The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-19

turned from Russia, where he has been
during the last season. He is engaged there
for next year. He is to be member of the
Royal italian Opera Company during the
coming season in London, but before that
begins he will sing in the south Of France
and in Italy.
The appearance OF Mr.. Lester Wallack
and his splendid company at the Grand
Opera-house soon will be emphatically the
dramatic event of the present season. Peo-
pie are already beginning to talk much of
it, and we shall probably then have rush
of the largest business ever done at the
Grand in the spring.
A San Francisco manager is said to have
recently returned the manuscript of play
to the author with the following sugges-
tions: "Aler the first act so that the hero
inc robs the bank instead of defending 1t,
and in the last act make her elude the de-
tectlves by climbing up cataract on a slack
rope with the safe slung on her back, and
then I'll produce your play"
New York Mercury: Deadwood, Dakota
Territory, has the champion dramatic critic
Here is fine-spun local criticism of an
itnerant Juliet: "When she should swell
out like mountain, she sinks in like a
gulCh. That amt right in this country.
She ought to know the audience here is not
the fine-spun crowd that she would en-
counter back East, and when she had
worked their feelings up to a scalping
hurrah she ought not to give up to her
lover. She presented only fighting-front
when her lovers back was turned. This
won't do for frontier audience"
Among the incidents Of the coming sea-
son of Italian opera by Colonel Mapleson's
I,. o%,f. tor rxttin hn
the revival OF Gluck's "Armida," with
Nine. Nilsson (who has not sung at that
theater for two years. in the title-role, and
the production of Boito's "Mefistofele." !"
The personnel Of the company includes
most OF the artists whom we had here, with
the addition of number of others, among
whom are Madames Trebeli, Pappenheim
and Kellogg, and Signori Fancelli, Rota
and Bchrcns, together with many others
less known to fame.
Those exasperating people who disturb
the last act of the opera or play by making
q noisy exit from the theater before the cur
tain falls, are not completely given over to
worldliness. They go to church sometimes,
but even there they can not escape from
the domination of their depraved instincts.
No longer ago than Easter Sunday in one
of the foremost churches in the City of
Brooklyn, so large portion of ''the au-
dience' began to trail out OF the sanctuary
before the services were concluded that the
officiating clergyman was moved to adlnin-
lister to those wearied worshipers an en-
phatc rebuke for their lack of reverence
and breeding.
| Miss Thursby's recent remarkable success
in England is another proof of the fact that
if American girls want to become singers it
is not necessary for them to 60 abroad for
it. There are several recent cases OF the
sort Miss Minnie lIauk is one of them,
perhaps the best known. Mile. Stella Bon
heur, the contrato, is an American; she
has Just made her debut with great success
at the San Carlo in Naples, as Fides in "Le
Prophete," and she has for some time been
known as the best Ortrud in Italy. Nine.
Durand, the soprano, has recently been
singing in Madrid and she has not only
been very warmly received there, but she
has been engaged as soprano Dramatique''
for the next st. Petersburg season. All
| four of these ladies were prepared for the
stage in this country, and in this country
alone,