STAGE-DOOR NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 677, 26 February 1903, Page 11

STAGE-DOOR NOTES.

“If I Were King,” by Mr. J. C. Williamson Dramatic Co., at His Majesty’s Theatre. & v a “ Sherlock Holmes l ” drew large houses at His Majesty’s for nine performances. • * ♦ • Mr. P r R. Dix has been in town for the past week, and is now quite convalescent. Madam Melba sings at the Opera House next week, Monday and Thursday. a a * * Miss Nance O’Neil, since leaving London, has been playing at the Grand Opera House, San Francisco, to enormous business. Miss O’Neil was to leave ’Frisco on the 16th February for an extended tour through the states. In the early autumn she is to open in New York. The Americans, it is said, have greeted Miks O’Neil with open arms, and, notwithstanding her recent London failure, she has seemingly entered upon a great boom A - ■- . ' • ’Mr. Geo. Musgrove is sending a strong company to New Zealand, headed by Miss' Nellie Stewart. The pieces produced will include “Sweet Nell,” “Zaza,” “Mice and Men,” “The Country Mouse, A Modern Magdalen,” “A Royal Rival,” and “The Pantomime Rehearsal.” The company opens at Dunedin on April 11th.

Athas and Collins, who several months, ago did the Dix circuit, were appearing at the London Pavilion when the last mail left. * * * * Mr. Charles Carter, “Pollard’s” popular tenor, has left New Zealand for England per the Tyser liner Indvaghiri. Miss Fitzmaurice Gill’s Dramatic Co. I open in Wanganui to-night. ! The Steele-Payne Family of Bellringers has had a fairly successful tour of the South Island, and have now commenced a tour of the North Island, starting in the Wairarapa district, working through :to Auckland. * * * * The Hawtrey Comedy have had a very successful season in Dunedin. “The Lady of Ostend” was played for six nights, th®, revival of “A Message from Mars” ran for six nights,, and a matinee “In the Soup” was staged for four nights, while for the last two nights of the season “Tom, Dick and Harry” and “A Highland Legacy” were revived. * * * * An Exchange] gives us news of our friends the Haytors (Arthur, Frank and Edie). They were in the cast of the pantomime “Dick Whittington and his Cat” at the Grand Theatre, Islington, London, when the last mail left. Arthur was playing Aiderman Fitzwarren and Frank Idle Jack, while Miss Edie was cast for the part of Prince Ahmed. # ft* * At the City Hall, Mr .Frank Graham, the gifted tenor from the Carl Rosa Opera Company, still continues to attract largo audiences 1 . • • « . • Walter Rivers, well known in these parts, is assistant stage manager for Andorson’s' Dramatic Company, now working the South. * * * * After completing the tour of New Zealand, Madame Melba sings at a concert in Melbourne Exhibition Buildings on March 28, starting for England immediately thereafter.