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Contributor	Mrs Robert Heir
Other Names	Mary Cathcart; Mrs Mary Darrell
Gender	Female
Date of Birth	1833
Date of Death	3 January 1880
Functions	Actor, Director
Notes	1834 - 1880. First husband died in November 1868; she married George Darrell in January 1870. Biography & photo.
Related Contributors	Also known as Fanny Mary Francis Cathcart (Actor. Event Dates: 1855)
Events	Date Function Contributor Organisation
	Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Hall, Brisbane, QLD, 5 June 1871 Hamlet, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 15 May 1869 London Assurance, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 May 1869 Much Ado About Nothing, University of Auckland, Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Auckand, New Zealand, 1 March 1869 Leah, the Forsaken, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 February 1869 East Lynne, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 10 February 1869 The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 14 January 1869 Romeo and Juliet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 November 1868 The Wonder, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 18 November 1868 The Sea of Ice, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 12 November 1868 Hamlet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 6 November 1868 Macbeth, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 November 1868 Richelieu, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 4 November 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 November 1868 The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 Aurora Floyd, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 October 1868 The Stranger, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 October 1868 The Merchant of Venice, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 12 October 1868 The Honeymoon, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 October 1868 The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 Susan Hopley, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 29 August 1868 Othello, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 August 1868 As You Like It, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 26 August 1868 London Assurance, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 25 August 1868 The Flowers of the Forest, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 24 August 1868 The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 August 1868 The Love-Chase, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 August 1868 Love's Sacrifice, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 18 August 1868 Green Bushes, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 17 August 1868 Arrah-na-Pogue, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 20 July 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 July 1868 The Hunchback, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 July 1868 Masks and Faces, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1 July 1868 Money, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 24 June 1868 Masks and Faces, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 June 1868 As You Like It, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 19 June 1868 The Hunchback, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 17 June 1868 East Lynne, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1868 Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865
	Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Hall, Brisbane, QLD, 5 June 1871 Hamlet, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 15 May 1869 London Assurance, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 May 1869 Much Ado About Nothing, University of Auckland, Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Auckand, New Zealand, 1 March 1869 Leah, the Forsaken, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 February 1869 East Lynne, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 10 February 1869 The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 14 January 1869 Romeo and Juliet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 November 1868 The Wonder, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 18 November 1868 The Sea of Ice, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 12 November 1868 Hamlet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 6 November 1868 Macbeth, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 November 1868 Richelieu, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 4 November 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 November 1868 The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 Aurora Floyd, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 October 1868 The Stranger, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 October 1868 The Merchant of Venice, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 12 October 1868 The Honeymoon, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 October 1868 The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 Susan Hopley, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 29 August 1868 Othello, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 August 1868 As You Like It, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 26 August 1868 London Assurance, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 25 August 1868 The Flowers of the Forest, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 24 August 1868 The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 August 1868 The Love-Chase, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 August 1868 Love's Sacrifice, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 18 August 1868 Green Bushes, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 17 August 1868 Arrah-na-Pogue, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 20 July 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 July 1868 The Hunchback, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 July 1868 Masks and Faces, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1 July 1868 Money, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 24 June 1868 Masks and Faces, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 June 1868 As You Like It, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 19 June 1868 The Hunchback, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 17 June 1868 East Lynne, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1868 Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Director Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867
	W G Carey - Actor, Stage Manager Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Hall, Brisbane, QLD, 5 June 1871 The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 14 January 1869 Romeo and Juliet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 November 1868 The Wonder, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 18 November 1868 Macbeth, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 November 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 November 1868 The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 Aurora Floyd, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 October 1868 The Stranger, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 October 1868 The Honeymoon, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 October 1868 The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 Susan Hopley, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 29 August 1868 Othello, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 August 1868 As You Like It, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 26 August 1868 The Flowers of the Forest, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 24 August 1868 The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 August 1868 Arrah-na-Pogue, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 20 July 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 July 1868 Masks and Faces, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1 July 