The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-25
THEATRICAL JOTTINGs,

Herr Ifland wns a prominent German drama
tist. He lived at Mannheim, where his admirers
are now erecting monument 10 bis memory
AT Cincinnati the new Olympic Thea're and
1he National Theatre are the only places Of
amusemeBt open.
Annie Sen'er Is playing at the Howard Athe-
DRum, Boston, and Buckley's MinsIrels are at
TIC New Minstrel Hall.
Dora Dawron, the double-voiced singer Is at
present singing In he Masonic Temple, Louis
vile, where she IS announced as "the celebrated
lady TENOR"
"A new play on the subject Of don Quixote"
has been produced nc one of the Paris theatres.
Sardou wrote the piece and Gustaye Dore. de-
signed the costumes.
Miss Olive Logan has returned to the stage
after q retira' y Of some years. She made her
second debut in New York, and has given great
satisfaction, She will appear IN this city during
the winter
The Drury Lane Theatre, London, is to open
on the Oath oi September with CyDi5eiiHe, for the
y turn to the stage OF Miss Helen Falcit, who
will alpe'r as "lmogen'
AT the theatre at Salt Lake City, Mr.. George
PauncefOrt and Mrs. Florence Bell are the leading
PLAYERS. The company has lately produced, " tn
success, The Little Treasure and Bidck-Eyed
SusaH.
The Opera House at New Orleans has been
advertised tor sale under foreclosure of a mort
gage, held by Charles II. Hensler; but when the
sale was about to take place il was stopped
through 81 me legal measures.
The AlbRmbra, huge establishment on Lei
cester square, London, hitherto devoted 10 beer
drinking and muse-hall entertainments, is to be
converted iDto theatre for Alfred Wigan. It was
at the Alhambra that LeOtard performed his
~~tiSht-Iope feats.
b, --fhe Varieties Theatre, New Orleans, will be
opeDed This fall with Mr.. FenDo as stage manager!
J Mrs. J. II. Allen is TO be the leading lady, and
she company will include Viola Barrett, Joseph
Barrett, Barton Hill, and Dan Setchell. The st.
Charles Theatre will also soon be opened by Mr..
Ben De Bar.
--sea Colas has been playing Tin Euglish) at
the Princess Theatre, London, in her fivoriIc
part of "Juliei." She has met with such success
st the capital that numerous engagements are
offered 70 ber from the provinces; but she must
frst 20 back to ST. Petersburg to fulfil engage
ment at the French Imperial Theatre there.
Alexander Dumas has written a w play
which is to be produced in Paris as soon as q
dog, which takes an important part in the drama,
can be drilled SO as to save two childrens lives,
aud denounce the assassin in the last scene.
This feature of the drama has been for years
familiar to the attendants of our theatres In the
Bowery.
Mr.. John S. Clarke, the well-known come
dian, baS been carrying all before him" in New
York for tNo weeks past. The ECening Post
says:-
"No comic actor on the boards possesses such
power over his audiences, and few among them
can resist the contagiOn which his presence
instil. This power Is essentially spontaneous,
careful not to exceed the hounds of correctness
Is never eXuavagant, and though presenting the
humorous phase of humanity, does no6 run into
excesses. He distinguishes between the simply
luOicTous ard the ridiculous, and while be follows
the former 70 the verge of the latter, he seldom
oversteps the boundary dividing them. One of
bis main successes consists in the sympathy he
creatfs between the audience and himself. II Is
with bin almost in the nature of magnetism, and
be holds, as II were, the hands of his audience
within bis own when he appears before them
he moves them with laughter and delight, and
they in turn influence him TO further exertions.
Mr.. Clarke is still youHg man, having been
born in Baltimore September 3, 1892. He made
hi fist appearance on the stage the Boston
Athengr m. in 1851 He play ed in 1852 az the old
ChesDut ~ eet theatre, Philadelphia, and after
wa d. appeared at the Arch street theatre, of which
he later brcame the manager. Mr.. Clarke married
a sister Of Edwin Booth, and those who visit him
at his home may often have the pleasure of seeing
COMEDY and tragedy seated around the same
mahogany"