The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-08
THE DRAMA.
The Stage il the Old World and
the New.
Coming Dramatic Events.
DOMESTIC.


DOMESTIC.
Adelaide Nelson demands 80 per cent Of the
gross receipts during her American tour.
The Bankers Daughter" brought s125,O0O
Into the treasury Of the Union Square, New
York, Of which Mr.. Howard got $4,000 as roy
atty and Mr.. Palmer $45, 900 as profit,
We believe this will be q very poor circus
year. We haven't seen q single account of a
lion or tiger breaking loose and eating up
four men and a plumber. 49, Detroit Free
Press.
Mckee Rankin and wife, Miss Kitty Blanch-
ard, passed through the city yesterday on
their way home, at Amherstburg, Ontario,
Can, where they will spend the summer.
Their profits on the season-forty weeks
has been close on $4,000, about $500 over the
first season OF "The Danites," which, how
ever, was only twenty eight weeks.
The Miss Belgrade who has been travelling
several weeks as a star, and has this :, week
been playing Romeo and Hamlet at the Phila-
delphia Chestnut Street Theater, - g novice.
Determined to be star actress, she went
coolIy to q responsible dramatic agent and
told him what she wanted. He laughed Of
cost. She said 1t made no difference; would
he organize good company for her II she de-
posted the money for their salaries before
starting? OF course he would, and he did
The party is still out and the pay has thus far
been regular. An ambitious novice, by the
way, provided most Of the money with which
Steele Mackaye opened the Madison Square
Theater and he recompensed her by making
her the leading actress OF the company
Boston Herald.
Pauline Markham said In recent inter-
view: Lydia Thompson is In England,
where she owns several theaters. / have just
heard, and with regret that she has sepa-
rated from her husband, Alex Henderson
vantage on the stage, but she g still lively
and pretty. She will be pretty Il she lives 100
years. She will revisit America this fall
Eliza Weber Is in England playing "Mazep-
pa with success. She is grown I; very bulky Vsyg1,
and has abandoned the stage. She married
the wild son OF a very wealthy and aristo-
cratic family, and has been recognized as
orthodox. Eliza Weathersby, with her
"Froliques," is securing the country and
A Cleveland correspondent Of New York
theatrical journal says: "Misg Marie VIII
liams left the company here. She goes to
Europe on visit When she returns, which " n
probability proi rejoln the Colyiiie troupe, but
under entirely different conditions than here
tofore. She will not consent to act as back
ground for Roseau. Failing to make desira-
bic terms, she will accept the offer Of Boston
Sammy" is wise he will give 'Eme" the go-by
next season, and get for bis star some young
fresh girl with good voice, pretty face. fine
| figure, and neither limbs that will obviate
having her tights cut out with circular saw
gave the unfortunate inmates Of the Roches-
ter Lunatio Asylum concert. Says paper
| OF that city: "The appreciation and delight
manifested by the insane people cannot be
imagined. To many OF them the music was
Some Of them exhibited ecstatic evidences OF
enjoyment others sat In stolcal silence, and
many were moved to tears A quieting intiu.
ence was visible upon all at the conclusion OF
the concert, which lasted about two hours,
and the patients moved about as though sud
denly changed from lunaey to reason
It Is rumored that the profits OF J. Il. Hav-
erly for the season OF 1889 are $4,000;
Mary Anderson, $50, 900; a. M. Palmer, $50 900
SCI, 900; Harrigan 4 Hart, $40 900; John Nc
Cullough, $25.0O0; Modjeska, $4,000; Il. J.
Sargent, $4,000; Lawrence Barrett, $4,000; J.
K Emmett, $4,000; Col. Mapleson, $50, 900,
and John T. Raymond, $4,000.
| FOREIGN.
| The Berlin theaters contain an aggregate
1 Of Ii 155 seats.
GuIionani states that every month Is bring
ing fresh evidence that the public taste IN
Paris Is turning against "opera bouffe," and
that comic opera is returning into favor
/ Victor Hugo's "Ruy Bias" recently repro
times before the critics assembled for the
first night were allowed to pronounce thelI
opinion.
]. M. .Offenbach has composed quaint opera
called Lies Contes dHoffman." In which
j Hoffman is supposed to see all his heroes and
4 horninno falz form and shane In a. dream. LII
has just been performed in the composers
draWing-room, his daughters and many o.
their young friends taking part In the cho
russes. The music is said to have produced
an extraordinary sensation upon an audience
comprising all the most critical representa-
tives OF Partisan society.
But for the beautiful Mrs. Rousby" there
, would have been no beautiful Maud Brans
have one of her luscious photographs tx
squeeze; for 1t was Mrs. Rousby who inaugu
, rated the fashion Of window beauties" BY
, having her photograph displayed in ever!
shop window from Bow Bells to Hyde Park.
The female trapeze performer, Zazel, VIII
| made such sensation In London lately, me
} with an accident at Portsmouth, England, re
J Gently. She took a dive headfOremost from
the roof Of the hall, and passed completed.
, through the net which was stretched out t
' had become weak through wear. She escapes
with severe shock, which rendered her ap
: pearance for several days impossible.
; t'The Society Of the Damned Is the nam
/ of a Partisan institution-damned dramati
], authors-and they meet once a month AM
| dine at Brobant's Their number has no fixet
e limit, only every member to be eligible mus
have been Kissed. An eminent dramatist l
i selected as chairman and holds the post 70
t three months. His election generally follow
r close on splendid failure. Meilhac, Duma
d fills, lola, and Offenbach have all filled tn
r chair and presided at the monthly dinner.
q Mr.. Mapleson's bad luck in the beginnin,
0 of his London season, according to latest &C
r counts, had not changed. Nine Gerste1
d Mime. Nilsson, and Signor Campanlni hav
all been obliged to disappoint the public sey
eral times, and others OF the company hav
suffered more or less in consequence of tn
inclement weather. Miss Minnie Hauk, VIII
at first sang in the absence Of Nine. Gerste
r and Mme Nilsson, was herself unable to ap