1868 Money, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 24 June 1868 Masks and Faces, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 June 1868 The Hunchback, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 17 June 1868 East Lynne, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1868 Hattie Shepparde - Actor Romeo and Juliet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 November 1868 Aurora Floyd, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 October 1868 The Stranger, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 October 1868 The Honeymoon, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 October 1868 The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 Susan Hopley, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 29 August 1868 Othello, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 August 1868 As You Like It, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 26 August 1868 London Assurance, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 25 August 1868 The Flowers of the Forest, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 24 August 1868 The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 August 1868 Arrah-na-Pogue, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 20 July 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 July 1868 Masks and Faces, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1 July 1868 Money, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 24 June 1868 Masks and Faces, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 June 1868 The Hunchback, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 17 June 1868 East Lynne, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1868 B N Jones - Actor, Stage Manager London Assurance, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 May 1869 Much Ado About Nothing, University of Auckland, Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Auckand, New Zealand, 1 March 1869 Romeo and Juliet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 November 1868 Susan Hopley, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 29 August 1868 Othello, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 August 1868 As You Like It, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 26 August 1868 The Flowers of the Forest, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 24 August 1868 The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 August 1868 The Love-Chase, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 August 1868 Arrah-na-Pogue, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 20 July 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 July 1868 Masks and Faces, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1 July 1868 Money, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 24 June 1868 Masks and Faces, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 June 1868 The Hunchback, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 17 June 1868 East Lynne, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1868 W Ryan - Actor Hamlet, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 15 May 1869 London Assurance, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 May 1869 Romeo and Juliet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 November 1868 Macbeth, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 November 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 November 1868 The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 Aurora Floyd, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 October 1868 The Stranger, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 October 1868 The Honeymoon, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 October 1868 The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 Money, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 24 June 1868 Masks and Faces, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 June 1868 The Hunchback, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 17 June 1868 B N Jones - Actor London Assurance, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 May 1869 Susan Hopley, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 29 August 1868 As You Like It, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 26 August 1868 The Flowers of the Forest, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 24 August 1868 The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 August 1868 The Love-Chase, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 August 1868 Arrah-na-Pogue, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 20 July 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 July 1868 Masks and Faces, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1 July 1868 Money, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 24 June 1868 Masks and Faces, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 June 1868 East Lynne, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1868 Tom Kemp - Actor Much Ado About Nothing, University of Auckland, Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Auckand, New Zealand, 1 March 1869 Romeo and Juliet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 November 1868 Macbeth, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 November 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 November 1868 The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 Aurora Floyd, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 October 1868 The Stranger, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 October 1868 The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 Othello, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 August 1868 The Flowers of the Forest, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 24 August 1868 The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 August 1868 Masks and Faces, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1 July 1868 J P Hydes - Actor, Stage Manager London Assurance, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 May 1869 Much Ado About Nothing, University of Auckland, Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Auckand, New Zealand, 1 March 1869 Hamlet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 6 November 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 November 1868 The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 Aurora Floyd, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 October 1868 The Honeymoon, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 October 1868 The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 Green Bushes, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 17 August 1868 Charles Massey - Actor, Scenic Artist The Sea of Ice, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 12 November 1868 The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 Othello, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 August 1868 Arrah-na-Pogue, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 20 July 1868 Masks and Faces, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1 July 1868 Money, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 24 June 1868 Masks and Faces, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 June 1868 The Hunchback, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 17 June 1868 William Shakespeare - Playwright Hamlet, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 15 May 1869 Much Ado About Nothing, University of Auckland, Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Auckand, New Zealand, 1 March 1869 Romeo and Juliet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 November 1868 Hamlet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 6 November 1868 Macbeth, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 November 1868 The Merchant of Venice, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 12 October 1868 Othello, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 August 1868 As You Like It, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 26 August 1868 As You Like It, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 19 June 1868 J Thorpe - Actor The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 The Stranger, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 October 1868 The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 August 1868 Masks and Faces, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1 July 1868 Money, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 24 June 1868 Masks and Faces, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 June 1868 The Hunchback, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 17 June 1868 Frank Towers - Actor London Assurance, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 May 1869 Much Ado About Nothing, University of Auckland, Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Auckand, New Zealand, 1 March 1869 Romeo and Juliet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 November 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 November 1868 The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 Aurora Floyd, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 October 1868 The Honeymoon, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 October 1868 Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Playwright The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 14 January 1869 Richelieu, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 4 November 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 November 1868 The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 August 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 July 1868 Money, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 24 June 1868 Harriet Gordon - Actor Hamlet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 6 November 1868 The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 The Merchant of Venice, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 12 October 1868 The Honeymoon, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 October 1868 The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 Green Bushes, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 17 August 1868 Montrose - Actor Romeo and Juliet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 November 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 November 1868 The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 Aurora Floyd, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 October 1868 The Stranger, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 October 1868 The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 JH Clifford - Actor London Assurance, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 May 1869 Much Ado About Nothing, University of Auckland, Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Auckand, New Zealand, 1 March 1869 Othello, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 August 1868 The Flowers of the Forest, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 24 August 1868 The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 August 1868 Harry Aveling - Actor Masks and Faces, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1 July 1868 Money, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 24 June 1868 Masks and Faces, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 June 1868 The Hunchback, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 17 June 1868 RH Cox - Actor The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 14 January 1869 Hamlet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 6 November 1868 Macbeth, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 November 1868 Richelieu, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 4 November 1868 MacCabe - Actor The Stranger, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 October 1868 The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 Othello, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 August 1868 The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 August 1868 Herbert Power - Actor London Assurance, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 May 1869 The Stranger, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 October 1868 Money, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 24 June 1868 Masks and Faces, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 June 1868 William Andrews - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Dion Boucicault - Playwright London Assurance, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 May 1869 London Assurance, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 25 August 1868 Arrah-na-Pogue, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 20 July 1868 Clifford - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 George Darrell - Actor, Adaptor, Director, Playwright, Stage Manager Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Hall, Brisbane, QLD, 5 June 1871 James Sheridan Knowles - Playwright The Love-Chase, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 August 1868 The Hunchback, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 July 1868 The Hunchback, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 17 June 1868 E J Power - Actor Romeo and Juliet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 November 1868 The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 Masks and Faces, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1 July 1868 Lynda Raymond - Actor Romeo and Juliet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 November 1868 Money, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 November 1868 The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 E B Russell - Actor Romeo and Juliet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 November 1868 The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 The Stranger, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 October 1868 Williams - Actor Money, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 24 June 1868 Masks and Faces, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 June 1868 The Hunchback, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 17 June 1868 Allen - Actor Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Flora Anstead - Actor Hamlet, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 15 May 1869 London Assurance, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 May 1869 Brown - Actor, Dancer The Stranger, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 October 1868 The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 August 1868 John Baldwin Buckstone - Playwright The Flowers of the Forest, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 24 August 1868 Green Bushes, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 17 August 1868 H H Davis - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 Fitzgerald - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 H Flexmore - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 Freyberger - Scenic Artist Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 R Glover - Actor Romeo and Juliet, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 November 1868 The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 Greenless - Actor The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 The Stranger, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 October 1868 Alexander Habbe - Scenic Artist Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 Robert Heir - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Patty Holt - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 Horton - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 John Howe - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 C S Irvine - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Hall, Brisbane, QLD, 5 June 1871 T Margetts - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 Melville - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 Milthorpe - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 Nelly Montague - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 Noon - Actor The Stranger, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 October 1868 The Lady of Lyons, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 August 