The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-20


all be new. The first part will be some
thing new and novel and has been in prepa-
ration for some time. 1t is Chas. Smiths
own get up" and, like everything Chas.
gets up, viii be grand. 1t is called the
"Siiyer Mountain" scene, and will repre-
sent mountain side. The olio Will come
next, and it in turn will be followed by
new and spicy burletta called "Fascina-
tion," introducing the whole company IN
new costumes etc.
Dramatic and Amusement Notes.
Matinees to-day.
Lolita" will be at the Grand New Years
week.
Extra matinees at all the theaters Christ
| mas Day,
Last messiah" rehearsal by the College
of Music Chorus Tuesday night
Tony Denier will be in New Orleans for
one week, commencing tonight
The NIP and Tuck" Combination play
in Springfield Ohio, Monday night.
Lawrence Barrett opens at Library Hall,
Pittsburg, Monday night for one week.
"sharps and Flats is the name of new
comedy secured by Robson and Crane.
Boucioault having got rid Of his paraly-
sis, will open at the Boston Museum on
January 9Th.
Verdi is going to Paris to direct the re-
hearsals of Aida" which is TO be brought
out at the Opera in February.
Madame Nilsson, Faure and Lorrain, OF
the Opera, will sing in opera at Monaco,
the season to begin January oath, 1880.
"Oberon" was recently revived at Her
Maiesty's Theater in London, with Pappen-
helm and Fancelli in tie principal roles,
Mr.. Charles Miller will play the part OF
"Pythas' to Tom Homer's damon" on
New Years Eve. at Robinson's Opera-house.
REL. Miles Juvenine Pinafore Compa.
nv begin an engagement in New Orleans
tomorrow night. They have been doing
well on the road.
Maurel, who is now first baritone at the
Paris Opera, has made his appearance as
Ambrose Thomas Hamlet to the
"Ophelia' of Mile. Daram.
Wagner's 'Siegfried" is to be produced
at Cologne at the end of the present opera
: season, with Unger in the title role. die
Gotterdammerung' will be given there
next year.
Miss Minnie Palmer and her new play
were very kindly received in Boston, and
tie little actress is now playing IN various
towns. She will reach Chicago by the end
: of this month.
: Miss Minnie Cummings, the actress, has
written a tiveact society comedy drama
, entitled Suspected" and the New York
e Herald tells us it is now in the hands o1
Manager Haverly.
Sir Julius Benedict, seventy-five years Of
a age, is about to complete the century by
: taking young wife of twenty-five or so
e She is attractive, highly cultivated, clever
a and an excellent musician.
Hollingshead says that Shakespeare pre-
ferred to play the Ghost in Hamlet,
" SO that he could have time to slip arount
= to the front door and see that the ticket
r. sellers were not rohbing him.
!" AT St. Andrews Church, Javistock- place
" London, of which ArchdeacOn Dunbar il
er incumbent an oratorio is sung every Sun
es day after the o'clock evening service
Both choir and orchestra are professional.
,er Mr. Max Strakosch's season in New Oh
ce leans opened brilliantly, the advance sal
'lr of subscriptions for the season having bee
G. e. unprecedentedly large. All through tn
10 -, country the musical critics spoke mos
klnuly OI MT. DtIdhObCli, dilA tSpcCiaily wei
oi of of Madame Theresa Singer.
h, Fraule.4, Schelzky who sang the part
III "Seglinde" in die Walkure," at the Bay
d, reuth festival i'll 1876 mas resigned her pos
ton in the Munich Opera Company and ha
gone to Milan. She intends to devote he
self in future to Italian opera.
~ Miss Courtney Barnes, Rose Eytinge
w eldest daughter. is now member of tt
u- Square company. Joe Howard says ST
d. looks precisely as her mother did twent
x years ago--a perfect little beauty OF I'll
NJ red and brown brunei type, and her wit
Dr. keen and bright as we'll.
nd There is u report that Brignoli is comm
to this country again soon. He
now, or was recently, in Mr.. Mapl
sons London Company. Pappenhei
on will leave that company at the end of II
,c. present season, and go probably to tt
vi Ieatro Apollo in Rome.
no Miss Augusta Dargon, now or lately
ho Australia, will surely make her appearan
ne ~ in London. Miss Dargon's most recent 81
'o' cess has been made in the character
81 Queen Elizabeth" Toward the end
"a October Miss Dargon was in Sidney whe
sa su she received testimonial benefit, am
~. much public enthusiasm.
of Ion Perdicarls has organized the folio
he ing company to travel with Campbell
in "Fate'-a play first produced in Chicago
,w. 1873: Miss Nard Almayne, Miss Ida Je
,an reys, Miss Carlotta Evelyn, Mrs. Cla
i'm Fisher Maeder, Messrs. Owen Fawcett,
ill f. Thorne, Nelson Decker, o. Fl. Ba
n" Mark Smith, Louis Mestayer.
ce. Miss kellogg has been obliged to give
M her Russian engagement on account OF t
ed illness OF her mother, with whom she W
The spend the winter in Paris 1t was recent
an announced that Miss Kellogg was engag
get t. be married, but this is now emphatica
de- denied. The air seems to be full Of rum(
ley of marrying and giving in marriage M
md Thursby, Miss Minnie Hauk, Miss Lii
s." Bailey and one or two other snccessl
ate American singers are said to be bespoke
NV NV Mr.. N. G. Goodwin, Jr.-This gentlems
IA IA who is to appear here next week in "H'
of bies," is widely known as comedian a
mi NJ by many pronounced equal, if not superi
at to Fred. Vokes. He is twenty-five years
to age and made his first appearance in publ
w IN aadipua at Niblp's G.