AMUSEMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2758, 12 March 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S. LOCAL FIXTURES. Pathe Pictures—Nightly. To-night, March 12.—ShacklCton’s Polo Pictures. March 14, 15.—Andrew Blac'k Co. March 31. —Black Family. April 21, 22. Peter Pan Co. “Peter Pan” opens in Wellington at Easter, and will be interpreted by a splendid company. According to Eardlev Turner, who was here with “The Flag Lieutenant” Company, the last act of “The Royal Divorce” was not written by W. G. Wills (the author), but by Miss Grace Hawthorne, under whose management tlie play was first produced. The woman who becomes an actress has no home life and no room for love. And the home is the natural place for a woman. In the normal condition of affairs, a woman’s love for her home and her children dominates all other feelings, and I think tlie average woman is happier in that capacity than .-die ever could be on the stage.—Blanco Ring in the “Green Book Album.”

At about tlie middle of this year Rupert Clarke and Clyde Meynell will have no fewer than five companies appearing—the Oscar Asche—Lily Brayton Company, tho Matheson Lang Company, the H. R. Roberts Company (to tour New Zealand with “Pete”), the George Willoughby Farcial Comedy Company, and the new Comic Opera Company, which is being brought out from England to produce “The Arcadians.”

Tlie “King of Cadonia” first saw the light at the Prince of Wales’ Theatre, London, towards the end of 1908-. It is a musical play in two acts. Mr. Fred, crick Lonsdale being responsible for the story and Mr. Adrian Ross and Mr. Sydnev Jones for the music. For the coming production the caste will include Miss Dorothy Court as Princess Marie; Miss Lottie Sargent, as Malitza: Mr. Herbert Clayton as the Duke Alexis; Mr. Bert Gilbert as the Duke Alasia; and Mr. Frank Greene at Laski.

English papers announce that Miss Rose Edouin, better known in Australia as Mrs. G. B. W. Lewis, has just returned from Berlin, where she played Nurse to the Juliet of Miss Fay Davis. Mr. Gerald Laurence, who played Romeo, is one of Mr. Lewis’ pupils. Mrs. Lewis says that during her tour she was struck with the German passion for detail, noted the dialogue—where you are never left in doubt—in their gestures, very detailed, ampler, fuller than our own. Everything is shown and explained, nothing omitted.

The Bulletin, in speaking of the recent visit of that infant violin prodigy. Haydn Beck, to Sydney, said:— “A wonder-child named Haydn Beck as present prevades Sydney. He is a nine-year-old Maori lander, with, the face of one of these blooaiess angels that smile on the Virgin Mother one some Old Masters’ pictures. How the parents were so ’cute as to name tlie youngster to fit the groove into which his small feet are tending is a surprising circumstance. Most of the Sydney professionals music maniacs have already heard the prencmenon, and privately prophesied great tilings for him.”

Those who saw Ru'oert Julian’s fall in

“The Breed of the Tresh-mis” could not fail to be impressed by its dangers, and to wonder how long it would be before he would meet with some nasty accident. As a matter of fact, however, lie was hurt only once during a long season. Virginia Harned, an American actress, who accomplished a similar fall, was not so lucky. Every time she rolled down tlie stairway she was cut and bruised, until at last medical authority forbade the feat. William Courtney, too, broke his shoulder-blade in a fall, but ho went on, night after night, risking his life in that same fall and suffering agonies from liis maimed shoulder. The stage certainly has its martyrs.

Comparable only to “The Merry Widow’s” triumph is the success which has been achieved at Her Majesty s Theatre. Sydney, where the R-oya! Comic Opera Company are playing the Strauss opera, “The Waltz Dream,” to crowded houses, which lavish praise of the most genuine description upon the production as a whole and upon t-ho fine musicianly efforts of Miss Florence Young and Mr. R. Roberts, and the excellent fooling of Mr. Langiord Kirby and Mr. C. R Bantoc’k. Their long season in Sydney is now drawing to a close, and at Easter-time they are duo ni Perth, where playgoers are waiting im patiently to make the acquaintance of “The Merry Widow.”

Mr. Henry Ainlev supports the charge made by Mr. George Titheradgo, that actors are a little bit too eager for bold advertisement (remarks the ‘•Australian”)- He says:—“The actor, in his desire to be recognised in society, has been only too ready to get away from the mystery that in old times surrounded him, and in his eagerness to be talked about, to get bold and cheap advertisement, shows no unwillingness to make public private and domestic affairs which should be his own concern. He is ready not only to talk about himself, but to give away the secrets of the profession by which lie lives. An illusion of the stage, is a. thing of the oast. Tli£ people who sit in front know all about- the effects, and a good many of them could tell you what the principal actor eats and drinks, and who does the washing for the principal actress.”

Madame Tetrazzini has made herself most popular with the New York newspaper men. She likes cooking and she nns invited various arid varied of the journalistic fraternity to lunch or sup with her, she preparing the dishes -with her own fair hands. “She makes pies and scrambles eggs and devils kidneys,' and produces all sorts of wonderfully tasteful morsels from a chafing dish, and serves snatches of song all the time she is cooking,” relates a New York paper. “I am going to cook a supper for all my friends and invite them up -to eat it. It will be good, won’t it, Bazelli?” And Madame turned to her husband for confirmation as to her culinary abilities ; but Bazelli had gone to look after the dogs. “Well, I can eook | all right,” continued the singer, and at this point tile New York reporter, who had evidently been lunching with the nightingale, breaks off in his narrative—leaving us to imagine the exact amount of appreciation Signor Tetrazzini has for his wife’s culinary efforts.