The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-08-26 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

NEW FORM OF SHAM FIGHT..—A French duel.  needed—is being painted by the veteran scenicartist, Mr. W. Beverley, and other noteworthy improvements are being carried out. Miss LINGARD, at the termination of her prolonged country tour with Sister ilary, vill prodnce the piece for the first time in London at the Comedy Theatre tome time during September. Miss FANNY LESLIE has just started upon a third provincial tour with her successful musical drama, Jack in the Box, which, after her return to town at the end of the year, she will produce at the Strand Theatre in February next. THE murderous rebels who tired rifle shots at the train in which Miss Minnie Palmer was travelling to Belfast, gave that popular young actress not only , a severe shock, but an excellent advertisement.  Mn. D. NICOLE, sole proprietor of the Empire Theatre, has applied to the Middlesex magistrates to license his magnificent playhouse as a music hall. MADAME SARAH BERNHARDT has lately appealed at Buenos Ayres in a novel character—as a mistress of fence. In a public competition with the foils the versatile lady has disarmed two professional antagonists. This modern female Crichton having asserted herself as actress, painter, sculptor, and swordswoman, will next pose as novelist; she is engaged upon a story founded upon the strange , eventful history of her own life. MR. BOUCICAULT has informed an interviewer that his present visit to England is really his last appearance nmongst us; furthermore, that at the close of this season at the Prince's he may possibly migrate to the Haymarket, an offer of that theatre having been made to him. Anathematising our " infernal fogs, rain, and cold," he declares, I like America better than any place in the world; the climate, people, and public suit me, and I am pleased to think I suit them." He is preparing his memoirs, which, as a stage record of the last forty years, should prove interesting. Ma. WILLIAM TERRIES, refreshed by his brief holiday, has resumed his breezy and manly impersonation of the gallant Lieutenant David Kingsley in Tie Harbour Light:, at the Adelphi. This capital ' specimen of modern melodrama is still in the full tide of success, drawing crow( led houses every night, in spite of its already long run. MR. J. L. SHINE commences a provincial tour at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, on August 30th, when he will produce a new comic opera, entitled Glamour, the libretto by Messrs. H. B. Fantle and Alfred Murray, and the music by Mr. William M. Hutchinson, composer of Dream Faces, Ekren, on the Rhine, and other popular ditties of that class. The cast will include Miss Julia Warwick, Miss Susie Vaughan, Mr. Wilfred E. Shine, Mr. Charles Conyers, and Mr. J. L. Shine. The opera is to be splendidly mounted, the costumes being very handsome.  WE hear that Captain Bambridg,e has engaged for his Beggar Student opera tour Messrs. Fred Mervin, John Child, and Henry Bracy, Miss Lucy Franklin, Miss St. lves, Miss Ada Lincoln, and others. These artistes, with a chorus of twenty-two under Mr. John Pew, the well-known musical director, and steered by Mr. George Manners, should give good account of themselves.  provisions were all exhausted, but fortunately they managed to find some lemonade and potted meat and fish by digging among the ruin & of the Wairoa Hotel. The natives got hold of some spirits, and wished to drown their fears in drink; but Mrs. Way, who has great influence over the Maoris. managed to dissuade them from adding this new horror to the scene. Next day, by the aid of an old Maori canoe, the weather having moderated, they managed to get a more secure position on the , shores of the lake, where they were found by the rescuing expedition despatched from llotornra. For 30 hours Mtn. Way bad been barefooted, standing in mud or water, and the endurance and courage she displayed were really wonderful. Naturally all the party suffered a great deal from the hardships to which they were exposed, bat were lucky to escape with their lives."