The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30

kosch being enabled to make this promiat
| through the engagement of Nine, Singer
A presentation of an Italian version o
Auber's Grown of Diamonds may alsC
be anticipated.
The complete list of operas, which it i.
intended to present is, therefore, as fol
| lows:
| Mefistofele, Aida. Carmen, Mignon
Guglielmo Tell, Don Giovanni, Lucia d
1.ammermoor, Crown of Diamonds, Norma
La Traviata, Marta, II Barbiere Di Siviglia
| II Trovatore, Roberto II Davolo, Rigoletto
Gil Ugonotti, Unbalo in Maschera, LII
Sonnambula, Fra Diavolo.
Dramatic and Musical Notes.
Jenny Lind is fifty-eight years old.
| Lotta's brief San Francisco season was Q
very prosperous one.
Mark Twain's forthcoming book is to be
illustrated by foreign artists.
| Before coming to America Miss Adelaide
Nelson will appear at the Princes Theater
Manchester, and in Liverpool also.
Miss Jennie Tanner, of this city, who last
year was with the Oates Troupe will the
coming season be member of the Tracy
Titus Company.
Nilsson writes to the London Figaro thai
American friends have urged her to appear
again in this country, and that she intends
to do so, but is engaged elsewhere for all o1
the present season.
Wilhelmj, the celebrated violinist, has
purchased the Glenn Mitchell estate neal
Saratoga for $4,000 The original cost was
$50, 900. 1t is villa surrounded by As
acres and half mile race-course.
Nick Roberts is in Columbus this week
with his Humpty Dumpty troupe. Per
sons who have seen it say tits by all odds the
finest show of the kind that has ever taken
the road, and Nick is more than happy.
Miss Dargon is still the recipient of pub
lie goodwill and professional success in
Australia. She acts Tennyson's ''Qucen
Mary" and makes it both speciality and a
success. Miss Dargon will shortly appear
in Sydney.
Mr. Haverly controls theaters this season
in New York, Brooklyn, Chicago and San
Francisco, and is looking for one in Denver
City, Colorado He also manages juven.
lie "Pinafore' company, and two compa-
MES of negro minstrels, the Mastodon and
the Georgia.
Gus Williams starts on his tour on the
30th inst. with his farcical comedy in three
acts entitled ''Our German Senator" His
company Includes Geo. S. Robinson, Hud-
son Liston, David Gilman, Alfred Murdoch,
Mrs Van Deerin, Miss Florence Baldwin,
Miss Agnes Wynne, Miss Katie Blancke and
Mr.. John Rickaby, manager.
Mr. Bronson Howard, in the August
numberof the Theater has a rather weak
article on "The Audiences of New York, "
in the coarse Of which he refers to their
dead-level of respectability owing to the
abolition of the pit" and to the good.
natured and kindly" character of first.
night audience, (which utterly destroys its
value as a jury for the trial of new piece
or a new actor"
New York DRAMATIC SuMMARY.-Mr. and
Mrs. D. e. Bandmann have arrived and are
at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr.. Eben Plymp
ton has arrived home from England Mr..
Boucicaut will open Booths Theater on
September 4th, with a new play entitled
Rescue Miss Ada Cavendish has arrived
in town from Block Island. Mrs. Whiifen
has been engaged by Mr. Mackaye for the
Madison Square Theater. Miss Forsythe
will accompany Mr.. John Mccullough in
his tour of the provinces this season.
Among theatrical visitors now in New York
is Mr.. Charles Howard, of Orleans. Miss
Rose Massey is reported i'll in London. The
recent dramatic obituary includes the
names OF Shirley France the actor, and B.
F. Lowell, the dramatic agent