New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-16

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| Musical and Theatrical,
A curiosity-gratifying individual :" ages - some
of the public faVorites as follows; Charlotte
Cushman will shortly celebrate the sixty-ninth an
niversary of her birth; Fanny KembIe IS in her
forty ninth year ~; Kate Batemsn is twenty-four
years old Julia Dean is thirly-fve Nine. Celeste
is sixty-four; Mrs John Wood is thirty-s Julia
Bennett Barrow is forty-One Adah Isaacs Menken
is twenty.seven; Mrs. Vernon is nearly seventy;
Mrs j. H. Allen is Twenty-Five; Madeline Henriques
is twenty ~ and is the youngest leading lady Y
on the stage; Parepa is thirty eight; Miss Hosmer
is twenty-six; Maggie Mitchell is thirty,
There were five candidates for the seat of the
late NJ Clapsson in the French Institute (section
Of musicl, which has just been filIed-Gounod,
the composer of Faust" Felicien David, Of
" Herculan@um,' " Lalla Rookh," etc; Victor
Mass6, of LA Refine Topaze" aud "FIor dAIiza;"
Aime e-Maart, of Lara" and Elwart, of " Les
Catalans." NJ. Gounod gained the vacant chair.
The other members of the music section are
Auber, Carafa, Thomas, Raber and Berlioz, with
Rossini, Mercadente and Verdi as foreign asso.
ciates. ..
Naples letter writer says a. M Thalberg IS
time has not been spent in vain; the great musi-
clan has become large grower of grapes, and,
what is more, of first rate wines.n
There are in the whole of Europe 1460 theaters.
of these there are 337 in France les in Spain, $50
in England, l52 in Austria, ll5 in Germany, 7G in
Prussia, ~ in Russia, "a in Belgium, % in Holland,
20 in Switzerland 10 in Sweden, s in Norway, lG
in Portugal 10 in Denmark, 4 in Greece, 4 in Tur.
key, 8 in Roumania and i in Servia. In Italy
there is theater for every 10 900 of the nhab.
itants.
Verdi has written to regret that his age and
incapacity for fatigue prevents his joining the Ital
an army.
John Brougham will bring out his version of
Our Mutual Friend " at about the same time that
| Frank Dwight Denny's boiling down of the same
book is to be produced in Brooklyn. With Geo.
Fawcett Rowe's dramatization it will be the third
of the season.
| Mr., and Mrs. Charles Kean have completed their
engagement at the Princess's Theater, London
During its continuance, Mr.. Kean has performed
| Wolsey, Louis the Eleventh, ShyIock, Hamlet and
Mr.. Oakley.
| Mr.. Forests receipts for his first ten nights al
Maguire's Opera House, San Francisco, are sale
to be $22 900 in gold .9 y .
| The theaters Of Holland are closed on account
Of the cholera.
Miss Laura Harris is engaged by M, Bagier il
Paris for the winter season.
The new lessee of Drury Lane is Mr.. F. B. Chat
terton, Mr.. Falconers late partner
The warlike fever in Italy has penetrated the
ranks of artists Six members of the BeIlotti-Bo1
troupe have enlisted under GariDaldi
Mr.. and Mrs. Boucicaut have made arrange
ments with Mfr. Fechter to appear at the Lyceun
in London, in September, in a new drama to be
written by Mr.. Boucicault
Since 1S42 there have been eight hundred ant
eighty-nine operas and ballets composed in Italy
of which number Donizetti alone has written more
than seventy.
The Theater Lyrique, in Paris, has concluded ar
engagement with Ristor before her departure fol
this country. By virtue of this engagement she
was to play Medea on the 2Oth and Maria Stuardi
on the 22d ut.
The new Holborn theater in London will proba
bly, be opened with drama by Mr.. Boucicault
and Miss Herbert will produce a new play by tnt
same author, in the autumn, at the St. James
theater.
An event of more than usual interest has taker
place in Berlin; the production of sophocles'
" Antigone, with Mendelssohns music. All the
saUants of the capital were present. Mendel;
A dramatic adaptation of +" Our Mutual Friend
has recently been produced at sadler's Well
Theater, London, under the title of " The Colder
Dustman." The central feature of the play i
Mr. Belmere's powerful representation of Mr.
Wegg. a@a
The Viennese prma donna, Nine. Kainz- Poause
has concluded a most lucrative engagement at tn
Grand Opera, Paris, for three years, The frs
year, including a three months leave, she receive
forty-fve thousand francs, the second fifty thou
sand and the third sixty thousand.
Edwin Booth commences an engagement at tn
Boston Theater in September.
Joseph Jefferson has been meeting with grea
success as Salem Scudder at Liverpool.
Mrs. Yelverton's Readings" have been inter
rupted by the death of her brother John Henr
Longworth, who died at Sidney, on the 7th c
April last.
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