The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-20
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

MUSICAL. AND DRAMATIC NOTES.
Ford Zimmerman's baby "Pinafore' company
played at Cape May on Friday evening in the large
dining room of the Stockton House before a
crowded house, about fifteen hundred being present.
The Criterion Comedy Company. urbRer the man
agement Of the veteran J. Gosche will open season
of three weeks at Haverleys Theatre in this city.
on the 18th of September. with new play. This
company has played in New York. but it has
received very hatterng reception ION the road
Mr.. Gosche's plan is to make the Criterion to the
principal members of the company are Mr.. +. f.
Mackay. Mr.. De Wolf Hopper. Miss Louise Sylvester
and Miss Mary Davenport
Mr.. j. S. CROSBY of the North Broad Street The
atre, Philadelphia, will open his house for summer
season on Monday steam fan has been put in,
which will blow cool air through large pipes into tho
lower part of the auditorium, while the ventilators
in the dome have been increased give ample escape
for the heated air it ascends. The plan is rather
a novel one but promises to work satisfactorily.
Mr.. Crosseys intention is to produce only
comic and light operas for the coming
season, and his company will be mainly that which
made such hit in "Pinafore." The opening bill
will be "Fatinitza.' with a cast embracing Miss
Messrs. W. H. Seymour. Harry Allen. Eugene Clark.
Charles Lang. Frank Tannehill and others Mr..
Antoine Ref, Jr will again be the orchestralleade
FOREIGN.
When the Lyceum closes for the season Mr. Henry
Irving and his playfellows are to go yachting
cruise in the Mediterranean. They will probably
discover Mr.. W. s. Gilbert at Algiers.
M. Capoul has thrown up his engagement at the
Royal Italian Opera. at Covent Garden owing to
illness which has compelled him to take his choice
between the waters of vchy and Contrexeville. Not
NJ. Capoul could long suffer Lies Amants dc
Verone" on British soil.
London Aayfair:-"It is curious that an American
destiny should attend many of the Prince Of
Wales actors Montague crossed the Atlantic, set
tied and died in America. Coshlan yielded to the
same pressure, and is practically lost to the London
stage. and Monday last Mr. Clayton sailed for
New York. His visit is the more integibie. both
because his recent appearances in Caste the
reverse of satisfactory and account of his rela
tions with Mr.. Boucicault."
London Vaaity Fdir:-"AIlle. Sarah Bernhard
has sent in her resignation as q socicaire of the
Coincide FRANCHISE. Her resignation. however. will
certainly not be accepted and doubt an action
will be brought against her in the French Law Courts
for breach of contract, a result of which action
But the amount of these damages hardly exceed
sOOOOf.. comparatively small portion of the large
sum she has been offered in order to play America
1t is also said that NJ. Got has resigned as well as
Mlle Bernhard If so, the FRANCHISE will lose their
two most valuable members"
At the Adelphi Theatre, London. Mr.. Hermann
Vein recently appeared in the title role of Lord
Lytton 3 drama of "Richeeu." 1.-THE audience which
assembled" says the London Eraminer, 'was chiefly
composed Of those who watch with more or less
socitude the higher efforts of English dramatic art
aud who recognize in Mr. Vein one of the most
finished artists Of his generation The result was
complete histronic success, which. under other
conditions, would most certainly have led the way
to long theatrical triumph. Anything finer than
the effect of the performance q whole scarcely
be conceived Never befere perhaps in this country
has the intellectual side Of Rchelieu's character
been so securely grasped. Contrasted with Mr..
Irving's Rlcheieu, which have recently had an
opportunity of studying the Richelieu of Mr. Vein
may be said to be truly emotional and less fan
tastic instructed and less sensational better
art and in reality truer to human nature. Mr..
Vein acting was worthy of our stage in its best
days and fit to take rank with the best work now to
be seen during the French tenure of the Gaiety."
London. Standard:-'It is somewhat curious to
note the constitution OF the companies at the
called Italian houses, and examination it will be
found that Italians by no means preponderate. OF
prime donne in the front ranks believe there is
not a single artist who is really Italian. Neither
Nine. Patti, Mime. Nilsson nor Mime. Gcrster springs
from what used to be called the land of song.
Mme Cepeda is. we believe. Spanish Nine. Valera,
American; Mile Bloch owes her ancestry to Germany
and her reputation France. Mmc Trebelli UNDER
stood to be French. and Mile. Kellogg American. Mme
R0ze is French. Miss Hank is American, Mile Am
bre has Moorish blood III her veins. Mile. Thalberg
is not Italian, neither is Nine. pappenhen nor
Mile. Marimon. Mile. Pyk Signor Gayarre. the
first of contemporary tenors. is spanish; Signor
Nicolini is French. as is NJ. Maurel he prefix goes
for nothing). The three most important debus that
have taken place this those of NJ Gailhard
NJ. Roudl and NJ Lassalle, and these all French.
unless M. Roudil be claimed as Belgian. As with
singers so is it with composers. The two novelties
that been produced at Covent Garden this year
are by Frenchmen--the Marquis dIvry's Les
Amants dc verone' and NJ Massencts 'Roi dc
Lahore and last year another Frenchman.
NJ Masse and German. Flotow. supplied the new
operas while yet another Frenchman. Bzet, is the
composer of the successful Carmen The most
popular work given is probably the Faust OF NJ.
Gounod, Frenchman. The Don Giovanni of
Mozart. a work of still higher genius and nearly
equal attractivencss We owe to Germany. The first
OF operas, Beethovcn's 'Fidel.o is German. and
few works are more popular than the compositions
of Herr Wagner, German. aud Meyerbecr. French
nan. Another famous baritone NJ. Faure. is again
French. Almost all the names hero mentioned are
those which appear in current advertisements. and
1t is evident that the Royal Italian Opera, and the
second Italian house in the Haymarket can only be
termed Italian by courtesy il the epithet signifies
that they are the houses of Italian music.
NELSON'S NEXT VISIT TO AMERICA.
1l6 BKLGRAvR ROAD. LONDON. July /. 1870
To THE EDITOR or THE HERALD
As have of late received many letters from
friends In America, telling me that l
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