Miscellaneous Items

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1574, 24 June 1920, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items

Pretty hard lines to design a costume that wins a 5000-dollar prize and then see another walk away with it, isn’t it? That is the experience of Louise Huff, the charming World f star, in their latest ,release, “Heart of Gold.” The ever humorous Johnny Hines heads the supporting cast. <• * * * The remarkable female impersonators in J. and N. Tait’s company of Smart Set Diggers, at the Playhouse, Melbourne, deceive their own sex to such an extent that two or three have received letters from emotional admirers who mistook them for real young ladies. “Tiki” Carpenter, who makes up cleverly as a fetching little danseuse, has received a gem of a letter accompanied by a large box of chocolates and a bouquet from a rural visitor, who has apparently been heavily hit by the bogus female’s attractions. The swain, who was apparently unaware of “Tiki’s” true sex when he wrote his impulsive note, wanted to make a date with the young “lady,” and take “her” out to supper. “Tiki” is having the letter framed as a tribute to the accuracy of his impersonation.

“Happiness a la Mode,” the latest morsel from Constance Talmadge, throws a lot of illumination on matrimony, and, judging by the appallingly long lists of “matrimonial misfits” in the papers of late, some of the gentle hints that Connie furnishes might have been of service, had they been taken in time. **’ * « The genial and popular D. F. McSweeney, who was personal representative for John McCormack when he was last in Australia, is now on his way out to the Commonwealth to complete arrangements with J. and N. Tait, who have engaged the renowned tenor for another tour, commencing next month. John McCormack is delighted at the prospects of re-visiting the country that gave him such a royal reception when he first sang there. Furthermore, the tour gives him a chance for a muchneeded holiday with his sailor brother, who is an officei’ in the British Navy and saw active service in the war in the Mediterranean and at the Dardanelles. John McCormack had not seen his brother for some years until the other day, so the present engagement will be something in the nature of a reunion.

New York theatres accounted for 1,500,000 dollars of the. American amusement tax in February. The largest individual amount came from the Metropolitan Opera House, and the Hippodrome was second.

Mrs. Frank Jay Gould, formerly the wife of the American millionaire tennis champion, is going to star in British films. She was well known when Miss Edie Kelly as a “Gaiety” Girl. ' .