The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-17
MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES.


Both Nine. Lucca and Miss Kellogg were very
successful during their Boston engagement.
Mr.. Booth desires it to be understood that the
story about his theatre passing into the hands OF
Jarrett Palmer, of Niblos Garden, is utterly with
out foundation.
Franz Liszt has refused to help the project OF
raising in Vienna a monument to Beethoven. He
had been solicited to contribute cantata and to
appear in public.
Mr.. 8. Lasar announces concert to take place at
the Brooklyn Academy OF Music on the 30th inst,
in which Miss Cementine Lasar, Mr.. s. b. Mills anu
Thomas full orchestra will appear.
Miss Nelson began an engagement in Philade-
phia on Monday evening, playing Juliet to a large
and enthusiastic audience. Her success in that
city has been very great, and the prospects are
cellcnt for most brilliant week.
Mr.. Gus Phillips (Oofty Gooft and George W.
Thompson refused to play in the middle Of q per-
formance at the Grand Opera House, in St. Louis
last Sunday night, becaase they had not been paid
by the management, and the curtain fell without
the piece being finished. 1t Is not clear who is
most to blame, but there seems to be fault on both
sides.
M. Alexandra Dumas received from nj. Steinitz,
theatrical agent at Berlin, letter asking for the
right Of having his next piece, LA Femme de
Claude" represented In the .russian capital. He
replied as follows:-
SIR have Just received your letter of December
IL 1872, in which You offer me 5000 francs to allow
my new play to be performed in Berlin. These
terms are not sufficient for me, as want Alsace.
Accept &C, A. DUMAS SOM.
Why don't Mr.. Onenbach take a hint from the
Sandwich Islands ? SO many sensuous themes
have employed his tropic-tempered pen that his
neshly cornucopia must betray signs Of giving out.
The kingdom Of Hawaii is almost as big as the
Grand Duchy OF Gerostein; and haliinaked
natives spangled with shells, as many beach
combers as might be desirable, and landscapes
teeming with tine frutage and brilliantplumaged
birds, would be just the locality for an Onen-
bachan libretto trimming with piquant pruren-
cles and accompanied with erotic music
The Italian emigrants who have lately swarmed
in our streets have excited good deal OF fatuous
comment. We hope we are betraying no secret
when we mention our suspicion that these swarthy
waits from the land OF dolce Jar nente are surrep-
titious importations of the nonplussed Maretzek.
brought hither with direct reference to Italian
Opera chorus. Whether it be Mr.. MaretzeK's in
tention to bring out ERA DiavOlo" in style OF
splendor exceeding ito the language OF the
conventional ADVERTISEMENT "anything that has
hitherto been seen upon the American stage" or
whether he contemplates raising new breed of
chorus singers, which shall hold to the tobac-
conists' wives OF avenue A the same relation which
the Woman OF the Future shall hold to the Girl OF
the Period, we are not prepared to say.
Even the hands or the Briarean Boucicault are
affected with the Darwin epidemic. We under
stand that next season. at the Olympic Theatre, in
this city, play is to be produced founded upon
Edgar Allan Poe's grotesque horror, ''The Murders
in the Rue Morgue," and having its principal char
acter therefore, interpreted by an educated ape
There is a quadrumanOus propriety in this. HUI
manity yearns after its original elements and we
listen reverently to the echoes OF apehood in our
CONSEQUENCES 1--WE are only little lower than the
angels, the other hand we are only little higher
than the apes; and Mr.. Boucicault, having sucked
all the meat out of the egg OF French drama, hav-
ing, in kerry" and 'Shaun the Post" created
Irish characters that Erin will not willingly let die
and having, in "FOrmOsa," given US speaking like
nesses of the Cora Pearls and Mabel Greys OF Paris
and London does wisely in turning his industry
into new channel, and endeavoring to elevate US
by placing before us our despised ancestor in the
light of new dramatic sensation.