The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-12-14
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
Where Some Of The Principal Actors Are
and What Thoy Are Doing
General Notes


General Notes.
Wllhelmi. VogrIch and Nine Silvotti hnvf
left Chicago for u Southern tour.
Miss Roso CuRhlan returns %o Wnllaok'f
next season IA leading lady, II 10 aald.
George Fawcett Rowe oontcnp plates r. pro
feesional visit TO Australia le tho spring,
George O. Davenport and Mas Thercsn
Newouinb have LOFT the "Revellors" cnRhina-
tton.
Miss Annie rly'ay will shortly appear II y
new drama adapted from 0hr opera g tir-
men"
tAltyart and kulliynn's own "l'inaTore'' Ia
not taking rs we'll aH was expected In Now
York.
hartley Camphell's Galley Slave nppeare
tn have mssio n hit st Hsvorly's. III Now
York
"Madnme Fgyart' hiss reached IT, two hun-
dredth performance ~ paria. A. fao F"lio'
DramatlqucE.
has arrived III New York after 3.,rotraotM
solourn In Europe
II In probahie that tho Macpherson Company
will Walt San Franoaco after thehpring aoa-
son In the Eestorn cities.
The 1talian preaa IL unanimous In ita prases
i III An opera. Richard Ill by umiepH. which
haa recently been prodnced NJ Milan
Ragement at tho grand Opera House. Now
York. 1t was Immensely sucoesslul.
Verdi is expected in farts pi1ortty. N he
nreaent MT the rehsarsals OF AIDA which ie
tobo revived at the Opera early IN February.
Bernard Mncauley was the reeipient re-
Gently or u magnificent silver liable service
from Ma frsends In Louisville, where ha was
playing.
John m. Owens has brought out Mt tho San
Franoisoo Standard 'frho Man from Data
raugus," which has been revived and local
lzad by Clay M. direene.
Manages Charles Pope OF It. Louis, came
of the stage Of his thestre during his benefit,
November as. with $1,000 silver service
Speeches were abundant.
The Tracy Titus Opara Troupe n no more
The company he's hsen reorEnniyad. and II In
called the 0perM Opera Company, under the
management OF the sigaor.
Minnie Cummtags's company dlsbanded at
Eteubenvllle. O., laat week, on account OF bad
buHiness In spite of the fact that sha had IL
valuable diamond ring stolen IN Sidney.
Thomas w. Bavy. probably the oldest tho
Rtriual manager In America, dcd In Detroit
last Thursday. Maggie Mitchell frat MP
neared M Fanchon urder his management.
Tho Voyage en- Suisse reached ts hun
dredSh performances ut tho Paris Varieties.
December /, and WA succeeded hy LIN
Femme a Papa" by NM. Hennequn and
Millaud.
"Richard the Third IA an opera IL thN latest
effort to act Shakespeare 70 music lie COM
poser Ia SEnor Caneps and the lihrcttsat Full
Via Fnluonia and the opera was produced Mt
Milan with considerable success.
Mics Genev!eve Ward will soon appear In
"Fnrget Me Not" ut the Prince of Wales
Theatre, London II Is not unlikely that Mt
the close of this engagement she will make
another tour Of the | nited Ststea
Lecooa's new oEera, Ia Ca'nargo. which
has had q run Of over ono hundred a,M tifty
nights In PARTS, wac produced by Maurice
Grau at Booths Theatre on Wednesday even
ing. Paolo Marie assumed tho title role
Arthur Sullivan appears at a concert In
Baltimore on the fifteenth instant, conduct
Ing u programme for orchestra, soloist and
chorus, and q sertea of instrumental eonesrts.
under his direction. Ia In contemplation nj the
Madison Square Gsrden, New ork.
Ia Ia reported that Miss Minnc liauk has
signed contract with the management Of
the English opera, at london, for series Of
ten representations, in which she will creaGe
the roles OF kiignenv Elsa and Aidn In Eng
ilsh, for which she Will receive the sum of
Gi000.
A Govnod festival has been held nj Ant
werp, at which only music by the compose
of "Faust" conducted by HIMSELF was per,
formed. Councils comic opera, In 90
Iomhe, the words by Barbiur and Carrie.
which was first performed Mt Bader III 1851
has just been reproduced In Paris.
The relatives Of the'ate Edward Power are
endeavoripg to maze Miss FIFTY 0Na.l. who
was the wife of Power give up her diamonds,
son the plea that they belong Ia the estate OF
the de leased. Thete Ia Il very general inn
preston that all tkat Edward Power had
when he died he'd hetsa earned hy his vito IA
her profession ne q daEcer.
In the balcony scene Ia Romeo and Juliot,'
Miss Nelson tears up her veil. Kisses 1t sud
throws II to her darling. HurnhaEl. OF Pixies
Opera House. has the pieces carefully pre-
served and hiss formed a stock company fer
their sale to the love-lo-n youth Of CineiR-
natl.
Mckee Rankin lately refused 10 go On with
she performance Of his play Ia a Texas city
until five deadhead policemen had left the
house. He had paid for taxns, licences, and
all that, he said, and he would exact thesame
frogl the city officials The officers sotenn!y
filed out, amid the yells OF the audience.
Christine Nilsson arrived In Madrid on .hs |
ultimo. and the receipts OF her |
first performance Narguelts,.i in Faust -
were applied 60 the fund In aid of the Mureiau
sufferers. Nine. Nilsson will give altogether |
eighteen representations In the Spanish cap |
tal, returning thence to reioin her husband |
N Paris.
In Providence last week Mr. Stuart Robson
played the two Dromios in the Comedy Of
Errors" as Mr.. w. III. Crane, his partner In |
he business, was too i'll TO appear. In the
ast scene, where both characters are obliged
d come upon the stage ut once, an assistant
vas employed. In this case there could be no
Ioubt about the resemblance between the
sentlenen from Ephesus and Syracuse.
Sir Julius Benedict. German by birth, y