1868 Harry Power - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 Charles Reade - Playwright Masks and Faces, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1 July 1868 Masks and Faces, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 June 1868 Sweeny - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 Tom Taylor - Playwright Masks and Faces, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1 July 1868 Masks and Faces, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 June 1868 Charles Walsh - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Williams - Actor The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 Masks and Faces, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 June 1868 Henry Wood - Playwright East Lynne, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 10 February 1869 East Lynne, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1868 J H Allen - Actor, Actor-Manager, Director, Lessee Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Carry Allnute - Actor Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 Fred Appleton - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Armand - Actor The Stranger, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 October 1868 J Batson - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Francis Belfield - Actor, Adaptor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Bennett - Actor-Manager Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 Brown - Actor The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 George Brown - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Maxwell Brown - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 William M Brown - Adaptor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Henry A Bruce - Actor Hamlet, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 15 May 1869 John Bryan - Actor-Manager Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Bunbury - Scenic Artist Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Burn - Actor The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Amy Chambers - Dancer Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Joseph Chambers - Dancer Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 S Chambers - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Chandler - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Charles - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Clarke - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Marcus Clarke - Adaptor Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 Cull - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Herr Cushla - Lighting Operator/Technician Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Augustin Daly - Playwright Leah, the Forsaken, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 February 1869 E Dillon - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 F Dillon - Actor Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 H Douglas - Actor Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 H A Douglass - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 John Dunn - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Dyas - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Ford - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Martin Forde - Actor The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Franklin - Actor The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 George - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Carry George - Actor The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 E T Gillon - Playwright Aurora Floyd, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 October 1868 Gladstone - Actor The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Harriet Gordon - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Green - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 Hammond - Actor The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Henry Richard Harwood - Actor The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Hasker - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Haygrath - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 John Hennings - Scenic Artist The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Hon Elliot Yorke - Actor Hamlet, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 15 May 1869 William Hoskins - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Julia Hudson - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 W Hydes - Mechanist The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 George Ireland - Actor The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Irvine - Actor Foul Play or, The Wreck of the Proserpine, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1871 William Jaffray - Adaptor The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Charles Jones - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Jordan - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Hall, Brisbane, QLD, 5 June 1871 John Kenno - Mechanist Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Edmund H Key Esq - Actor Hamlet, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 15 May 1869 Edward King - Conductor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 H B Kingsley - Actor London Assurance, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 May 1869 J C Lambert - Actor The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 R W Lawrance - Actor The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Levoy - Actor London Assurance, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 May 1869 Thomas Lewis - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Liardet - Actor London Assurance, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 May 1869 Lieutenant Fitzgeorge RN - Actor Hamlet, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 15 May 1869 Annie Livingstone - Musical Arranger Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 George William Lovell - Playwright Love's Sacrifice, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 18 August 1868 Lyons - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Manley - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Mason - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 James Milne - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Charles Miran - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Moore - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Noble - Actor The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 W O'Neil - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Power - Actor Othello, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 August 1868 A B Power - Actor The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 Jessie Raymond - Actor The Marble Heart, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 October 1868 Jennifer Rayner - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 C Rice - Conductor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Rivere - Lighting Operator/Technician Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Roberts - Actor Othello, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 August 1868 T W Robertson - Playwright The Sea of Ice, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 12 November 1868 Fras Romilly - Actor Hamlet, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 15 May 1869 Scott - Mechanist The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Searle - Actor The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 W Sellars - Actor Othello, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 August 1868 J R Setright - Scenic Artist Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Playwright The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 Somers - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 South - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 W South - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Stapleton - Costume Maker Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Barry Sullivan - Actor-Manager, Lessee The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Paul Thomas - Actor London Assurance, Choral