DRAMATIC GOSSIP.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4715, 5 August 1893, Page 2

DRAMATIC GOSSIP.

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London, June 16. Mrs Brown-Potter has returned to London after a highly successful se|-_on in the States. She leaves for India on a four .montha' tour next October. Despite tbe praise it received from many of the crifcica, The Bauble Shop haß not enjoyed the prolonged run Mr Jones' admirers predicted,, and was taken off at the Criterion on Saturday to make room for a brief revival of David Garrick, The stalls atthe Gaiety on Friday afternoon were filled with the Australian sporting contingent, who, headed by Joe Thompson, rapturously applauded the crude absurdities of Mr R. S. Sievier'a The Younger Son. I only caw the last aot, bnt the piece seemed to me to be a hash up of stale melodrama. Daly's Theatre, in Leicester Square, will hs opened by the famous New York Company, which haa paid us so many visits

lately, on Juno 27. Ada Rehan is again the bright particular star of the troupe, but John Drew, who need ti support her bo ably aB leading man, has seceded, and the )eai known George Clarke fills his place. Tho oj enit-g programme will be The Taming of the Shrew, tho Daly Company.- moat 'famous performance. The (.barring toman quintuple bill lasted jutt six nights at Terry's Theatre, and on Saturday the house closed. Charrington declares the critic 9 have throughout I made a dead set at them. Beally the i oppoßite has been the oase. AU that the ! puff preliminary could do, both for their Royalty and Terry's eeaeon was done. Moreover, most of the papers let down the | quintuple bill very lightly, but the publio I realioed the programme was a poor one, I and would not go to see it, Mr Stuart Cumberland is once again the \ delight of London Club smoking roome, to I the habitues of which he never tires of relating his adventures with this or that foreign potentate. During his recent nine months' Continental toqr, Mr Cumberland experimented on no.fewerthan^sii ruling pripees,, Only, oii one occasion was tho "tbopghtreader at fault, and this was when the Czar of aU the Russigß begged him to teach him his art in order that he might read the thoughts of his oourtiers, and distinguish false from true. Mr Cumberland had to confess this was boyond him. Mascasni has arrived in London snd is tuperiiiteoding the rehearsals of I. Rantzau. The Pagliaeci, ia proving as big a hit thia seawon at Covent Garden aB the Cavalleria did in 1891, and draws mammoth houees twice a week. On Saturday Sir Augustus put on Donizetti's Favorita, with Alvarez in Mario's great part, as a first piece before the Cavalleria. .It was excellently performed, but the house didn't care' a dump about tbe work, and even hissed parts thereof. Unfortunately, too, the programme proved ' much _ too long, j Eleven was striking when the curtain | drow up ton Cavalleria, and midnight had passed some time when it fell. Even an opera audience doesn't like that.