New-York tribune., 1873-01-18
THE DRAMA.
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
THE BOSTON STAGE.

Mr. w. ]. Florence appeared at the Boston Globe
Tbeaer on the 13h More than 10 players Boston
volunteered their services for the Craig Benefit Mr.
Arthur Cheney gave the OF the Globe Theater The
performance took place last Friday. The receipts are
stated at o. Field has secured for present pro-
duction at the Boston Museum Charles Reades Rachel
the Reaper" JohnIroughams "Atherley Court" new
version, by Williams and g. A. Ernst OF Sardous "Nos
Intimes;" and Mr. III. J. Byron's Haunted Houses".
Mr.. Cou.dock lately acted Trpe at the Globe Theaer.
The Boston Gazette states that the grOtesqueness and
peculiar mannerlsms that mark his general style added
TO rather than detracted from his thoughtful aud char
acteristic personati0n,"
THE PHILADELPHIA STAGE.
A performance for the Craig Benefit occurred
at the Philadelphia Academy OF Music on the nth
inst. The bill comprised A Household Fairy, Uncle
Fooze," and The Dumb Bee-by Talfourd, Mathews,
and Panche.-Miss Lizzie Price, Nr. Louis James ana
Mrs. John Drew, among the performers Inc
receipts stated at about Sl.7eo.- MIR. H. L. DaV
enport acted Macbeth, on the sd inst, at the Chest
nut Mr. Davenport's Macbeth used TO be-and we pre-
sume still is-the best the American STAGE NOT
Guilty" bas been running at the walnut MISS
Nelson appeared there the 18Th Tho old American
Theater ON Wanut-s, to be renovated and started
afresh as variety thcater. IL has been purchased
we read by Mr. W. f. Campbell, OF New York. for $4,000
The building is 80 feet by $50, in sze.Mr Lester wal
lack and Mr. f. A. Sohern contributed fifty dollars eaeD
Thayers benefit performance, at the Philadelphia
Academy OF Music, last month. Mr. Barton Hill read
some original verses the OCCASION. The NTH OF Mr.
Carl wolfsohn's Musical MatDees was given on theHth
inst at Horticultural Hail.. 1.-The Building Inspectors
of Philadelphia report that the Walnut Street Theater
can be emptied OF fun audience in ~ mnutesj the
Academy of Music in minutes; the Musical Fund
Hall in minutes; Horticultural Hall IN 81 minutes
Concert Hall in minutes the Ches,nutst Theater in
minutes; and the Assembly Building In less than
minutes But. in case of panic n
THE LONDON STAGE.
Mr. Phelps, the tragedian, is quite Ill, and
has Quilted the stage for the present. Mr. Charles
Reade has dramatized his story OF The Wandering
Heir" AT the London Olympic, opened under the
management OF Miss Ada Cayendsh, reigning novelty
is four-act drama called without Love-" by Edmund
Yates and A. w. DubOurg..... Mrs. Herman Vein is
acting at the Holborn Theaer, in a new play, by Mr.
Crawford Wilson, called Lost or Found"..-.A new
burlesque, called "Romulus and Remus," by Mr. X
Reece been running since Dec. %, at the Vaudeville
. The Anglicized version OF Genevieye de Brabant"
has passed its SOth consecutive representation at the
Philharmonic Theater.. .Bulwer Lytton's comedy or
"Money," at Marie WltOn's Theater-the Prince OF
Wales-has acted l6O times in succession and
its career s continues THIS success doubtless, is the
result OF perfection OF details. "A play called "Crom
we'll" by Col Alfred Bate Richards, has been produced
at the Queens Theater-as 9n offset to Charles the
First at The Lyceum.. Mr. TOole has reappeared at
tho Gaety theater Will shortly be established
in the Regents Park district OF London to be called
The Regents Park Theater Il will be devoted 10 drama
buresque occasional operate performances-..In
his farewell speech, at the Gaiety Theater Dec IL,
Charles Mathews said "I promise you that the moment
feel conscious OF decay will at once retire from the
stage and will not nfic upon you the melancholy spec
tacle of light comedian upon cruehes"-Mr Mathews
has gone to Nice to spend the Winter intending TO
appear at the London Gaiety the 9th of next June
The freshest London drama IA Old Soldiers" by Mr. H.
j. Byron brought out at the Strand Theater
THE PARIS STAGE.
The city of Paris has granted to the local
stage subsidy OF $4,000. part OF this Is divided
among the various academies Of music aud art, and the
rest is shared by the Grand Opera, Theatre Francais
opera Comique, Odeon and Italiens. ...... .Raeine's
Brtanicus" has met with great favor at the Theatre
Fr,ncais The young Mounet Sully played Nero
Nine Plessy Agfppina; NJ Maubant was Burrhus
. The current rumor that Lafont, Nine. Deseee, and
Mme Celne Chaumont purposed performing In London.
is Groundless. Nine. Chaumont has throat disease,
and for some time will not be able to sing She goes to
Nice to spend the rest of the Winter Lafont is acting
in lie Centenaire" He is over Io...The receipts at
the first masked ball at the Grand Opera, on Dec. H.
amounted to $3.50. Ofenbaoh has purchased the
Gazette Theatre, in Paris. Also he has written a
new opera bOufe for NewYork, and transmitted
the same to Mr.. Augustin Daly..-..Mm
OF Mile de la Quintine from rehearsal at the Odeon
All the Partisan play houses to be furnished with
smoking A new tragedy, IN the Greek style, by
NJ lie Conte de Llsle, called "Les Erynnies -" The
Fures will be brought forward at the Odeon. 1t
relates to ClemneSrd, and that part will be acted by
Madame Marie Laurent. The opera boufe OF :" La
Tmbale dArgent" has been withdrawn from the stage
Of "Ia Boufes Parisiens" after a of than
200 nights yielding s132O95 Another opera, called La
Petite Rene" brought out, on Dec %, with Mime.
Julie in the chief Stringent rules with respect to
the words and music sung at the Paris cafES concerts
have been put forth by the French Government. The
following is sketch OF the play by Alexandra
Dumas, IT,, presently forthcoming at the Gymnase-
with Mile Descl6e theiorginal FromFrou. in the chief
part-and called " La Femme de Claude:"
Caude is ardent searcher in the realms OF science.
and he work upon gun which, by the perfection OF
any European power and thus the supremacy OF his be
loved France will once more assert itself His beautiful
her several escapades resolves in order to occupy her
mind, to give her employment In his laboratory. This
the nephew OF her husband also engaged In Odude
dusty b Sne 20 reveal o eb eG
whose presents and money Will afford her the means OF
CLAUDE generous and goodhearted suffers cruelty, and.
although at first he has no desire TO punish MS guilty
partner his patriotic feelings are too strong for him.
when the truth dawns and 1t becomes rghtfuly appa-
rent that his cherished invention VIII not only cause the
Known to the government OF another country. Driven
wellngh crazy by the weight OF these agonizng
thoughts he rshes to the window OF his study and sees
his wife hanging ON the OF the nephew, who carried
away by fascinating wes, has betrayed the secret
of tie Inventor claude takes down his famous weapon
only lust finished and yet used and with deliberate
aim fires and kills the wretched woman"
THE WANDERING STARS.
Mr.. Jefferson was several times called be-
fore tho curtain, on NewYears night, at Fords Opera
House. m Baltimore. He made brief speech thanking
the audience for its kind welcome, and said that his
owes were entirely well..Mrs. Gladstane IL is inti-
mated will come back to the United States, from Aus
ralis where she has been acting with variable sue
cess Mr.. James Bennett has returned to Liverpool