The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-09
THE STAGE.
The New Plays Launched Upon tho Stage
Whereabouts Of Stars and Companies.

The New Plays Launched Upon tho Stage
Whereabouts of Stars and Companies.
"Barbe Bleue' Inns been the greatest euc
cess and most popular opera given ny tn
French Opera Roui1e Company In New York
"Boccaceio.' new operetta by Suppo, ha'
been given with great success In Berlin Boil
plot and musieare very highly spoken Of
1T In said that Col. j. II. Maplgon Offered
Mile Iucca $1,000 u night for five months
tour In America but that ahe refused tho Of
fcr. ~ say Brussels papers,
Vienna now enjoys novel musical enter.
talnment. A company of bona lido Tul,ls
have appeared there. and their program mef
include choruses sung In the nativo tongue
Nine. Lnhlnchc. tho onntralto or Maple
sons italian Opera Troupe. now ainginE III
New York. intends to remain In this country.
and will locate In the city of New York NJ u
teacher Of the voice
The HtH Mail Gnsenc saya after tho close
of the farewell tour III America. nn which She
has Just started Miss Nelson will appoint nj
the Vaudeville Theatre, Paris, In n series oi
representations from Shakespeare"
The new piece of Messrs. l1ennequin and
Millaud. "La Femme Papa" will not h'
produced ut the Varieties before tho middle 81
November. The piece Is complicated and re-
uuires careful repetition. X has IN Il notably
supper after thu style OF that IN tho RE
veillon, which will give somc trouble TO ar
range well.
Gounod 8 new opera. lie Tribut lie znmora. -
seems likely to b. produced, after all The
latest about IL III that the composer has agreed
under a penalty of $4,000 francs. to deliver his
score To Nj. Vuucorbeil before tho first ut May,
while the manager agrees to nay tho same
sum Ii the work is not represented ut the
Opera by October, 1881
Mics Adelaide Nelson the actress, has &C
nysntnd from Manager Mauuirs n fouY ca
engagement To appear nj Baldwin's Theatre,
San Francisco. next spring, stopping there
while On her way 70 Australia. The terms
pre III Der cent of tho gross receipts with Il
guarantee that she shall not receive less than
4 $500 on any one night.
A London correspondent says: Miss Clara
Louise Kellogg 50 wofuIly failed in London
that she y really begging about Europe for
satisfactory enlargement" The same cor
says that "Gerster, y star III New York IL
permitted to sing only on sutlerance IN Lon
don, and that despite oil the putting of Miss
Emma Thursby. by her iniudcious friends.
she liz comparatively u failure as a concert
singer In London, and had she remained
there oil winter would havo had but fow
lucrative engagements.
Th late Mr.. Blackstone had IN original
vein. and wrought IN IT, and he was a remark
ID u story to the effect that u young play
wright who had called on him, when manager
Of the Haymarket, to receive back rejected
manuscript, took advantage of the occasion
to ask for an order to the play and, while
Blackstone was preparing II. expressed regret
that the veteran had ceased writing for tho
stage. II am 30 busy writing orders 4runt-
ed the manager, that I've no time to write
plays" Vet, In fact, he wrote and adopted
upwards of one hundred and fifty pieces.
A young American contralto. Miss Hone
Glenn. recently made her debut mt the last of
the Crystal Palace concerts. IN London. The
London Saturday Musical Rerir,r. speaking
of her, says: "ln Il. Governs Better Land
ahe fairly took the audience by storm, and at
once established herself as a favorie Miss
Glenn possesses a pure beautiful quality of
voice, combined with finish and st VIZ which
will compel tho very best OF our existing con
tralti to look to their laurels should they ever
he brought into competition with hcr.' Miss
Glenn has been engaged for the forthcoming
series OF concerts ut Crystal Palace, which
have already commenced.
Old Sam Colville, finding that the huresaue
public were not taking kindly 10 his "Watteau
Shepherdesses, has put his girls In short
dresses and gives an out-and out big show.
sam meant we'll. but alas for the taste Of his
audiences. Apropos or Colvile. the Chicago
Inter Ocean says: "The conduct of Roseau ia
\ driving from Colviie all the Old favorltea. and
Nfoing him an infinite amounto injury First,
Willie Edouin left because Of too much Ro-
seaNl Then Marion Emore and Lima Mer-
Willie Neft for the same reason. Then Charlie
Drew Nrew out for Il like cause. Then Marion
williams, one OF the best actresses he over
had, and worth fifty Eoseaus. followed suit
And Mr.. Nahill succnmbed to too much 10
Roseau leftS' ~ '''
From theA London theatres: Mr. Byron's
drama, "DaTsy Farm" was revived at the
Gaiety on the afternoon Of Saturday, the
twenty-tifth instant. Mr.. Burnand has com
Gladiator by MN. Lahche and Gtllc and It
was produced lat the Gaiety Theatre under
the title OF "fhe Nabob." "The Busyhody"
OF Mrs. CentlivIn was given NJ the Imperial
epilogue by Mr.. Frank Marshall. 1t is stated
that Mr.. Hare has accepted a new play from
the pen Of Mr.. Robert Buchanan, for produc-
ton at the st. James Theatre. A son of Mr.
H. III. Byron Is about to make his appearances
rs d professional actor under the name OF
Harryson.
Coming theatrleaI events IN New York
"The Tourists In Il Palace Car" succeed Hob
bies" ut Haverly's on Monday Appleton
new Dictionary of New York" gives this
theatre the credit Of having the most COM
Portable chairs OF any house Of amusement la /
the city, and the credit is deserved. "Con-
tempt OF Court remains ut Wallack q until
Wednesday evening, when Our Girls" will he
brought out" 1t is a comedy Of Byron's,
favor with sour Boys" Edwin Booth sue
needs Fanny Davenport ut tho Gtand Opera
House November 20. Ion Perdicants' nov ind
peculiar play, "The Picture" follows Tie
French Opera at the Fifth Avenue November
10, with Miss Nard Almayne from tke Lon
don theatres. IN the leading role. DuriRg the
play MIR. Perdicanis. who Is an artist MS we'll
d. an author, will introduce his great patut-
ing, "The Triumph OF Immortality"
A Conscientious Murderer.
A strange feature in the double murder In |
the Fauhourg St Honore, just now the talk
Of Paris is the fact that the murderer thought |