New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-06

entire audience rose and received him most en-
Enthusiastically. The performance commenced with
the seges March (the march to victory of Tau
bert, When the curtain rose the whole company
sang a royal song, which was composed expressly
applause and when the tenor, Herr Woworsky,
sang the following strophe:
And when throughout the land shall float
The flag sfunion, then wen shout,
the whole audience rose and became so excited
that the singing was for long time interrupted.
After the last verse the cries and braves burst
forth again, and the national hymn was demanded
from all parts of the theater The orchestra COM
piled with the wishes of the audience, and all
present-prinGes, princesses and citizens-joined
in the chorus. The enthusiasm had no limit-never
was seen anything like it. The receipts were
large.
The American prima donna, Mrs. Jennie Van
zandt, daughter of Signor Blitz, has met with
great favor in London where she has been singing
at the musical soirees of Mr.. Gladstone, Earl
Derby and others. She is at present enjoying o
brief repose in France, previous to her departure
for st. Petersburg and Warsaw, where she is en-
gagged for six months from the LIST of November.
AMiss Mary Howard, Miss Mary Shaw, Miss E.
]. Phillips Miss Mary Preston, Mile. Francis, Mrs.
H. E. Mehen, Miss Fanny Bowen Miss Davenport,
Messrs. L. P. Roys, l.. F. Rand, G. P. DeGroat,
]. F. Pike, G. Radcliffe, H. S. Murdoch, T. Hamp-
ton, H. B. Mehen, ]. Radcliffe, J. Rodges, c. Lewis
and Fl. Wood have been engaged by Manager
John Allen, of the National Theater, Cincinnati
for the ensuing season. The following stars will
appear L. P. Barrett, D. E. Bandmann, G. E.
Locke, John Brougham, F. S. Chaufrau, Charlotte
Thompson, Miss Lolita, Emily Thorne, Mile Zoe,
Lucille Western Mile. Vestvali, and Mr.. and Mrs.
W. ]. Florence.
The examiner of plays in England has the task
of reading every dramatic work before it is
brought out and considering whether it is fit to be
licensed. In the last fourteen years he has read
2Sl6 plays, and was able to recommend the Lord
Chamberlain to license all but nineteenof them.
The Romance of Poor Young Man, with
Mr. Frank Mayo and Miss Agnes Perry in the cast
is the attraction at the Boston theater. At the
Continental theater, in the same city, Mr.. E. L.
Davenport is filling an engagement, and at the
Howard Athensum Miss Emele Melville
The Menken has left us. She sailed on the ed
for Paris, and appears at Messrs. Dumaine & Co.'s
Theatre Gaieties, where she will produce her spe-
cialities of 'Mazeppa" and 4. French Spy" She
will return to this country early in the spring.
Carlotta Patti has recovered from her brain
fever She intends remaining for some time at
Bolongne to recruit her strength, previous to a
tour through the principal towns in France.
A new play, called the "CharIatan," founded
on the career of Cagliostro, and written by Mr.
Watson, writer of poetry, is soon to be brought
out at the Winter Garden in New York.
Ell Nino Eddie, after his highly successful en-
gagement at the Royal Alhambra, has been en-
gagged to give his extraordinary performance on
the low rope at the Hallby-the-Sea, Margate.
A Paris correspondent writes: Yesterday an
enormous pile of luggage blocked up the entrance
to the Grand Hotel. Naturally the inquiry was
made whether royal parsonage had suddenly
fed from one of the kingdoms Bismarck has lately
annexed and had arrived with his crown, regalia,
etc, in Paris. The porter sneered at the idea of
a mere German potentate possessing such an ex-
tensive suite, and proudly replied that La diva
Patti had honored the Grand Hotel with her pre-
sence. Her rival, La Lucca, is at the Hotel Bris-
toll. Auber called on her yesterday, as did like
wise the great Rossini, who does not bow down
before La Patti. La Lucca is q Yiennese; her
husband is Prussian officer. She wishes to visit
her family at Vienna, but naturally her husband
cannot go there. She, therefore, has decided on
The Metropolitan Hotel, New York, is just now
the scene of much bargaining between managers
and star and stock actors making engagements for
the next season. A facetous reporter says: "At
the close of the second board, walking gents
were scarce on call; old men closed at sixty to
seventy; Juveniles sold easily at twenty-five to
thirty-six; considerable life was manifested in
singing chambermaids' and some of the opera
tons in this fancy stock were heavy; first villains
were at a premium, the Broadway operators
crowding the Bowery folks hard, and the supply
being only toerable; there was brisk movement
in ballet at fancy prices; clowns were dull; TRACE
dies were quite drug; low comedians are plenty,
without demand; English burlesque importations
had no SALE"
Miss Annette Ince, talented young actress,
recently from the Pacific slope, will shortly com.
mence starring tour. She is under the manage
ment of Mr.. W. G. Peterson.
Master Cocker having been engaged for an ex-
tensye series of concerts in the West, will return
to this country from England early i'll October.
Miss Dora Shaw, poet and actress, has an auto
biography and volume of verse in press, and
proposes to appear on the Boston and New York
stage next winter.
The Italian journals announce that with the
opera to be- written for Palermo by Signor Pacini,
(his one hundredth york; that veteran announces
he will close his musical career.
Miss Amy sedgwck, a. leading actress in Lon.
don, and the companion of Charles Dickens in his
amateur theatrical representations, is coming to
his country.
Letter from Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.