Daily globe., 1879-09-08
DRAMATIC NOTES.

DRAMATIC NOTES.
Southern has been playing in ''The Hornet
Nest" in New York, and scarcely got bite.
Haverley's Mastodon minstrels opened t.
81, l65 at the Bush street theatre. San Fran
cisco. @
Fanny Davenport and company are booke,
for the Opera House in this city Sept. %, g
| and "a.
The "B!ack Crook" is to be revived at Phila
delphis on the 29th, with Miss Lizzie Oonws,
a. Carline.
Bartley Csmpbell's twelve-year-old son ha
written comedy. he is evidentlya chip o
the old block.
The new American comic opera, "Electri
Lights" has met with fair success at Ford
Baltimore theatre.
Lolita has gone to California, the scene OF
her first triumph on the stage, und is doing
splendid business.
/ Fanny Davenport will open her season at De
troit tonight. Her new $50 900 husband viii
accompany and support her.
Kate Field is coming to America next winter
to resume the stage, of which 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 just been married to q
Miss Dunphy, wealthy belle Of 'Frisco, and
is en- route for the East and probably Europe.
Aimee will bid farewell to America on Wed.
nesday. Her lack of success on her present
tour will probably Keep her away permanently.
Miss Mary Davenport, sister of Fanny made
her debut in ''The Davichehs" 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 combine
ton in play by Magnus, called 1.-Two
Women"
Mary Anderson opens the new opera house al
Utica, to morrow evening, and thence goes to
Montreal to open Sir Hugh Allan's Academy o,
of Music. an
All of the theatres and combinations have
opened up for the season. The rivalry i,
great and the attractions therefore of a super
ior character.
Gensvieve Ward has made great success IL
London in Forget Me Not As she wore he1
100000 Worth costume her success il not t.
be wondered at.
Maggie Mitchell opens at Macaulay's Louis
vile theatre tonight. 'Fanohon." ''The Pear
of Savoy" and "Jane Eyre will constitute
the attractions.
George Edgar, manager of the Broad way
theatre, New York, lost 500, 900 in an eigh
months season last year, and has stepped dowr
and out of the concern.
Venie Clancy will retire frsm the stage al
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 as Othello
in the last Dramatic Neeos, resembles the pic
lures we see IN ancient prints Of some Of the
mummies exhumed from the catacombsS O.
Egypt.
Kate Claxton Mrs. stevenson) has becom,
the mother Of the future great tragedlan of tn
world. She and the future great are doing a
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 seer
last year. .--
Raymond will devote his entire attention
this season to the rendition of the leading char
acter in ''Wolfert's Roost," which has beer
revised and improved, and promises to be
great success.
Hrverly's new Brooklyn theatre will be open
ed early in October. 1t will accommodate 1,50l
persons, and is provided with means of egres
through which 1t can be emptied in less than
three minutes in case Of fire.
Emma Abbottis determined to make 'Paul
and Virginia the feature of her present sea
son, despite the objections everywhere urged
to it on account of the salacious character o1
the dramatic incident required.
The Colville Folly company has not beer
doing good business in New York, and il
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 as the dramat
ic journals elsewhere incontinently sit down
upon "a Quarter TO Eleven" recently produced
at MoVicker's theatre. The Dramatic Nem
says that "for thinness of plot, stupidity of di
alogue, action, and generally unmitigated dull
ness, it caps the climax"