The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-03
DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL NOTES

MISS MAGGIE MITCHELL has started on her
annual.
MARY ANDERSON opens in New York on the
9Th prox., instead of Uutica as has been
stated.
IT is arranged that Mile. Aimee shall appear
on the LIST of September at the Fifth Avenue
-theater, New York.
NEW YORK Is to have plenty of good actors
and actresses this winter, but they complain
that there are no new good plays.
IT is reported now that Sothern will open
at the Park Theater, New York city, with the
English farce of "Crutch and Toothpick."
"THE New Play" in which Lawrence Bar
rett has been SO successful, will probably be
produced in New York during the season.
MRS. WILLIAM b. CHAPMAN, the we'll
known actress, died Monday in Philadelphia,
surrounded by friends. She was 20 years old.
MISS ADA CAvENDIsH, under the manage
ment of Mr.. Matthew Canning, with a compa-
ny of her own, will shortly commence the
season.
LorTAs brief season at the Baldwin theater,
San Francisco, has been a prosperous one.
Miss Imogene In la Cigale" at the California
was a failure.
HAvERLY's colored Ministries opened last
week in the Boston Theater. There was
standing room only" The receipts OF the
first evening were sl,62l.
MISS EVA GARRICK, who supported Miss
Genevieve Ward during a part of her Ameri-
can tour, will make her first appearance in
New York, at the Park Theater, during this
week.
Won BULow, who is now soJourning with his
winter have an opposition to his opera season
at Hanover by the presence of NJ. Rubenstein
at Hamburg
Mrs. E. L. DAVENPORT, it is reported, does
not intend to act any more, except on special
occasions. She proposes establishing a school
for dramatic instruction, to be conduced both
in New York and Philadelphia.
Mr.. CHARLES READE has presented an act
ress in Drink" with a massive silver wine
cooler. Evidently Mr.. Reade does not expect
the Interpreters of his powerful story of intox-
ication to heed its obvious moral.
WEDNESDAY evening, September "a, is the
date fixed for the opening of the concert ses-
sion at Chickering Hall, New York, on which
occasion the Carlotta Patti Concert company
under the direction of Signor De Vivo, will
appear.
A POPULAR actress in London, wishing to go
of on little holiday, employed another act
ress of inferior talent, but greatly resembling
her, to take her place on the, stage. The in
ferior actress received all the applause tina,
would have been given to her mistress.
THE Dramatic News suggests that Star &C
ores>es VINO indulge in the habit of losing dia-
monds procure large assortment OF the imi
tations for use during the coming season, and
adds that bushel of these paste gems is worth
years advertising In the principal papers Of
the country.
JAMES E. MURDOCH has decided to return tc
the stage. He is now 70 years of age, and hs
will make his reentree on the occasion of the
| iftieth anniversary of his original appear
ance. Nor does he intend to change his ole
repertoire. He will, no doubt, travel with 6
combination.
| 1t turns out that two actors named Comp
ton are coming to this country-one to &C
with Miss Nelson, the other to act in the com
| pany of Mr.. Sothern. Both are sons of tn,
| eminent and lamented comedian whose I'm,
| talents, excellent acting and blameless Life
made the name of Compton a synonym fol
| distinction and integrity.