The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-06-27
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
New York city is full of unemployed pro.
fessionals.
Managers say the theatrical season will
open very early this fall.
Miss Anna Louise Cary will sing at the
Bowdoin college commencement
Miss Nelson has been re-engaged by Max
Strakosch for next season on the old terms.
1t has been decided to build the Brooklyn
theater on its old site. Work Will be COM
menced at once.
Miss Josie Bailey, having married Mr..
Walter A. Etynge, has adopted the stage
name of Josephine Etynge.
The London Court Circular says that the
philadelphia Exhibition" march, by Wag.
ner, is "a commonplace composition of no
permanent value"
Lydia Thompson is seen daily driving her
pair of Arabian ponies in Regent park,
London. Her collection of jewels is valued at
more than 100000, one necklace alone hav-
ing cost $37, 900.
Mr.. Morris Simmonds will be Mr.. John
Brougham's manager during the latter's fare
well tour Mr. Brougham is to appear in
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After this tour he returns to private life.
Edward c. Cushman, nephew and adopted
son OF the dead actress is materially inn
proving the villa, one of the prettiest in
Newport, which was built by the deceased
lady, and in which she took so much com
fort during the last summers of her life.
Vice Chancellor Malins has Just decided,
in the case of Boosey VS.. Fairrie, that the
registration of the voice and piano forte
score of an opera does not protect the full
score, or, in other words, does not protect
the opera itself, in the only form in which
it could be represented on the stage.
Clara Morris has new play for next sea-
son. Frank Mayo also will appear in new
play, Virginia" by BARLEY Campbell.
will add new play to their list: Lily Vim
ing Davenport Mrs. Frost-Thorne) has a new
play written for her named ''Steel Webs"
Mckee Rankin will appear in Joaquin Mil
ler's new play in the fall.
While Doubray, popular actor, was play
ing in Paris few nights ago, his peculiarly
tight silk unmentionables gave way up the
back, and poor Doubray, thus suddenly
transformed from an operate archduke into
a representative of Mr.. Richard Dout, of nur-
sery song fame, was forced to back off the
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BILE, amid the roars of laughter of the audi
ence.
"London Assurance was produced by
some amateurs recently in a certain New
England village. The house was crowded,
and when the programmes were passed
around it was noticed that a suppressed
smoker began to pervade the Juvenile por-
ton of the assemblage. This was subse-
quently explained by the discovery that the
young lady who officiated as village school
marin was down on the bill to appear as
Lady Gay Spanker." Then the older people
began to laugh too.
Mr. Charles Coghlan, the actor, belongs to
an old and noted Irish family. He was
born in Paris in 1874, and was educated in
that city. His first intention was to become
an artist and he studied painting under
Cabanel, and about the same time, too, he
walked the hospitals in Paris for two years,
but gave up both painting and medicine
for the stage. After going on the stage he
played both in English and French, in the
latter case acting for some years in the prov
inces, though never in Paris.
1t is said that five-year-old girl, named
Comma Cuniberti. is a star at one of the
Florentine theaters. She is lovely, and plays
marvelously, walking the stage with as much
freedom as if she had trod il all her life
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wife of Salvini, the tragedian, made her a
gift of precious necklace, and the Princess
Royal Margherita expressed her appreciation
in beautiful and valuable present. Cava-
liere Rossi, the tragedian, predicts for her a
splendid career, and that she will improve
with age until she becomes the greatest ac-
tress the world has ever seen.
John Mccullough tells good story of his
recent trip through New York He was
playing at the modern Syracuse John Ban
| inns noble play of the ancient Syracuse
Damon and Pythias." Damon: when he
hears of the election of Philistius as presi-
dent mournfully says: There is now no
public virtue left in Syracuse" At this
point hard handed old farmer, from some
where along the line of the canal, being car
ried away by the illusion of the play, and
indignant at the slur on Syracuse, rose up,
| and solemnly remarked, "If you come to
that, neither is there in Uhky"