THE THEATRE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8751, 13 October 1906, Page 5

THE THEATRE.

DRAMATIC NOTES.

(By PROMPTER/) A new form of entertainment hais been introduced into Sydney which is ohiefly of an educational nature. It is an exhibit of New South Wales minerals, and is attracting very considerable attention.

-Writes the Sydney "Sportsman": — The petite operatic artiste Daphne Trott, better known as Daphne Pollard, who was born in Melbourne, is now the prima donna* of the Pollard Lilliputian Opera Company, now surprising the audiences in Buffalo, America. Daphne, who made hex first appearance in the town of her birth, has travelled nearly all over the world 1 .

After his Melbourne Reason Brinn, the juggler of cannon balls and other artieke, will visit New Zealand. At the completion of hie Australasian dates he will steam across to England, afterwards move over to Paris, and get along to Brussels, Belgium, and San Francisco. He is only thirty-three years/of age. The late Fitzgerald Brothers, of circus fame, were disposed to be very antagonistic to the Wirth Brothers in their circus placings (says the Sydney "Sportsman"). Wherever Wirfchs pitched their tents, the Fitz'e were bound to follow suit. This antagonism existed for a considerable time. It did no good, because in some towns the population was not large enough to support both shows. To hand from Geelong- & post-oard forwarded by Mr G. D. Portus, dated September 20, and conveying t«he following information : — Just a- line to say we are drawing enormous houses with Dolores. She is a bigger favourite than ever, and is singing magnificently. We visit Melbourne and Sydney again after here, and Ballarat, with Tasmania and New Zealand to follow. Saw "The Squaw Man" in Adelaide; finest play I have ever witnessed. From the Sydney " Bulletin " :— Miss Dolly Castles goes to join her 6ister Amy and her brother for further study abroad after Christmas. An amazing family, the Castles. A email boy Castles, aged between eight and nine, lately took second prize in a oompeti- [ tion for boys under eighteen. Dolly is staying with her mother at a Sydney hotel. Although, so fluffy-looking^she ; is a little beaver for work, and has learnt eleven operas in twelve months. From the Sydney "Bulletin":— Nothing else, at present, is co good at Sydney Tivoli as the takings. Olive Lenton has been singing absolutely the most banal 'imported Japanese doggerel up-to-date. Consider it, or something like it, in cold print : — O, my Tchio, I want to flyd! To the skyo With my Tchio! For yiu I'll dieo! All day I sigho, 0, Tchio! That is what the Anglo-Jap alliance is doing for the London 'alls! The time is also arriving when something unpleasant will have to be said about Maud Farming's coon eonee, which saein to be fished up nowadays from the bottom of the barrel 1 . Miss Fanning does all for them that an expaneive mouth can do ; but even that can't save them. ?j