Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-08
DRAMATIC NOTES.

DRAMATIC NOTES.
| Southern has been playing in 1.-THE Hornets
Nest" in New York. and scarcely got bite.
Haverley's Mastodon minstrels opened to
81, 1865 at the Bush street theatre, San Fran.
cisco.
Fanny Davenport and company are booked
for the Opera House in this city Sept. %, "a
and "a.
The 'Black Crook" is to be revived at Phila-
delphia on the 29th. with Miss Lizzie Conway
as Carline.
BARLEY Campbell's twelve-year-old son has
written comedy. He is evidently chip Of
the old block.
The new American comic opera, '.Electric
Lights" has met with fair success at Ford'a
Baltimore theatre. Fsa.@
Lolita has gone to California, the scene Of
her first triumph on tho stage, end is doing
splendid business.
Fanny Davenport will open her season at De-
troit tonight. Her new $50 900 husband will
accompany and support her.
to resume the stage, ofwhich she was bright
and shining light twenty years ago.
| Nasby's play has proved bad failure. The
trouble with it is that he can't introduce his
outrageous photography into the dialogue
Sam W. Piercey has inst been married to a
| Miss Dunphy, a wealthy belle of Frisco, and
! is en- route for the East and probably Europe.
Aimee will bid farewell to America on We'd
nesday. Her lack of success on her present
tour will probably keep her away permanently.
Miss Mary Davenport. a sister of Fanny made
her debut in 'The Davioheffs'' at the Boston
Museum last week, and is we'll spoken Of by
the critics.
Mrs. D. P. Bowers and Miss Charlotte
Thompson will together lead new eombina-
ton in. play by Magnus, called 1.-Two
Women"
Mary Anderson opens the new opera house at
Utica, to morrow evening, and thence goes to
Montreal to open Sir Hugh Allan's Academy Of
! of Music.
All of the theatres and combinations have
opened up for tho season. The rivalry il
great and the attractions therefore of a super
lor character. ......
Genevieve Ward has made great success in
London in Forget Ne Not.'' As she wore her
SUCCESS
be wondered at.
Maggie Mitchell opens at Macaulay's Louis
vile theatre tonight. "Fanchon." s'The Pearl
| of Savoy" and "Jane Eyre will constitute
| the attractions.
George Edgar, manager of the Broad way
| theatre, New York. lost 100000 in an eight
months season last year, and has stepped down
| and out of the concern.
Venie Clancy will retire fr,m the stage at
| the close of the present season. She expects
| to devote her entire attention thereafter to the
| welfare of the coming generation.
John E. Owens is going to Australia to be
absent for two or three years. In the mean
time John Dillon will see that the memory of
''Solon Shingle'' Is kept green.
The portrait of John Mccullough a. Othello
| in the last Dramatic Ne,us, resembles the pic
| lures we see IN ancient prints Of some of the
mummies exhumed from the catacombs of
Egypt.
Kate Claxton (Mrs. Stevenson) has become
the mother Of the future great tragedlan Of the
world. She and the future great are doing as
we'll as could be expected under the circum-
| stances.
Miss Emma Stockman, the charming leading
lady who supported John Mccullough last year,
will occupy like position the present season.
She won much favor wherever she was seen
last year.
Raymond will devote his entire attention
this season to the rendition of the leading char
acter in "Wolfert's Roost," which has been
revised and improved, and promises to be
great success.
Hrverly's new Brooklyn theatre will be OPEN
ed early in October. 1t will accommodate 1900
persons, and is provided with means of egress
through which 1t can be emptied in less than
three minutes in case of fire.
Emma Abbottis determined to make 'sPaul
and Virginia the feature of her present sea-
| son, despite the objections everywhere urged
to it on account of the salacious character of
the dramatic incident required.
The Colville Folly company has not been
doing good business in New York, and is
threatened with the loss of Alice Hastings the
leading member of the combination, who in
tends to resume soubrette parts in the legiti-
mate drama.
All the Chicago papers as we'll az the dramat-
ic journals elsewhere incontinently ''sit down"
upon "a Quarter TO Eleven" recently produced
at McVicker's theatre. The Dramatic Ne,vs
says that "for thinness of plot, stupidity of di-
alogue, action, and generally unmitigated dull
ness, it caps the climax"