MUSIC AND DRAMA.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 985, 21 January 1909, Page 23

MUSIC AND DRAMA.

(Continued from page 18.) EDWARD REEVES. One of the most interesting and attractive entertainments to be given in Auckland, commencing on Monday, tne Bth February, at the Y.M.C.A. Hall, is a short series of recitals by Edward Reeves, the delightful and talented elocutionist. who, on his previous visit to Auckland, met with such success, and portrayed three noted works by voice „:nression and gesture. Mr. Reeves s already won the highest praise from the Australian critics, placing him in the front rank of story-telling, and his season here will be looked forward to with interest.

Mr. Edward Lauri and Miss May Beatty were married at Fulham, England, on December 8.

Four complete outfits of the BurnsJohnson championship series of moving pictures have already left Sydney (says the “Referee”), one for New Zaland and others to cover Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, have started; and Tasmania. South and West Australia have already been a’.range.l. The Philippines, China, and Japan are to be toured, also the Straits Settlements. South Africa, and India. In three months’. time there wi'l be over thirty outfits of these pictures showing in all parts of the globe.

At one time in pantomime production out here it was an invariable rule that everything in it —lock, stock, and barrel—should be brought from England or America. Nowadays, at any rate, in connection with J. C. Williamson, the rule has become the exception, and everything practically is made here, for Australian workmen and workwomen have proved themselves more than equal to any demands made upon them. Even in song-writing, the local mus'cians have responded most commendably to any demands made upon them in “Jack and Jill.” Some of the most popular numbers are “ made in Australia.” Such for example are “ The Firefly and the Moon,” which Mr. Gerard Coventry himself inspired, humming the melody over to a song-writer until they evolved the present tuneful ballad. Both Mr. Gilbert’s songs, “My Hansom Maid ” and “ How-do-de-doody,” are very largely his own work, and what is not his comes from local men. Then, “ Splashing m 'he Briny,” which Miss Fanny Dan go renders so daintily, and the dashing, ear haunting “ Jessie Mclntyre,” were both composed specially for “ Jack and Jill.”