AMUSEMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2110, 8 February 1908, Page 4 (Supplement)

AMUSEMENTS.

LOCAL FIXTURES. lIIS MAJESTY'S. February 5 to B—Bollard's Opera Company. February 13 and If—Berry’s Biograph Company. February 17, 13, and ID—J. C. Williamson’s !‘.U|uu Moon” Company. March s—Cricket Concert March 11 to 14—Brough Fleming Company. March 20—Cook County Couriotis Coons. May 11, 12, 13—J. C. Williamson. Juiio 8,1), 10—J. C. Williamson. August 12, 13, 14—Frank Thornton. Bollard's matinee this afternoon. Season closes to-night with “llis Highness tho Bey.” Bollard’s juveniles arc repeating their former success in this town and it is well deserved, for the popular manager has trained his company to a very high standard. Alter Bollard’s tho next important “show” to visit- us will bo Mr. J. C. AVilliamson’s mu fiscal comedy company, which is due the week after next with “the Blue Moon,” “Lady Madcap,” and “The girl from Kays.”

During tho forthcoming tour of New Zealand Miss Florence -JJ-tines will produce “Miss Lancashire, Limited,” and “Out Ma.”

Maskelyne and Devant, tho famous illusionists are due in Australia in September next under engagement to Mr. Howard, of the Brescians.

“Could you do the landlord in “tho Lady of Lyons?” asked the manager. “AVoll, J should think I could,” replied the comedian. “I’ve dono a good many.”

Miss May Moore Duproz. who toured Now Zealand a few years ago under tho management of Mr. Harry Rickards, it is said, will revisit Australia to play tho title role in tho musical comedy “Miss Hook of Holland ” (

The dresses worn by Miss Beatrice Day in “The Mummy and the Humming Bird” is attracting great attention among the leaders of fashion in Melbourne society. Every dress worn by Miss Day has been imported from England, and is said to be the most elaborate-seen for quite a long time on tho Melbourne stage.

Ciuquevalli arrives in Sydney at the end of the year, and will make a starring tour of Australia under Harry Riekards’s management, commencing it Perth. Tasmania and New Zealand will also bo visited. The tour will last 36 weeks, and on its completion, tho great- juggler will retiro from stage life.

“Burn,” writes from Auckland to the Sydney “Bulletin” thus: —The Butts' have come, duly admired our lovely harbor, and apologised for leaving Bubba behind. ' But, anyway, they brought their voices with them. How stingy they are, though! The advertised programme merely promised two songs from each, and ono duct; prices, ono guinea and lialf-a-guinea. And it was only by an unwearying persistency that the grimlydetermined audience succeeded in wresting a couple of encores. Then Ken. Riim. came on to express regret that his wife could not comply with the many requests for “Abide With Me,” owing to the “already heavy programme.” Heavy! Then what would they call a Dolores programme of some 14 or 15 songs? Crossloy, too, sang eight to ten songs a night without- being exhausted. So, as neither Mr. nor Mrs. Butt looked used up, a sceptical crowd pounded away in spite of five or six curtseying returns, and finally secured another duet.

“That astonishing old mail, Victorian Sardou, who is closo upon eighty, has written a new play which has drawn all Paris to the doors of tho Porte St. Martin,” says the Pall Mall Gazette. “Amoiist the brilliant company is tho President «of the Republic. The title of the play is ‘L’Affairc des Poisons,’ Being by Sardou, the drama is, of course, historical, or, at least, has a historical atmosphere. This Poisoning Case which is the subject for presentation palpitated humanity in 1670. It is the old story of the Marquise do Brinvilliers, who was a French Inicretia- Borgia, poisoning her father, two brothers, and sisters, ill tho brave days of the Roi Soldi. The central figuro in the play, however, is her accomplice, La Yoisin, a sorceress who, like her principal, was burned at the stake as punishment for her crimes. Tho elder Coquelin plays the part of a priest, the Abbe Griffard. Sardou is astonishing in many ways. Ho is an idefatigable worker ' and an early riser, putting to shame many a young man. During rehearsal of tho play he often appeared at. the theatre at eight o’clock in the morning, to the dismay of tho manager, M. Hertz, who pretends no fondness for early rising, and likes to breakfast at ten o’clock. Whilst the ‘repetition’ is in progress, M Sardou is the embodiment of energy and sesource.”