Society's Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, 13 May 1869 H Thornton - Actor The Hunchback, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 17 June 1868 John Tobin - Playwright The Honeymoon, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 October 1868 Trotter - Properties Master The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Vertelli - Performer Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 4 November 1871 August von Kotzebue - Playwright The Stranger, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 16 October 1868 A Wallace - Mechanist Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 J West - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Whitworth - Actor As You Like It, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 26 August 1868 E Willett - Actor Man and Wife, Royal Victoria Hall, Brisbane, QLD, 5 June 1871 Wilton - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Herbert Winning - Properties Master Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866 Fanny Wiseman - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Pride of Clarah, Princess's Theatre and Opera House (1857-1886), Melbourne, VIC, 30 March 1867 Susan Wooldridge - Actor The Gladiator of Ravenna, Theatre Royal, Melbourne, VIC, 1 July 1865 Charles Young - Actor Crohoore Na Bilhoge or, The Echo of the Caves of Dunmore, Royal Victoria Theatre (1838-1880), Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1866
	Star Dramatic Company The School for Scandal, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 November 1868 Susan Hopley, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 29 August 1868 As You Like It, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 26 August 1868 Masks and Faces, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 1 July 1868 Masks and Faces, Odd Fellows' Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 June 1868 Star Company Othello, Prince of Wales Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 August 1868
Resources	Article: Helen Van Der Poorten, Cathcart, Mary Fanny (1833–1880), Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 1969 Joseph Michael Forde, ANNALS OF THE TURF AND OTHER PASTIMES In New South Wales and Elsewhere. No. LXXIV., Sydney Sportsman, 16 November 1904, 8 G. V. Brooke presented his Othello for the first time in Australia at the old Queen's Theatre in Queen-street, Melbourne, to, as a matter of course, an overflowing house. The prices were high, the lowest, if I remember rightly, being half-a-crown. There were Othellos before and after Brooke. I have seen most of them, and must still pin my faith to the ill-starred actor who went down in the London on that fateful day in January, 1866. Of course, I did not see Arabin, who opened the old—then new — Victoria Theatre in Pitt-street in 1838 in the character of the Moor; nor yet did I see Nesbitt M'Cron, whom the late Samuel Hawkes Banks considered equal to, if not excelling, Brooke. I saw the spluttering M'Kean Buchanan, the testy Bandmann, the old-school actor Creswick, and that other old-school actor James Anderson, Dampier, Carden, Clarence Holt, George Rignold, and an old Drury Lane actor who came out before Brooke went to England, but whose name has slipped my memory. I have seen minor actors play the part in stock companies, but neither major nor minor linger, so lovingly in the memory of old playgoers as Brooke. I remember one performance of 'Othello' at the old Royal, Melbourne, on a Saturday night, when the piece was so well played and staged in every detail that the hour of midnight struck as the curtain descended, and the afterpiece had to be abandoned. At one of Brooke's performances of Othello in the Melbourne Royal the Receipts reached £531 15s. I first saw Brooke in Australia as Evelyn in Bulwer Lytton's 'Money.' He had been fulfilling an engagement in Sydney, and had hurried to Melbourne on business, when advantage was taken to have one night's performance. That was in 1858. The house was crowded, and the actor apologised for having to play in his every-day costume, as his wardrobe was in Sydney. His first appearance was on the 10th of May, 1855, the play 'Othello' (in which he always opened). The Iago was Richard Younge ; the Cassio, Robert Heir ; Fanay Cathcart, Desdemona; Emilia, Mrs Guerin; the Brabantes, 'old Lambert.' But , Othello was not Brooke's only character, though it was the best of his Shakespearian. As Sir Giles Overreach, in 'A New Way to Pay Old Debts,' he was simply superb, his final scene being simply appalling. Mr. Barton told me that it equalled Edmund Kean's best effort, and Sir Giles was Kean's masterpiece outside Shakespearian drama. As Martin Walter in 'The Hunchback,' Matlow Elmore, ('Love's Sacrifice'), Virginius, and, characters of that stamp, no man has yet appeared in Australia to equal Brooke. He was the first to bring out here 'Louis XI.,' a part played by him in strong contrast to Charles Kean's rendering of the same character. It will be remembered that when Louis is plotting murder, the Angelus bell sounds, and the hoary old sinner takes off his cap ,to pray to the relics affixed to the headgear. Kean's rendering of that part caused the audience to laugh. Brooke was so solemn that the audience was hushed at the hypocrisy of the wretched monarch. But it was not alone in the heavy drama that Brooke flourished. His Irish comedy has never been excelled. The memory of his Felix O'Callaghan in 'On His Last Legs' can never fade. As Captain Murphy Maguire he kept the audience in a simmer of merriment from start to finish. The same with Pierce O'Hara in 'The Irish Attorney.' In low Irish comedy, of the John Drew and William O'Neill type, Brooke was a failure. He could act the gentleman, but not the bog-trotter. ****************** A good authority, Frank Brewer, in a little work published some years ago, entitled 'The Drama and Music in Australia,' says 'Brooke's reputation preceded him to Australia. His mental talents for the profession were of the highest order and his physical organisation was admirable. To a classical face of the Roman type and a well-formed majestic figure, was united a voice of exceptional volume and roundness, which he inflected with consummate skill. He was well educated, and had the manners of a polished gentleman. These natural and acquired elements to Brooke, to which a fine conceptive faculty was allied, eminently fitted him for the highest position in the realms of dramatic art. From 1848 to the time of his departure from England, he was probably one of the most popular actors in the United Kingdom yet; strange to say, the London critics and venerable playgoers were lukewarm towards him. Brooke certainly extracted from them unalloyed praise, his Master Walter was beyond the reach of cavil; but the admirers of Phelps and Charles Kean were so far prejudicial (no other word will express the exact state of feeling towards Brooke), that he was denied in London that full measure of approbation which was undoubtedly his due, without in any way detracting from the genius of Phelps, or the abilities, improved so much by study, of Kean. True; at times, Brooke was unequal to his performances. So was Edmund Kean, but in has great characters, when he rose to the top of his genius in Othello, Sir Giles, Master Walter, Matthew Elmore, Virginius, and others of his fine impersonations, he had in his best days no superior. High as was the opinion formed of Brooke in Sydney, he surpassed their expectations. The verdict was that he was the finest actor that had up to that time visited Australia. Had he devoted himself to comedy, particularly Irish comedy, he might have equalled Collins. In two characters he has not been surpassed in the colonies— Captain Murphy Maguire In “The Lerwin Family,” and O'Callaghan in “On His Last Legs.” The latter he made especially his own, and convulsed the audience with his amusing presentation of the volatile Irish gentleman reduced to the condition of living on his wits. ******** In 1861, William Bede Dalley went to England as Immigration Lecturer, and in the same ship — the Great Britain— went