Omaha daily bee., 1877-04-02
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,


success in Manchester.
The brothers Thorn are engaged
to give q series of concerts In Berlin.
Herr Niemann will be at Leipsic
and Cologne in April and at Ham,
burg In May.
Or. Mosenthal has beaueathed to
the Society of the Friends Of Music,
Vienna, all his authors rights IN his
opera librattos.
Nineteen thousand francs have
bsen subscribed up to the present
toward the erection of o monument
to Felicien David.
Miss Rose Eytinge closed her en-
gsgement In Portland, Me-, on Sat
urday night. Miss Fancy Marsh
will play this week.
The Brussels Musical C~onservato-
~ has adopted with success the plan
OF giving performances with COM
positions written by the students
themselves
John Nc Cullough hiss just finish
ed a weeks engagement at the
Walnut Street Theater, Philadel-
phia. He will be succeeded by the
Oates English Comic Opera Com
pany.
The practice Of entire companies
travelling about is now beginning to
find fovor in Germany as we'll as
elsewhere. During the month OF
May the operatic company from the
Stadt-theater, Hamburg, will per-
form at the Stadt-theater, Bresian.
A very unusual compliment has
been paid to the singer, Nine. Ire
| belli- Bettini, at Copenhagen, the
king having personally handed to
her the Danish decoration ''Litteris
| ct Artibus"-a decoration which 10
all The more coveted BE 1t ia very
rarely given; especially to foreign
ers
Mr.. John s. Clarke will soon re-
sumo the control of the Haymarket
Theatre, London, where Mr. Joseph
Jefferson has agreed TO appear 10
IA Regular Fix" 1t is not i'm
probable that both OF these distin-
guished American actors will play
together in comedy, and thus re-
new in the meridian of their powers
the dramatic eompaDionshlp of
more than twenty years ago. The
combination Will be as ARE as brill
liant.
Gounod was leaning out of his box
at the Theatre Lyric, in Paris a few
evenings since, at the first represen-
tation of the "Timbre d'Argent,"
and was following the music SO in
tently, with his eyes fixed OH the
score. which he held In his hand,
that the audience began watching
him. Suddenly a voice in the gal
lery SAID: "That fellow in the box
Wants to make us think that he can
read music"
G. w. Couldock, the well known
actor, has had a translation made OF
a French military drama, written
for the great French comedian,
+ rederis Lemaitre, and played by
him for two seasons with great sue
cess. Mr.. Couldock calls his Eng
lish version "The Sacred Trust ; or,
The Orphans OF the Battle Field
He assumes Lemaitre's part of Cor
poral Antoine. a faithful old soldier.
whose o ,tunes and mlsfortunes the
piece represents in a very thrilling
and melodramatic manner. The
play was produced for the first time
last week at the Museum, in Phils'
delphia , and has been very well re
ceived.
The following is a list OF the
dramatic and musical companies
now travelling through the country
kelly & Leon Ministries, Buffalo
n. Y; Joseph Murphy, "Kerry
Cow" Milwaukee, Wis: John T
Raymond, "Colonel Sellers )" Franz
E.. Aiken, maud Miller" Boston
Mass: Lewis Morrison, tom Cobb
Providence, R. l.; George r. Rowe
"Brass," Richmond, Va; Dior
Boucicsuit, "Shaughraun," Chica
go, ILL.,; W. J. Fleming, "Custer ant
His Avengers" New Haven, Conn.
William Carleton, 1.-TWO Found
Iings" Jersey City, h. J.; J. E
McVicker, Edwin Booth, Spring
field, Mass. Jarret & Palmer, "Fiftl
Avenue" Philadelphia; W. R
Deutsch Nv. J. Florenre), "Might,
Dollar" Boston, Mass; II. ]. Sarg
emit (Boucicauli), "ForbiddenFruit,
Buffsllo, N. Y; William Carleton
"The Catalpa Six" Jersey City.