HERE AND THERE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1570, 27 May 1920, Page 5

HERE AND THERE.

Corinne Griffith is rapidly coming into her own as the result of hard work, and we prophesy that she will be in the front rank very soon. Her work in “The Bramble Bush” entitles her to a place with the finest screen artists. * * * * While travelling on the New Zealand railways His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has had for his use a dinner and tea set combined of Royal Doulton, lent by Dr. and Mrs. Faris, of Fairview Terrace, Wellington. The set is really beautiful, with colouring of a rich blue, ornamented wth beaten-in wreaths of roses set in gold. When the tour is finished the china will, of course, 'be returned to its owners, by whom it will be trebly valued through its association with the Royal visitor to New Zealand. * * * * Mr. J. W. Jackson, the producer of “His Little Widows” at the Tivoli, Melbourne, had the inestimable advantage in his huge contract of getting the show on in record time, of knowing his principals well. He was highly delighted' with the Australians, whom he watched carefully, in “As You Were,” and said freely that he did not know a woman who could have carried so big a part as that played by Vera Pearce so successfully. The two importations, Rex London and Kitty Barlow, were, of course, particularly old friends of Mr. Jackson, and he has long admired the work of the comedian. Miss Barlow he knew in London when she was creating the part now played by her in Australia.

Mrs. Oscar Kammerstein, widow of the impressario who left the New York (Manhattan) Opera House as one of the monuments to his memory, is going to enter the operatic field in September of this year as an operatic manager. Now sole owner of the Manhattan Opera House, she has formed a partnership with Fortuno Gallo, head of the San Carlo Grand Opera and the Gallo English Grand Opera companies. The partnership is to continue for ten years. It is Mrs. Kammerstein’s desire to maintain a policy at the Manhattan Opera House in keeping with the unfinished plans of her late husband. The theatre is to house only musical presentations.