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;ai"co<tA: and Hamlet, Don Felz, at the Thcatr
! Royal, Drury Lane, and pronounced the ''oEn
tion nIou thc Genius OF Shakespeare - my fc1vcn
reception ''homc" WINS hailed with renewed ap
plause by the same generous audiences; md. NOR
recently. by 1000 persons, IN one evening: II
| N1nso's Theatre, 10 wl'ness my Richard ~. Mos
| eycntfu' lic and shall proudly acknowledge then
ID. VI upon the evening of the cath inst, attc
| my peTsonation OF the Last OF the Plantngen
sts." lzemain the uubie's faithful servltcur,
| ''Thc Uncrushed,'
/ GEORGE, THE COUNT doAsSEs.
| Formerly ''GEoE0E JONES'"
now EvANGELlNE GREW.
| Mr. ]. Checycr Goodwin, iu the course Of {
chat with the New York Herald, makes the fol
| lowing candid Acknowledgement as to tue sue.
cess Of bis now popular burlesque:
1t is now i've years since - Evangcline" was
Globe. but only comparative. for the piece wa.
] not then what it il now. nm NOT in the slightest
degree able 10 explain the reason OF the long. CUT.
| timed popularity Of "'Evansellne" here, but
have come TO tho conclusion that it Is pleasing to
Bos.onians in the same way that baked beans and
goldfish ure. 1t Is habit, 40 to al,eak. TO 20 and
sce it, just s it IL custom 10 rat beans on sun
day. IL is certainly nut account Ut the merit
Of tue picce honestly think 1t is because they
have seen it SO often that they feel sort IT pro-
prietarY right in It, and they 20 in order to sec
whether anybody has been tanpering with their
property IN any way. have seen and heard 70
many changes in the text that can hardly recos-
tile picco the Que wrote. Billy Crane told
me last sumner tlat In found himself constantly
quotn. what he said ut Nibos, alt only the lOok
Of surprise Of the person BE- was addressing would
- Ernngenc' has been source Of qualification
more because of private associations than on
count OF its public success. When We were all
playing in it. we were regular happy famity.
N,lc why it has run SO lung without jealous
les tue part Of the ieadiu. people is, nndoubea
aucet For instance, l>e Dtanc and the Lone Fish
tymaa oasc. each other; ana go with Er4ag<liae
aud Gabriel, ana oticss. This WIS mol rscmedi-
tated on our part. howcvcr:it it all happened so.
Mast OF The characters have been elaborated by the
people who have taken them. was surprised,
tile last time saw the policeman. the character
was 30 totally different from The one wrote up.
NEW YORK NOTES.
The title OF the extravaganza for which Mr..
JOHN Hrous',am is writing tile libretto aud Mr..
Edward +. Rice is composing tho music is
"'rlle lotos."
At the unon Square Theatre "The Mothers
Secret" is to he replaced OH Monday by an
adaptation CT Feuiilett's "Montjoge." bearing
tue title, ''Thc Man Of Success"
Juhn Brousham's health continues slowly to
improve Ills iron constitution has withst God
most severe and pcrilnus attack. He remains
III feeble condition, but is out OF danger.
MIR, Couldock, Miss Annie Elmondson, and
Mr.. William Burroug.ls-brotncr of the lutte
Claude Burroughs, tho unfortunate young man
who pcrislcd among the victims of the Brook
lyn Theatre firt-llayc bccn added to the stock
company Of the Fifth Avenue Theatre.
4 ]incal descendant Of Thomas jefferson, a
lady whose talent is said to be above the
ordinary, will appear very shortly at one Of the
Brooklyn theatres i'll tentative role, that Of
dd,ienue Lreourrer. By singular coincidence
this is the choice OF Helen Modjeska in her debut
in New York.
The dramatic company that act With Miss Da-
vcnport at Booths Theatre comprises Mr..
George VandenhotI, Mr.. Cnurlcs Fisher, Mr.
