Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-10-25

Theater, New York, last night, with Tom within,
| Eva Mills, Vernona Jarbeau and Hatch in the
cast.
A wicked chap tells this as true story about
Aramburo, Maplesons new tenor: After singing
some selections from Lohengrin In London
draWing.room, gushing girl Of the party said,
ooh! Sig Aramburo! What is the plot OF
Lohengren?" "Mees," replied the vivacious
| and intelligent tenor, never boZaire my-a self
abouta re tritle!"
| = DOnHettl'S nearly forgotten opera, "Maria
dt Rohan," Is to be given In November at Vienna,
| by the desire of Nine Pauline Lucca, who will
herself sustain the chief part in the work.
Robson and Crane, In "The Two Dromlos, !"
have been Id Chicago for two weeks from which
place they go to Cincinnati, st. Louis and Pitts
burg, playing "The Two Dromios" and "Our
Bachelors"
Lolita is in her second week at the Park
Theater, Philadelphia "Musette" is given. The
houses have been good during the week.
1T is said that Wilhelmj, the violin vrtuoso
will permanently remain in this country. The
| fact that he has made several investments here
| fOrtifieS the gossip. He Is now travelling west
ward, accompanied by Macmillan Vogrich, the
| young Hungarian composer and pianist, and will
| go to California.
my Partner" is to be produced at the Bos-
| ton Theater on october 81, and will be followed
by "The Galley Slave" BARLEY Campbell thus
securing double hearing on the Boston boards
for his plays.
Musical enterprise in 1880 will be inaugu-
rated in London, says the Examiner, by Mrs Carl
Rosa, who once more opens with opera in Eng
fish at Her Majesty's Theater on January H. He
is getting together an excellent com oany, and
| among other prominent artists has already en-
| gagged Mile. Minnie Hauk who will sing in Eng
fish for the first time on the operate stage.
1.-The Picture" by Mr. Ion Perdicaus, is an
nounced as the sensation at the Fifth Avenue
Theater, New York, beginning on November 10,
with Miss Marie Prescott as katrina.
The Cincinnati College Of Music has issued
prospectus for the symphony and chamber
concerts of the ensuing season. The orchestra
will be led by Theodore Thomas.
Kate ClaXton is not exactly boarding the
lion in his den. but has been tempting Provi-
dence and the fire department by again playing
| the 1.-TWO orphans" in Brooklyn.
Adelaide Nelson will act in the Brooklyn
Park Theater this week. Her return to the
American stage is most welcome. She will APP
pear in .'Romeo and Juliet" 'sTwelfth Night"
''AS You Like 1t" and "The Hunchback."
"Hobbies" is on the high tide of success at
Haverly's Theater, New York. 1t is very
amusing tritie, and the limitations of Nat Good
win are pronounced by the New York Post to be
uncommOnly clever.
A western paper says that Nine ESSipoff.
the Russian pianist, will make second tour of
the States early next year in company with Ole
Bull and Emma ThurSby.
The London italian opera season opened
this week. The first performance was ''Aida,"
with Marie Rose as Aida, M. Trebellt as Amneris
and Pantaleoni as Amonasro 1t was also stated
that Frapolli would play Rhadames.
The New York olympic Theater brought out
new version of "Uncle Toms Cabin" Thurs
day night by 7. j. JohnstOne, in which We're In
trOduced four FLOODED horses and brace of blood
hounds. j. B. Studley plays Uncle Tom.
Rose Eytinge is making provincial tour
through England, playing "ROse Michel" under
the title OF mother and Child" Almost a
Life" changed to ''Nearly Life" and :" Miss
Moulton" rechristened Miss Sara Moulton."
William Warren had a benefit at the Boston
Museum on Friday night, on which occasion
perhaps as a verit1cat1On OF the saying that ex
tremes meet, the veteran actor played In Baby
Mr.. William Courtney sang for the first time
In English opera in this country, at Detroit, on
Wednesday night in Jarvis new opera, "The
Spectre of Tappington."
When Miss May Davenport went to Italy to
study for her profession her teachers and COM
pan1ons gave her, as a no'nnae de recols Blanche.
thus that she appears on the bills as Mile. La
Blanche.
-"Crutch and Toothpick" has met with only
tolerably good houses in San Francisco, where
the Guy and Dolly DevereuX of the piece. Their
acting is mentioned most favorably, but some
hoVeehe dramatic times seems ':out of joint" in
San Francisco this season, and managers are
proportiOnately doleful.
The Emma Abbott Opera Company began
two weeks engagement at Abbey'S Boston Park
Theater Monday night Castle has left the
troupe, after all the denialS.
John Mccullough has been drawing large
houses In the West in "the legitimate" his St.
Louis engagement being most fiattering sue
cess.
= Raft has just finished his new symphony.
1t is called Summer" AS his last was named
Spring" it is presumed the other seasons will
follow.
A one-act opera by M. Colonne, called Gle
viz1r dams IEmbarrass," music by M. Bourgeois,
will be produced at the Paris Opera Comique
during the winter.
- Janauschek is In Wisconsin. John T. Ray
mond last week played at Rochester. Murdoch
is taking warm sea baths at Atlantic City. Fanny
Davenport playSin Albany three days this week.
Mr.. F. s. Chanfrau is starring in the Connecticut
towns. Growers Boarding House" company
is in Georgia Mckee Rankin, with his Dan
ties, open tomorrow in ST. Louis. Sothern will
follow Lolita at the Park Theater Philadelphia
Remeny the onist Is performing IN on the
debut in Faust" In Paris early in November.
Lawrence Barrett opens In Buffalo tonight,
where he is booked for the entire week. Maggie
Mitchell, with her old repertoire, is playing
through the New England circuit.
- Mr.. Sothern will act in "Davtd Garrick" in
the Park Theater, New York, next week. The
present engagement OF this artist Is rapidly
drawing to a close.
Henry Irvings Intention Of visiting the
United States, though suspended, has not,
says the London Daily Ne,cs, been abandoned.
The negotiations recently entered upon by
New York manager are stated to have failed
chiefly through the difficulty of inducing Edwin
Booth to cross the Atlantic next year to fulfill
an engagement at the Lyceum during IrvingS
absence.
C. H. Macdermott has brought out a play in
England called Through the Fire." which
Florence Marryatt says Is stolen, even to the
names, from her novel, s'Her Lord and Master"
just as she maintains "Pique" was by Augustin
Daily.
Mr.. Borthwick, the proprietor Of the London
Eng) Morning Post, who has known about
every celebrity in that city and Paris for years
back, and heard much from Rachel herself about
the Strengthened circumstances of her early life,
says that she and all her family tramped the
whole way from Strasburg to Paris and herded
together in miserable garnet in the fouleSt
quarter of that gay capital, the Isle of the City
Here the future tragedian starved in such literal
earnest that, on one occasion, she and street
cur fought over bone which had still some
scraps of meat adhering to it. TO her dying
day, Rachel bore on her cheek the scar of the
,avage bite received in that encounter. When
\ he had become rich and famous, she was not
ashamed to poins out to her English friend the
qualid staircase up which, years before, 1t had
been her daily task to carry water from story to
story.
KERAMIC INSANITY.-At recent sale In Lon
don pair OF china jars enameled with birds
and fiOwerS-Sweet, pretty th1ngS-brOught