AMUSEMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2616, 25 September 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S. LOCAL FIXTURES. Nightly,—Path© Pictures. October 13, 14.—People’s Biograph. Show Week.—Hugh Ward Comedy Co

Jhe Hugh Ward Comedy Company had to shorten their season at His Majesty’s, Dunedin, owing to the powerful attraction of Miss Nellie Stewart and her company being at the Princess Theatre at the same time.

Cassius Ham: “I played in one of the largest houses in this country, sir." Brutus Ham: “How large was it?” Cassius Ham: “Well, to give you an idea of its enormity, Fll just say that the eggs thrown from the rear seats were hatched before they reached the stage. v

Lady Beorbohm Tree has written her autobiography. Have you read it?

“This is the life of Little Me; I am the wife of Beerbohm Tree.”

Goojl that, don’t you thin'k? but rather old-fashioned in theory. However. it’s short; and that strikes the typical not© of modern times.

Mr. Bland Holt has introduced at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, the London custom of making a charge for the programme. During the eight and a-half weeks’ run of “The Great Rescue” no fewer than 65,000 were sold at Id each. This represents an average attendance on the 51 nights of over 1200 people. The average during the five weeks’ run of “The Bondman” was over 800.

The Bland Holt Company, which shortly temporarily disbands owing to the difficulty of obtaining a suitable theatre in either Sydney or Melbourne, is noted for the length of its runs in Australia. It is doubtful if any other company has eclipsed them. It is only a few years ago that Bland Holt played alternately 12 months’ seasons in Sydney and Melbourne, while in 1902 he ran for 68 weeks in Melbourne.

Mr Harry Lauder’s most recent confession concerning the presents he receives from admirers will assuredly excite the envy and jealousy of the* fair ones of the stage, who have hitherto been chiefly favored in this respect. Mr Lauder says that cases of silver, cutler}', and crates packed with marble statuary, and little odd things of that sort are “literally showered upon him.” Every pleasure, a London paper is told, has its accompanying pain, but to have crates of statuary showered upon one must be more than merely painful—it must be absolutely dangerous.

Miss Florence Baines, who has just returned to England from a long tour abroad, has every reason to be proud of the reception accorded to her on her home-coming. She appeared with her “Miss Lancashire, Limited,” company last week at the Hippodrome, Huddersfield (says the “Era”), and though the prices for this week have been doubled, and the weather exceptionally wet and. cold, large crowds assembled in the pouring rain hours before the doors were opened. The “house-full’ boards were displayed each evening at about 7 o’clock, and the local enthusiasm left little doubt as to her popularity in Yorkshire, as in Lancashire, as “our Marv Ellen.”

For the time being, yet another favorite of the theatre-going public, Miss Carrie Moore, lias joined the ranks of vaudeville performers. The very bright account of herself given by this artist in “The Dairymaids,” ‘’Tom Jones,” and -more recently as the “Merry "Widow” in Australia will be readily recalled, but she has now forsaken musical comedy for the variety stage, and has started a Moss-Stoll tour at Manchester. In due course will follow a long engagement at the London Hipprodrome, and. this ended, Miss Moore goes to Liverpool to play “Dick Whittington” at the Shakespeare Theatre at Christmas.

The season at Coveut Garden was brought to a close with the opera “Louise.” The series has been the most successful that has been provided by the Grand Opera Syndicate, the performances having been patronised by no fewer than 500,000 music lovers.- Arrangements have already been made for next year’s “grand” season, when the repertoire will include several modern operas new to the British public. Meanwhile the Covent Garden Opera House will resound to the melodious strains of the Carl Rosa Opera Company, which on October 19 will begin a month’s series of performances. Amongst the list of works to be mounted are Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” Wagner’s “Tristan,” “Lohengrin,” and “Tannhauser,” Bizet’s “Carmen,” Gounod’s “Faust,” Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana,” Leoncavallo’s “Pagliaeci,” Verdi’s “II Trovatore,” and “Rigoletto.”

“The Merry Widow” made her last how to a London audience at. Daly’s Theatre on Saturday night, July 31, and thousands or her admirers tried to be present at her good-bye performance. A few lnmdfedjs succeeded. Tho first enthusiast arrived at- halfpast five in the morning, and settled down to wait for fourteen hours and ahalf. The time has been beaten only on a few occasions—notably at Miss Ellen Terry’s benefit matinee at Drury Lane, when people waited all night. Tho management, finding that there were by one sufficient persons waiting to fill the unreserved parts of the theatre, informed the police, and anyone who came after one o’clock was invited to “move on.” The burst of enthusiasm began with the arrival of the orchestra, and increased in intensity during the evening. Everything was encored—most things were wanted more than twice; everyone was cheered, but Miss Lily ! Elsie and Mr. Joseph Coyne had more ! cheers than any other two players to divide between them. They had to go .through tho famous “Merry Widow” waltz seven times before the audience reluctantly consented to allow the piece to proceed, and the flowers handed up to the people’s favorites were in quantities sufficient to stock half the florists in the West End. The curtain rose again at the end of tho play to disclose the whole company on the stage; land above the cheers, with which the theatre echoed, could be heard cries of “Speech! Speech!” At last Mr. George Edwardes came forward. “We, on this side of the curtain,” he said, “are just as sorry ;as you to part with ‘The Merry Widow , '“The Merry Widow” was first produced in London on June 8, 1907. It ms plaved for 778 tunes, seen by 1,100.000 people, and netted m receipts £216,000. ...........

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