Dayiugc, Mr.. Haf'lenberg. Mr.. Herbert Barry
more, Mr.. Owen Fawcett, Mr.. John Drew, Mr..
George Parkes, Mr. Frank Bennett, Mrs. Gil
bert, and Miss Drew ''As You Like It" and
"TwelitL Night" arc announced.
Steele Macakyc's ucw drama "Won at Last 4"
has been assaulted by the 3.t7t the ground OF
immortality, wnercupon the author rushes into
print i'll sc}i-Gelcnsc. He says: * AS marriage
ulakes or unmakcs both THE individual and uni
yersal man, it seems quite time that art should
join hands with science, and, treating this SUBJ
ject with the earuestness it deserves, scck
through the medium Of entertainment to ins,ill
into the youth Of to-day fine: sense of marital
love. This have earnestly cndcayored to TO,
aul it seems strange NOW that this Try Of in,-
morality should be raised against u play written
AMI performed in this spirit"
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. Barton Hill has been acting Macbeth at
the California Theatre, San Franclsco.
4 monument, commemorative Of Edwin Ad-
ams, will be ercrted at his grave By his widow
Rignolu is alleged to have thrown supe
across the stage the other night. ite will be
quarrcling with his bread and butter next.
Harry R. Williams has written Chinese song
for Charles Pars!oc, irhich the latter has intro
duccI in 'Danites." 1t is ridculously funny
Miss Clara Morris raised sl,79s for the Custer
Monument Fund, by her (tnatinee) performance
Of "Janc Eyre" at Wallack's Theatre, last
month.
More than 100 readers, lecturers, and small
show proprictors are cavorting around Boston,
but they give this city the go-by. The police ar
rangelncuts were never better.-New York 4uer-
rurY.
The engagement OF Charles r. Thorne, Miss
Fanny Morant, Ida Vernon, and Aiaudc Harri-
son ut Baldwin's Theatre. San Fraueisco, has
been renewed f0r an additional four weeks in
Of tllcir SUCCESS
4 Boston paper ANNOUNCES that Mr. Jacob N. |
Ihonlnll, for many years 4 favoritc at the |
Boston Museum, is HOW an inmate OF the For
est Honfuin Philadelphia II such announc &C. |
ncnts are to 60 the rounds, it will have the |
good effect Of preserving actors from decay and |
keeping the Forrest Home empty.
MT Florence CnankS LnaL ne sees fle d0Wn OF |!
better day tor the stage in the decay of the
ephcmcral that has set iu. ave shall return !
y and by,' he says ito some OF the best ira t
litipns Of the past, from which We have broken
way too thoughtlessly. 1t will not be long be-
ore The public will demand more in tleading
uyenile man than the capacity to dress III the
lcyht Of fashion, and to lean gracefully upon
tie oack Of q sofa.''
English papers complain that first night au-
[iencc does not fairly represent public opinion,
uL is mainly composed Of fauit-tinders or |
ricnds Of the management vino go to applaud |
vcyythinr and everybody without discrimina- J
ion. The criticism is to a certain extent cor
cct- The initial performance is usually little ]
lore than full-tlress rehearsal, III which cur
enters, scenc-sliiftcss, and performers arc ex-
ecteu to overcome their ncryousuess. Good !
ackiunc, however, will generally merit SUCCESS |
II even the first uight.-4'cu York Usrald.
Sardou's drama. "The Exiles," has been a
reat success ut Boston. The Herald saws: ]
Mcssrs. Ionpkius u Hill are to pe con- !
ratuiatcd OH the success OF their first expcri-
lent in tue proprietorship OF great play
hey risked between Si0 00U and S50. 900 il, the
euturc, but they proceeded judjciously and
arcfully; and the immense audiences which
ave crowded the Boston Theatre at exery per-
during the past week have proved that
heir judgment was sound, and that tkey
y no means uisinterpreted the DRIFT Of popular
lste."
Lydia Thompson despairs of the drama In
at least in New York. In conver-
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