Musical and Dramatic Notes,

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5256, 11 May 1895, Page 6

Musical and Dramatic Notes,

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Mrs G. B. W. Lewis writes me from /St Kilda, Viotoria, stating that it is ber intention to commence a tour of this ootony towards the end of the present year* being supported by a speoially selected company. The tour will open at Auokland in November. Mrs Lewis will appear in aiouaa«ft characters familiar to old playgoers, and will also present several 'pieces new totM public, includedin whioh is Mark WattaoaV-9 drama Like No Other Love., It majfjltw interesting to readers to know that Lewis has frequently played Ham]^ being, one of the few .actresses who have erer attempted the task. Qoite. j-eoenfcly she appeared in the part ,in Adelaide, and in announcing the fact the "South Australian Beg-Uteri" remarrln^*) — It may be surmised that Mm Lewis* posßeßßing as she undoubtedly ;does, ao many qualifications, inert and tcqoiredV which enable her to undertakesuoh a taslL' will treat her audience to an exposition oft the character, worthy of her welkm-eritea reputation as a Slhaksperian actress. Parhaps there is ao living actress who has haa greater facilities for studying the man* lights and Bhadss of the immortal bard- 1 * philosophical student than Mrs. Lewis, At a very early age she was in the east when ' the, lata Samuel , Phelps .jplayed Hamlet at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, where, under the tuition of that gentleman, she acquired the rudiments of \ her dramatic education. Since that time [her name has appeared in the cast' of Hamlet with such stars of the legitimate drama in the title rflleasG. Y.Brooke, Henry Neil Warner, Charleß Kean, James Anderson, Charleß Dillon, Barry Sullivan, Edwin Adams and William Creswiok, Consequently it may be said that Mrs Lewis's rendering of the oharaetervwQl.be the result of a life's study.