The New York herald., 1876-12-04
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES
Patti is in Russia
Joe Jefferson had q successful weeks season In Bel
fast last month.
Charles Mathews at last accounts playing "My
Awful Dad" at Leeds, England.
Nine. Essipof appears tonight in an entirely new
programme the Church of tho Edince, Brooklyn.
Huefor says that "melody is the daughter of the
quiet repose harmony and the throbbing motion Of
rhythm.n
Lucca sang at tho Brussels Monnaie November
CO. and great deal OF money made by the
manager
The Marscillais are accused OF kissing down every
Partisan artist who appears in their city, being nau
enced by jealousy.
On Friday evening the second concerto OF Camille
Saint-Saens will be given for the first time in this
country by Nine EssipoG
Three OF Mr. Jarrot's concert troupe, including
Faurc, ill., and his tour in the French provinces has
been brought TO a standstlL
Mile. Manduit. OF the Italian Opera. St. Petersburg
was unable endure tho rgor Of the Russian climate
and obliged to return to Paris
The Philadelphia Geological Garden has made many
additions to its collection OF animals recently They
are all winter quarters indoors and visitors
sec them without exposure to the weather.
When the ssFlying Dutchman" Company started on
their s,arrcd journey 10 the West the artists
was advised in case OF a financial crisis 10 seize the
Dutchman's ship and como home via the Erie Canal
Miss Charlotte Thompson IN "Jans Eyre" EAST
Lynne" and "Ingomar.n played at tho Walnut Street
Theatre, Philadelphia last week. "The Two Men OF
Sandy Bar with Stuart Robson, will DO played this
week.
According to q recent decision In London tho per-
formance OF dramatic work in . foreign country is
tho samc publication. and II there be interna.
ional copyright law the author foricits all his rights
in England.
Tho Chicago Tribune says that in tho Kellogg Eng
lish Opera Company 'here is aggregation of talen
which in excellence that the representa-
tion harmonious and complete, instead OF lame and
disjointed.n
The stern judges, who hold in hand the key OF
the gate immortality while the other feels tho pulse
OF the sovereign called public, seldom encourage the
young artists nrst effort Publishers naturally shy
Of launching the ominous opus / Of unknown CON-
poser
.'I.Espionne Francaise" the original "French Spy"
has been revived with all its oldtme attractions ut
the New National Theatre, Philadelphia The peerless
Morlacch-whosc wonderful industry entities her to
be called the IndcfatiGablc-not only assumes the
triple roe OF Ma,hde, Henri ST Alme and Hamet tho
spy but leads all the principal dances and ballots In
person.
Al the Arch Street Theatre Philadelphia, mmcdi-
ately in front OF tho litte Quaker meeting house,
where when short-haired schoolmistress, she made
her first appearance abolition debatcr, Miss
Anna Dickinson is play ing Anne Boleyn. in ssThc
Crown of Thorns" Tho audiences she draws, among
her old townspeople arc moro critical than cnthusi
nstic and they do not applaud her actress,
cannot but admire her courage and perseverance,.
s.Azurne, the spectacle produced tho Kiral-
fys' handsome little theatre Philadelphia founded
or Jules yerne's entertaining "Trip to the Centre
the Earth" But while the play bears little
bance the book rs perhaps the better for that for
theatrical purposes as It is the means OF introducing
brilliant baets effects Tho "Balict OF Ali
Nations which is danced while panorama OF the prin-
cpa cities OF the world changes the scene.
panied by characteristic national costumes and music,
and is one OF tho best features OF the piocc.