STAGE DOOR NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 682, 2 April 1903, Page 11

STAGE DOOR NOTES.

Anderson’s Dramatic Company open a lengthy season at Abbott’s Opera Hous® on Easter Monday. * * * * Miss Fitamaurice Gill has received the vnaTuiscript for the " French Spy,” which is to be put into active rehearsal at one®, and will be played as the “ star ” production on their return visit here. The Westminster Abbey Glee and Concert Party at the Opera House on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next. Change, of programme by the Hawtrey Comedv Company at His Majesty’s this week,. “In the Soup,” a farcial comedy, was introduced on Tuesday night. Complimentary Testimonial Benefit to Mr P. R. Dix at His Majesty’s on Monday evening. Sacred concert to be given by th® Steele-Payne Bellringers on Good Friday Night, at Abbott’s Opera House. a * * 1 Mr Arthur Neistone, who cam® to . New Zealand with the World’s Entertainers, and afterwards fulfilled a long engagement with Mr P. R. Dix, was at latest advices in South Africa. *•• . • Bland Holt will conclude his long and successful season in Sydney on April 3, removing to Melbourne and opening at the Theatre Royal in “ The Prodigal Daughter ” on Easter Saturday, and will produce three new dramas during his Melbourne season—“ The Prince of Peace,” “ The Great Millionaire,” and “ The Best of Friends.” Oswald Dramatic Company, under th® Fuller management, are appearing at the Opera House, Christchurch. •X- * ♦ * The Pollard Opera Company will open the South African tour at Capetown OH May 4 with “ Djin-Djin.” Mr George Musgrove’s Comic Opera Company is doing immense business with “ The Fortune Teller ” at the Princess’s Theatre, Melbourne. The opera will run right through the entire season. The military drama, “ Two Littl® Drummer Boys,” played by Anderson’s Dramatic Company, is pronounced to be an excellent piece by the Southern pressand critics. The company is due to open here on April 11. « * '• « “Lorgnette” says Mr J. Nevin Tait, touring representative for Mdlle. Dolores, intends shortly to proceed to England, where he will enter upon business as a theatrical agent.