The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-09-21
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

The Round Table says: "Fifteen manuscript
p avs, the existence of which was unknown.
were recently discovered in albrary in Ireland.
These are some of their titles: "The Lady
Mobs," "The Two Noble Ladies and the
Converted Conjuror," "Love's Changlings
Change, The Launching of the Mary"
Dick of Devonshire," and "The Fatal Mar
riage, or a second Lucretia. OF the time
when these plays are supposed to have been
written, and their excellence or lack of it, the
paragraphist who ventilates the aforesaid fact
is provokingly silent. The volume, it is said,
will be shortly sold at auction, when we shall
probably know more of its contents"
Lucille Western commences an eight
weeks engagement at Niblo's Garden, New
York, on the 18th of December next o
--Rossini, the great composer, has just pub
lished declaration that he considers the APP
preparation of his melodies by the street Or
gans thing to be proud of NL
MIR. John E. Owens began an engagement
at Liverpool on the 18th instant, but he has re-
fused all other provincial offers. Charles Dick
ems gives Mr.. Owens a very high Endorsement.
MIR. Joseph Jefferson has made success
in London in Boucicault's version of "Trip Van
Wrinkle" The Times says "Mr. Jefferson has
this advantage over another distinguished
American Mr.. j. e. Owens, that he appears in
an interesting drama, and not amid surround
ings of utter trash" gt
Mr.. Charles Kean has been recently play
ing Louis TX, King Lear, Hamlet, Othello
and Macbeth at the Broadway Theatre in New
York, and in each of these characters, If we
except, perhaps, that of Hamlet, his success
has been very gratifying. Mrs. Kean, Also is
still fine actress, though by those who re-
member her as Miss Ellen Tree she is spoken
of as having lost something of the grace and
vivacity which once distinguished her. sel
"A Professor Nolhi of Munich has discover
ed an autograph manuscript OF a piano-forte
composition by Beethoven, hitherto entirely
unknown. 1t is in the key of A minor, and
is inscribed @Pour Elisa, April 27." M. NoIhi
has entered into communication with the house
of Breitkopf and Haertel at Leipsic, with a
view of having the new found pieceincluded in
the edition of the complete works of Beetho-
ven now publishing by that firm
Her Majesty's Theatre, London, has, since
17O5, passed through the hands of twenty
eight managers. very few of whom escaped
bankruptcy. aa
AN operetta by a lady-Miss Virginia Ga
briei-has been produced in London at Mr..
German Reeds Gallery of Illustration. 1t is
called Widow Bewitched." The lady COM
poser, says a competent critic, is never common
place in her melodies, but shows power of
dramatic co,oring throughout, while a quar-
tette in which the soprano sings ford accom-
paniment to the principal SUBJECTS en- elabor-
ate piece of writing.
The story about the unpublished opera of
RossinI's has just been revived. The opera is
said to be In five acts and is called ''Helene,"
and is to be performed ten years after the COM
poser's DEATH "A Oh a 8NH
The Cologne Male Vocal Association gave
performance lately for the benefit of the
Catholic church at Wiesbaden, when the re-
eeipts amounted to from fourteen to fifteen
horlns, and the Duke, who was present with
the Duchess, bestowed the cross of the Adolph
Order on Herr Franz Weber, the conductor,
with the words: swear this in recollection of
the present hour" VI
"A singer In an English cathedral has to at
tend service seven hundred and thirty times in
year; and man who can sing a good solo
and attend all these services, win get sixty
pounds > year-say three hundred dollars,