Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-08
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

| ance at the theaters, to say nothing Of the In
creased attractions. Joseffy, the pianist had a
good house at his concert on Tuesday night, aa1
it is to be regretted that he will not appear
again for some time. At F0rd'S the opera com-
pany continue next week, and at the Naioaal
the H. j. Sargent combination hold the boaris
- Rubinstein is indignant at the manner in
which his new opera, 'KoopetS kalaShnison'
Merchant KalashnfkofD has been treated by
the shears of the Russian censor and is half de-
termined to suppress it.
An enthusiastic Kentucky admirer OF Mrs.
Florence Rice-Knox, with the magnificent eXag-
geration of that climate, offers In the LOUISVILLE
COurier-Jol,nal to bet "one-hundred millions
of dollars which Is the largest sum ever bet on
one event, that she is the handsomest woman
on the operate stage, both in face and form. In
her white robes, with arms bare, she was as
beautiful as anything that everinspired painter
and would drive the ''Fornarina" into deserved
obScurity."
The booking for the performance of Sara
Bernhardt and the Paris Palace Royal company
at the London Gaiety theater next summer, is
going on swimmingly, over S35, 600 having al
ready been subscribed.
H. J. Byron's comedy 1.-THE Girls" changed
to ''Our Girls will be brought out at Walack',
theater In New York next week and John Gil
bert is so much better that he Is put in the cast
1t is not probable, however, that the piece viii
at al rival its companion, "our Boys" In pop
ular1ty.
- Miss Maud White, the first woman that
ever took the Mendelssohn scholarship at the
London academy of music Is at work on an
opera that is described as .'magnifcently ORA
.Jocelyn," and the young composers arden
hope is that, when her work is produced sh
may be allowed to guide the orchestra to til
full Interpretation Of her meaning, by conduct
ing it in person.
Clara Morris says that E. L. Davenport told
her how to use her fan. She did not catch his
meaning at first, and after rehearsal asked him
to tell her again. "Will 20 u do it If take the
trc uble?" he said EYES, sir,'' she replied.
"Well you will be an exception if you do" was
all he said Then he told me the business,
which was rather elaborate. l followed his in
structions to the letter, and to my unbounded
establishment my single line, ''You are fool,"
with the business he told me, brought down the
house.
There is serious trouble In Cincinnati about
the festival chorus for next May. Mr.. Thomas
refuses to invite the local societies. as such, to
join, requiring individual members to enter the
festival chorus as such. Meanwhile two re-
hearsals of Mr.. Singers section of the festival
chorus have been made. They We're complete
failures, being attended by only sixty to seventy
singers, who were mostly nOv1ceS, both OF Mr..
Singers societies, Harmonic and MBnnerchor,
which heretofore have formed the nucleus of the
festival choruses, holding themselves aloof
MIR. Stetson's Opera Company, which opened
monds," includes Mr.. Charles r. Adams, Mr..
Henry C. Peakes, Miss Laura Schirmer, Miss
Clara Poole, Mr.. Clarence Hay, Mr.. Alfred Will
kie, Mr. Louis Karl, Mr.. Henry Moulton, and a
chorus OF fifty people.
Marie Prescott tainted in Boston last Satur-
day afternoon, while playing Camille at the
Globe. Matilda Heron is the authority for the
statement that no well woman can play the
part.
- For his new Madison Square Theater, N. Y,
Steele Mackaye has severa! new plays, all OF
which. Judging by their titles, are somewhat
melo-dramatic in character. Among them are
Tie IRON WIZ TtrO Lires, A FOOi'S Efrafd, Hyde
and Seeque, Beauroir and TOMS Derotton.
Mr.. Harry Palmer's widow will receive
something like $4,000 from his estate when 1t Is
settled up.
After all the claims are paid on the estate OF
the late II. j. Montague there will be left 81 ALB
to send to his sister in England, who has already
received the insurance on the life OF her brother,
which amounted to about s. 900.
The Black crook will be revived by Mana
ger Stetson at the Globe Theater on Monday
evening under the direction Of the kiralfy Bro
theirs, who Superintended the remarkably sue
cessful production of the piece In Philadelphia
Across the Atlantic is the title of a senSa-
tional play in which Mr.. John W. Ransome ap-
pears 1t is piece in which all of the perform
ers get more than half seas over.
When play is acted for the first time in
New York, after having had long run in BoS-
ton, the gentlemen OF the New YORK press say:
cit has met with some success in the provinces,
we believe."-lN. o. Picdyu'ee.
| Arkansas doesn't want any "Pinafore."
The announcement that this Operetta was to be
| performed at Camden caused the Inhabitants
| to seek refuge in the swamps OF the Ouachita
| river
Its said that Mr.. Longfellow and Mr.. How
ellis are writing a new play for Lawrence Bar
| rett, to be founded upon the story OF Miles
| Stand1Sh.
The Strakosch Italian Opera Company have
| been in Cincinnati all of this week. Their per
| Torrance of Aida is warmly commended
Madame Modjeska is to retire from the stage
| three years hence. No one can complain of the
| brevity of the warning. Perhaps something
will happen to change her mind in that time.
Charles Coghlan, now in London, recently
| refused to play with the lovely protege OF a
wealthy theater hacker, because she had made
herself ridiculous by her incompetence at her
| debut the previous evening.
-Ristori has played in Paris, and this Is the
verdict:-"Age has told neither upon her mag
nor has Tine pressed too unkindiy upon the line
expressive features OF this great and kind artistic,
| Adelaide RiStort."
| Divorce generally follows Wives but at Mr..
| Days New York theatre the natural order OF
| things has been reversed.
| = Gentlemen who attend the opera at Her
| MajeSty'S Theatre, In London, are no longer
obliged to full dress. This sensible regula-
| ton is the result Of Manager MapleSon'S expert
| ence in republican American.
| Minnie Hauk has been singing lately in
| Baden Baden and Hamburg. In Badn-Baden
! she delighted the audience with the ''l1aba-
nera" from Carmen and Rubenstien's beautiful
| song "Wenn es doch INNER so bilebe."
! AS we expected, the talk of D'Oyly Carte
| about "original business and musical phrasing"
| is all fudge. The difference between the English
| and American versions of ''PinafOre, muSicaly
| is that in London the time is taken very much
| slower. and the singing lacks snap and Ego"
| accordingly. AS for the acting, there is not
| pretense OF it In the London version. The crew
| sing ..What, never?" and the captain responds
| Hardly everl" without any apparent notion OF
the meaning of the words. One night at the Lon
don opera Comique, in honor Of several Amer1-
| cans Who happened to be present, Rutland Bar
| rington, who plays the captain, attempted to
| throw something like meaning into his ''hard-
| ly ever.' but was Immediately hauled over the
| Goals by George GrOsmith the Sir Joseph, with
| the indignant query, ''What are you trying to
| do now, eh?" The attempt was never repeated
| IT, as is threatened, Gilbert and Sullivan arrive
| here In November to produce their 'Pinafore'
at the Fifth avenue, it will not bear compare
| son with the standard performance either in
| singing or acting and we hope that they vii
| come over early enough TO see this for them
| selves, instead of blaming the critics who Will
| be obliged to tell them Of 1t whenever the Eng
| liSh style of ''Pinafore" draws its slow length
! along under the direction of the authors. Should
| Michael Gum, the husband of Bessie SudloW,
| consent to come with the London troupe, he
| may put some life into their speculation. Other
| wise, it is doomed in advance.-[Step1len FtSEe.
HEATING STREET CARs.-The heating of street
railroad cars in winter is thing so greatly to
be desired that people In large cities will be in
| teraStpd in the announcement that plans for eff