Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-05-03
MUSICAL AND T6AMATIC NOTES.

-1A y ~ ~- N>6A MATIC NOFESs
The emma Aobot opera troupe have had
successi"-. :. week at the Broad Street Theater in
fhh -deiphia, and close the season to- night.
-Fhe New York critics were altogether too
hasty in putting Joseph Jefferson'S Grip Van
Winkle' in limbo. 1t has been so successful at
Philadelphia that Jeffersons appearance In
''The Rivals and other old comedies has been
postponed.
The report that the original Pinafore Com
pany is to be brought to this country from Lon
don is mistake. Those who saw 1t there last
summer make very favorable comparisons for
our PinafOre companies, though the orchestral
the score as played here is different from the
original. The travesty upon royalty and rank,
however, has done good service In England and
In this country. 1t has stimulated the interest
to the extent of SOME thirty operettas which
have been offered to New York managers
Olive Logan writes that Adelaide Nelson
has never drawn finer houses than during her
present engagement In London. The house is
is Julia in the Hunchback. Miss Nelson visits
this country In october next.
"A San Francisco paper says that Rose
Eytinge has taken great liking for Joaquin
Mtllers daughter, and has taken her from the
Daliet a ana into oregon with her, with view to
pushing her along in the dramatic profession.
Julian Magnus has finished for Mary An
derson an adaptation OF La File de Roland"
play in which Sara Bernhardt has met great
success After an interval OF 80 years Victor
HugOS Ruy Bias" has been revived In Paris,
with Sara Bernhardt as the Queen. She is said
part.
A Paris correspondent says OF the last SEN
sation there, and which is an attraction In New
York:-"' L,Assommoir,' l am happy to say,
will not be played much longer. This play has
done more to degrade the public mind than any
1lTn u0f nf0d
the Paris stage"
The critics have assailed Tennyson's new
play, Eleanor and Rosamond," but Green, the
historian, has seen it. and says that with all his
researches into the annals of the 18th century,
he had never arrived at so vivid a conception OF
the characters OF Henry II and his court as is
embodied in this drama.
olive Logan writes: "Do you know that
Byron is writing an extravaganza called sDun-
dreary S Private Theatricals' for s. .dern, who
will produce 1t first in America? My sides have
ached over It already, Just from seeing Sothern
drawing-room of his the other night, before
supper was served. 1t appears that Dundreary
essays Hamlet, and the constant appearance OF
balance. 'Hello! he says, heres this dem'd Old
ghost again! Now, hold thstill, old fellow, I'm
wying play about you;' and then he proceeds,
La Irving, to scraWl on tablets which he rests
On the ghosts back. You may prepare for fun.
promise you"
-Boucicault is playing in the Shaughraun
In San Francisco, at the California theatre.
The strakosch opera troupe are at the Bald
win. On Saturday last Miss Cary appeared In
peared in Travtata for the first time. Miss
Litta has made hit as Marguerite.
The Warde Barrymore combination did
not have that enthusiastic welcome In st. Louis
Tuesday night, which, from their recent mis-
fortunes, might have been accorded them from
q fhnff ynrrtA1 Coz
very thin one-much thinner than the interest
OF the play or the excellence Of the organiza-
tion deserves.
The New York Philharmonic society have
voted to invite Theodore Thomas from Cincin-
matt. to conduct their public rehearsals, the
preliminary ones being lead by some one eise
"A former well-kn0wn Washington journal
Rouge; or, The Mystery OF the valfeuily." The
plot OF the piece is taken from one of Eugene
GaDOriau's celebrated French novels, and
aDounds In romantic and sensational Incidents
-Cecile Gregoire, the young opera-ooune
artist who made her New York debut as Ger
maine In "Les Cloches de Cornevtlle". at Booths
tneater this week, Is q member Of the famou,
the favorite exponents OF French opera -boufre
In Italy and France.
The great musical feature Of the week in
New York will be the third WiIhelm1 concert to.
night. The influence OF these entertainments
In the education Of musical students, whose
duty 1t Is to hear the best music INTERPRETED
by the best masters, cannot be overestimated.
Mary Anderson appeared at the Detroit
opera house last Monday as Euad,e, and on
Tuesday acted Pdrthenia. Her success was de.
c1ded and brilliant. The theater was crowded
and the young actress was called at the close OF
each act. o o->"'0 ~
IN. Gounod is finishing new opera entitled
lie Secret de Zamore." He will, It 1s under.
$1,000, place II at NJ. Halanzter's disposal imme-
diately.
- There will be chorus OF 2, 900 voices made
up from forty societies at the twenty-flrst
Saengerfest OF the North American Saenger-
bund, at Cincinnati, during the second week In
June.
Mile Schonn, who has just made her debut
at tne Royal Italian Opera, London, In "Les
Huguenots," was born and bred in Denmarr
not sweden, where all operate "nightingaIes''
are supposed to come from.