G. V. Brooke. Dalley could appreciate talent in any man, and when the news of Brooke's death reached the colony, Dalley gave his opinion of the great actor to the world :— 'With one exception, that of Mr. Phelps, Mr. Brooke was unquestionably the first interpreter of Shakespeare upon the British stage. His physical advantages, voice, face, dignity of presence, instinctive gracefulness, were much greater than even those of Macready's great successor. But in subtle renderings, profound study and thought, Mr. Phelps was as no one more heartily acknowledged, than Mr. Brooke himself, the grander actor. I institute no comparison between him and a gentleman who recently visited this country, the bearer of a great dramatic name —Mr. Kean— and whose reputation is identified with spectacular representation in England, and my reason is simply this: that it would be a reflection upon the memory of Mr. Brooke to do so. Those who have never left this country, and whose acquaintance with the drama is exclusively derived from Mr. Brooke's acting, may be assured that in many respects nothing grander could be seen anywhere. The most fastidious critic was conquered into loving admiration by the mingled tenderness and terror of his Othello; while none could resist the melting softness of his accents in the last awful scene of fantastic sadness in which the noble Lear mingles 'matter and impertinency, reason and madness.' And then the life-like pictures of our own dear Irish humour and pathos, bringing, back to us by the magic of tone and gesture, scenes and times, and pleasures and sufferings. Where shall we ever see these again? In the Irish impersonations of Mr. Brooke one thing was very noticeable — no matter how low the character, there was always some hint of the gentleman in the performance. We have had many stage Irishmen in the colonies, notably Hudson, William O'Neill, John Drew, and John Collins, besides our local William Andrews, but none of them were ever on the same level as Brooke in portraying the Irish gentleman. ******** When its good work could be of no service to the actor, then full fathom five in the Bay of Biscay, the -'London Times' pronounced a eulogy:— 'In January, 1848, Brooke appeared at the old Olympic Theatre, then under the management of Mr. Davidson. Virtually this was his first appearance in London, and not often has the approaching debut of an actor produced so large an amount of curiosity as in the case of G. V. Brooke. He had many offers from the metropolitan managers, but had refused them all, and these frequent negotiations, accompanied with news of brilliant successes in the provinces, kept his name before the Londoners, who 18 years ago were much more excitable on the subject of tragedy than they are at present. His performance of Othello, the part chosen for his first appearance, at once secured him a wide popularity. He repeated the part to creditable audiences for 30 successive nights, and for some weeks in 1848 he stood high amongst the theatrical lions of London, lively discussions as to his merits taking place in every assemblage where plays and players formed a topic of conversation. His physical advantages were very great. He had handsome and expressive features ; his figure was tall and commanding; and, above all, his voice not only rich and sonorous, but singularly capable of extremes of light and shade. It was in giving expression to violent emotions that be turned these natural gifts to the best account, and the storms of passion which distinguished his Othello and his Sir Giles Overreach were certain, in his best days, of commanding the tumultuous applause of thousands. He owed his proficiency not to crabbed art, but to fresh, healthy nature, and the 'inspired genius' is always a popular figure. A similar belief was entertained earlier in the century with respect to Edmund Kean, and among the theatrical gossips of 1848 those were not wanting who saw in G. V. Brooke the tragedian upon whom the mantle of Kean had fallen. In 1854 he took leave of the London public, and proceeded to Australia, where, as in America, his success was prodigious. He returned to London, after seven years' absence, in 1862, and again appeared as Othello at Drury Lane. When he perished in the s.s. London he was on his way to Melbourne to fulfil an engagement.' ****** Just here I may be permitted to mention that Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Steele (Miss Adelaide Bowering) were engaged in London to support Brooke in his second tour in Australia. Mr. and Mrs. Steele came out in the sailing ship Western Ocean. I do not know whether the London passenger list was full, or Mr. George Coppin had on him a fit of economy, but it was fortunate for Mr. and Mrs. Steele that they came in the sailing ship. Mr. Steele informed me that the first they heard of the dreadful disaster to the London was from the pilot at Port Phillip Heads. I had the melancholy pleasure of spending an afternoon with Mr. Steele during the week. At 72 years of age he is still in good bodily health, but, alas! a cancer has attacked his tongue, and the once sweet voice of the well-graced actor is now merely a gutteral sound. Yet he bears his great misfortune with calm dignity, and is resignedly awaiting, as he says, 'the roll call.' Mrs. Steele died a few years ago in London. ****** It was in the old theatre at Cork that Brooke made some of his earlier successes. In Dublin he was simply idolised. The houses he drew were packed. In Australia his countrymen rallied round him, and but for his weakness in the matter of strong drink his seven years' residence in Australia would have been a huge money success. I think, soon after the completion of his first engagement with Mr. Coppin, Mr . Brooke entered into partnership with that gentleman. They had a magnificent property to work upon. The Theatre Royal, the Olympic Theatre, and last, but not least, the splendid Cremorne Gardens, which had within its boundaries a bijou theatre, known as the Pantheon. Brooke appeared at the two first named, the Pantheon being given over to domestic drama of the drawing-room order. Cremorne Gardens were started by Mr. Coppin in 1856, little steamers plying on the Yarra conveying the patrons. They were grand times those old Cremorne days. A time came when Brooke and Coppin separated, the tragedian selecting the Theatre Royal as his share of the property, Mr. Coppin retaining the Gardens and the Olympic — the best end of the stick I have always thought. He (Brooke) engaged Robert Heir as his stage and general manager, Mrs. Heir being leading lady. Brooke was not content to sit at home at his ease, as the old song has it, but accepted engagements in all the cities and towns of the now Commonwealth. Bob Heir was not a success as a manager. I am afraid he was given to the production of plays which were calculated to 'show off' himself and his wife. Mrs. Heir was getting somewhat stale; in fact, the 'Argus' rudely told her that it was time she dropped Desdemona and took up Emelia; but what leading actress was ever known to adopt the advice of the press ? Mrs. Heir did not, though I think on one occasion she did play Emelia 'just to oblige' someone — Barry Sullivan, I think. To Bob Heir succeeded, as manager, a sterling old Sydney actor, Henry Edwards, who had joined with him in the management George Fawcett Rowe, but known only to us as George Fawcett. There were three brothers — George, Sandford, and Tom. Sandford generally looked after the front of the house, though on one occasion he played the part of Lord George Gordon in Fawcett Rowe's adaptation of Dickens' "Barnaby Rudge." The rule of Edwards and Fawcett continued some time, Brooke occasionally appearing in his best character, but unfortunately for himself, taking no interest in the working of the theatre. It was under the Edwards-Fawcett management that Brooke appeared in two original characters—in a one-act play, by Marston, I think, entitled 'Dreams of Delusion,' in which he performed the character of a mad doctor to perfection. The other original character was in a drama by R. H. Horne. 