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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1312, 17 June 1915, Page 38

Mr. Richard Stewart, so many years associated managerially with the firm of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., in Australia and New Zealand, left last week for Johannesburg, and from there will serve the South African interests of the firm. Through the medium of the “Sporting and Dramatic Review” Mr. Stewart says good-bye to his New Zealand friends, and thanks them for the many kindnesses and hospitalities accorded him on his tours. The tours, by the way, ran into a century—surely a record. Good luck to him and his!

Messrs. Plimmer and Hall concluded their patriotic tour of the Dominion at Invercargill last week. The result of the tour has been that the sum of £3500 has been paid to various patriotic funds throughout the Dominion.

The J. C. Williamson company which has made such a success in Gilbert and Sullivan opera have s+aged -“Ma Mie Rosette” at Her Majesty’s. Sydney. In it appeared some years ago Wallace Brownlow, Nellie Stewart, Florence Young, George Lauri, Hugh J. Ward, and other favourites. The present cast includes Fred England, Villiers Arnold, Charles Walenn. Albert Kavanagh, Katie May, Edward McKeown, Pearl Ladd, Connie Milne, and Gladys Moncrieff.

Mr. W. A. Low left Auckland last week to advance the cause of the Dandies on their Dominion tour.

Michael Sullivan: Did you ever know a man, Father, to get a lump on his head from wearing tight shoes? Father Whalen (Allen Doone): No; but I knew a man once to get a lump on his head through wearing yellow shoes on St. Patrick’s Day.—From “The Parish Priest.”

Prior to leaving for America. Mr. Fred Niblo* was presented with a handsome silver cup by the members of the company who had been associated with him for three years. Mr. Niblo and Miss Cohan received some hundreds of farewell telegrams.