AMUSEMENTS:

Gisborne Times, 17 October 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

AMUSEMENTS:

HIS MAJESTY’S.

* LOCAL FIXTURES.

October 16 and 17.—Eltons Comedy Company.. , October (show Week). —-West’s pictures. >• ■ November IS, 10, 20, 21.—McMahon Bros. •' , December 5, G, 7,8, 10; 11.—J. C. AATllianison. December 21 to 23—J. C. AVilliamson December 25, 20, 2S. —Austral Uniscope Company. January 4. and s—Branscoinbe’s Scarlet Troubadours. January‘,lß, 19, 20.—J. C. AVilliamsoii. January 23.—Edward .Branscombb. January 27, 28, 29. —J. C. AVilliamsou.

Aladamo Blanche Anal .was at latest advices’ touring South. Africa.

AV-ikiam Anderson will send a dramatic company to New Zealand towards the end of this month. “The Squatter’s .Daughter” will be the star play iii the Company’s repertoire.

A new sonsation at the Lomloii Hippodrome, in a piece sf-yled “The .Sands o’ Dee,” is a sweeping tidal wave, which engulfs artists and “supers” ulike.

Mr J. M. Campbell, the comedian of “Tlio Merrymakers,'” - made such a pronounced hit in New Zealand that Messrs. J. and N. Tait will in all probability send him round the Dominion again, with one of their entertainments this month.

The New Zealand tenor, Mr Charlie Carter, figures largely iu tlie present Moodv-Manners season at the London Lyric Theatre. Last month he was appearing in the leading roles in matinee performances of “XI Trovatore” and “Madame Buttorfly.”

Miss Grade Bfaisted, who will. be remembofed ‘by an older generation of playgoers as one of the most fascinating figures in comic opera parts ever seen in Australasia, died in SanFrancisco in , August- She toured New Zealand about thirteen years ago.

Carl Burriau, the principal tenor in a company of Wagnerian opera singers? who came specially from 'Beyrouth to .sing before the- King "at Marienbad, was arrested under dramatic circumstances after tlie- performance on August 23. Bailiffs entered the theatre to seize him for a debt of £l5O as he was prep iring to go on tlie’stage to sing .‘‘Siegfried. ’f lierr Burrian was allowed to*- sing. AYlien the curtain fell the bailiffs stepped,oil the stage.

AVliat becomes of the old pianos? This question is partly answered in a recent paragraph in., “Musical Opinion,” which states d-lfat arrangements have been unde by the Association of American Piano. Dealers to dispose most effectively of a large number of the old square instruments apd little box-organs. Dealers in New York and its vicinity’ whose ‘storerooms are crowded with these worthless goods will load them* oh a large boat, chartered for the purpose, and they will be taken far out in the oceaii and sunk. “By this method,'’ it is explained, “dealers, jivill make certain that these old instruments will never again be offered in exchange, and so’ ’endless explanations and controversies about tlieir real value will be avoided.”

Miss Carrie Moore, wits- was-mar-ried in Alelbounie n few dgi's ago, recently gave an i n teresti 11 g' H aeeou lit of the Way hv which she begin her theatrical cai’eer. “AA’hen I was twelve years of age, any uncle took me to sing before Mr J. ‘C. AAallianison, and he engaged me'for. the ■p*mtomime ‘J)jin Djin,’ in which I ap-,pea-red ’witli Aliss Ivy. Scott, who -is still with Jlr AA'ill iamson, and together wo sing ‘I don’t want to plat Til your yaird.’ I must have beon ja success, .because I reinained with ATr AViliManison’s productions of operas arid paiitoiniriies in the various Australian capitals. Among, others, J played the parts of Casa Ida in ‘The Gondoliers,’. Yum Yum in ‘The Alikado,’ and Mabel ip ‘The Old Guard. After being with (Air AA’ill iamson for seven years I accejifed an pngagoinent with Mr George Edwardes at Daly s Theatre, London.”- “AVhat ure your future (intentions?” Aliss Aloore was asked. “They are serious,” she replied. “Before I left England 1 was encaged to bo married at the conclusion 5 of fny season with Air AA illiamson. I 'am going back to ithe Adelplii Theatre in London, under erigageinent with Mr Courtneidge, but before 1 go I shall be inarried to an English gentleman,, probably in feydiiey. Aftcl: ending my engagement with Mr, Courtneidge I will- retire from the stage and go to live in Manchester.,

Mr Dudloy Clintonwhose death occurred recently at Rertli (AA est Australia)/' was a - cultured little actor with friends iri every town he has ever visited. He was a. born practical joker, und when last- in Mollington (says ait "-exchange) mauo merry •with a cleverly-manapiilated -pea--shooter, which he fired whr.e P.re•tehdiii" t 0 use his handkerchiei. .There .Is nothing very elevating in a pea-shooter, hut to watch Dudley Clinton at work with ono was an eclucation. He would v flick tlio car oi the person he was talking to without beiiKc' discovered, and whilst playing the 'piano /W-itih ono hand would lirea pea at someone who would persist in talking. So irritated did those members of tlie Julius Knight Company staying at the Albert. Hotel become when here -few months .ago, that ono member bought three or four pounds if pens and; in. Mr Clinton s absence, placed them everywhere about his room —between tlie sheets, in; the pillows, in his boots and. slippers, dug them into liis soap, and ihm them; ill his tooth-powder. All his pockets were pea-hiden, >ind his joy; jam as were tied up and “shotted • with I>eas. ’-It is. almost needless '•> say that he lised; tliem all as amniiiriitioh oii lijs' “enemies.” Air Clinton, who wars AO years of uge, came 'out to Australia under engagement to Air George Musgrove to play Dr fiuttrier in “Old j Heidelberg,” and Ramsay in “The Bishop’s Carriage.” .Hen ■as originally destined for a musical career, and had 'ft Royal, QoUCge of { f * , r ... . , ~..