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'BEF E THE -FOOTLIGHTS.
The Lingards open at the' Viotorin;
Theatre;. Sydney, for five nights, on Mon.
day nexot, 'une 7, in " Stolen Kisses."
Thie Garrick Amateur Di'amatic Club
performed at Tighl's Hill on Fii'lay right
last to a very poor house. nAmateurs don't
seem to take of late.
The Williamsonu at the Theatre Royal,
Adelaide. are drawing crowded houses.
They are now in their tlnrd week o
" HM.S. Pinafore."
Mr. J. E. Fulton's new Hibernica and
Comedy Company have been performing
at the Theatre Royal, Hobart Town, but
Captain Corcoran opened for a seasdn, on
31st u!t., with "Pinafore." The caste com.
prises Mr. H . E. Walton, as Sir Joseph
Porter, Messrs. J. Drayton, R. L. Skinner,
K. P. Keen, W. Britten, and the Misses
Aunie McDonald, Kate Harvey, Lena
Ellis, and others,
Mr. George Darrell, in c njunction witli
1Mdlile. Eugonie Legrand, have bheen play
ing for the past few weeks at the Qieens
laud Theatre, Brisbane, the 'pieces being
"Transported ' for Life," "Camille,"
" Ba:k from.the Grave,"" Hamlet," etc.
On Friday list Mr. Darrell took abenefit,
the." Four Fetes" being produced.
MELBOUmRNt, OPERia. HousE. - The
Chimes of Normandy was again per
formed on Thursday evening, at the
Opera House, The same opera will ihe
given on Saturday. The artistes have
confinred the favourable impression
'formed upon its :first representation.. On
Monday next Mr. Lyster has made ar
rangements to give' one more performancee
of Rossiui's great comic opera, It Barbiere
di' Seviglia. Madameo Hersde, Signori
Ciamnpi Cellaj, Coy and Barili and Mr.
Farley will assume the roles so success
fully performed by them on .the last
repiesentation.-a-go, May 28.
Speaking of Mr. HIesford's acting at
'Brisbane " Mirabean," the funny inan of
the DBrisbane Daily Observer of May 22,
says':" We-5recommcnd the man-.who
'casts the characters at the Brisbane theatre
to give Mr. Heblord a change. For ever
playing the rufliau must become .monoto
nons, and there is no saying what effect it
may have on Hesford. We have seen him
nighit after night appear "as a modified
Cesar Borgia, a 'man who is always mixed
up in some cheerful plot to hanig,: drown,
poison, or shoot somebody so that lie can
profit by the transaction. Dante tells uns
that the .' mind succumbs to long infection
and despair," and we are not sure that
Mr. Hesford won't' succumb to the in
fection of the spirit of his character.
Alleyn, the actir, used to play the part of
Satan very successfully, so much so that
Satan appeared to him, and Hesford may
go on personating ruffians until-but we
won't imagine the possibility. We want
to interview him, and learn if he still
retains the thoughts, and heavenly asp'r
ations, and childlike innocence with
which he began his career as' an actor.
We don't want to see him come out every
night so fautlithlly delineating the typical.
Borgia that all the ladies mutter: " Oh,
the -wretch !" and all the men have a
frantic desire to shoot him. We want to
see him play a virtuous part-the part of
a man who presides at tea-meetings, goes
to Church, subscribes to chaiities, kisses
little children, makes all his family happy,
and dies surrounded by a crowd of weep
ing: friends. But we are afraid that
Hesford has become so familiar to us as
an expounder of Borgianism, that if he
came out as the representative of virtue
"and benevolence, the audience would
'?c"gard it as a preposterous burlesque and
tla~,gh boisteriously. [If " Mirabeau"
Snwere once: to- see Mr. -Hesford as
' O'Callaghan on Iis last legs," it would
soon kIoock the Caesar Borgia business
out of him:]
Theinew American Minister to Clina,
Mr. James B. Angoll, president of
Michigan University, intends framing a
no; Clhineso-American Treaty, restricting
immigration to piurposes of trade. Why
cannot we do something o the same sort ?
Gold ininiug has greatly revived at
Junction Point, Victoria Flat, and Dog.
trap. A good reef has also been found
two miles irom Melbourne Creek'copper
mine, and sixteen from Cbwra.
There is increased activity amongst the
police at Benalla, and r large number of
p?olico and horses have left that district
for Beechworth. It has boon for some
time known that a strong effort will
shortly be made to capture the Kollys.
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