, 1877-05-13

kue ttuutty, Will open On the 1QkE-FFOnI To- Iue
row afternoon. and remain there through the wee
Among the animals likely to amusc the CURIOUS .
Six performing elephants hpDopotamus tsaId
% ahe o9ly one In Ameriea,: ngers siaas, anu
| and under the strictest management II il ve
turing nothing to say that it will be largely p
| trontzed during the week, aud Will leave the ct
with ! reputation higher than that which 1t brin
here.
I GENERAL NOTES.
Clara Morris sails for Europe June II.
Mrs. John Drew has left for California to play
engagement 1t the California Theatre.
Ben Dc Bar has been doing FalstaT in Sar Fra'
cisco, to the delight Of the citizens there.
The ], ,Oooth performance Of "Davy Crockett
By Frank Mayo occurred In Rochester May TO-.
"Ah Sin, ''-tbe new play Of Bret 1larte an
Mark Twaiu-had only success d'esft'ne In Wash
ington.
sothcrn, Clarke, and Jcderson-a notablc trio
| will be seen at the Walnut Street Theatre, Phila
| dclphia. next season.
Kate Cla1ton and her husband, Dorc Lyon, har
been reconciled, and the cross suits for divorc
! hare been discontinued.
Rijou Heron's acting as !sniks ut the unfo
Square Theatre, New York, Is not much admired
She has evidently been pushed forward too rapidly
/ 'tHenry w was played in Atlanta recently
| and one ndd1cr constituted the entire orchestra
In the furious battle scenes" says the Constta
{ion, his bow flashed across the strings like shin
| Ing strokes Of swords"
Mr. John Mccullough will shortly give pcrfor
| mances At the Brooklyn Academy Of Alnsc, uude
| the management Of alr. James Collier. There is
! rnmor thai Edwin Booth and John Mccullough viii
| of OtAelto and lago.
Emc Ells1er brought ont Barley Campbell's
"icroine in Rags Ut the Arch Street in Phsladel.
| phia Monday. Both play and actress were warmly
enport succeeds her. Jeanette Gilder's play OF
"tQuits" WAS not successful at the Chestnut
t'0ur Boarding House will soon be revived at
this theatre; also Byron's comedy Of Married in
HASTE.
+ Celia Logan writes to the San Francisco Cali that
the woman who has been seen with Oakey Hall in
London cannot be Blanche Grey, the actress, be-
cause the description does not agree Miss Grey is
very light blonde, about 10 years old. As II her
history: - Blanche Grey and Rose Eytinge have
been friends from grlhood; the former was Tempt
Cd 10 20 upon the stage in order 10 be near her
she WIS stage gc-6truck."
The second week OF Edwin Booths engagement
At the Boston Globe witnessed the production Of
~; .namlet. IT, " The Fools Reyens9'' 'Riehe
lie remains another Week Clara Siosris S playea t
'tCxnile " to large audiences AMI with great sue
cess artisticatly. at the Boston Theatre. Mrs
dar afternoon; she was assisted by .Mr. John Nc
C,l1ough. Our Boarding. House" was done at
the Museum by the company.
Maggie Mitchell and the .'Eyanecline combi-
natien have been playing in New England towns.
The Union Square Company has been giving Les
Danichefs" at Brooklyn. Rose Eytinge and
Frank Mayo have been in provincial cities of New
York. sothern was last at Toronto: Crane and
at baltimore. They will give way next week to
PaIsloe with his new play q All Sin." Lotta is
to begin an engagement in Washington to morrow,
Soldene was lust week at Cincinnati. Mrs Oates
was ut Milwaukee and Indianapolis.
The Dramatic Ntus says: miss Katharine
I:oTcrs has been definitely engaged lending lady
Of the Union Square Theatre next season. Winter,
srit:c Of The Irioune starts for Europe next sntur
day IN the Dtltarnic to TIC gone until September.
The benefit to Mr.. Lamb, the comedian who was
SO severely burned some months ago Ut the Oylm-
the BROOKLYN Academy Of Music. nfternoon ~ and ID
evening. The attractions will comprise ,Iohu E.
Owens II; ;soon shinsle: j. II. studdart In Long
Strike; Wallack's company, portion Of paIy'ss
and many OF the Union Square,
Nr. Owen Fawcetr has secured the right TO pro-
duce Days version OF - Lemons" in which he
does Major !e It GoGsseegy s and The By BONANZA
months Of June, July, and august and be IL is en-. en-
gagged TO do the above parts rs follows: Dayton,
.. -. Nay = one night; Cleveland. May 15, dve
an %s; s. Ssn ss Nay gts sI paha NGn
Theatre, Philadelphia, for ono night. June 5, for
rhen he goes through the States Of New York.
Michigan: and Wisconsin, and returns to the Fifth
Avenue Theatre in September, 1877, beginning
1ts elS LII eE0Spu uulET u8lJ.
Miss Nelson played V;o'a in '.Twelfth Night"
ttendunce was large and the critics, with the ex-
:eptton Of the one Of the World, enthusiastic.
donapS p.ys s"d The saf
It the Grand opera- -uouse, whcre re-
se ,1l,os seats are sold for $50, cents Al
Nondav h
md Marie Wainwright, granddaughter Of the |
are playing e5ief engagement at Booths,
gnai IN co sec5s al tbe Pas
minated last night kosedae is 70 BE- ieriSed
o-morrow.
Miss Adelaide Nelson says Of the women Of
shakespeare: - It would take volume 10 classify
hem: Each and every one is a different creation, |
md their chaEaeeFs illustrate peculiar comparisons
u mind and force, IN the character ofDesa<m0Ma
se see powerful illustration OF conju.al t!evo-
orrowiu fate in i*aletags IS displayed n hsa ge
II Constance is seen the highest forms OF maternal
Igony: in Nnrqarft " -4njou. The sternest cuer-
:ies Of our scx; n Katharine, the completeness OF
c>lsnat'on; in Eosatind, wit and romance; in |
Cleopatra, the beginning and end OF coquetry; in
tnoQea. an affection that IS dca,hess; IN uphefia,
he late OF broken heart aud maddeneu brain; In
u h'ial obedience, in nirdadds innocence; sweet
less in that Ut Anne Page; aud playful freedom |
n that Of .Iess;ea 1n all Shakespeare shows true
appreciation of female excellence, and he makes |
hem talk and ACT like true women"
FOREIGN NOTES.
The revival OF Massingerfs New Way to Pny ]
I'D Debts" at the St. James' did not apparently |
rove attractive. It's place was taken BY Mir. t
;haries Reade's ''Vandering Heir, in which Mrs.
ohn Wood sustained her original part Of Philippe.
Kate Fields comcdietta, Extremes Meet, " has I
urvived the general change Of Easter, and finds |
clsn ia that her acting is too quiet too much like
hat OF lady performing tn her own drawing- |