The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-24
THE AMUSEMENT WORLD.
Theatrical and Amusement Affairs Here
and Elsewhere.


Schooner Pinafore." Gus. Williams, as ash
Joseph Weisbeer," is whole host of him.
self The piece abounds in good local hits,
and shows Gus Williams in the new char.
aeter of a fine actor, as well as dialect
singer. His makeup is excellent. Matinee
this afternoon, and regular performance
tonight.
Tomorrow night this company will give
'Cincinnati Schooner Pinafore" as an extra
performance. This will close the engage
ment, and will also be the last night OF the
season at the Grand Opera-house.
THE CIRCUS.
The great London Circus, combined with
Cooper 4 Bailey's immense show, opened at
Lincoln Park Wednesday afternoon. The
| first audience was not large one. As the
clown remarked, ut was not an audience
but delegation sent out to see If the circus
was all right" The delegation and the pa
pers reported it all right and from that time
crowds far beyond the capacity of the i'm
mense tents have thronged the vicinity at
every performance. On Thursday night
fully fifteen hundred people were turned
away. and it has been very much the same
ever since. The show came fully up to rep
reservations, which isn't always the case.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES
Organ concert this afternoon.
General N. p Banks's eldest daughter is
studying for the stage in Boston.
Mile. Nevada, the new operatic star that
has appeared in Vienna, is Miss Wixon,
from Wisconsin.
Bijou Heron will probably return to this
country with her father in September, and
enter convent.
Madame Adelina Patti is now precisely
thrty-four years old, and her voice is at
the fullness of its charm.
Joe Jefferson plays bob Acres now and
then. He ought to play it well. He owns
one thousand acres in the South.
Fred. Warde has signed contract to
principally support John Mccullough for
forty weeks, commencing the 1st OF Sep
tember.
James A. Meade, stage manager of the
Oates Comic Opera, sails for Europe to-day
in search of novelties, and of new com
pany for next season.
Mr.. Henry Palmer, OF the firm of Jarrett
& Palmer is in Paris. His tour of Germany
with Uncle TOMS Cabin has proved re-
markably successful.
When Miss Nelson was told by her Lon
don physician that she must rest from the
stage for season, she was told also that
she could either do so or die.
Next season Charlotte Thompson, Mary
Anderson, Maggie Mitchell. Annie PixIey.
Janauschek, Joe Emmett, Geo Knight and
Frank Chanfrau will come out in entirely
new pieces.
The public heartstrings are wrung with
the plant made by Mrs. Hunter, the pretty
widder of THE Danites," that Mckee Ran
kin hugs her more than the play calls for.
Mckee, you rascal!
Mr.. Arthur Sullivan will arrive in Amer.
lea next October. The opera which he with
Mr.. Gilbert is preparing for this country is
said to treat military affairs in the same
spirit as naval affairs are treated in III. NJ.
s. Pinafore."
Mr. Chas. De Salmon, cornet soloist, has
been engaged for the summer BY Mr.. Rolf,
proprietor of the Price Hill resort, and will
make his first appearance in this city to-
morrow afternoon, in connection with the
regular concert.
Herman Linde, who will be remembered
as having given some recitations of Mac
beth in College Hall, this city, year or so
ago, has been engaged by Mrs. II. L. Bate
man, to play Othello at the opening of
Sadlers Wells Theater, London.
Boston is now the only city that has
society for the elevation of the stage, and
no doubt she needs it, since a burlesaue
troupe opens season of nine weeks, while
Janauschek's engagement is limited to five
nights. A society for the elevation of Bos-
ton would, however, be more to the point.
philadelphia Times.
Mr.. John Havlin, we'll known in this
city as one of the most efficient and cour-
teous of theatrical men, is spending Jew
days with his old friends. He leaves for
the East next week, and will take his family
with him to Europe, where he goes in a few
weeks to make arrangements for the appear
ance of Modjeska in England this fall
Edwin Booth, John Mccullough, Dion
Boucicault, John Brougham, j. c. William
son, Steele Mackaye, John Gilbert and
VIM. j. Florence constituted a portion of
the galaxy of prominent actors who passed
the Fifth Avenue Hotel within five min
utes' walk of each other yesterday. "rhe
birds are coming home to roost."-TN. Y,
Herald.
An Indian translation of 'rRomeo and
Juliet has appeared at Bombay. The
chief personages of the drama are styled
Ajaysintha and Vilasvati. Fancy the
lovely Vilasvati wailing on the night air,
"Ajaysintha, wherefore art thou Aiaysin-
thai? and then the answering agony, "Call
ME not Ajaysintha. Certainly you could
not blame the young man for making such
request.
The dramatic event of the week in Phila-
delphia is the return to the stage, for a
very short season, of the. well-known and
favorite comedy actress Mrs. John Drew.
The lady's temperance was made at her
own theater-the Arch-and the bill for
the one week only for which she is an
nounced embraces the old comedies THE
School for Scandal" Wives as They Were
aud Maids as They Are" ''The Jealous
Wife" and ''The Rag-picker of Paris"
The English Opera Company, headed by
Miss Abbott, has just been reorganized and
has secured for the coming season nearly
all the best artists in the country who are
available for this class of entertainment
The list Of works promised include, Paul
and Virginia, ""Carmen, ,""Lucia, ,""Faust."
"Mignon," Aida" and "rhe Lovers of
Verona" and the troupe comprises Miss
Emma Abbott Mrs. Seguin, Miss Marie
Stone, Miss Adelaide Randall and Messrs