Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-12-06
MUSICAL AND DRAM ATTIC.

Miss Thursby appears in concert here at
Lincoln hall. December II. she will be assisted
by Franz Kennel, the pianist, Mr.. AdamousSi,
an excellent violiniSt. Mile. Bumenberg and
Miss Winant Miss Thursby is without doubt
the greatest concert singer on the stage Her
success in London and Paris was almost
without parallel, and her recent trlumphS in
New York have been very great There WAS
large outpouring Of people to welcome her to
her old home in Brooklyn. Mr.. Strakosch stat IS
that he intends to make the concert here the
musical event of the season.
The production of "Pinafore" by Gilbert
and sullivan its authors, at the Fifth Avenue
1heater. New York, has been the event of the
wee X N that city. The house was crowded by
large and fashionable audience and the arrange
mcnt was so different that 1t was very enjoyable
TO those who had often seen ii. Mr.. sullivan
was called on for speech and spoke of Pima
fore" as an effort to produce something that
should be innocent but not be imbecile."
-Tennyson has written one act play on
story from the Decameron, and 1t has been ac-
cepted by the managers of the new st. James
Theater in L0ndon,-So says Truth, and de-
scribeS it as ga perfect gem OF delicate and path
etc humOr and tender grace
Frank Mayo is now playing in the Caitor-
mia Theater, San Francisco; not only in "Davy
Crockett" but in Man and Wife" 1.-The Streets
of New York." and Campbells play OF THE Viz
ginians."
There has been an elopement from among
Col Mapleson's Italian opera troupe.-Senor
Aramburo running away with Sonora Adm, and
noth OF them from their engagements with
MapeSon. They are man and wife, and neither
has proved a popular favortte.
Edwin Booth is playing to large houses in
the opera house corner of 18th avenue and 23d
street. New York but his .'Rchelieu" is not COM
mended by the critics. 1t is not the robust
Rfchelieu OF Mccullough.
- Schiler's youthful play ''The Robbers" was
presented at the Thalia in the Bowery, New
York, last week, for the first time in New York
~ EnryS q t,nra rnb
berS beside the chiefs. There is but one woman
in this powerful play.
Martin Luther, no other, was the hero of a
recent Sunday matinee at the Theatre deS Ma
| tionstn Paris 1t was French version of play
by Zacharias Werner, an eccentric German who
was Protestant when he wrote it about seven
ty-fve years ago. but afterward became u Ro-
man Catholic priest.
The san reports receipts of s37 900 at the New
York theaters Thanksgiving Day. It's figures
are generally lower than those Of the Times.
but perhaps the most likely to be correct. The
popular favor is indicated by the fact that the
most money was taken at NibloS, where the
kiralfyS have been running spectacle for over
four months.
The American tenor Charles Adams, in
tends to organize Boston operate society, to
bring out several operas. The idea is not bad,
but Mr.. Adams wants to begin with .Lohen,
grill" and ''TannhaSer," and we call that rather
bold beginning for new society. Does Mr..
Then good-by to the Boston operate society,"
Musical and Dramatic Times.
A Detroit bOarding-hOu parrot broke forth
the other evening with 81 polished off the
handle so carefullee," ETC., in so correct and
spirited fashion that everybody was startled.
1t was then found by little urging that he
could sing several other airs from this provok-
1ngly familiar opera whose airs are really quite
as haunting as Mark TwainS punch, brothers,
punch"
Mime Essipof will arrive in this country
before New Years to join the Strakosch concert
company, whose present bright particular star
Is Emma Thursby, the soprano.
Maggie Mitchell'S new play of ''Trix" Is
pronounced success.
Lawrence Barrett was lately playing at
Pixies, Cincinnati well-bearded stranger in
quired at the boX-office, "What is this play OF
.Yorick's Love- about? Didn't Shakespeare write
it," To avoid discussion, the tlcket-seiler
nodded his head affirmatfvely. ''That5 what
thought responded the bearded man, 81 used
to know Yorick when he was working in Ham,
let, and I'm darned If amt a-goin' to see him
now he's bossing the job Gimme 50 cents worth
O. paSteboard."
-Mapleson's Italian opera season is signt-
tngly spoken of, on the whole, there being In
amin and Cary, and certainly an opera troupe
without real prima-donna will never do.
Better things are hoped for when Mile. Mari
mon appears. She has just arrived.
Harold Forsberg has been trying his hand
at ':Romeo" in the far southwest, and Texas
critic t1attered him by saying he proved "even
more attractive than the original and now de-
funct circus elephant Of that name"
Mrs. Burpett's "Haworths" has been drama
tiled under the title of s'Loved and Lost" and
has been played in England.
H. E. Abbey Is organizing pantomime COM
pany of about 100 persons, among whom will be
MeSsrs. Maffit, Bartholomew and Robert Frazer.
The Routledges, of London, have issued a
Christmas annual called 'iThe Stage-Door of
which over 40, 900 copies have been sold. Actors
supply all the material and Henry Irving, II. j,
Byron, Toole, Bancroft Mrs. John Wood and
John Gilbert, are few of the contributors.
There isn't dull page in the volume.
Concerning Adelaide Nelson, the Musical
and Dramatic Times grows wrathy at the slurs
| made with considerable publicity upon her
character mo actress, It says; has been less
such reports. A popularity Of her attractive
ness, and this of itself is potent defence against
scandal Is the admiration she eXciteS among
other women"
This is the vigorous way the New York cor
respondent of the London Musical World ham
dies popular opera company. whose head Is a
Ftnd-hearted little body, and has received much
| ofher praise for that reason: 1.-THE musical sea-
son In New York opened early this year with an
English version Of Masses ''Paul ct Virginie,"
given by the Emma Abbott Grand English opera
company. The company is made up OF Mrs
Zelda Seguin-the wife Of the buffo singer, Ed
ward Seguin, who died few days ago at the age
! of 42-a worthy woman with a fine contralto
| voice and an excellent artistic training; Miss
| Emma Abbott, of whom you In England know
| something and who entertains a mistaken
notion to the effect that she is a second Patti;
| Tom Karl, weak little tenor; Castle, likewise a
| tenor who used to sing with Parepa once, but
| now without voice; and half dozen persons
with no qualifications for anything In particular
| so far as the public can see. In the shape In
| in which the company gave "Paul ct Virginie,"
| 1t is kind of libel to father the work on MaSSe
| The, libretto informed the public that the plot
was taken from BeTnardin de st. Plerre'S TO-
| nance, and it would have been just as well to
credit him with the music; too, for it certainly
| was not Masses. local hack, with some
| knowledge Of music and no taste, had cOncocted
| the orchestratiOn from the piano score and the
| singers did the rest. A worse burleSque has
| rarely been seen here. l sat within speaking
! distance of Capoul, who was the original Paul
| when the work was brought out in Paris, and
who watched the proceedings with an amused
air. celia NEST que 1'idicde he said to me at The
| close of the evening. 1t is not worth while to
make game Of so poor performance. Miss Abb
bott has a thin, weak voice and uses it with the
| taste Of an automatOn."
SLAVE TO MORPHIA-Dr Louis Fl. G. Ehr-
| hardt died on Monday, in absolute poverty, at
| Armstrong; gate house, on Days lane, German
| town. No notice was sent to the COr0ner'S
| Office until Wednesday. The deceased had been
| In the habit Of taking hyperdermic injection OF
morphia. His armSwere found to be covered
| with the punctures Of the tiny needle-pOint Of
| the Svrjnpp EhrharIlt had suffered from an