The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-29
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THE STAGE.
The Dramatic and Musical World.

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What the Actors and Playwrights Are
J Busy AT.
Manager HaverIy says lie believes the sta1
: and combination Bystem will be 30 overagnfe
the coming season that managers will be glaa
{ to return to stock companies.
In the New Dundreary" that Res y. D Ip.s.l
written for MIR. Southern some very IulI. y,
effects are wrought out by giving bn ,9 8,
Sam and Lord Dundreary an !, G ~ -
play their own version OF HanieI. 49,
D. IT, Haverly swears be Will lnctsase III, HI
i Mastodons to 100, In order to compete WIN
Hooley Emersons Megatherian ~ NJ,
They T play aEaag sezsra 0i eters the pas
venE a aakinr III the age OF Miss May Fisk. In
. is1s the nd National Theater was crowded
With III elits and fashion OF the city to wit
ness the debut q ayoune iaoy "ho-lt - :
M Frank Drew and Miss Elise Comfy
, reached New York few days ago from Ha-
yaIa whittier they had gone as members OF
eopePy r Sc yry Y ID Gaba The sntsr
prise was not q success, and the troupe was
obliged to return after playing, but 1--WE
nights. The manager, John Il. Mckinley,
came back In the steerage.--[ Philadelphia
i Press.
Mr.. William 9Th, stage manager OF Col.
ville's company for several years past, has
been re-engaged for the next season by Mr..
Colville, VINO has also secured Miss Marie
Williams, Kate Everleigh, Ada Lee Eleanor
Deering and Annie Deacon, and MIR. A. W.
Mafln. IL ia probable, saysthe Boston Herald
that Mr.. Roland Reed, Of Chicago, will be o
member Of the new company.
/ The latest HPinafore" sensation Is render
inu nf thn anfira nr,ara nv ono nprEOu Miss
Musgrove made the attempt at Philadel-
phia theater last week. The audience was o
patient one, and the lady was III the midst of
| Rackstraw d plaintive ditty, in the second act
when two Imitation brick houses were shot
across the stage, shutting out the good ship
and leaving the lyric artist Ia the position Of
q street musician. This was hint enough.
She stopped.
BY the way, 1t ID said that before this lady
was taken sick there was young man by
the name OF Smith who was SO desperately in
love with her chat he would have given up
his life to serve her lin his mind, but as soon
as Ill. health and the need Of q friend was re-
auired Smith skipped. Her manager, Sam
Colville, has seen that she had every atten-
tion during her illness. y.
Miss Nellie Cummfns, who has been very i'll
In Philadelphia, Is eorvalescing III New York,
but will not BIZ able to attend the trial OF the
desperate, Currie, at Marshall, Tex. John
Mccullough has assumed payment OF all NJ lss
CUMMINGS Indebtedness until she shall have
| fully recovered. Maurice barrymore has re-
! ceiYed $3.50 from John T Raymond to cover
the expenses Of his trip to Marshall Us Wit
ness.
1T IL within the knowledge Of all that men
who cater for public pleasure are excluded
from respectable society" II see, remarked
some one to McVicker yesterday, quoting DR..
McChesneys sermon Of Sunday, they're. q.
goin' for you again" Eyes, see" replied
Mac, smiling; but I've no hard feelings =,
You see" said the venerable manager, the
parsons are just like us. The stage Is the
BLACK Crook OF the pulpit, and whenever
business is dull with them they lug. it out.
nature as well as We do III Chicago Tribune.
Mr.. Max Strakosch will have some excel
lent artists III his troupe next winter u the
reports Of it be true. Nine. Teresina Singh.
matte prima donna, will be his principal prima
DONNA and he will have Miss Cary and Mile.
Litta as we'll. Petrovitch. q Pole, will be his
tenor, and Castulmary, who ID very celebrated
tone, also comes highly accredited. Strakoseh
promises to bring out several new operas,
among them Massanets "Roi de Lahore"
Boitos "Me-Fistofele' and Goldmark' .
"Keine de Saba Thomas has made us
familiar with much Of the ballet music OF this
last opera.
Of Joseph Jefferson's first appearance on
the stage when fourteen years old, Mr. u. G.
Davis gives In Lippincott touching descrip,,
ton. The young actor widowed mother had
for weeks trained him Ii the music, words
and business OF his part. They were very
} poor, and both hoped intensely that the debut
, would be successful. The night came and
young Jefferson took his place upon the stage,
more dead than alive with fright. He became
conscious that bis mother was watching him,
, and, though half blinded with fear, he saw
her hands trembte up to her mouth, saw the
tears filling her eyes, and saw her trying e
l Ia oYr0F rtrnf In than
. yet after the first line or two he broke down
utterly, and amid q storm of Kisses he tot
tered off at the wing. to which his mother
was elingng Tor support, ~ great Was hel
crying out through his sobs and hers that he
, had failed-that he should never succeed
The lovely lady and loving mother died., not
indeed, before her son had gained good pO-
| sition upon the stage, but before he had
reached the success that would have made
, her SO proud and happy.
n FOREIGN.
The new comedy, In five acts by MN. Neil
hac and Halevy. which will be. played at the
, Paris Vaudeville next winter, Is entitled La
Petite Guerre.
There will be some festival concerts In the
, MozartIan city, Salzburg, next July, to be
, conducted by Herr Richter. OF Vienna
Mr.. WilIs's striking dramatization Of Hood's
powerful poem, The dream Re Of Eugene q
Henry Irving. Mr., .Irving's embodiment q
mental agony 10 said to be- wonderfully vivid
Mile. Sarah Bernhardt, while In London
! will give o short entertainment, during
which she will outline q picture while she dc
at several aristocratic mansions, and fol
each will receive an honorarium OF eighty
: guineas-about $780,
The German papers state that Herr Wag
ner has completed the score of his new opera
.sPerciyal,' the libretto OF which he has al
ready published but which will doubtless b.
modified before it is used for the public
! stage. Herr tgnaz Brill has finished hts new
opera, Blanca" which will be produced Ii
, | Vienna.
The income now derived from the capital o
. the Dramatic Artists Association in Paris
amounts to 102, 400 francs and it distributed
/. during the past twelvemOnth, In pensions ant
= gifts to old, disabled and needy members 0
the theatrical profession, 1O4 900 francs. Thi
society allows GAG pensions--161 to men and 3
II to women.
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