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came Barry Sullivan, Charles Kean and Mrs. Kean, Joseph Jefferson, Dillon, Anderson and 

 Walter Montgomery. A later period brought the famous Adelaide Ristori with her 

 Italian company; the German actress, Jaunescheck, at the same time wooing the favour of 

 Australian audiences. Then we have had Miss Cleveland, J. B. Howe, Herr Bandman, 

 Henry Neil Warner, Adelaide Bowring, Edwin Adams the American tragedian Alice 

 Lingard, B. Fairclough, William Hoskings, Mary Gladstane, William Creswick the 

 last of the old English tragedians George Chaplin, Augusta Dargon, George Rig- 

 nold, James Bartlett, Mrs. Scott-Siddons, and within the past few years Wybert Reeve, 

 Alfred Dampier, Mrs. F. Bates, Helen Ashton, Ada Ward, Genevieve Ward,- William 

 Vernon, Charles Pope, Louise Pomeroy, Signer and Signora Majeroni, Janet Achurch, 

 Olga Nethersole. William Rignold, Charles Cartwright, Kyrle Bellew, Mrs. Brown- 

 Potter, W. E. Sheridan the great "King Lear" and George C. Miln, the two last 

 named being the finest Shakespearian exponents of later times. The year 1891 will be a 

 memorable one, for it witnessed the artistic triumph in the Southern World of Sara Bern- 

 hardt, the most powerful of the modern French school of actresses. 



Were Comedy to wave her wand she could summon among her supporters in Aus- 

 tralia, in spirit at least, for many of them have passed away, Charles Matthews, the 

 first and the greatest of the merry band, Sir William Don, Dunn, Drew, O'Neill and 

 Rogers the prince among the stage "old men" George Coppin, Dick Stewart and Charlie 

 Young, William Andrews and G. R. Greville, \\heatleigh and Hydes, Thorne and Appleby, 

 Frank Bates and Phil Day, Horace Lingard and Sothern, "Teddy" Royce, Roberts and 

 "Billy" Elton, John L. Hall, Sam Emery, H. R. Harwood and Grattan Riggs, John L. Toole 

 who made his tour in 1890 and George Anson, the latter the reigning favourite. Among 

 the miscellaneous "stars" who have visited the Colonies, the late Dion Boucicault, whose tour 

 in 1885 was a phenomenal success, shines out, and the names of Charles Warner and Jennie 

 Lee may be bracketed, the former making his great hit in "Drink," and the latter in "Jo." 

 Maggie Moore and J. C. Williamson had a sensational run with " Struck Oil," a play 

 which has been several times revived. The advent of the London Comedy Company in 

 1879, with Blanche Stammers as the leading lady, and poor Fred. Marshall, the master 

 of a hundred parts, as the leading comedian, marked a new era of the dramatic art, 

 and the representation of the finest of the old and the best of the new comedies has 

 since been carried on with sustained success both in Sydney and in Melbourne by the 

 admirable company organized and directed by two clever actor-managers Robert Brough 

 and Dion Boucicault the latter a son of the late veteran of that name. Mrs. Brough 

 and Mr. George Titheradge merit special mention for their large share in the work of 

 popularizing modern comedy of the " society " order in the Colonies. Australia has had 

 two visits in 1888 and 1891 from the London Gaiety Company, with Nellie Farren and 

 Fred. Leslie as the leading lights. 



Conspicuous among those who have made and left their mark in opera the legiti- 

 mate and comic apart from the Italian companies, may be counted Fanny Simonsen, 

 Rose Hersee, Annis Montague, Lillian Tree, Emily Melville, E. Soldene, Clara Thompson, 

 Edith Pender, Pattie Laverne, Leonora Braham, Elsa May, Alice Barnett, Louise Lablache, 

 Marian Burton, George Snazelle, Charles Turner and William Verdi. In this connection, 

 some colonial operatic artistes who have held their own against the importations from 



