The New York herald., 1879-12-01

This was ambitious at least.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.
The williamsons reported to be doing remark
ably well in Australia.
..The strategists' make their first appearance in
New York at the Broadway Opera House this evening.
wilhelmj, during the present week. will give per.
formances on the route between indianapolis aud
Milwaukee
Miss Maggie Mitchell on Thanksgiving Day played
to one of the largest audiences ever assembled in
the Holiday Street Theatre. Blltimere.
The second soiree of the New York Philharmonic
Club will be given at Chickering Hall tomorrow
evening. Messrs. Rummel and Remmertz the
assisting artists.
Mr.. Sothern opens tonight at the Brooklyn Park
Theatre in "Our American Cousin" On Thursday
and Saturday he will personate "rhe Crushed Trage-
dian." and on Friday David Garrlck."
The new armory march performed at the opening
of the Seventh Regiment Fair by Grafullas Band is
the composition Of Mrs. Annie Whiting. an accom-
plished musician. It has been arranged for the
piano.
Miss Kate Claxton opens tonight ut the Jersey
City Academy Of Music for week. dividing the
time between 'The Double Marriage" and "Two
Orphans" She goes to Brooklyn next week to tho
Park Theatre.
The Symphony Society of New York. under DR..
Damrosch's conducting will give their second pub
lie rehearsal Thursday afternoon and their second
concert Saturday evening. Tho solost is Miss
Emma Thursby.
The engagement of Mr.. Emmett ut the Park
Theatre Is drawing to close. Whoever has not
seen Fritz in Ireland" and heard the songs that
belong to the humorous Characterization should
avail themselves OF an carly opportunity to do SO.
Great curiosity exists in musical circles with rcf
to the production thisevening. at tho Fifth
Avenue. of "H. M. 8. Pinafore," under the immed-
ate direction Of Messrs. Gilbert ana Sullivan Mr..
Sullivan will conduct the orchestra. The advance
sale of seats has been very large.
Gounod's opera. Faust" will be again presented
this evening at the Academy of Music. Tomorrow
il extra night. when. obedient to many requests.
"Aida" will be reproduced. LA sonnambula" is
underlined for Wednesday. "Mignon" for Friday
and "Aida" for the matinee Saturday.
The first concert of Miss Emma Thursby will tako
place this evening at steinway Hall. The conductor
of the orchestra is Mr.. Carlberg Miss Thursby will
sing the polonaise from "Afignon." tho aria finale
from "LEtoie du Nord." and duet with Mss
Emily wnants from "Mephistopheles."
An entire change Of programme takes place to-
night at the New York Circus, embracing several
startling acts the Now that the holidays
are approaching the circus is just The place chill
dren. Mr.. Lent has given us the best company Of
equestrians and acrobats in New York.
'.Richelieu" will be given ut the Grand Opera
House this and tomorrow evenings by Mr.. Edwin
Booth. On Wednesday and Thursday and at the
Saturday matinee ho will appear Shylock in the
Merchant Of Venice" On Friday and Saturday
evenings he plays Bertucco in "The Fools Re-
vongo." Mr.. Sothern will occupy tho boards next
Monday night.
London World -" The opera Is dead, ana Wagner
Is its last expression These are tho words the
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practically His friend Rubinstein did not soem to
share this conception. and the unprecedented sue
which he but few days ago obtained in Ham,
burg with his opera. Nero. is at least proof that
the funeral Is not yet at hand"
The actor who for many years personated Ma
poleon 1. in the most striking manner the Paris
stage. NJ. Taillade. is, according to the London
World going to England for the purpose of appear.
ing in Hamlet" 'Othello'' and the Merchant Of
Venice" For long while he has been practising
English to effect. the rendering of shakespearean
characters before British public having been the
dream of his whole artistic life.
Before leaving London Miss Emma Thursby, says
tho London World presented Mr. Enge, at tho very
moment he going to lead the valse he wrote for
her, "My heart has its love-" with an ivory and
gold baton. adorned with fattering inscription
under diamond 4. which may be the initial of her
or his name. lies pet,ts cadeaur entreonent RANT.
he;" musicians as q rule. quarrel so nti-harmoni.
ously with each other that IL rather refreshing to
see such kind feelings manifested between two Of
them.
At the Paris Vaudeville piece In eight tableaux s
being rehcarsed. founded on M. Alphonse Daudet's
novel. "Le Nabab." The dramatizer is young au.
thor. M. Pierre Ezeear. The Nabob. who Is tho
hero of tho novel. is intended tho portrait OF
parsonage who was much talked of during the last
years of the Empire. NJ. FRANCOIS Dravay mado o
fortune In Egypt. estimated at a hundred million
francs and through 1t with prodigous celerity.
He died in poverty few years ago. Another per-
sonage. thny disguised in the novel as Count de
Nora was tho late Due de Morny; he is left out OF
the play. however, as for some reason other, no
actor could be found willing 10 undertake the .psxA