Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-12-24

National; Wild, Barney a. Macs Minstrels at
the Opera House; good performances; fair
houses. Nothing more. Next week about the
same, only little more sO Holiday perform
ances will hold the boards at the National, and
Kelly & Leon's excellent and favorite troupe
viii make houses full OF mortals happy each
night at Wallis These are appropriate enough ]
for the times; but after Congress reassembles
we shall doubtless have something nearer the
legitimate drama at both places.
At Boston the main attraction continues to
be "a Midsummer Nights Dream,"-now in its
eighth week. Mrs. Scott-Siddons engagement,
which closed last week, was short, but satisfac-
tory all around. The Bostonians think she has
improved greatly since she made her debut
there. Miss Western is doing well at the Bos-
ton, and Sangall is the star at the Atheneum. 3
- There is no change since our last note OF
amusements in New York k,-Hackett at Booths
standard comedies at Wallack's, and the half /
sensational, half-scenic drama at the other
theatres.
OF Philadelphia substantially the same NAV
be IL" Patriee'' at Laura Keene's, Chestnut
street, Miss Bateman in /" Mary Warner" at the
Walnut, and light comedy at No. John Drew's
Arch street. with suitable Christmas perform
ances at each place for matinees tomorrow
The Italian Opera opens at the Academy for a
season of twelve nights on the Sd proxmo.
- Chicago is still reveling i'm Maggie Mitchell
and Emerson & Manning's Minstrels, with the
Parepa-Rosa troupe for three extra nights this
week bringing out "Der Freischutz" last eve
ming for the first time in English in this country
Patti sings in Cincinnati tonight, to-mor-
row night, and next Wednesday evening. The
other attractions there this week are Lotta, at
Woods, and Fox and the Kiralfy troupe at the
National.
AT Louisville amusements have dwindled
down to a sort of paror circus, under the man
agement of James Robinson, the bareback
rider, and Skif & Gaylord's Minstrels.
The Worrell sisters are at the Olympic, st.
Louis, and the Lydia Thompson troupe close
their engagement at De Bars Opera House to-
morrow evening.
AT New Orleans, John Il. Owens, Chan
frau, and Mrs. Bowers are the attractions at the
Varieties, the st. Charles and the Academy,
respectively with French opera by local COM
pany at the new Opera House.
- The Florenees are still at Richmond, but
close tomorrow night.
Kate Reignolds is making a successful tour
OF the New England cities. She was at Provi-
dence at last accounts.
Mrs. Lander made her debut i'm I" Eliza
beth" at the London Lyceum Theatre on Satur-
day evening last, and won high praise from all
the principal papers of that city, according to
the cable.
-Fechter, the highly puffed and, doubtless,
excellent tFrench-English tragedian, who is now
on his way to this country, will open at Niblo's
Garden, New York, on the 10th Of January, i'm
"Ruy Bias and will be supported by Miss
Carlotta Leclercq, a leading English actress.
The fact that Mr.. Fechter personates " HAM
let'' in a blonde wig has elected good deal OF
criticism, one time and another, but We do not
see why, since that was doubtless the color of
the melancholy Princes hair. A brunette or
dark-haired Dane is a scarce article even in
these days of international intermarriages
The paragraph going the rounds that little
Minnie Warren is dangerously i'll, grew out of
stupid joke In California paper that she could
not live "long."
-Organists and choir singers have, i'm the
opinion OF the London Musical World. up-bilI
work, "from being subjected to the complaints
of male and female busy bodies, and from the
meddling hands Of parsons (Which NEEDLE with
lofty consciousness Of heayen-sent gualiica-
tions).'
Crisis death, at Berlin, occurred on her
way to st. Petersburg. She was accompanied
by her children, and was journeying to the Rus
sian capital to join her husband. Signor Mario.
who was telegraphed to hasten to her bedside.
but arrived too late to see her alive. She had
partially recovered, and was preparing to con-
tinue her journey when a fatal relapse took
place.
In spite Of great deal of over wrought
praise, the season of Italian Opera which losed
in New York this week was not q success and
the performances as a whole were below the
usual average. Indeed, it Is said, that but for
the popularity and pains taking efforts of Kel-
lOgg and Lefranc the whole affair would have
been dead failure.
- The sale Of pictures belonging to the Artist
Fund Society, which took place in New York on
Tuesday evening, produced Ss,53O.5O, exclusive
Of frames. Those which brought the best prices
were:-"A Letter to Father }" by Eastman John
son, $3.50; ebay Of Venice" by s. Il. Clifford,
s310; Evening on the Delaware" by w. Whit
tredge, $500; "Adirondacks," )" by A. Laurie, 1926;
"Falling Leaves" by G. H. Boughton, $3.50;
"Beverly Beach, }" by j. F. Kensett, s255.
Aroused to action by the Corcoran Gallery
in this city, and the steps recently taken in the
same direction In New York, the BOst0nians are
now moving toward securing Museum of Art
at the Hub. If nothing else that is good can
come out of Washington, she has at least set her
sister cities an excellent example in this respect
kellogg, at his studio, over Galt's, is just
putting the finishing touches to a fine portrait
Of Commissioner Delano, which he has painted
under q commission from number of the clerks
in the Internal Revenue Office, who intend 1t as
q Christmas token for Mrs. DelanO.
"A letter from Rome says the American ar
fists there are opening their studios for the win
ter. Rogers, Mozier, Freeman, Coleman, Ives,
Inman, the brothers Hazeltine, are all at work,
as usual. Miss Cushman, with health complete
y restored, as SO many Of her friends will be glad
to hear, Is expected daily, with Miss Stebbins;
and Miss Hosmer has sor1e surprises in her stu
dio not yet allowed to see the public light
Story is working upon statue of the daughter
of Herodias, just as she has ceased dancing
Buchanan Read has spent his idle summer, and
in addition to the twenty-five or thirty pictures
sent home (chiefy to New York and Philadel-
phia) he has others finished, with one or two vet
in the rough, which show q progressive improve
ment
-Powell's forthcoming picture of the "Bat-
tie Of Lake Erie," which he is painting for the
Senate wing of the Capitol, is said to be nearly
finished. 1t Is already being elaborately puffed
in some quarters, but the public will probably
want to see it and judge for themselves, before
going into raptures over 1t. For our part, con-
sidering the dress-parade style in which the
artist brought De Soto and his followers through
the wilderness to the banks Of the Mississippi,
We are curious 70 see how jauntily dressed and