The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-02
AMUSEMENT NOTES,
The city Theatres.

ana entDusldsuc crOWdS aJ tue CheSnut Street
Theatre, where 1t is gwen every evening.
AT the American Theatre varied aud enter
tanning programme is given every evening.
Musical Items.
.-Bateman's extra troupe of opera bogfe
artistes commenced their travelling cam.
when La Grdnde Duchesse was per.
formed. Madlles TOstec. Laubee, Duclo5
and Messrs. Deere DardigDac, Ducnesne, Leduc,
Guidon, and Laerfoui sustain the princl pal
roles. They wall perform in Montreal for one
week. and the succeeding seven DAYS will be
divided between O.tawa, Toron'o aud hamil-
ton. This will suffice Tor Canada, and the
troupe will then cross over to tue States again,
and will open at The Crosby 0p-ra House in
Chicago on the 14th OF september, wDere they
will remain Tor two weeks. next Lhey will VISIT
Milwaukee and st, Louis, stopping two weeks
in the latter city; next Ciuciunqu after which
they will wheel about and return home to New
York. Mr. Bateman will then JOIN both his
companies together, and wul inaugurate q
grand season Of opera boufe at Pixies Opera
House on the 7lh Of October.
The Boston Con ervatOry OF Music enters on
Its third year with the most hatterlng prospects.
Mr.. julius Echberg, whose delightful comic
operas we hope to hear agalu this season, is the
director. Mr.. Elchberg is at preseut iu europe,
having been comm ssloned by tue Boston School
Committee TO study and report the progress
made IN Europe IN teachIug music in puDlc
schools; but letters have been received from
him telling of his return IN time to be Dresent
at the opening OF the Conservatory Tue Boston
many, Iiance, ETC., he has been made frequently
the recipient OF great nuDors, conferred upon
him by high masters IN art: yet we are pleased
to see tnat he will be glad 10 return to us, where
his name has become familiar to all music
loving people. By visiting all the conservatorle
in Berlin, Vienna Cologne, Leipzig, etc., he ha
been enabled 10 no'ice all the Improve Lent
which have been made in teaching IN cl asses
most of which will be made Use OF az the Boston
Conservatory OF Music"
Information has been received by Mr.. Grau
that the engagement OF M. Gaoel, the success
ful Partisan con ique, had been concluded Tor
the Theatre Francois, in New York. Mr.. Grau,
who has been negotiating with the great artist
Mademoisele Maria Desclosas, for months, has
also accepted the proposition made by her
through the cable. The terms are said to be
very heavy, but her great ou atIon it is bought
will justify the engage meDt, She created the
role OF 'tCendrillon" and sang the part for three
hundred n19 hts, and as also the original OF the
heroine in lie Dtdb'e BOaedu1, which latter she
performed upwards OF two hundred nights.
Mons. Gabel created "Piton," in the opera of
Geneuie,e de Brdbont. and 1t is said to be droll
OF the highest reputation MIR. Grau's enuIe
company will arrive aud will make their debut
at the French Theatre, New YorE, about the lst
OF October
-Maretzek's repertoire for the coming season
is rich one. He will offer in Italian Les VeSpres
SicltenaeS LEt0iIe du Nord Llrtine, by Wal
lace. and I'm Jour de Bonheur, The latest work
by Auber. The two operas last name are given
for the first time in America. In German the
repertoire is as tollows:-Fadeh0, by Beethoven;
FduSt; and two important novelties, lndrd, by
FlotOw; and the MeisterSinqer, by Wagner. In
Italian opera, Mime Agatha States Signora Rosa
Cellini lhrst appearance in America), Madle
Louise DuraDo (urst appearance), MISS Isaorlla
McCullOcb. Sienor P. Br gUoh, Siguor u. Pic
cioli tdrst aooearance), sienor G.. Ronconi.
SigDor Carlo Oriandino, and SigDOr AnLonuccl.
In German opera M'me Anna de La Grange,
Mime Rotter, Frauleln JENNY Appel (drst ap-
pearance), Herr Habelman, Herr Fischer Achton
(trst appearance, Herr Wilhelm Formes, and
Herr JOseDh Hermaps,
The return OF Mile Nilsson aud NJ. Faure in
the Hamlet of Ambroie Thomas on the 7th at
the Grand Opera IN Paris, was cordially greeted.
The swedish singer has powerful rival IN the
debutaDte Madle Hsson, whose success In the
ITooatOre has been immense.
The debut of a Mile. Rouyere is looked for
ward to as likely to supply another pTlnld donna
10 the French stage. M. Mermet, the composer
of Roland q ROnceUdIT, has selected M'le. HIsson
10 be Jeanne d'A1c' in his new opera, now in
1T is said that NJ. strakosch has the intention
of giving simultaneously in London and Paris
series OF grand concerts The number of exc
Cutauts will be six hundred
-Gounod'S Faust in a Polish version has
just been br ought out at Warsaw. 1t is proba-
be that no opera has, within toe same period,
been translated into so many tongues as Faust.
Mime. AmelIe Strakosch tsister of .Adelina
and Carlotta Patt) is 10 make her debut as a
contralto at the Italian Opera House in Paris.
Dramatic Items.
--Mad'lle Janauschek is now on her way to
this country, having sailed from Bremen last
week. She will play in the Academy OF Music,
in New York, from the 9th to the 18th Of Octo-
Der, appearing IN Meded. Deborah, Sappho, Don
Carlos, and other dramas, and also in a new
play written especially for her by the celebrated
DR.. Lindner, of the University Of Vienna called
Katharine The Second. From New York she
gees to Boston, and then westward, playing at
Cleveland, Chicago, st. Louis, and other prin-
cipal cities.
Mr. Mark Lemon, the editor of Punch, and
acknowledged to be one OF the most accom-
plished theatrical artists out OF the profession,
has been induced 10 undertake series OF repre-
sentatons of q novel character. Some time IN
October he will appear before London audi
ence as the 'Sir John Faistad" OF the first of the
Shakespearian plays in which that parsonage is
introduced. He will give in appropriate cos
tune, the principal scenes in which ''Falstadn
appears, and he will have such aid from subor.
dinRte performers and stage accessories as may
be necessary to complete the picture.
After Dark, A Tale OF London Life, the last
new drama from the pen and pastepot OF Dion
Bouclcault, has met with decided success at
the Princess Theatre, London 1t is an adap-
tation from Freucb play by Messr'. D'Ennery
and Grange, said to be Les Oisedur de PrOte, but
smacks OF a strange mixture OF Under the Gas
Light and the Lottery of Lite. This same piece
will be brought out about the 1st of October, at
Nihlo's Garden, under the management OF Messrs.
Palmer q Jarrett.
MIR. Hermann Hendricks the distinguished
German actor, made his first appearance in
America last evening, a. the Stadt Theatre, in
the Bowery, New York. He olayed Duke
Albrecht" IN a German historical and scenic
tragedy. His second appearance will be made
as "William Tell"
during the autumn to the Queens Theatre, Lon
DON and will appear in an original fveact play
by Mr.. Watts Phillips. A second drama by Mr.
Watts Phillips has been accepted at the same
theatre: and a sensational piece by the same
author is in preparation at the Surrey.
-Broue hams new theatre, in Twenty fourth