STAGELAND.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12549, 12 July 1905, Page 7

STAGELAND.

(BY "MASQUE.")

A melodrama is about to be produce 1 in New York in which the leading character will be a gonila.

Tho closing night at Sydney of Messrs Fitzgerald's circus was marred by a slight accident to Dr. Gordon, the "strong man/ Dr.. Gordon was just completing his act of carrying a horse up a ladder when it became restive and eventually got away, and Dr. Gordon wa3 dragged half way round the ring. The animal was then stopped. Dr. Gordon fortunately escaped with a nasty bruise on the leg and a bad shaking up. .Madame Sarah Bernhardt announces that she has agreed to take over to London hei' company, with all scenery, and dresses, arid to give in the Albert Hall one performance for charity of Victor 'Hugo's "Angolo, Tyrant of Padua,' 3 lately revived by her with success in Paris. Her fee for the single representation is to be £800. Tho production of "Florodora" in Sydney by tho Royal Comic Opera Company, at a matinee in aid of their sick fund was a great success. Mr. J. B. Mcntine, the treasurer, was able to announce* that the proceeds amounted to £300. Waiter Baker, of Bland Holt's Company, has been ill, but is recovering. Madamo Adelina Antonio, who will bo remembered as a daring trapezist in tho earlier tours of Fitzgerald's circus, vi ar, recently killed a Coney Island. A music hall to cost £55,000 is just about, to'bo built in Johannesburg. A new r;turn" of exceptional brilliance at th'3^ London Alhambra, recently consisted of twelve distinct parts, each taken by the young Austrian artiste, Sylvester Schaifer, with different scenery and different costumes. He appeared as a card and coin manipulator, a lightning painter, a juggler, a Spanish horseman, an acrobat, and in other roles, cocupying the stage for an hour and ten minutes. This is M. Cchaifer's first appearance in England. He is only 18 years of age, and is recehim-; a record salary. Maud Beatty is appearing at the Lor don Tivoli. Howard Thurston, a magician and conjuror, Avho is said to havo been touring Europe and America with great 3uceess, will arrive in the colony by the next 'Frisco mail steamer, and trill open in Auckland on July 8. Mr. W. L Curtis will act as pilot. The entertainment is something after the style of that given by Dante, the great illusionist, but on a more elaborate scale.

An extraordinary "turn" was given at tho Melbourne Opera House by a performer described as "The Indian electrical comedy artist," reports the "Leader." The electrical artist certainly electrifies, firstly with an exploding cajmon, then with jokes, and finally a sustained assault on a creature with incandescent eyes and ingenious tail, which on being twisted makes "The Last Roso of Summer" issue from its internal economy. It is all very like a nightmare.

Mdme. Helena Modjeska, the well known actress, is living in retirement in Southern California in financial straits. Paderewski, on being informed of her circumstances during his recent tour, offered a benefit to her in the New York Operr. House.

Tho George Musgrove Company are actively rehearsing" W. J. Broadhurst's romantic, farcical play, "Monsieur Treville," the dresses for which arrived from-tho Princess Theatre, Melbourne, during tho week. The scenery came with tho company. This will be the first time that a manager of Mr. Musgrovo's position will have presented a play new to the stage in a New Zealand town. The management are very confident of its success. The one-act comedietta,, "Op p' My Thumb,".to be played on the same bill, has made an enormous success in London and New York. Mite-,?Nelli©' Stewart's part in "'Bi-cadhurst s^iiew play is said to give Kei?*gr<jater opportunities of displaying her versatility than any other in which sh^apjjears. Mr. Musgrove's;Xomp~ahy win>visitigamiJton, Paeroa. Waihi, and mdonHFaNhe, cSnefusionWttie pre. sent Auokl&Kl f s&afeon. *" ->