, 1876-11-12

gested By the recent escape Of the Fcntan PTS
| oners from Australia. will be i'll four acts, the
first occurring i'll Dublin, the second in Boston;
the third ut the Australian Convict Colony, ano
the last aboard ship at sea
| The New York Tribune says: IA priVate let
ter FROM Mr.. Edwin Adams, in Australia, states
that lie has been sl,ipw rocked and seriously i'll,
but is very much better and playing to crowded
| houses" Per contra, the Dramatic 4pens has
| positive information that Adams is dead
| FOREIGN NOTES.
| Mr. Irving is to have historical play written
| for him by Mr.. Wills.
A company Of French actors is now perform
ing French comedies In the Royalty Theatre,
| London. They have already produced t'Le Pa
nachc" and "Les Vieux Garcons-n
Mr.. W. s. Gilbert says Of modern dramatic
| literature, through the mouth OF Tom Cob:
ss Like provincial Hichard LII it may not be
very good, or very strong, but It takes a long
time dying.h
Miss Bella Pateman, . wcll-known American
actress, was to have made her London debut as
Lady Ctancarty at the Olympic Theatre Oct %.
Mr. Barry Sullivan will next appear as Macbeth
at Drury Lane.
The French Minister des Beaux ARTS has for
hidden the production Of new play by the au-
thor Of "Rome Vaincue" at The Odeon, not
wishing to have both the important subsidized
theatres Of Paris occupied with the works OF an
italian.
M. Divert, the French dramatic author, who
died the other day, though writer Of lively
comedies, always wore an extremely melancholy
appearance, which SO strangely contrasteu with
his brilliant and playful Imagination that witty
Henri Burger said he resembled coffin With
cap and bells.
th1a}emoiseIlc Uidierh at the Paris Gymnase
has failed. The dependence Of the managers
now is on Alexandra Dumas new piece, which
is to be called lila Comtessc Roman" :" instead
Of LIE Mari dun Etoile." The plot treats of
the misadyenturcs Of nobleuan married to a
prima donna.
The new Court Theatre in Dresden, OF which
the first stone WIS laid in 1871, is now fast ap
preaching completion. It will be, the German
papers assert, the finest edtce OF the kind in all
Germany, rs ,7e1l for its size as for the magni6-
sence of its decorations. It s:affhnsed to seat
1000 spectators. 'i'.~'"
Paul Nicart, director in his time OF many OF
the small theatres in Paris, is dead. He usually
dated his correspondence from the Debtors
Prison of ClchY. One day Dumas called on
llirn. The turnkey said that N: Nicart had left
the prison that morning. Well, l. will wait
till he returns," answered Dumas and took
chair.
Of & Pccksniff" at the Folly Theatre failure,
and says no writer OF fiction whose works have
been adapted for the stage has been treated with
more persistent i1l-fortune than Dickens This
seems Il pretty sweeping, assertion to make, IN
view OF 'sDayid Copperfeld,' >" Little Emily" J"
"All for Her." Bleak House, and ''Nicholas
Nickleby."
The leading idea of "Pierrcttc ct Jacquot, -
the last farce Of N. Gillc, to which, NJ. Often
bach has supplied music is droll. A. man, vino
By mistake has been awarded medal for herl-
ism in saving life, finds his conscience trouble
him at wearing All unearncd distinction, and
lays himself out to merit his honors. Impatient
of delay, he plunges ut length into torrent
after an imaginary victin and. after cxtricating
himself, finds himself worthy to bear his decorar
tim