STAGE AND STUDY.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 629, 17 January 1891, Page 17

STAGE AND STUDY.

Bland Holt and Company are showing in Hobart. Madame Bttbton opened at the City Hall on Tuesday -evening last. Several of the Vivian and Thome Company are still stranded in town. Genepal and Mrs Mite, the American midgets, will be in Auckland shortly. Gbattan Riggs, it is rumoured, intends visiting New Zealand at an early date. Miss Elba Mat's complimentary benefit has been postponed until the 21st inst. F. Maccabe, managed by Mr Geo. Buller, was lately : making things hum at Garner's Rooms, Adelaide. Amy Shebwin is alternating in the British provinces -With Marie Roze, of the Carl Rosa Opera Company. First production in Auckland of ' A Doll's House,' fey the Achurch Company, at the Opera House last night. A contingent from Bland Holt's Company, led by Blanche Lewis and her 'hubby.' Albert Norman, are playing between Melbourne and Sydney. Mb John F. Shebidan and company are getting along famously down South, and Southern exchanges to hand speak of their productions in most laudatory -terms. A NEW theatre, called the Garrick, has lately been ■ erected on the site of the old Academy of Music, in Sydney. The lessees are Messrs. Hiscocks and W. J. "Wilson. Report says that J. L. Sullivan, the slogger, has engaged with Williamson and Garner, fora twelve months' English and Anstralian engagement, commencing in . July next. Mb Imano, who will be remembered as a member of Williamson and Garner's Royal Comic Opera Company on its last visit, will be here again shortly with the "• Fun on the Bristol ' Company. Thebe is a probability of Albani, now singing in 4 Lohengrin ' at Covent Garden, coming to the colonies. She is the wife of Entrepreneur Ernest Gye, and was born at Albany, Canada, whence her stage name. The New Zealand Journal of Science has again started publication. This journal was originally brought out about nine or ten years ago, but after a struggling existence of four years, ceased publication somewhere in '85 until better times should visit New Zealand. Amt Vatjghan and her unique little pantomime are now showing at Quartzopolis. On closing at the .Thames they intend journeying to Napier, Gisborne, -and other places down the Coast, where the performance will no doubt meet with deserved success. The Saint Maur Company have thought better of setting out for India, and are at present showing at Adelaide Theatre Royal. ' Little Lord Fauntleroy ' is the piece being staged, the novelty of the oast being the character of the young hero sustained by little Leo. Owing to a printer's error, a paragraph referring to the Harvey Bros. Minstrel Company was spoken of as 1 Harmy Bros.' Thi3 company are still doing good business at the Opera House, Wellington, one of their principal features being Mr Cunard's optical illusions. Miss Nellie Stewart, the Australian prima donna, was the recipient of a most nattering offer to ' star ' in London next season. The offer comes through Mr Alfred Monk's dramatic agency, and that gentleman is trying very hard to persuade the talented lady to appear. This is the lady with whom Madame Burton is supposed to have disagreed regarding her engagement. Mb Bracken was at Napier last week, taking orders for his new work, ' Musings in Maoriland. He has already taken orders for 3000 copies at 20s and 30s, principally in the South Island, and expects altogether •to sell 5000 copies in the colony. The book, which is a -very handsome one, has cost .£2OOO in printing and other expenses. It is dedicated to Lord Tennyson, and the preface was written by Sir George Grey. In a letter to Melbourne Punch, Travers-Vale, writing from Auckland, says :— % The New Zealand Herald •critic imagines that he is the champion of the fair name and fame of this glorious city, and denounces me in angry terms in the columns of his paper. He says that it is simply out of pique that I sent my report. lam determined to wage a literary war in an opposition journal here, and Btate facts, and challenge him to refute them.' From the famous publishing department of Cole's Book Arcade, Melbourne, there has just been issued a I ' most interesting volumn, containing the prize essay on • The Federation of the Whole World,' and forty-nine '< •of those essays which came next in order of merit. As theße essays are written by the leading thinkers of Australasian, they cannot fail to prove, fascinating read- ! ing to al) who wish and hope for the coming of that glorious time ' when man to man, the world o'er, shall brithers be, and a' that.' The book is on sale everywhere. Mb Geobge Herbert, a New Zealand actor of note, died reoeritly while on the voyage from the Caoe to Hobart. He left New Zealand for Victoria some fifteen .years ago, ; where he won a great reputation as an Irish oharacter ,'actor in connection with Mr G. R. Ireland's provincial' dramatic company. His death js said to have occurred from an overdose of morphia, taken to get Bleep and; rest, while on the voyage. Curiously enough the comedian always prophesied, his death by drowning, and through his dread of the water lost several good ■engagements.