece of woven glass. It is cut surplisse at the neck, and joined at the shoulders with corded glass. We (The Mirror) can imagine the crash which will follow (in the fourth act of "Camille") Armand's piiroxysmal grasp of the glittering wuist of Camille, and the suppressed rage which wiil probably burst forth behind the scenes as the cherished pieces are handed to her on a salvor.