STAGE AND STUDY.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 621, 22 November 1890, Page 17

STAGE AND STUDY.

Amy Vatjghan at the City Hall on Saturday.

Arthur Vivian benefits tomorrow (Friday) night,

Mr De Forest has some excellent paintings on exhibition at the Arcade.

Me Ctjnahd is bringing the famous Harvey Brothers out to New Zealand.

Th« Bell ringers and FaDst Family wound up a most successful season at the Opera Ho\ise on Saturday night.

Jam is being freely ladled out to Christie Murray, by Australians, for his able representation of Baron Hartfeldt.

Mr Boothroyd Fairclough and Miss Elsa May ■are having a good time at the Opera House. They clo«e on Saturday next and work their way South.

Miss Maribel Greenwood, well-known to landeis, is playing with D'Orsay Ogden, at Sydney Gaiety, in Joaquin Miller's drama, ' Nevada.'

Miss Freda Maesden's grand concert at the Choral Hall on Monday evening was one of the best that musical Auckland has witnessed this season.

According lo London Era, the net profit of the •Gaiety Company m Australia i» represented by ■They are now booked for a New Zealand tour.

Haddok Chambers is gradually climbing the ladder of famp, his latest play, ' The Idler/ having been produced with success at the Lyceum in New York,

Playgoefs are now anxiously awaiting the arrival of Mr J. L. Toole and Company. If press criticisms can be depended on, they have an unparalleled treat in store :for them.

J. L. Sullivan in ' Honest Hearts and Willing Hands,' played in New York, is said to speak like a schoolboy reciting his lesson, aud to look as surly as the proverbial ' bear with a sore head.'

The Bulletin, speaking of David Christie Murray, says that daring his sojourn in Auckland he informed a good natured friend that ' he dreamt his stories ; ' whereupon the friend retorted ' how you must dread going to bed..

Mk Robert Louis Stephenson, the novelist, intends leaving for England shortly, with the intention of .arranging his affairs in that country and bringing back hia books to Samoa, where he intends settling permanently.

Miss Georgia Smithson, ihe favourite variety actreßS, has atandoned her old lc-e, and instead of drawing houses will in future draw it m^ beers, t-.to. She lias taken charge of the buffet at the Excelsior Hotel, Dunedin.

G. C. Miln got rather ami > at Adelaide by unfavourable criticisms, and oleveriy put on the injured air, with the result that he pot nothing but sympathy from press and public afterwards. G. C. ia a little 'cute, and ■treated Aucklanders in the same manner.

'The Gondoliers,' Gilbert and Sullivan's new opem, has at last reached the boards at Melbourne Princess. The public are thoroughly satisfied, and, as a result, the theatre has been filled to overflowing every night and nothing is talked about by Melbourne theatreoers but ' The Gondoliers.'

Sara Bjußnhar,dt has already got her tomb ready. Built of marble, it is only constructed large enough to ■contain the remains of the divine Sara, so that if the btarts to put on fat, their will be a useless tomb ready for auction on the time-payment system to any despairing wretch who pines for a cold, silent hereafter.

The musical entertainment at the Berlin Piano Company's warehouse last week by Miss Freda Margden -and Mr Webbe and his pupils was a really meritorious affair. A large number of fi-iei.ds of the pupils and others attended by invitation, and one and all present voted the programme presented a rare musical treat.

The Society Times, of London, htis great respect for the New Zealand Observer and Pkeu; Lance, as it repeatedly copies from our columns. It has recently started a. ' Cupid's Corner,' clipping the Observer's selections, aud it also repuhlishes, without acknowledgment, the story 'By the Mill Creek,' which wad originally contributed to our columns by the clever writer, Max Merroll.