Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-15
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

The comedy OF "The Nsbob,r by NM Dau-
Diet, Gondinet and 9ear, now in rehearsal at the
vaudeville theater Paris. has Z IS SAID. b.en
will create the part OF sAe Duke de Mona.
Mile Sara BernfmfR is devottng herself
With great ardor to painting In the studio OF nj.
klfed Stevens, having for the moment aban-
dOaed sculpture for the sister art. She fswork-
ing hard at picture inten0ed for the coming
Saloa.' II represents young Arl picking the
leaves of roSey while Death Is leaning toward
her to seize her III his grasp.
TheIendon Theate,, in stating that Edwin
spring, recalls that his first appearance there
was DISMAL failure. His engagement began
In september, 1851, when Z" every one was out OF
toWn" and he was so unfortunate as to play
Rlchard ILL., with comedy company, Mr..
Howe being the Richmond. The latter, In the
fight, fell back over one OF the forward flies A
man 1 S we ae S Sass ced n se fS him old
came down amidst roafs OF laughter
There is report down at New York that
Haverly talks OF hiring Booths Theater, and
that If he does, there is likely to be season OF
'sMignon' and Carmen" in English, with Dolan
one OF Mapleson's singers as the chief luminary.
She has been singing 1'Carmen" in Italian, and
the critics in the English of it think she would
be very fine.
Maggie Mitchell has bought the comedy
''Trix," which was written for Elsie Moore but
which she was unable to bring out. Miss Mitchell
will produce it in Baltimore the last of the
month.
u. K. Emmett has been playing his new
piece, ''Fritz in Ireland" at the New York Park
Theater the past week. and the critics call 1t "a
most melancholy exhibition too much Is
crowded into the plot, which is not unlike the
ing OF the company bad.
1t is stated that 'Enchantment,' the spec
tacular play that is making sensation at
NiblOS, down in New York, will soon be put
upon the road. Miss Connolly. who sung at the
is lna1i at
traction.
-Seventy-flve special policemen had to be
marched into the opera house in Ann Arbor re-
Gently to make the rowdy students behave them
selves, so that the Show could go on.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: M'He La
Blanche astonished her most enthusiastic friends
on Friday night as 'Elvira,'' in 81 Puritan"
She is fine actress correct and artistic singer
and refined, intelligent little lady.
Mile Marie Van Zandt, the youthful Amerl-
can prima donna daughter of Mdme. Jenny Van
Zandt,) who has been passing her vacation at
Walmer, near Deal, has not been idle. but has
occupied herself with composition, the result
being an cave Maria which a correspondent
describes as "original and charming"
AsuccEssFuL SAFE BuRGLARY.-An Iron safe
comb, wholesale produce commission merchants
Nos. and 3, South Paca street, was broken
open some time during Thursday night and
robbed OF $40 in money, mostly In bank notes
belonging to the firm, and 800 of Chesapeake
and Ohio canal scrip issued IS to 40 years ago,
and a number OF papers belonging to Mr..
Aaron FentOn who occupies desk in the same
counting room. A city lamp is lighted at night
on the corner Of the alley and Paca street, which
it is supposed afforded the burglars light
enough to work by. 1t seems from an eyamina-
ton of the safe that large cast-iron hinges of
one of the doors were broken off by muffied
hammers and then by the use OF strong wedges
the front part of the door. made of iron about
an inch and a quarter thick was forced from
the inner castings, several inches In thickness
which were filled with lime. The locks were
then easily reached, and the burglars had no
further trOIlhlP.-RnH SIM 15th