'The Death of Marlowe.' I am, however, not quite clear upon the point whether Brooke or Edwards played the leading part. The two little pieces held the stage for a week or so and then dropped out. ******** While managing the Theatre Royal for G. V. Brooke, Edwards and Fawcett were also running the old Princess' in Spring-street, one of the very few theatres which escaped the ususal fate of theatres— fire— and where Marie Duret, Le Roy, Joseph Jefferson, and some other good men and women first appeared. Why and how Edwards, Fawcett, and Brooke "fell out," and George Coppin again fell in— don't misunderstand the phrase— with Gustavus Vaughan Brooke will be told another time. Article: Joseph Michael Forde, ANNALS OF THE TURF AND OTHER PASTIMES In New South Wales and Elsewhere. No. LXXIV., Sydney Sportsman, 16 November 1904, 8 Joseph Michael Forde, ANNALS OF THE TURF AND OTHER PASTIMES. In New South Wales and Elsewhere. NO. LXVI., Sydney Sportsman, 17 August 1904, 3 In a previous article ('Sportsman, 27/7/'04) I made mention of Avonia Jones' interest in Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. As the letter, written to a friend in Melbourne, immediately after the tragedy, is extremely interesting I venture to give it. The letter is dated from Portland, State of Maine, May 1, 1865. In it Miss Jones says :— 'You have heard ere this that Abraham Lincoln is dead ; killed by one who believed that he was avenging the South ; but you do not know that the hand which struck the blow was that of one of my most intimate friends. I enclose you his portrait, and tell me if you think that such a face is that of an in famous assassin, as he is now branded. I have known John Wilkes Booth since he was four years old. He and his brother Edwin, three years his senior, were my childish playmates, and many happy hours we have spent together. John was over impetuous, enthusiastic and hot headed ; but kind-hearted, generous, and good-tempered. He was two years older than I am, and all three of us, as we grew up, retained a warm interest in each other's welfare, the success of either being a common delight. Edwin and I continued a constant correspondence, and I was mainly instrumental in bringing about his marriage with a dear friend since dead. Having no brother of my own, the Booths became such to me ; and when John and I met again, after a long absence, 10 months ago, the old fraternal relation was immediately resumed. Last winter, when I was performing in Washington, I saw a great deal of him. He played Romeo for my farewell benefit— it was his last performance on the stage, and a splendid piece of acting it was. . . He was intensely enthusiastic in the cause of the South, and told me in confidence that he had sent all his wardrobe to Nassau, and that as soon as the South met with any reverses he should go there, but would make all the money he could first, because the Confederates needed money as well as men. He had not acted for many months, but had been making a large fortune in oil speculations. One day I read him your letter, in which you alluded to Charlotte Corday. I remember now the look that passed over his face, and his wonder that such a woman had not arisen here. The last time I saw him was on the day I came from Baltimore to secure Colonel Nixon's exchange (which Miss Jones had obtained by her personal intercession with Mr. Stanton, the Secretary of War). I ran after him to tell him the good news, at which he was overjoyed. He took me to the cars, kissed me, and bade me good-bye, and I never saw him more. Mother woke me early on the 15th of April with the news that President Lincoln had been assassinated. I simply felt shocked: but when she told me that he had fallen by the hand of John Wilkes Booth, all my thoughts centred in my old playmate and his family. Edwin Booth was playing an engagement at the Boston Theatre, and my first anxiety was on his account. I felt that I must go at once and see him. Mother and sister strenuously opposed it, for they did not want me mixed up in the affair owing to the intensely excited state of public feeling ; but at such a time how could I abstain from proving the genuineness and sincerity of my friendship? I went immediately to Boston, and, oh, how grateful he was ! I found him completely crushed by the blow, for, apart from his horror at John's act, it has ruined his career, which was a most brilliant one. And he seemed greatly troubled about the effect which the news would have upon his mother, who made an idol of John. I wanted to go back to New York, and the proposition was eagerly responded to; but when I reached that city I found that Mrs. Booth had gone on to Philadelphia to her daughter there, so that she might be near when John was captured. ... On the night of the assassination John managed to escape and was not discovered for a fortnight. He had fractured his leg in springing from the private box on to the stage of Ford's Theatre at Washington, rode 30 miles on horseback before the limb was set, and then had to limp on crutches into Virginia, where his friends represented him to be a wounded Marylander on his way home. At last he was tracked near Port Royal, and surrounded in a barn. When called upon to surrender he said that he never would while life remained. He was heavily armed, and as his 'brave' pursuers were afraid to enter and seize him, they set the barn on fire. It set my heart on fire to hear how, after his companion surrendered, he stood with his back against a burning hay-mow, calmly leaning on his crutch, while the flames hissed and crackled round him, determined to sell his life dearly. The roof above gave way, and he involuntarily looked up. At that moment a valiant sergeant fired at and mortally wounded him. He lived about three hours afterwards, and his last message to his mother was, 'Tell her I died for my country.' They brought his body to Washing ton, whither Edwin went to beg for it, but his request was refused. The remains of poor John were sewn up in a blanket — they would not allow even the rough box that had been made for them to be used, and he was buried, as the official announcement says, 'where no mortal eye can ever see him.' " While admiring Miss Jones' loyalty to the friend of her childhood, one can scarcely sympathise with her in what she calls the cowardly acts of the soldiers pursuing the murderer of the popular President, seeing that Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the presence of his wife, and without a moment of warning. The murder may by some be looked upon as political and patriotic, but it was cowardly, nevertheless. However, that's only my opinion. What memories crowd around Joseph Jefferson. ('Sportsman,' August 10, '04.) It has been said that he was 'discovered' in Melbourne. He arrived in that city, via Sydney, from California, in 1861 with a flourish of trumpets, advance agents, and mammoth posters. He opened in the wooden band-box; known now as the old Princess', in 'Rip Van Winkle,' and made his mark at once. He had not been playing many nights before Spring-street was deemed almost too small for the cab and carriage traffic which invaded the locality. The theatre was crowded in every part, and the playgoer who had not seen 'Rip' and Joe Jefferson was considered as benighted. Supporting Jefferson on his first appear ance were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heir, Mrs. Alfred Phillips, Mr. J. C. Lambert, Clarence Holt (father of Bland of the same name), Richard Stewart, Fitzgerald, a stalwart Irish-American actor of the melodramatic order, and dear old sour-surly Jimmy Milne. Rip Van Winkle was perhaps Jefferson's character, and memory lingers on the many splendid points in it. His next best character was Asa Trenchard in 'Our American Cousin,' a part of which he was the original performer. Jefferson and Southern— the latter an Englishman—were stock actors at £10 a week each at Laura Keene's theatre in New York in 1857-58, when Tom Taylor wrote 'Our American Cousin' for the manageress. Jefferson was cast for Asa Trenchard a rough Kentucky backwoodsman, a character which Jefferson completely remodelled, and Southern for Lord