STAGE AND STUDY.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 624, 13 December 1890, Page 17

STAGE AND STUDY.

Mark Twain recently received .£12,000 in royalties from one of his plays.

Sara Bernhardt is announced to leave Paris on Oth January on a two years' tour.

J. L. Toole vacated the Opera House on Monday last after a very successful run of business.

Miss Freda Mars den manipulated the violin at St. Paul's on Sunday night moat brilliantly.

Miss HarDlNG's private concert la,st week went off most satisfactorily and was a thorough success.

The concert provided by the Victoria Cricket Club at the Foresters' Hall on Monday last was meritorious.

The circulation of Michael Davitt's weekly paper, the Labour World, which began with 150,000, has now leached 300,000.

Mb Bland Holt ia now resting and recuperating hia health until Christmas, when he will open a dramatic season at Hobart.

The Thome Dramatic Company are now under full awing at the Opera House, and their show must be seen to be appreciated.

Someone returns Spurgeon's attack on 'Judah' and its patronage by the clerics, by reminding: the rev. gentleman that on the birth of his twins he danced giddily at Eosherville Gardens.

The C'arke Comedy Company are still up to their neck in business in the country districts. Misa Maggie Masters is growing distinctly in public favour, says one of our country contemporaries.

It seems that nothing will satisfy the amusementloving public of Australia but ' open and above board ' human suffering combined with suicide, and the fasting man at Sydney hit the public to a nicety.

At Stanley's first lecture in New York, he appears to have been simply howled down. However, he gets J625,000 for the whole course of lectures, and more than half is payable to him on delivery of the first.

Mr J. Musgrave, well and deservedly known as a popular actor, ia lying seriously ill at the Melbourne Hospital. A. subscription list raised is being heartily responded to by many of this gentleman's confreres.

To-morrow (Friday) evening, an entertainment consisting of a vocal and instrumental cencert, followed by a drama, ' The Double Triumph,' will be given by the pupils of the Mariet Brothers' school at the Catholic Institute, Wei ling-ton- Street.

Sara Bernhardt will open her ten weeks' season in Australia at Melbourne Princess on June Ist, probably in ' Cleopatra.' She brings an entire company, forty strong (though otherwise weak, it is said) her own scenery, appointments and costumes.

IP is enough to say that the St. George's Bowing Club will present varied and well selected vocal and instrumental items, besides the comedy ' A Mysterious Disappearance.' Do not miss it and then you will have nothing to be sorry for.

A miscellaneous concert was given by the Tabernacle school choir in the schoolroom, yesterday (Wednesday) evening, in aid of the School Festival fund, and quite enough was taken to purchase ' stale muffins ' galore for the youngsters.

The London Gaiety Company sail for Sydney, on May, 1891, immediately after terminating the American tour. On reading the following paragraph in an Australian contemporary : ' Ladies will wear nothing but plain collars this summer,' we predict a very poor season financially for the Gaiety Ballet while the fashion runs on these decollete lines.

J. C. Williamson has engaged a new contralto, Miss Elsa Cameron, (Mrs Harold Russell) for a twelve months' term in Australia. She will make her bow before a Melbourne audience in the character of the Duchess of Plaza Toro, in the 4 Gondoliers,' which is at present being interpreted by Miss Maggie Moore, who will have to vacate it on account of her engagement with Mr George Rignold. Miss Elsa Oameron was born in Leeds, England, on Christmas Day, 1862, and in Leeds she passed her schooldays.

A Wei/lington contemporary, in commenting on the production, for the first time in that city, of Ibsen's farfamed play by the Janet Achurch, company says :— ' This very remarkable work cannot be termed a very pleasant piece. With the exception of the two children, who appear only once and in dumb show, every character in the drama is more or leas false to somebody else. Chronic untruthfulness and deceit seems to be accepted as a matter of course, and it may be questioned how far the prevailing tone is a wholesome one. Nothing like it has ever been seen here before. It is thoroughly original, alike in its plan and its working out.' The critic goes on to eulogise the magnificent manner in which it is played and ladles ouc praise to each individual included in the cast.