The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-22
THE STAGE.
Closing Theatres for the Summer
What Is Promised us
Next Year.
Domestic.

s.Pinafore," with Adelaide Phillips, Barna-
bee. Karl, etc, made $4,000 for the Boston
Theater In elk weeks.
Miss Linda Dletz who lie going abroad, 10
Y be married q. u h0ndon NJ VIA y 70 ME-
Ia ID understood that Samuel OOlville and
r.. n. j, Miles will associate together next
season and run theaters In Cincinnati, Chica-
70 and st. Louis.
! Ii they keep ON increasing the size Of min
gatheriums," 1t won't be long until the troupes
Will have To Dit lii the body of the house and
let their audience occupy the stage.
There will be plenty Of music next season.
who will do light pieces, there will be the
Mapleson, Strakosch, .Maretzek, Abbott and
Aimee opera companies, with an unusual
number Of chamber concerts, In all the large
cities.
tain The facts that Mrs. Oates is to be sued
sby Mrs. Laurent for $4,000 damages for
alternating Laurent's affections; and also that
the managers Of Mrs. Oates have Withdrawn
from their contract with her for the coming
Three companies OF eolored singers are
being organized iii Boston for the perform
ance oil 1spinafore" next season, beginning
early In September.
Miss Katherine Rogers, according to the
New York Tribune has been robbed Of $4,000
worth OF diamonds. This ID said to be
: II Tie ladies' bonnets worn to places Of
amusement keep increasing In siza the boys
will have to 20 upstairs to see the stage
iCincinnaN Enquirer.
Strakosch has made contract for next sea
son with Petrovltch, the tenor; Enrlco Sartt,
baritone, and Customary, basSo. The latter
is d Frenchman who has sung In New Or
leans, but never Of the North more than once
or twice. He is the original Mephistopheles
ID Faust" and his performance OF that role
has never been surpassed.
An enterprising young man was employed
by San Francisco firm to advertise their
condensed choWder He hired an upper box
In Baldwin's Theater, and placed across the
front a big transparency, inscribed, TRY Con-
Censea Chuwder" The ughers ordered him
to take II down, but he locked the door Of the
box, and proceeded coolly to light the candles
In the transparency Ihe manager a. ordered
for the young mans employer, who had the
advertisement removed just before the COM
mencement OF the performances.
Mr.. Boucicault has been telling a New York
Sun reporter that 'the days Of stars are
pushed to the wall by the excellence of such
stock companies as those of Wallack's, the
Union Square, or the old Fifth Avenue Thea
ter; for, although Mr.. DAILY lost money, he
certainly helped by the completeness Of his
company to strengthen the Discrimination Of
the public to go and see one man or woman
starring with the very weak support which
their demands force the managers to provide.
Stars have latterly been relegated In New
York 70 the Grand Opera House, where they
may draw at cheap prices; that IL their last
resort as d general thing"
There is faint suspicion that Laurent, the
gander-legged tenor, stood In with his wife
In the publication Of Alice Oates's gushy and
sloppy love letters. Bob Miles thinks 50, and
marriage To Watkins had cut off his regular
allowance OF pin mony, gave his wife the let
ters in order that she might publish them,
and thus sue Alice for alternating the affec-
lions lYl Ct her husband Mrs Laurent mt has
and Il she RECEIVERS she will divide the scoop
with her husband, Somebody who wears full
number eleven brbgans ought to kick Lau-
rent behind the back until his nose bleeds.
Foreign.
The two first novelties for next season at
the Paris Gymnase are Albert Delpits Fills
de Coralie' and comedy In three acts by
Paul Ferrier.
Mr., Mapleson has cause to regard with dig
pleasure the British climate. Madame Chris
tine Nilsson, having rheumatism, was unable
to make her expected re-entree. Madame
Gerster has been Ill, and Mile. Hauk has also
been on the sick list.
Conquest and Pettit founded on the Zulu
war, has been produced at the Grecian Thea
ter, London.
A new grand opera BY NJ. Saint-Saens is to
be presented next , winter ct LIZ Scala Milan
Alexander the Great. This is the first time
that the conqueror Is to be put upon the stage
In the capacity OF q tenor.
Adelina Patti, It appears, has lost some Of
her upper notes, but, on the other hand she
Her voice Is lowered, but she will become TN
doubleday one of the greatest dramatic oper-
attic singers that Europe has ever seen.
Nelson begins her American tour October
the Walnut. Philadelphia; Globe, Boston
McVicker's. Chicago, and Pope's new house,
st. Louis, two weeks each. She will not ap-
pear In New York until January.
A very large theater, to be known as the
Ieatro Nazionale, Is being built In Florence
on the site Of the Villa COlOnna
The question OF admitting theatrical artists
within the Order Of the Legion OF Honor has
been taken up very vigorously by, the Paris
find favor In the eyes Of the Partisan journal
Mr.. Charles Reade's version OF "L'Assom-
moir," under the title Of Drink" has been
produced in London at the Princess'e Theater;
It was rudely handled by the English critics,
and there seems to be room for doubt whether
It will attract the PUBLIC. Mr.: Reade has
managed to add his flourish to the work by
bringing i to happy end:
Inc uramatists OF Madrid have been un-
usually prolific during 1878. No less than $40
aafTamasc works have been presented on the
49, .al y, stage between January and Deem
1oa -. 1918 Here Is the analysis In one act,
49,, ~ wy acts, 80 IN three acts, 10; tn more
aiahor re0 a assss q The Madrid Ep0cd gives
their authors. 49, slo "olne anu
lt y said that the lessees Of the london
tha COZ. =, nave made ESQ 600 during