WELLINGTON NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1482, 19 September 1918, Page 27

WELLINGTON NOTES.

(By

“Lorgnette.”)

WELLINGTON, September 16

Mr A.llen Doone’s season at the Grand Opera House is proving highly successful, his impersonation of the genial, happy-go-lucky Irishman appealing to all classes of theatregoers. “Lucky O’Shea” was staged for five nights and was followed by a revival of “Tom Moore.” The last six nights of the season will be devoted to the revival of “The Parish Priest,” “The Bold Soger Boy,” and “Molly Bawn.” The South Island tour has had to be curtailed a week, owing to Mr. Doone’s Melbourne season opening earlier than was originally intended.

Signor Cappelli, the great Italian tenor, who is having a triumphal tour of the Dominion, will give two farewell concerts in the Grand Opera House on September 28 and 29. Mrs. Dallas, who is to play the role of the Duchess of Plaza Toro in the coming production of “The Gondoliers” by the Wellington Amateur Operatic Society, is probably one of the best contraltos in the Dominion. She is better known to Dunedin people as Miss Mabel Esquilant. The English Pierrots opened a short farewell season in the Town Hall Concert Chamber last Saturday evening.

Emery Brothers’ Circus and Hippodrome opened a short season in Wellington last Thursday. The show is a good all-round one, and ought to have a successful tour during the summer months.