Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-01
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.


fractions at the theatres this week and des ,rved
audiencesin the northern cities. Next week
Maggie Mitchell gives her list OF plays at the
National and Fords new opera company appear
In new opera every night. On Tuesday night
Josseffy the eminent pianist virtuoso. appears
In concert at Lincoln Hail. The New York
papers with one accord speak In the highest
terms OF this artist
-Mapleson,s much advertised Italian opera
season at the New York Academy OF Music be-
gan Monday night, the operas presented during
the week being "Trayiata," " Faust" Rtgo-
on the Whole little short Of failure. Campanlni,
Galassi and the rest of last years singers have
confirmed the good opinion formed of them
then; but most OF the new people are diSappoint-
ing. One tenor, Runcio, was Killed of the first
night.
Mr. BARLEY Campbelrs play, "The Galley
Slave" will be performed in Newark and Jersey
Maud ne GrangeT MISS Miss Emily ' Rg Mr. Frank
Evans and Mr.. c. A. McManuS.
Rose Coghlan has been engaged rs leading
lady by Steele Mackaye for his new Madison
Square Theater New York. Boucicault and she
have quarreled, and there Is promise of legal
her.
Boucicault has suddenly broken down from
overwork, and is now In critical condition
from a paralysis that threatens the brain. IL is
hoped, however, that entire rest from buSine IS
will bring him around in time. Booths Thelter
therefore is closed. and Boucicault'S engagement
at Wallacks which was to begin next month, is
postponed till next season.
wives" will be played at Days Theater
New York, until successor to 1t is called for by
the public. Mr.. DAILY has already In preparation
several novelties, among others a celebrated
French play by Ernest Cadol, and an adaptation
from the German entitled IAN Arabian Night"
Mr.. Burnand has completed a free version OF
that amusing farcical comedy, "Les Trente Mil
lions de Gladiator" by NM. Labiehe and Gille
1t will shortly be produced at the Gaiety The
ter, London, under the title of 1.-THE Nabob."
Adelaide Nelson was most heartily received
on her temperance In Juliet at the Brooklyn
Theater last week. after her three years absence
in Europe, and she is called as eXquisitey love
ly as ever" Now, as when she was here before,
says writer, "she has perfect mastery of the
artless and ingenious ways OF girlhood that have
always distinguished her representations OF
Juliet in her earliest phases"
French Flats" has already won an uneX-
| pected measure OF popular favor at the Union
| Square Theater, New York, and that its present
| scarcely admits of a doubt. As already stated
| In these columns this piece is very amusing
trifie, built upon the lightest possible basis OF
farce, somewhat forced but certainly bright and
varied in its humor, and distinguished above all
by the admirably ingenious manner in which Its
| motive is worked out.
| New York thought she had safely got over
| the "Pnafore" fever; but the opera has been re-
'.Sir Joseph" and now there threatens to BE- a
| very bad relapse. The Broadway, too, is given
! over to "Pnafore"
| Mr.. Joseph Jefferson will visit PHILADELPHIA
| next week. and will there enact several of the
| comic parts with which his name was more COM
petely identified In the past than it is at pres
| ent. His celebrated bob Acres will be one of
! these.
| Fanny Davenport'S sister Florence will not
return to the stage, it is said, but will shortly
| marry Harold Tirro of Philadelphia.
| -" Wolfert'S Roost" has hot been the success
| hoped for in John T. Raymond's tour. and he
| has had sometimes to fall back on 1.-THE Gilded
| Age"
| Alfred Collier accompanies W. S. Gilbert and
| Arthur Sullivan, who left Liverpool for this
| country Saturday, and he will probably super
intend the production here of .1rhe Sultan Of
Mocha" and others Of his comic operas.
| -vaucorbeil lately went to Italy to ask verdrs
permission to perform "AIda" in French at the
| Paris opera, and got 1t.
| AT the reOpening of the Sadler's Wells Thea
| ter, Manchester, England, under the manage
ment Of Mrs. Il. L. Bateman, an address from
| the pen OF Mr.. Tom Taylor was spoken by Miss
| Bateman. "ROb Roy" was the play OF the night.
Ada Cavendish has recently brought out
| Tom Taylor's LADY Clancarty" at the San Fran
cisco California theater. The play pictures Eng
! land In the time of the Stuarts, and the two
most interesting figures In 1t are Lord and Lady
Clancarty, who are married at an early age,
| only to be shortly separated. The former is
staunch In the service Of the StuartS, and his
wife is faithful to the government. The action
| turns upon visit which Lord Clancarty In
| disguise, pays to his lost love.
| Alexander Henderson, the London manager
| is now In this country, and says that his wife,
| Lydia Thompson, will act no more.
| The goSSipS say that Annette ESsipoff, the
| Russian pianist, is about to marry her early
master and adviser, the pianistcomposer, LeSch-
| etitZky.
| The Porte ST. Martin is the Paris theatre
from which comes at secondhand the scenery
| for many of the spectacular pieces produced in
| this country. IFS Stage Is illSt OcfuOip1 nv
| Cinderella" one of whose novel effects is a
| view of the royal palace illuminated for the
| festival, while from the building and down a
| wide staircase rush hundred guests in pursuit
| OF the flying cinderella" each bearing col
ored lantern. Another is a lake by moonlight,
| the water being represented by immense mirrors
laid flat on the stage, rejecting the grass and
trees along the edge with perfect naturalness.
| Henry E. Abbey Of the New York and Bos-
| ton Park theatres has bought the right OF this
| country and Canada of Sims comedy "Crutch
| and TOothpick" which has been very success
| full In England Sothern was expected to bring
1t out on his first coming back to this country.
The veteran John Gilbert who has been
dangerously Ill with a complication of typhoid
| ing.
-Byrons comedy, "The Girls" was recently
| produced for the first time in this country at
Baldwin'S theatre In San Francisco.
Miss Bijou Heron is now In a London con-
vent school, and writes to friends that She is
| well anu udppy.
Mr.. Max Maretzek's English opera Company,
with Miss Annis Montague, Miss Minnie Palmer,
Messrs Turner Fink, Peakes and others began
a season Of opera at the Jersey City Academy OF
Music this week. 'Trovatore" was given with
Mr.. Blum as the Count d1 Luna.
The Rice Surprise Party and John McCul.
Tough close engagements at Cincinnati this eve
ming. The Rice Party have had large houses
MIR. E. T. Stetson, the tragedian, commences
an engagement at the Metropolitan Theater
Louisville, this week In his new American play
written expressly for him, entitled Kentucky,
new in plot and characters.
Emerson & Hooleys Minstrels played to i'm
mense business the past week in Pittsburg, the
receipts Of the week being over 81, 900.
| WHAT NOT TO KILL.-The French Minister OF
France has done good deed In causing placard
to be posted, which it would be wise for citizens
OF all countries to have before their eyes, 1t tells
farmers, sportsmen, boys and others what crea-
lures not to kill, as follows:
| Hedge-hog-Lives mostly on mice, small ro-
| Dents SlugS and grubS-animalS hurtful to agr1-
culture. Don't Kill the hedgehog
| Toad-Farm assistant; he destroys twenty 70
| thirty insects per hour. Don't kill the toad
| Mole-IS continually destroying grubS, Larvae.
palmer-worms and insects injurious to agricul-
ture No trace Of vegetation Is ever found In its
stomach. Don't kill the mole.
Birds-Each department loses several millions
| Iu RirdS tha opl u