FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18803, 26 November 1932, Page 16 (Supplement)

FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.

Dame Sybil Thorndike will commence a return season at Melbourne to-night with Ibsen’s “Ghosts.” This will be followed by “The Silver Cord,” a comedy by Sidney Howard.

The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company will return to Sydney for the Christmas season.

Leslie Henson, tempted maybe by the highest salary ever offered for pantomime, is to be the “Idle Jack ’ •of “Dick 'Whittington" at the Hippodrome, London. Fay Compton will be introduced to Londoners as a principal boy.

Miriam Sabbage has replaced Nancy Browne in the company being imported from England to appear in the new musical play, “Waltzes from Vienna,”

at Melbourne at Christmas. Miss Browne, who is an Australian, was so successful in the film version of “The Maid of the Mountains” that she has been retained in England for further film work.

Pat Kendall, who danced with her brother Terry in the Clem Dawe musical comedies in Hamilton a couple of years ago, has married a Leicester silk merchant in England. The Kendalls are cousins of Alec Regan, popular manager of the Regent Theatre, Dunedin.

The leading attractions in Sydney are “Autumn Crocus,” with Theo Shall and Dorothy Peters; a revival of “The Chocolate Soldier," with Gladys Moncrieff; "Whose Child?" with Molly Rayner (a New Zealander) and John Warwick; and a vaudeville company headed by Jack Morrison, an American comedian.

George Duryea, who -was Able In the stage version oT “Abie’s Irish Rose” in Hamilton some years ago, plays the lead in the Him, “Pardon

My Gun,” at- the Civic Theatre

Betty Syers, of Hamilton, besides appearing in the ballet engaged in Auckland for the Williamson Grand Opera Company’s performance of “Aida,” in Auckland, is appearing in a fairy play staged by a big Auckland firm every afternoon.

Naneye Stewart and Mayne Lynton, well-known players, are in “Whose Child?” in Sydney.

Carlton Max, probably the best ventriloquist seen in New Zealand and for many vears a great favourite on the Fuller circuit, is now manager of the National Theatre, Auckland. Ills automaton. “Jerry," is still pleasantly remembered.

Fritz Kreisler. violinist, played in New York last, month. His programme included Beethoven's “Kreutzer” sonata, Mozart's concerto No. 3, and a group of short pieces. * * * “ There’s Always .Tullot," which was a big success in London and New York, was produced this week in Sydney on behalf of Ihe Institution for Deaf and Dumb and Blind Children. Arundel Nixon produced the play and took the leading role.