The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-05-03
Art and Dramatic Notes,

OF Buffers rule In New Orleans.
ACCORDING to all accounts, Madame
Parepa Rosa is achieving success in
Egypt fully commensurate with her
merits.
The Naples Observer has words of
praise for two young Americans, Miss
Miles and Miss Margaret Bailey, who
recently appeared in opera and in con-
cert.
A CONCERT, rendered as compli-
ment to Miss Annie Louise Cary by
the citizens of Portland, Maine, the
lady's native city, will take place there
April 18th.
MADAME NussoN- RouzAUD has de-
clined the Russian proposal that an in
demnity should paid to Herr Strakosc
and that she should abandon the idea
of second tour III America.
KATE FIELD is nothing unless crit.
cal, andi therefore, sends whizzinV
shaft after Mr.. Bellew. She says, sa-
tlrically, that " Glands and hair don't
mean reading
The London Orchestra puts the CO.
nundrum, "Who ever heard of an
iloAietli VI Sdh VI IL NCEuldu
bandit (bandite - rising to eminenee
save, perhaps, on gibbet."
Mr.. W. G. Willis, author of the
play of Charles L." receives from Mr..
Bateman a retaining fee of ten grineas
week, on the sole condition that he
shall not write for any other theatre
Ex-MAYoR A. OAKLEY HALL is the
''Joe forum" of the Sunday Times:
He has kept under water long while,
but the multiplicity of peculiar puns
with which his dramatic feuiAeton
abounds has brought him to the sur
face for recognition.
Miss ROSE HERsEE, the prima donna
of the English Opera Company, under
the escort of Mr.. Fred. Widdows, of
Washington, ID. c., had an interview
with President Grant and family at the
White House, during her visit there,
which proved pleasant and agreeable
to all parties,
The finished and unfinished works
In the studio of the late Col. Charles
Temple Dix, son Of Gov. Dix, have
passed into the hands of his relatives
and friends, to be preserved as memo
rails of life of art labor prematurely
ended
THE Golden Age says if all the lead
ing actors and actresses in the country
should assemble III a single drawing
room, not in asstImed parts, but theif
real characters, it would be as easily
seen that Charlotte Cushman was the
chief intellect among them as that
Agassiz is the first of our naturalists,
or as Webster was the chief of our
Senators.
A LIMA PERU correspondent, in O
recent letter, states that the great dra-
matte artist, Ernesto Rossi, on the
occasion of his benefit in that city, was
presented with 80, 600 francs, a massive
gold and platina box, a gold medal
surrounded by thirty diamonds, gold
star containing ten solitares, Il dia-
mond solitaire breastpin, sheeve but
tons, and shirt-studs, and a large
medal OF gold, covered with briliants.
A MOVEMENT Is being set on foot for
the restoration of the tomb where lies
the remains of Edmund Kean, the
tragedian. Kean was buried in the
parish church of st. Mary Magdalene,
ltlciIilollNis ouIltN, anu Tie udUu Oh
time has sadly dllapidated the monu.
ment erected to him. 1t is stated that
some leading members of the theatrical
profession and well-known dramatic
authors ale about to form a committee
with view to the restoration of the
gIeat actors tomb.
1T is more than a quarter of a cen
tury since the famed Hungarian bari
tone basso, Herr Pischek, delighted
London musical circles by his splen-
did singing of music Of all schools, but
more especially of national German
songs. He has Just died at Stuttgardt,
where, at the Royal Opera House, he
was for years the leading artist His
funeral, on the 18th ult., was public
one, all classes of the community, and
even royalty, being represented at the
cemetery.
Miss KELLOGG being at the Continen-
tai, Philadelphia, and having a spare
hour, invited the hired help about the
house who could be spared from their
duties to assemble in the ladie s' sitting
room about 8 o'clock. She had her
music and musical instruments with
her, ana played and sang for them a
selection of her best pieces, interspers-
ing with them a number of Irish bal
lads and negro minstrel melodies. It
was a very graceful act in the great
cantatricc, and is as creditable to her as
1t was enjoyable to those who do not
often have the good fortune to hear
such music sung and played as she can
do it.
IoM BRADFORD has brought out in
London book on the Arctic regions
OF which the first copy has just arr1v-
ed. 1t contains his experiences and
observations IL the frozen regions of
the North, is superbly mounted, and
illustrated with photographs taken dur
ing his expedition, which are the finest
Of their kind. These views are insert
ed here and there, sometimes merely
to emphasize the text, and again cover
two entire pages. Mr.. Brad ord re-
turns to England next month, hearing
with him the painting ordered by the
Queen. 1t represents two great ice
bergs, looking Innocently beautiful in
the rosy light of the sun, but are ready
and able to crush the frail ships crowd
ed between thcm. A view on the La.
brador coast. possibly the property of
some of our American sovereigns, is
even more beautiful and more desirable.
Freaks Of an Eccentric Bird.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
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