The Portland daily press., 1865-09-14
Mus1oAL AVID pRAaAT1o.
-Aldrich, the black tragedian, is !.

r-Aldrich, the black tragedian, is engaged
at the Haymarket Theatre, London.
Mrs. Hoey returns to Wallack's Theatre
this season, and Mr.. E. L. Davenport i to
share the leading business there with Mr. Les
ter Wallack. John Gilbert is stage manager,
as before " A fft9glFTrFFN n
The London Herald says Of Belle Boyd:'
report is circulating among the clubs that
Mrs. Hardinge, better. known as Belle Boyd,
the Confederate heroine, lis about to try her
fortune on the London stage" :
Miss Rose Eytings is to be the leading lady
at the Winter Garden, New York, this season.
The Boston Herald says it is rumored that
another new theatre is Contemplated in that
city by two gentlemen we'll known One of
them is Americas most celebrated tragedian,
and the other is a trasedians very favorably
known in the States, and resident of Boston.
The two tragedians alluded to are probably
Edwin Forest and Wyzeman Marshall.
J Julia Dean Hayne is starring it at Salt
Lake Theatre. g SoIf38A 5fIa5T 81 -
-Miss Adelaide Philips arrived at New
York on the Costa Riea s4islq9ot eIiAlII
1.-The youngest son of the famous German
dramatist, Augustus Won Kotzebue. has writ
ten comedy entitled @The Dangerous Friend"
which has been brought out with some sue
cess at thu Dresden Court Theatre. He
writes under the nom de plume of august
zohn." - W.. ~, -. $50 .i 81 ia stu x
New York papers announce that the COM
ing dramatic season in that city is likely to be
one Of unusual variety. Among its features
will be the return to this country of the grace
full comedian, John Brougham, after long
stay in England; and the return to the stage of
Edwin Booth. This latter event is as yet only
rumored. 80. ~ .'.-.s = ! 81
--Awonderful tenor is heard of as having
been discovered at Trieste, one Cortolano Zim-
alo, who has electrified the audience in 'iNor-
ma" .al8l1 sti
Helen Western has married Philadelphia
actor named Herne. a.s ass-5s. ..s, i.s.l sl1i sd
- Arrah- ma Pogue,s' it appears, is an end
less play. Z A London paper, curiously enough,
estimates that it is played simultaneously in
three-auarters of the globe-in London, Man
chester, New York, San Francisco and Mel
bourne, Australia. But the difference in time
between the cities named has this singular eff
fect-that "Arrah-na- pogue" is played all the
day long, for when the great tower scene is
reached in Manchester and in London, aAr-
rahs" cabin door is first opened before her
friends in New York, and when the New York.
ers rise from the enjoyment of their play, the
San Franciscans sit down toit. !65es.i
II. Tom Taylors new play, the serf /"
Is very highly spoken of by. the London cri-
tics. It's interest turns ON the adventures of a
Russian Serf who has been educated as an ar
list and lives in Paris, and there becomes the
rival IN love Of a, young Russian noble, whose
slave he is. The plot is wrought out with
much skill, the dialogue is good, and the spirit
of the piece healthy and strong N
Boston wants more theatres, and is very
busy with efforts for supplying that want
While lsays the Transcript, J the cornerstone of
new theatre is about to be laid on Washing
ton street, another admirably -arranged place of
dramatic entertainment, of which the public
have been in ignorance, is nearly completed in
Central Court. This location is admirably
adapted for place of amusement. 1t is, as its
name indicates, centrally situated, and the the
atre building is SO far removed from the street,
that the audiences, like those in the Boston
Theatre, win not be disturbed by the noise Of
Felicies' rlsar't fDsAI Il IYAH