DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 17, 23 April 1892, Page 425

DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL.

MISS SNAZELLE, who=e portrait appears above, is the fortunate daughter of Mr Snazelle, or perhaps weshouldreversetheorder andsay that the talented vocalist is the fortunate father of so gifted a daughter. This young lady aids and abets her father in the high class but eminently amusing entertainment of music, song, and story which is now travelling through New Zealand, leaving regrets and pleasant memories in its train. Miss Snazelle is in reality quite a debutante. She was a pupil of Santley. That great vocalist took such a fancy to her voice that lie used to give her three lessons a week till he left Home. The young lady does not intend to court fame as a professional singei. She was anxious to partake of the pleasure of her father's trip, and he, feeling that her singing would add to the attractiveness of his entertainment, finally, after consideration, decided to let her sing before the public. Mr Snazelle, though, has been on the operatic stage himself, and as one of fortune’s greatest favourites would not allow his daughter to appear on the operatic stage.

Besides being a pupil of Santley, Miss Snazelle has been studying for the last few years under Mr Julius Herz, the celebrated vocal trainer of Melbourne, who has turned out some of the best singers the colonies now possess, amongst others Lalla Miranda and Miss Rossow.

Snazelle himself is, by the way, a Kentish man, and not as his name suggests, a foreigner. It will be remembered that though many of us have not yet seen him, we have heard his voice through the phonograph. One of Professor Archibald’s best impression rolls was the Snazelle where the vocalist interspersed snatches of song with remonstrances at being obliged to sing with a cold. He was for ten years the principal baiitone at Her Majesty’s and with the Carl Rosa Company, and during that time sustained, if I remember rightly, over fifty different parts. He began life as one of the aristocracy—a bank clerk.

‘ The School for Scandal’ is reported to be the production to follow ‘ Henry VIII.' at the Lyceum. Mr Irving nut// play Sir Peter Teazle, but I should think he would prefer Joseph Surface. Miss Ellen Terry should make an ideal Lady Teazle.

The ‘ drama ’ (?) on the Williams murders appears to be drawing crowded houses in Melbourne. As an additional attraction one advertisement says that ‘ ladies have fainted and strong men have been carried away.'

Elton, who was in New Zealand with • Dorothy,’ • Yeoman of the Guard,’ etc., has just concluded a seiies of farewell performances in Melbourne, and by the time this is piinted will be well (or unwell) on the liner that takes him Home. ‘ Dorothy,’‘ The Gondoliers,’and ‘ The Old Guard,’ were all played during the last nights. The zXustralian public mourn his departure, and even the Bulletin deploies the flight of the ‘ well beloved little comedian.’ Nobody knows, it says, why Elton should leave like this on the eve of a general election. He might take his choice of boroughs and waltz to the top of the poll if the spirit so moved him. And once in Parliament the only William would be expected to run the entire Cabinet in his own petson, and permitted to increase the salaries all round up to any reasonable total.