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r6SeVARIETY STAGE,THE FUTURE OF THE LONDON OPERA HOUSE.SEVERAL RUMOURS.There are several rumours in regard to the e future of the London Opera House. One is that j ! Mr. Stanley will reopen with another revue in a ; e - fortnight’s time, but that does not seem probable, j j All the big stars and good turns generally are ! | pretty well booked up for Christmas, and a revue ■ n ! to be ready by the festive season wouid have to i e go into immediate rehearsal. Another idea -e . mooted was for Mr. Uuiliver’s 120 burnt cork j minstrels to be transferred there, of course under • Palladium direction; and it is not unlikely that e ; for a time the sable baliadists would draw great j ,t [ houses. But Mr. Eustace Cray says “ nothing , e j doing.” “ We open at the Palladium for our * All ; i- ; Black ’ matines, the same as last year, on De- ; | r cember 22, and over 4000 seats have already been • is | bouiceti, and mere will De mure trouble aouut thequeue, I’m sure.”I.' IIMeanwhile the 23 forest-bred lions belonging to iVir. Peters are stili rn their cages in the lou-doir upera jtiouse.wna beasts neiped to kill the luck of the London Opera House under the Hammerstcin regime, mere were a great crowd oi Nubian lions and other lierce Diuies in the circus scene of “ Quo Vaais? ” licking their jaws in readiness for .Nero’s victims, and tne auuieuce did not like it. “ Quo Vaais# ” was to have carried the town, but it lell as duil as ditcnwater. Hundreds stayed away from sheer nervousness that some of those lions mignt escape.»n n ,rye e s r ritj Mr. Alfred Butt's name is now being talked o about in connection with the London Opera ; e j House—and that is all. He—oi the Palace—has 5. j nothing to say on the subject, except.that he is ; [j quite busy enough, “tnank you!” with his coming cinema matinees beginning next week of “Sixty Years a Queen,” ana his revival of Cecil Clay’s “Pantomime .Rehearsal.”'SoTo-night the London Hippodrome closes and , goes into strenuous “Ned Wayburn” rehearsal tor the Christmas revue, and aiso for certain i j structural alterations and redecorations to add to the comfort and charm of what has always been one of the most pleasantly convenienttheatres in London. Mr. Albert de Courv.iiie and Mr. Max Pemberton onoe more join hands in plot and libretto, and they are still uncertain in regard to a title—one that will look equally well in illuminated sign and newspaper advertisement. Mr. Louis Hirsch and Mr.- Lewis Muir, both ragtime “ kings,” are to be responsible for the music, so there is sure to #b© full measure of catchy melody and jugglery of vowels. Miss Shirley Kellogg will be in it, and she will resume her Leoncavallo rhythmic ditty, “Roseway,” one of the few sparklets of the Ill-fated “Are You There?” at the Prince of Wales's a week or two ago. Miss Ethel Levey has also been engaged, and we all know the capacity of that very delightful personality ; and there is also Miss Julia James, dainty and pretty, who will be welcomed back to musical comedy, and who will be remembered for her clever impersonation of the principal support to M. Lou-Tellegen in “ The Picture of Dorian Gray.”
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London Standard
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Dec 06, 1913
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