IN PERSONAL TOUCH.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1301, 1 April 1915, Page 39

IN PERSONAL TOUCH.

A London innovation will be adopted as regards the music for the PlimmerHall productions. It will be provided by Mrs. Winter Hall and her sister, Miss Rima Young—both able pianists —on two upright grands.

Acting on previous successes, the “Humpty-Dumpty” Pantomime Company, on the conclusion of their Auckland season, will pay a return visit to several towns in the North Island. The tour will take in the Goldfields, the Waikato, and the Wairarapa districts, and several places not hitherto' exploited. “The Jam of Cathay” will be introduced as an extra drawing card. Mr. W. A. Low sets out in a day or so to herald the company’s advent.

Miss Ivy Schilling, who will be remembered out here for her dancing, has been scoring well at Home. She recently won the famous ‘Pelican Cake” prize, an annual competition for the most popular artiste in pantomime, musical comedy or revue. Miss Schilling secured 8502 votes, beating all the big favourites. Gertie Millar was third with 7432 votes.

Farce is a modern term founded on the Latin verb facire, to stuff. This was originally an allusion to the practice of the ancient buffoons padding out their stage dresses to abnormal dimensions. Later the padding was dispensed with, but the wide garments were retained.

The special function of the green baise which used to form a part of the equipment of every stage, was to mark the interval between the farce and the drama, or between two different pieces of any kind performed on the same evening.

“It isn’t the actor who makes the most of money who is most envied,” Francis Powell, the art' producer, observes, “it is the actor who makes the most of money that he makes.”