MISS MARIE TEMPEST’S FAREWELL VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1597, 2 December 1920, Page 35

MISS MARIE TEMPEST’S FAREWELL VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND.

During December, January and February, Miss Marie Tempest, supported by Graham Browne and her entire world tour company, will pay a farewell visit to New Zealand before proceeding to South America in continuation of her world tour. Five plays have been chosen from their large' repertoire which have not been presented by Mies Tempest before in New Zealand —“The Great Adventure,” “The Duke of Killecrankie,” “At the Barn,” “Cousin Kate,” and “Mary Goes First.” The tour will commence at Wellington on Boxing Day, the opening play being “The Duke of Killecrankie.” The company supporting Miss Tempest, is an exceptionally strong one, as in addition to ’Mr. Graham , Browne it includes Mr! Frank Harvey, Mr. Ashton Mr- Frank Allenby,. Mr. Roger Barry, Mr; Harry Brampton, Mr. Herbert Millard, Miss Doris Gilham, Miss Dorothy Hamilton, Miss Armorel Kemp, and Miss Annette Arnold, amongst others.

Miss Celia Ghiloni’s engagement to Mr. Alfred Mellor, a Westralian broker, is announced. * * * * Mr. Frank G-reene is at present playing in pictures at Los Angeles for Thomas H. Ince. * * » K “Chu Chin Chow” has played to over 2,500,000 people since opening in London over four years ago, and it has contributed as entertainment tax for Inland Revenue £57,500. * * * * The members of the Permanent First Nighters’ Club were hostesses at a dinner party at the “Pekin Cafe,” Sydney, last month. The guests of honour were Miss Dorothy Brunton and Miss Dorothy Purdeil (Mrs. William Greene). 9 * 4S “Robbery Under Arms” has been picturised in Sydney under the guidance of Beaumont Smith. The principal performers are Tien Hogue, Kenneth Brampton, Roy Redgrave, Hilda Dorrington, and Roland Conway. * * * » Says “Smith’s Weekly”: The years Dorothy Brunton spent in London have taken away her girlish chubbiness, and given her acting a maturity and a pretty wistfulness that are more than worth that loss. Her three songs and Alfred Frith’s petticoat pantomime are easily the brightest spots of “Yes, Uhcle.”

Carter the Great, at the conclusion of his Australasian tour, goes to South Africa under contract to the South African Theatres Trust, important negotiations for which have recently been completed. Mr. Carter is anxious for Mr. Scott Colville to accompany him as manager, but tentative engagements may preclude Mr. Colville from accepting.

Mr. Ernest Drake, the Auckland tenor, who recently created quite a furore at the Albert Hall, London, has been engaged by Messrs. S. Roberts and W. Kelly for their season of high-class monthly concerts at the Coronation Hall, Ulverston, near London. The season commenced last month.

Appearing in “Irene,” the phenomenally successful play soon to be staged in., Auckland, is a clever young dancer, Billy de Mersden, who, with his sister Vera, supplies the specialty dancing. He had over four years active' service, enlisting. at the age of 17. He was the founder and first president of the National Federation of Returned Soldiers and Sailors in England. He was known, as “England’s. youngest orator,” and incidentally was the means of raising. £lOOO for the St. Dunstan’s Home for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors, conducted under the auspices • of Sir Arthur Pearson.