THEATRICAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7401, 4 March 1903, Page 4

THEATRICAL ITEMS.

jllY " TIIK I'UOMI'TKII.''| Tlio Pollard Opera Company play n season in Tnninania, <" ivnh: to Kouth Africa, George J)arrell, tho iiulor-uulhor, well known in New Zealand, is said lo bo at work on mi invention threatened to electrify the scientific world. MrWiihir Monk, agent, for Hie Fit/,lii'iunce Gill Mi'iimatiu Company, which opons in iMustiutou on I ( 'riday, says tlio Auckland season of the Company wan one liugii suceesH. Tim well-known conductor, J>r. Kicliter, ba.s been ulfered tho cundueloi'slnp of tlie new Opera House, Vienna, at it salary of .L'looo. The Willougbby-Geaidi Company, tlnoi;::li iManlerton recently, are now plavim'" tlio " Wrong Mr Wright " in Sydne,;. I'iTt) Leighton, iniplicaled in tlio B recent sensational robbery at Perth, wan not a number of the llawtivy (Company when llii! robbery took place. Leigbton " left tlu! Company some linn! ago. When S the Company left tlio West, although ~ ins ticket was taken, lioigbton failed to L join tho steamer, and was left behind. In the Fit/.maurice Gill Company, ii wild the exception of Miss Fiix.inauiiee Gill, Messrs Charles Blake, Gus Neville, • Leo i>ll Chateau and Edward ivey, the artists are Hti'anger.s to New Zciibind. Tlie Company uuniber.i lliirty. A box at thu New York Opera House in reported to have been sold for I £ 10,700. - "A Chineso Honeymoon" has celet j bratuit its 50Uth jjerformanoo at tlio London Strand. Tiiu benefit to be given in New York for Miss Georgia Cayvan is assuming large proportions. A well-known actor, it is related in a late exchange, recently paid XH) for a standing-room ticket. (laniiHlon's Circus, with which the Valdares (well known in New Zealand) arc playing, have been doing tremendous " business in Calcutta. The heart of Mdlle. Koggers, an aelfcss of the Atbenee Theatre, Paris, is tho subject of a judicial investigation necessitated by the lady's fear of being seasick. According lo a London paper, she was engaged to go to Cairo, but at the last moment alleged that she bad a weak heart and could not face the sen voyage. The theatre doctor said that her heart Wiis perfectly sound, and tho result is a law-suit for broach of contract. Mdlle. still insists that her heart is too weak lo permit of the voyage, and the Court has ordered Professor iironarilei lo make an examination. The possibilities of the motor-car are presenting themselves to London artists. The expenses of the hiring of broughams and cabs amounts, in the course of a year, to a very large sum of money. Mr (jus 1-llen, realising tins, has (according to the J''i'i(), given an order for it motor brougham to take him to and tioiu bis engagements while in town ; lie ha , ; also - ordered a " Toimcau," or open cirringe, for the day time, and for touring purposes. These cars are to be ready in about ten weeks' time. They are to be painted and upholstered in the very best style. This will cost about JUHIUO. A largo sum for two carriages. At tlie farewell concert in Melbourne on the lHih nit. by Amy and Lolly Castles, who left for Europe next day, there was a remarkable demonstration. The Town Hall was packed, lioth '• vocalists were repeatedly tncoiui mil at the eonckiHon of the concut ti >v sands of persons assembled oi t i 1 t'a hall and cheered them a; tiu\ vi >v '}• away. At tho recent benelii to 1 L l>i\ - the wi:il-kiioun "variety L)iupii\ \ proprietor, at Christclnm'i, ' /> wi s '' realised. Miss Fit/initurice Gill, \ lio <. < ti i pany opens in MasU-rlon oi lul was at one time with liland Holt iiid Nance O'Xeill, and was iK > leilu r i lady in Andcr.-on'ti Dramatic ( omj in\