, 1873-06-08

:, JUNE 8, 1873.
nazzie. g. Taylor
Charles Wtdmer
walter Aeuy
A'so<o. so L. A4o
DRAMATIC HoTEs.
J. B. Booth has purch ased y La Femme de
Ecu directly from Belot, the author
Ben De Bar has bought the Grand Opera
House in st. Louis.
q General Theatrical Fund, in place Of Charles
Dickens, licensed
An adaptation Of 'tTha Wandering Jew" by
Mr. Leopold Lewis, has been brought out st the
London Adelphi.
The house where Macrendy lived aud died Is
built as nearly as possible on the site where once
stood the" Old Birch Farm, " in which Mra. Sid
dons spent the closing years OF her life.
E. L. Davenport remains as manager OF the
Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, for the
next season, the rent being q certain per cent
age nightly OF the gross receipts.
According to q, London newspaper, Miss
Lydia Thompson gained more than one hundred
thousand dollars by her last "season in this
country;
new comedy, produced 1t tho Theatre Fran
czis; Rouen, with tho title of "sGur Isabelle"
is an adaptation Of shakspeare's " Measure for
The fixtures of:the st. James Theatre at Bos-
ton, which cost 900 few years since were
sold for about 81 600. Tie building is to be
Immediately torn down, and q handsome block
erected on the site. 80 =
The rector's garden Of flowers, In the first and
last acts OF "Eugene Aram," at the -Lyceum
Theatre is said to be the prettiest and best-pre-
pared garden ever placed upon the London
stage. -.
During the ten days that Barnuma chow was
in Boston twenty-nine exhibitions we're given,
and tho total number Of tickets sold was 243 642.
The receipts averaged about $4,000 n day, and
the expenses about s., 500, giving net profit OF
5000 for ten days.
Mademoisol1e Trente-six Vertus," by Il.
Araene Honssaye. produced at the Theatre de
rAmbigu Comiqne, is . kind OF caricature Of
La Dame aux Cameliaa." Thirty-six virtues is
q large number. Would not the fortunate pos
sessor make money in museum2
Mr. Berthe Vyse is new London writer OF
Comedies" j" and his first venture is "About
Town" 1t is is called "sombre" =" by q critic,
and is said to be "redolent OF that high-bred
romance which is the delight Of leisure hours in
kitchen and 'two-pair buck"
Rossi, the tragodian, is about to appear ct the
To-" Tie same actor lately appeared with great
SUCCESS at the Niccolini Theatre, Florence, in
translation OF Alexander Dumas play Of
'"Kean." The Grand Duchess Maria, Of Russia,
was among the audience.
"Tho Chicago Show" is what New Workers
call James Robinson's Circus. Speaking OF the
Indians in the show, newspaper says: Some
of those Sioux Indians looked IS il they might
have passed for Chicago white men had they
been well washed in the lake before they started
from home, aud then kept themselves out OF the
way OF paint"
The new Broadway Theatre now building at
No. 80 Broadway will cost 9200, ,000 and is to be
after the Alexandra Theatre in London. The
building is leased to Dion Bouccault for ten
years at s35, 900 per annum. William Stewart
will be the manager Of the new theatre, and
Boucicault has entered into an agreement to act
there for period OF five yeara.
committee Of actors, artists, and literary men
has been formed for the purpose of collecting
pnlisade, adorned by some equally appropriate
tablet, around the Shakespeare osk planted on
the tercentenary Of the poets birthday at Prim-
rose Hill. The tree was the gift Of the Crown,
and came from the royal forest at Windsor, and
it WAS planted by hr. Phelps, the trsgedian-
Stirling Coyne's drama. called "Home Wreck,"
hes been revived at the Holborn Theatre, Lon
don. The story ia identical with that OF "Enoch
Arden" except that the hero Of the play, whose
name is Richard 1renider, does not hide away to
die on his return, but has u conversation with
his "widow (who does not recognize him) and
then loses his life in = successful attempt to Save
the life Of bis rival.
Another man who meant to hang himself only
temporarily, found his dependent situation a
| permanent one- He was o negro acrobat from
jamaica and WAS exhibiting bis voluntary
| straugulation at Port Limou, in Costa Rica. His
! partner played the banjo furiounly, encouraging
him to increased efforts in his convulsons, and
WAS not persuaded that the poor fellow was dead
| until . Coroner's jury sat upon him and pro-
nounced life extinct.
It is reported in the Boston newspapers that
Mr. Arthur Cheney; che proprietor OF the Bos-
Of that establishment. He intends rebuilding
the theatre on the same site Immediately, and
informs his friends that tthe curtain will rise
in the new house on the evening Of Sept. 20,
1873" Tho members Of the company held =
meeting On Saturday and drew up a set OF reso-
Iutions expressing their sympathy with Mr.
Cheney and their sorrow at his misfortune.
Barnum is erecting in New York an iron build
ing in which to permanently exhibit three i'm
mense pictures, entitled ''London by Day."
"London by Might" and "Paris by Night"
These pictures are each seventy-fve feet high,
four hundred feet in circumference, with su-
perfcial area Of forty-aix thousand square feet.
Visitors in London will remember the gold line
that runs around the base Of the great dome Of
st. Pauls. This Is the golden gallery, and in
artist, spent the greater part OF four years IN
eketching the roofs OF the buildings which lay
stretched out beneath him for many mile IN
every direction.
At q Partisan theatre noted for tho psrnimony
OF it's management. curious incident recently
took place, One OF the scenes Of an old drama
represented q garret, with an INDECENT family
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