, 1875-10-10

The performances will alternate With thoee o
| Nosai in Italiaa. and the season will extend owe
si1tJ days. thirty plays boinK gwen.
Joseph Wheelock played star engngemen
last week at tue Rochester Opera-Hoaee'
| 'sAmos Clark; or, Tho Bar-Sinister-
"Around tho World in Eighty Days has bee'
! withdrawn from the New York Academy OF Mu
s!c The managers can hardly have gotten on
| eloar.
Alexander Dumas is said to have finished hi'
| rrest work for tho Comedie Franchise. I
| will be entitled "Monseiur Condoule," O.
"LEtrangere.
fdadarne Ristori letelv PLAYED an engagement
| ut Sydney. in New South Wales. one week o
which yielded her, it is said, net profit o.
about SIC, ,0l3 IN gold.
John Dillon, supported By the Arch Stree
Theatre Company, Philadelphia, commences AZ
| ongagemcilt ut the Academy Of Muslc, Raltl
| moro, tomorrow eTsuing.
| Ktte and Isabel Batemau, the talented daugh.
| tors ct the late II. L. Bateman, have abandoned
| their intention Of visiting this country during
| the present seasou- They will appear next year.
Cincinnati approves Of tue New Chicago
| Theatre company, which is giving :. The Two
Or,hans' there. The Gazette says that OF the
thirty-two characters cast in the play there 1e
net sirgle one who does not merit public ep-
| probation.
Mons. Jn1os Verne has already poclzeted
sGo,0o0 by his play, "La Tour du Monde"
HIS books, numerous and popular as they are,
have never brought him in 30 much. The piece
has beon played372 times coneecutivoly at Porte
St. Martin.
Nile. Venturoli, who will be remembered as at
one time d leading danseuse at Crosbys Opera
House in this city, during the 'White Fawn
and "Undine" performances, had D benefit in
Philadelphia 1ately. She has been suffering
from D p.ralytic stroke for the last two years..
Mr. George Favcett Rows has just completed
new local dramn il fve acts, which it is In
tended to produce on the principal stage OF New
York. Tho action progrosso3 Mt molnentons
period ct the city history, aud its Incidents are
impressive.
"Rose Michel wes, after all no great loss to
Augustio Daily. Competent critics say that,
when produced, it ia sure TO be failure In
Paris, with one OF the greatest living actresses,
Mile. Fargeutl, as the heroine. it had bat very
limited run, and in London it fell through at its
fourth representation.
Mr.. E. L. Davenport hiss sustained conven-
lent injury, just severa enough to ansWer as n1
advertisement. and to Let him out Of m engage
nnent ct Troy which promised to be Improbable.
He sprained his wrist In falling in Macbeth
Friday week, but managed to close out his en-
gasnment in Philadelphia, since which time ho
has been resting.
The Cincinnati Commercial does not agree
uith the Now York Tribune that there is nothing
dramatic in George Washington's character. Fhe
former authority says 81 Nothing dramatic, in
decd! II we could get the genuine old George
on the stage, and get burst Of true inwardness
out Of him, there would be at least dramatic
situation or two. James Parton and Mark Twain
together ought to try q Washingtonian drama"
When the curtain rose at the Pittsburg
Academy Of Music Monday night. tho Mckee
Rankin company appeared sitting like a miustre!
tronpe,-nr, Us 3 local print has it, ''dressed in
citizens ciothes." Mr.. Vandenhon explained to
the audenco that an injunction had been issnsd
the matter would be fought odt to the bitter end
i'll the courts. The curtain was then rung down,
aud the audience slowly dispersea. No adnlis-
sion fec was charged for this novel and enter
tanning performance.
During the week beginning tomorrow, new
home production ia to be brought out for the
frst time on any stage. at the Grand Opera
edy. entitled - White 8ulnhur OF, 4 Dag at tho
Springs" from the pen OF Charles E. Callahan
Esq, Prosecuting Attorney Of tho Police Court.
Az tho title would indicate. the play is founded
Springs, ". Va. and without being At all ferci-
ca1 the piece ahounds in humorous as we'll as pa
thetio situations.
Speaking OF the extraordinary simplicity dis
tinguishing certain theatrical pisces OF the pEes-
ent period, Franc,sque Sarcey tells uB OF q drama
which was written by Guizot at the age Of l2,
aud certainly reached the extreme limit Of the
quaiity in question. The Stage represents an
opon space IN . forest. a woman, weeping Bit
terly, is seated in front, !enning against q tree.
Enter o gendarmo. Gendarme-'4 Why arc you
weeping my good woman ?" The womaa-"Ah,
sir, am tho mother Of seven children, and have
no bread for them to cat" Gendarme-" Good
heaven whnt misfortune u Draws his sabre
aud stabs her. The WOMAN dies Of agitation and
agony. Curtain falls.
Tho new Eagle Theatre IN New York, which
has been erected during the last summer IN
Sixth avenue, at its junction with broadway, BY
Josh Hart the well-known theatrical manager.
is now finished, and is to be opened for the win
Ter dramatic season tomorrow. The auditorium
il IS By 65 feet, and the stage 40 feet deop By
LOO feet broad. n The scenery is now in prepara-
lion under thd direction Of Matt Morgan The
irop-curtain is fine specimen Of scenic art. 1t
SAs painted by Morgan, and has q groundwork
IT white satin. with medallion in the centre
representing the btrth,,iace Of Washington. The
cost of the structure, inside from the value Of tie
ots, is about 500, 600. The theatre will be used
rofv I'M.