Dundreary. The latter character was 'so shadowy and vapid,' as one critic styled it, that Southern threw it up, rather than risk what little reputation he had acquired. As this would have entailed his dismissal from the company and a severance of pleasant companionship, 'Jefferson filled in the outlines of the character with a number of oddities of gestures, gait, and gag, so as really to give it a certain amount of prominence, and to render it highly diverting. Thus amended, Southern consented to play it, made it a success, added to it new features from time to time, and when he carries the play with him to London — John Baldwin Buckstone being the Asa Trenchard— Lord Dundreary made a tremendous hit, and the unfortunate actor amassed considerable wealth by his incessant repetition of a part which he had originally rejected." The late Richard Stewart was the Lord Dundreary of the Melbourne Princess', and right well old Dick played it. I have seen Jefferson in over 20 of his characters, and could never tire of him. Salem Scudder in the 'Octoroon' (which had been introduced at the Princess' by Madame Duret and Mr. J. H. Le Roy, before Jefferson's advent, George Fawcett Rowe being the Salem Scudder), Solon Shingle, Bob Acres, Dogberry, Bottom the Weaver, Cornet Ollapod, Dr. Pangloss, Newman Noggs, Mazeppa (burlesque), Caleb Plummer ('Cricket on the Hearth'), Mr. Golightly ('Lend Me Five Shillings'), Graves ('Money'), Tobias Shortcut, and some others. 'Midsummer Night's Dream' was the first Shakespearian production Mr. Jefferson attempted, and the company at the Princess', who had been well drilled by G. V. Brooke and William Hoskins in the bard of Avon's plays, were rather sceptical of the American's ability to interpret 'Sweet Will.' They tittered a little, especially the ladies, at rehearsal, but Jefferson, in a quiet way, said, "Ah ! you may laugh, ladies, but you will find that my 'Bottom' will fill the house.'' And his 'Bottom' did fill the house for many nights. If Jefferson had not been a great actor, he would have been a great painter, as it is, pictures from his brush are much valued. Unlike most of those of whom I have written, Joseph Jefferson is still on top in rural retirement in the United States. Apropos Barry Sullivan ("Sportsman" 10/8/04), a correspondent, with the best intentions, draws my attention to a couple of omissions in the actor's personal history. I am not so sure that we have anything to do with the private history of Thespians. If we did meddle with such in the first half of the last century I am afraid we would cause much scandal, and perhaps be not always on the side of truth. It is, however, a fact that in his very readable book of reminiscences George Vandenhoff (himself an actor of much merit, and son of the great actor, John Vandenhoff, who died in 1861) makes no mention of Barry Sullivan whatever. Whether the story be one of romance or base desertion I am not prepared to say, but gossip says that Sullivan treated the lady shamefully. Miss Vandenhoff, sister of George, was a leading actress, a very pretty woman and supported her father in all his pieces. The romantic part of the story is that Miss Vandenhoff died broken-hearted, and that the name of Barry Sullivan was tabooed in the family. The story of Miss Kyte is well known in Melbourne, but no one outside the family circle ever quite got the actual facts. Mr. Ambrose Kyte, when lessee of the Theatre Royal, was a man of ample means and of humble origin. I have heard him on a public platform, when seeking a seat in Parliament declare that on his arrival in Port Phillip in 1840, an immigrant from Tipperary, he worked for ten shillings a week and saved four shillings out of it. His first venture was that of keeping a hay and corn store in Bourke-street, opposite the Eastern (or Paddy's) Market, where he afterwards built the row of fine houses and shops known as Kyte's Buildings, , one of which, by the way, was occupied for years by Mrs. Williams' waxworks exhibition— the first of the kind, I think in the Colonies-which were afterwards known as Kreitmayer's, Mrs. Williams having married the professor, though I quite forgot what Kreitmayer did "profess." Mr. Kyte's luck was always in, until close up to his death, when the tide turned. Anyhow he was a great friend of Sullivan's, and without doubt may be considered as a factor in the actor's fortune. Just before Sullivan's departure for England a banquet was given him, at which Ambrose Kyte presided, and at which eulogistic speeches were made. While the banquet was in progress and the speeches were being made, Miss Kyte was silently packing up her trunks preparatory to making a midnight flit. Any how, she left her home, much to the consternation of her friends. Some time elapsed, when it was discovered that the lady had sailed for London, a couple of days before Barry Sullivan was cheered off from Sandridge Railway Pier. Mr Kyte was very prompt. He despatched his wife to London by the first steamer, and intercepted the lady before any damage was done. Mr. Sullivan's friends asserted that the actor knew nothing of the young lady's escapade, but there had been whispers of an engagement to marry and-well, you know people will talk. The romantic young lady returned with her mother to the paternal roof, and if everything did not end happily as in the story books, well, everything should have ended happily. To Mr. Ambrose Kyte Australia is mainly indebted for the Burke and Wills' Exploring Expedition, his donation of £1000 being the nucleus of the fund which assisted the expedition on its unlucky journey. Just to correct a typographical error. When conducting the Theatre Royal Melbourne, Barry Sullivan's right-hand man was his son, Amory Sullivan. At the beginning of his reign Mr. Sullivan would be heard to inquire if anyone had seen his son Amory. Towards the close of his reign Mr. Sullivan never inquired for his "son Amory." It was Mr Amory Sullivan who was always in request and some people did say that Mr. Barry Sullivan was trying to pass off his son Amory as his younger brother! Mr. James Smith alluded to Sullivan's bad temper ("Sportsman," 10/8/'04), but some actors would rouse the temper of the Angel Gabriel. Here is an instance : In 'As You Like It,' at a provincial theatre in an English midland county, Sullivan, of course, was the melancholy Jacques. Touchstone was represented by one of those clowns who disobey Hamlet, and speak more than is set down for them. This particular clown was under the impression that he could improve on Shakespeare. In the wrestling scene, when the wrestler was thrown, he (the clown) had to say, in relation to being out of breathe, "He cannot speak, my Lord !" In order to obtain a cheap laugh this clown said, "He says he cannot speak, my Lord!" which, of course, made the unthinking laugh and the judicious grieve. When the act drop fell Sullivan went over to where the would-be wit and comedian was standing, and said, "Touchstone was a fool, but not a damned fool, as you have made him. You have obtained a laugh, sir, but you have spoilt your part '' Had Mr. William Hoskins been about a simple 'damn' would not have sufficed. Sullivan had the misfortune on the sixtieth night of the run of Colley Cibbers' adaptation of Richard III., to receive an unlucky sword thrust in the left eye, Mr. Sinclair, the Richmond, having made a mistake in the preconcerted business of the great fight in the final act. For some time the recovery of the sight of the eye was despaired of, but after lying twenty days and nights in utter darkness, Richard was himself again, seemingly all right, at least. In this engagement at Drury Lane Sullivan performed Macbeth and Richard III on alternate nights during the engagement, the latter with 'new historical scenery' by William Beverley, and 'historically correct costumes' designed by Alfred Maltby from researches among acknowledged authorities. (To be continued.) Article: Joseph Michael Forde, ANNALS OF THE TURF AND OTHER PASTIMES. In New South Wales and Elsewhere. NO. LXVI., Sydney Sportsman, 17 August 1904, 3
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