The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-04
THE DRAMA
NOW THE THEATRICAL BUSINESS Is
DOING AT PRESENT. AT HOME
AND ABROAD.


AND ABROAD.
Domestic.
Miss Mary Anderson doesn't appear to have
impressed the New Workers az coincidence.
The Church Choir Pinafore Company have
ssast week with the "Gloria. from Mozart's
Twelfth Mass and Handel's Halleluiah chorus.
Booths Theatre has at last been leased by
Dion Boucicault for six months from the first
II September next, at rental OF $4,000.
During the summer he purposes spending
$4,000 in repairs on the house
Robson and Crane are said, on good author
ity, to DO $4,000 "ahead" on the present sea-
sori up to date. They have paid to Dion Bou
Cicauit, for Forbidden Fruit" $4,000: to 10
seph Bradford, for "Our Bachelors" $1,000;
and to William Shakespeare, for his immortal
sComedy OF Errors. nothing the gentleman
having died long SINCE leaving no one behind
him to collect his royalties. II Boston Herald.
making Jokes on the attempted assassination
Of Edwin Booth Ia Chicago. One says that
Gray must have been insane because he de-
elared Barrett q better actor than Booth and
another that he was trying 70 murder Booth
because the actor was trying to murder
Shakespeare. It was on Shakespeares birth
day that the shooting occurred.
Mr. j.. FL. Haverly announces that he has
secured from the domestic circle of New York
families seventy-five children who will short
Of III. M. s. Pinafore'
Arthur Sullivans opera in two acts ''The
OOntrabandists," was produced Friday week,
for the first time in Philadelphia, at the
North Broad Street Theatre, the cast includ-
inn Miss Laura Joyce, Miss Louise Leighton,
Messrs. Charles l.: Lang, Harry Allen and
Livingston Kent The opera was beautifully.
mount "a and finely sung, Miss Laura JOycec
carrying off the honors
The PLAYS produced at Wallack's during the
present season have shown great variety and
enterprise on the part OF the management.
Of times performed: .Clarissa Harlowe,"'
Ii; school for Scandal" %; Road to Ruin"
WIFE, TO- 10: my SON q; AT Last i;
Ours !" "A ssPe a5b IA; Scrap Of Pa
or the BLACK Crook" playing at Niblo's In
grand revival, the New York Tribune says
"The purpose of the whole exhibition is SEN
sual luxury therefore bad. Such dis
they cast Into the shadow the more intellect.
ual. and therefore more delicately toned
| themes, ideas and pictures with which 1t Is
concerned, and they vitiate the public taste
fOr true drama By making !. rank H.
ance of the Hess Opera troupe at the Grand
Opera House, In "Pinafore" next month, with
Emma Abbott as Josephine, Mrs. Seguin as
Little Buttercup, Annie Montague as Hehe,
William Castle as Ralph Rackstraw, G. II.
! the Admiral, and Ryse as Dick Deadeye.
1t has been finally determined to remodel
the Bowery Theatre, and fit it up as a first
class German playhouse, to be called the
| Thalia Theatre. Drama, comedy and operetta
will be presented and the prices OF admission
are to range as low as fifteen cents, and the
! best seats In the house will be given for
seventy-fiye cents Herr Amberg is to De the
the German soubrette, part .proprietress. A
third interest will be retained by MIR. Kramer,
the owner of the property. The contract is
Tor three years.
Mr.. Carl Rosa proposes to produce Ignaz
BrulTs Golden Cross during the season OF
English opera at Her Majesty's.
I'Assommoir," at the Paris Ambigu, real
zed ad Il two months from January Y to
A new Roumanian opera has been produced
at Bucharest. The libretto Is by the retgning
Princess Elizabeth and the music by the court
pianist, Skibinsk.
At the Dukes Theatre In London now, those
OF the audience who are well dressed are in
yited to appear during the "Cremorne scene'
on the stage, and they are privileged to order
liquor. provided that they pay for it.
Suppe's comic opera, "Fatinitza" was
brought out at the Fifth Avenue Wednesday
evening and scored success. Miss Sallie
Reber filled prominent role.
Franz Suppe the author of "Fatinitza." was
born ia 1926. He was pupil Of Donizetti,
and is said to have composed twenty operet-
tas, 200 vaudevilles and 1000 miscellaneous
pieces.
"L'Assommoir," at the Paris Ambigu,
reached its one hundredth representation at
the Easter Monday matinee, and in honor of
1t the director gave representation gratis.
The ball recently given at the Opera House.
Paris, by the Dramatic Authors Association,
was the most successful ever given by that
body, the receipts having reached 70,S0o
francs. There We're many fancy costumes,
but ladies, for the most part. wore ball dresses.
The demolition of the Sale Nentadour,
Paris, lately the Italian Opera House, is like
ly to be completed before the first of May.
The sixteen monumental earvatides support
ing the cupola were to be preserved as works
OF art
The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, at
Stratford-on-Ayon, was formally opened
April %, the three hundred and fifteenth an
niversary of the birth Of the great poet and
dramatist. Much Ado About Nothing was
dience, the town being crowded with visitors,
Notwithstanding the rain, and flags and
decorations being everywhere conspicuous.
Camille Desmoulins, the hero of the Revo-
luton, tve-act play by Emil Moreau, was
produced for the first time at the Theatre
Historique, Paris, March 81. 1t proved a
failure through want of plot and also through
It's republicanism. The hero, Robespierre,
and other leaders of the first French Revoill,
lion, We're depicted, and the costuming and
~eoSC settlIlSS NtI6 duLlil dDlc, puV tuC SCAe.
ments leaned towards royalism, and the aud
lence became very excited. Prospects for
TOW frequently displayed themselves.
Theatre tickets in olden times were IN some
Instances Of very odd design. In Rome Wis
!lor purchased at the office a slender little
cane that he carried in his hand and delivered
70 the doorkeeper. For the highest priced
seats this stick was OF ivory; the cheapest, OF
prone. Many of these bronze canes have
Deen found 10 Pompeii, and there are some IN