Musical and Dramatic Notes.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5337, 15 August 1895, Page 1

Musical and Dramatic Notes.

- « : [BY PEOMPrEE IN " CANTERBURY TIMBS."] AUSTRALIA. Mr Brough has cabled to his partner that he and hia charming wife will probably leave England in time to reappear with the company in September. It ia reported that Miss Edith Honsley (Mrs Ralph Roberts), who played in The New Spy when that piece- was brought through New Zealand, is Berionsly ill of consumption. Mr King Hedley, an American actor of some repute, arrived in Sydney on July 20, and will make his appearance in a sensational drama called The White Squadron, the Australian rights for which are held by Messra M*Mahon. . Luoky girl, lucky fellow. An Australienne who posed in Williamson and Musgrove's living picture Bhow, arid gave the imported and home-made article points in looks and figure, haa just, married into one of the oldest and wealthiest Victorian families . Contributions to a memorial to the late Lucy Chambers are being solicited in Melbourne, and good results have been reported. It has been decided to place a plain afcone cross over the dead singer's resting-place, and to devote the rest of the funds to found a memorial bed in the Women's Hospital. Actor-vocalist Wallace Brownlow (says an Adelaide paper) charged Walter Brownlow, a local vocalist, with impersonation, but the information was dismissed, as the evidence which involved the opening of a letter addressed to the professional waß only of a suspicious character. As Wallace had given Walter a thrashing prior to the Court proceedings he might have rested satisfied. There is not the slightest resemblance between the two men. A Sydney paper reports that Mr Bland Holt haß engaged Miss Elizabeth Watson to take Miss Hilda Spong's place when that lady passes over to the BronghBoucicault company, so the report that Miss Ireland had been engaged for that purpose is evidently iacorreot. Miss Watson, who arrived in Australia towards the close of last month, is a sister of Mißs Henrietta Watson, and has had considerable experience as an actress in England. Her most important engagement before leaving" England was as Mrs Arbuthnot in A Woman of No Importance. In September Mr George Bignold will olose his eighth year of continuous tenanoy of Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney — a period marked by some splendid Shakßperian revivals and the production on a great scale of a whole serieß of successful melodramas. As it is the actormanager'a intention to enjoy rest and recreation in England and the United States, he has decided to devote the few remaining weeks of his stay in Australia to the representation of Borne of his best pieces. Accordingly that elaborate spectacle, Youth, first introduced into the dramatic world at Drury Lane fourteen years ago, was revived at Her Majesty'e Theatre on July 20. J J A Sydney "Bulletin" correspondent supplies the following on Miaa Tniiof W' 8 dSbUt *% Clairette w?th Ja the Williamson and Mnsgrove Opera Company at Adelaide:-With a handicap of ugly features and no limbs or figure she simplj brought down the house, people in the stalls and dress circle standing up and shouting at the end of her aong in the first act «• Tea. I am the daughter ofmy mother," etc. There .were two big enoor^ and a third loudly demanded. A novice who walks in and sweepa the floor Jth Sydney, previous to his departure for

South Africa. In replying to the many kind things Mr J. J. M'Manus threw into his remarks in proposing his health, Mr Arnold said that hiß experience of Australia had always been of the pleasantest character. He went there seven years ago, and did remarkably well by finding a wife, returned with her to tonr England and America, and then paid a second prosperous visit to Australia. Again the Australians had treated him well, and they had treated his aunt well — Charley's Aunt was, of course, the one referred to — so thfat he was leaving them with the happiest recollections of his stay. He was shortly to appear under Mr Bonamici's management in South Africa, and would then revisit the Old Country. Some day, however, he would undoubtedly return to Sydney, as the only relatives he now had in the world resided there,and lie had learned to look upon the place with affection. Charles Arnold is a good fellow and as popular in private life as he is in public. May fortune smile upon him.