GREENROOM GOSSIP.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, 22 August 1912, Page 21

GREENROOM GOSSIP.

“Get Rich Quick Wallingford.” “Get Rich Quick Wallingford” has made good in Sydney. The American farce-comedy which deals with the wiles and schemes of the company promoter came as a decided novelty. Its atmosphere is new to Australians, and it is characterised by breeziness, rush, and the continuity of interest that keeps the audience engrossed all the time. And there is never a moment when they are not laughing. The author of the farce-comedy has hit off the methods of the company promoter in a manner that is calculated to make everyone who is not in wildest enterprises (except on the

promoting end) laugh their heads off. As for those who- have exchanged good money for doubtful scrip, writes our correspondent, they will weep at the play. John Rockefeller, Pierpont Morgan, and Andrew Carnegie all enjoyed the piece in New York. History does not relate, however, whether they went and unloaded their shares afterwards/ :■: * * “Sinbad the Sailor.” A Melbourne critic writes. of “Sinbad the Sailor”:. —“Mother . Goose,” “Jack and Jill,” “Humpty Dumpty,” “Aladdin,” and “Jack and the Beanstalk,” fade into comparative insignificance alongside of “Sinbad the Sailor” which is easily the most stupendous, most magnificent, and best presented pantomime the Australasian stage has yet produced. Auckland theatre-goers are eagerly looking forward to the production which opens at His Majesty’s on Saturday, 31st. 4: * * * “On Our Selection.” The first presentation in Melbourne of the biggest success of the Bert Bailey Dramatic Co. s repertoire—“On Our Selection” —will take place on Saturday, September 14th, when a seven weeks’ season at The King’s Theatre will be inaugurated by the new theatrical firm of which Mr Bert. Bailey, Mr Edmund Duggan and Mr Julius Grant are the directors. This dramatisation of. Steele Rudd’s notable work has achieved a success hitherto unprecedented in the history of Australian drama, and considerable interest attaches to its initial production m Meloourne. The company includes many favourites, amongst them being Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan; whilst two English artists —Miss Mary Marlowe and Mr Guy Hastings —who were specially brought out from England to head the company, nave firmly established themselves in the regard of playgoers in every city they have visited. V * * * . “Smart Set” at St. Kilda. A bright addition to the entertainments to .be given at St. Kilda, Victoria, during the forthcoming summer will be that of the “Smart Set” entertainers who have been specially engaged by J. and N. Tait, and will appear at the same open-air theatre where the “Follies” were located a few months ago. The “Smart Set” entertainers comprise several ladies and gentlemen of proved repute in London and the English provinces, and they have toured Great Britain, America, and South Africa with marked artistic and financial results. In -South Africa the company was especially successful, and, according to the “Rand Daily Mail,’ they “completely captured all hearts.” # * * * A Dazzling Effect. “.The Diamond Valley” is described as' one of the finest stage effects yet seen in Australasia. Many thousands of crystals are used, each of different shades and colours, and when the full electric current is in use, it is a blaze of dazzling brilliancy. Over ■3OOO lamps are used in this scene. This is only one of the features of "Sinbad the Sailor.”