Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-12-13
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

| house He had paid for taxes licenses and all
that, he said, and he would exact the same from
the city officials. The officers solemnly filed out
| amid the yells of the audience.
| A gown OF tranScendent genius soon to ap-
| pear on New York stage, has its train made of
cream satin embroidered with gold, and its
| brocaded in white. Network of gold and crys-
| tai covers in front of the waist and down tn
| skirt in way calculated to draw tears to tn
| eyes of the most hardened audience. Mary
| Anderson will be inside the gown.
| Miss Charlotte Crabtree has bought in
| under her foreclosure of mortgage. two pieces
| of land on 125th street between Madison and
| Fourth avenues New York. for SS5 900. Charm
ing Little Lolita" is one of the richest of Ameri-
| can actors,-the very richest Of female actors;
worth, they say, between $1,000 and $500, 900.
| And she is SO very good, too.
| - Edwin Fawcett has written play which
the Union Square company in New York are to
play after q French Flats" is off, some time in
january. 1t is called Birthright," and said to
be ''based upon strong dramatic 1dea-'
Minnie Hauk is reported to have signed a
contract with the management of the English
opera in London to give ten performances for
$1,000 creating the roles of ELSA, ':Mignon"
and AIDA
Alice Oates always thought she would like
to play Juliet, but there is so much hugging
and kissing in the part that she would never
attempt it.
-Adelina Patti don't suffer greatly from her
faux pas with Nicolini. She acted 'sVioetta' Uhe
character that is too naughty for Emma Alb
botD in Berlin, lately; the emperor and all the
royal family were present, and she was taken
to their arms one OF the little princes kissed her
and she wept tears OF joy. Afterward she re-
ceipted for 5000 marks for herself and Nicolini.
In Providence last week Mr.. Stuart Robson
played the two Dron,ios in the COMEDY OF En-
rors," as MI. w. II. Crane, his partner in the
business. was too ill to appear. In the last
scene, where both characters are obliged to
come upon the stage at once, an assistant was
employed. In this case there could be no doubt
about the resemblance between the gentlemen
from Ephesus and Syracuse.
Among the favortes of Paris are 'stha cale-
brated Girards," pantomimists, who are acting
journee la compagne." The Paris r gistey
says they are Americans, and speaks OF their
'realiy marvellous performances"
AN embarrassed actor bounded on the stage
of a San Francisco theater in scene depicting
robbery In hotel office, and shouted, Gag
the safe while blow open the night clerk
The Maretzek English orpera troupe bursted
up in st. Louis this week, having failed to pay
expenses In nearly every city in which it ap-
Miss Montague, Mr.. Turner and other we'll
known artists out of an engagement. The st.
Louis theatres gave benefits to send the chorus
to their respective homes.
-'sMignonn was given by the French company
in New York the other night, with Paola-Marie
in the title role; it must have been a curious
performance. 1t was given Friday night by
bre as '.Mgnon," Mile Vallerfa as ''Philina,'
Anna Cary as Federico" Campanini as s'Gug-
lemo." This last named singer ,is beginning TO
be appreciated this season.
The new drama presented this week at
Wallacks Theater, New York. is the work of
Mr.. Albert Lancaster, adapted from Cherbuliez's
samuel Brohl & Co." The principal characters
are Americans. with the exception OF two. The
play does not meet with approval.
An enterprising manager is intending to
bring to America the band of the First Belgian
regiment OF Guides under the direction of their
bandmaSter, F. Staps.
The pitch at the Royal Italian opera, Lon
don, is to be lowered next season to the diapason
normal, at the instance OF Adeltna Patti, whose
voice Is growing robust, and who is affecting,
though not as yet with success equal to hef
fame, the more ponderous roles The alteration
involves an outlay of over 1000 for new wind
instruments.
Taillade who has for many years person.
ated the great Napoleon in the most striking
manner on the Paris stage Is going to appear in
chant OF Venice for which he has been study
ing English this long while.
Anna Dickinson is writing a new play for
Fanny Davenport. At the conclusion OF the
present season Mr. Price and Miss Davenport
will go to Europe.
Bishop, the comedian, has left the stage,
graduated from medical college in San Fran
cisco, and is practising medicine there
The Cincinnati college of music may have
its dissensions but 1t seems to be in good health
and promise for all that AtpreSent everything
is bent toward the May festival of 1880, the cho-
ruses viii include the college choir, the Orpheus,
Maennerchor, Welsh choral, Cincinnati choral,
and German Maennerchor,-over 100 voices, be-
sides $50 unattached singers, Theodore Thomas,
Otto Singer and MeSSrS. BaruS and Eckert are
conducting weekly rehearsals of sections Of the
chorus, The college choir, mentioned above, is,
bers 300 singers, under steady drill By Mr..
Thomas, every one having passed examination
for voice and musical knowledge.
Christine Nilsson arrived in Madrid on the
9th ultimo, and the receipts OF her first per-
formance-!.M in sFaust'-Were ap-
ers. Nine. Nilsson will give altogether IS rep
resentations in the Spanish capital, returning
thence to rejoin her husband in Paris.
r BARLEY Campbell expects to make $780,
out of his plays this season. Those played this
week In various parts OF the country are ''My
Partner" 1.-THE Galley Slave" two companies,
Eisksa a THE s ygsntes" he Vrgnian"
viii probably be brought out again and very
soon by Kate ClaXton. who nndS part in it
that suits her exactly.
-Carlotta Patti gave two concerts in Chi
cago this week. At McVicker's Annie Pixley
closed Tuesday, and will be followed by Miss
Nelson, who opens as "Juiet." John T.
Raymond was al Hooley's, playing ''Woolfert's
RooSt."
-Mapleson's long-expected prlma-donna,
as Amina in La Somnambula," and with sue
cess whatever defects" says the Tribune,
may have remarked at first, they were soon
forgotten in the excitement of a triumph which
went on increasing from scene to scene.
-" Richard the Third" as an opera is the
latest effort to set Shakespeare to music. The
composer is SfgnOr Canepa and the lIbretttst
Fulyia Fulgonio, and the opera was produced at
Milan with considerable success.
1.-THE Marriage of Figaro ~ has been revived
at the Theater Francois after an interval OF six
years. NJ. Sardou read to the committee Of the
theater few days ago his new play, Daniel
Rochat," which will be performed early in the
coming year.
-"Hearts OF Steel" the new piece to be done
at Niblo's, New York, TWO weeks hence, was
written by Edward Falconer, and has been
largely revised by George Clarke, who is to play
in IL an Irish comedy part.
Emma Young, one Of the daughters Of Pro-
phet Brigham, is playing in the Bella Union,
San Francisco.
Arthur Sullivan has no difficulty as regards
his songs Words are sent to him at the rate OF
1000 copies OF verses per year; and it takes up
very large part of his secretarys time to return
the unsuccessful sets at once. But when all this
is done, the composer ''still Is not happy:n for
his life is made terrible by the perpetual appari-
ton OF young persons mostly OF the unfair sex
who demand his advice as to the expediency OF
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