GREEN ROOM GOSSIP

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 441, 5 January 1899, Page 9

GREEN ROOM GOSSIP

Mr 1 uval states that one morning last week the caretaker of the Opera 1 House found two sets of false teeth in the dress circle. The humors of “The Gay Parisienne” had evidently caused them to be laughed out during the progress of the play. After a run of four nights “ Djin-Djin” will be succeeded by the “French Maid.” The withdrawal of the “ Gay Parisienne ” in favor of “ Djin-Djin is in response to a request from a number of Auckland playgoers. Mrs Kendall, in speaking of the life of an actress, says:— ‘lt is work, hard work; you must always be studying, and as you get older you must fill up the wrinkles with intelligence.”

Mr Aleo Cochrane, formerly of the Frank Thornton Company, has joined the Maggie Moore and Harry Roberts combination as leading man for the American and English tours. We will see the company here before they proteed to San Francisco.

A dramatic version of Alphonse Daudet’s novel, “ Sappho,” has been produced at the Opera House, Northampton. The dramatisation of such a work for an English audience would naturally be even more difficult than “La Dame Aux Camellias” or “ Pauline Blanchard,” and we fear it will have been so abominably “ Bowdlerised” that its beauty will have been lost.

We are glad to hear that Herbert Flemming is doing w r ell in South Africa. Flemming was for a long time a stand-by for The Firm, and, after he left them, was very successful with Miss Achurch, both in Australia and at Home. His success in South Africa will be read with pleasure by his friends in Australasia.

Sib Arthur Sullivan conducted the first version of “ The Mikado” in Italian, at Florence, in November, 1898.

The long-promised tour of Sir Henry Irving through Australia, under the auspices of The Firm, has been declared off.

Mr G. Tracey Hall, who took a leading part in the opera company which played at the Opera House just previous to the Christmas season, was drowned at Lake Takapuna on Tuesday morning. Full particulars appear in another column.

According to a Sydney contemporary Mr George Rignold contemplates a tour of the United States. In his time Rignold was one of the most popular actors in America, and was universally dubbed “ Handsome George.”

The Cowan Dramatic Company played at Palmerston North on December 26th and 27th.

That popular advance agent, Mr Edwin Geach, who has concluded his contract with Carl Hertz, has undertaken to pilot the Flying Jordans through the East.