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STAGE AND STUDY.

Coba has gone away,

The Hugos are going shortly,

Business is still good with Amy Vaughan's City Hall entertainments.

Jennie Lee is now producing ' Eun Wild,' at Sydney Gariick Theatre.

Dobson- Kennedy Dramatic Company will be the next Auckland attraction.

Mr Patchett Martin's potpourri of Australian stories has had a very good sale.

Madame Melba has lunched with the Prince and Princess of Wales. She is not so exclusive as she used to be.

Miss Cabbie Fischer, who joined the Jennie Lee Company at Christchurch, recently returned to that city.

Ted Faust, one of the family of bellringers who lately visited these shores, is now keeping a hotel in Sydney.

Nellie Payne, one of the talented Payne family of bell-ringers, etc., died of chronic phthisis at Moonta, South Australia, recently.

The Madame Patey Concert Company leave the Bluff for Melbourne to-morrow, Friday 3rd. Their season throughout the South Island has proved highly remunerative.

Mr Daniel Mayeb, the well-known entrepreneur, is the gentleman who has engaged M. Paderewski, the eminent pianist (now in London), for the Australian tour next year.

J. C. Williamson has secured the Australian rights to the new American opera, ' Bobin Hood,' which will shortly receive its initial production at the Sydney Theatre Eoyal.

* Jack ' Beer Johnstone, the oldest actor on the British stage, author- of over 150 dramas and pantomimes, and the father sf Eliza Johnstone, died at London recently, aged 98.

A southern contemporary in speaking of Mr J. G. Patey, of the Patey Concert Company, bays that ' he has no doubt seen his best day.' About a quarter of a century ago Mr Patey was a buffo singer in Pine and Harrison's Opera Company, and it is in this class of song that he is now seen to best advantage.

'The Gondoliers' was produced with considerable success for the first time in Sydney at the Theatre Royal on June 2nd. The cast includes Misses Violet Varley (no relation to our friend, butcher Varley, evangelist, etc.,) Flora Graupner, Florence Young and Elsie Cameron, Messrs Howard Vernon, W. Elton, H. Bracy Charles Ryley and Sydney Deane, several of whom are well-known to New Zealanders.

Me L. J. Lohr, who has been so aptly termed in New Zealand, • The Prince of Managers, 1 returned to Hobart by»last week's boat. There is no doubt that much of the success of Madame Patey's season must be attributed to the energy and business tact displayed by her Australian representative, who, we are glad to hear, is likely to be through New Zealand with another attraction before the close of the present year.

The latest development in the show business is keeping awake for money. In Detroit (U.S.A.), lately, at the Wonder-land Museum, six men started to abstain from sleep (a closed eye indicates slumber) during seven days and nights for £100 purse. When the mail left the contest had lasted five days and only two wide-awakes were left in. One of these had gone Slightly silly, but had been 'cute enough to enter into a •Keep-one-another-frorq-sleeping ' union with his antagonist.

Otjb own Henry Varley is ' out ' with the Southern Cross (a 'Sydney religious paper). It 'boiled down ' a letter of his on Madame Bernhardt, leaving out the *best' half - the most abusive — so that Varley now publishes the whole on his own account, and challenges Maurice Bernhardt or anyone else to come along. Alas' Varley kicks against pricks. Cleopatra will, in this wicked world, always command more attention and admiration than any puffy, fat (butcher) man who advocates doctrines altogether at variance with his personal appearance.

Says ' Prospero ' in the New Zealand Referee : ' Talking about the Patey season reminds one that it was generally remarked 1 after the first concert that, consider. ing the reputation of the artists of the company, and that the success financially of the artists was assured, the stage appointments at the theatre were miserably dingy. 1 This was also noticeable during the Auckland season, and we considered that the occasion warranted something more pleasing to the eye than the surroundings of the City Hall stage.

Mr A. Fawcett left us for South last week, in order to make arrangements for the appearance of the eminent pianist, Leon Driver, for whom he is acting in the capacity of bosiriess manager. They intend touring the principal show towns, the whole season to occupy a term of about three months, after whioh they will again return to Auckland. Mr Driver's splendid reputation aa a pianist, coupled with the business tact of his genial manager, lead us to prediot a highly successful season, both artistically and financially.

Wirth's Wild West Show wag at Brisbane when last heard of.

The Marton Amateurs intend producing the ' Ticket of Leave Man ' shortly.

Williamson and Garner will provide Australians with Sullivan's ' Ivanhoe ' as the trump card for 1892.

The Auckland Orchestral Union give their second concert of tbe season in the Choral Hall this Thursday evening.

The Modern Comedy Company is showing on the West Coast with considerable success, co says a Greymouth correspondent.

The Carl Hartz Company are doing well in the Wellington district. Mr Hartz's conjuring performances are the feature of the show.

Since leaving here Mr Geo. Miln and company played a tour in China. He and his wife (Miss Louise Jordan) have since returned to America.

Miss Kate Douglas, who was in Auckland with the Miln Dramatic Company, has accepted an engagement in London, with Mr Wilson Barrett.

In a recent issue we referred to Mr and Mrs A. Boothman being members of the company engaged by Phil Kirby for New Zealand. We now find that we were in error, for A. I. and his talented wife (Miss Buth Grey) are still in Melbourne, waiting for something to turn up.

A variety entertainment is to be provided in the Mount Albert ■ Hall on Wednesday evening next by a troupe of artists of the Avondale district. An excellent programme, comprising some really first-class items, is to be presented, and a most enjoyable evenings amusement may be anticipated. '

Henry Murray, who has taken upon himself to champion literature against the English critics, is a younger brother of our recent visitor, David Christie Murray, and is really a clever fellow. He writes pretty stories of a rather realistic kind, and his ' Song of Sixpence ' is well worth reading. *His age is 32.

It is again rumoured that Mr.W. H. Manning will bring Miss Myra Kemble and her 'Dr Bill ' Company through New Zealand after the couclusion of their Queensland season. This comedy-drama is a very popular one, and has met with phenomenal success thoroughout Australia, and will therefore be looked forward to by all lovers of crisp and racy dramatic performances.

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Observer, Volume XI, Issue 653, 4 July 1891, Page 13

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STAGE AND STUDY. Observer, Volume XI, Issue 653, 4 July 1891, Page 13

STAGE AND STUDY. Observer, Volume XI, Issue 653, 4 July 1891, Page 13