The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-04-04
THE STAGE.
Dramatic Events at Home and Abroad "A
Large Batch of New French Plays to
Adapt for the English and
American Stage,
EIGN.

land.
A Paris correspondent, writing of La Diva
Patti, says: She is growing stuutpr-more
matronly In build-and terrible, but true, she
, has a slight moustache.'
! "Michel strogoT' is finished, and Dennery
and Verne are now working at a new fairy
piece to be called Voyage a Irnvers Tim
possibilte."
Jarrett II Palmers Uncle Toms Cabin
Company were playing In Amsterdam Hol-
land, toy last accounts, They are advertised
as the "Amerlcanische Negergesellschaft"
Sara Bernhardt will shortly appear In Am
, sterdam. She will appear In Adrienne Lee
. couvfeur and in Frou- Frou during her en-
gagement In London next summer.
The new piece by Mr.. Tennyson, just ac-
J cepted by Mr.. Henry Irving, will probably be
produced in the course Of the fashionable sea-
son, With Miss Ellen Terry and Mr.. Irving In
the chief parts.
j. Ii. Haverly is going to London In June,
and II he can find desirable theatre will
lease 1t and conduct 1t on purely American
principles, presenting nothing but American
successes.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. s. Knight are playina
lotto In the provincial cities of England
with great success. The local journals praise
his German American pronunciation, his
recitetions, the famous funny fit and other
speeialtiea.
The affair of the veuve Gras, who threw
| yitrio Into the eyes OF her lover In the Rue de
! Boulogne some two years ago, has been dra-
matized, and will shortly be played at the
third Theatre Franeais under the title of
Chen d'Aveugle,
Carmen has found its way into nearly every
country In Europe, with the exception of that
In which the scene OF the opera Ia laid. but
| Miss Minnie Hauk has been engaged to sing
| In her famous role of the gypsy girl at
| Madrid in next January.
Mr. Herbert Reeves, eldest son of Mr.. Sims
Reeves, has for some time past been studying
| singing In Italy. and Is said to possess q pure
| tenor voice OF excellent quality. He will
| make his first appearance In England at one
of Mr.. Gauzs orchestral concerts at ST.
James Hall.
| Messrs. Melhac and HaIevy's new play.
| La Petite Mere, Is n numerous work with
sentimental end-Scribe retouched by the au-
thors of Frou-Frou. The story is said TO be
interesting and the dialogue is full Of wit. II
is admirably acted at the Varieties, though Its
| fate is uncertain
The lease of the Princess Theatre, London,
| expires next year, and the building is to he
pulled down, and a new one, planned on the
| most improved principles, is to be built on the
same elite. 1t is said that Mr.. BARLEY Camp
bell will visit London In May, and that
"The Galley Slave and "Farfax" Will be
produced at the Princess Theatre.
Nine. Christine Nilson, before leaving
Madrid, received the photographs of the King
and Queen of Spain. with the inscription: "A
Mime Christine Nilsson Rouzeaud- d-Souyenir
affectueux de ses admlrateurs, Marie Chris
tine, Alphonse,' and big pearl In a shell all
of diamonds as necklace She will probably
sing In England during the season.
There Is going to be pretty fair sprnk-
ling" Of American actors In England this
summer. Rankin takes over the Danites,
Florence the Mighty Dollar, and Raymond
Col. Sellers. Dan. Harkins is already profit
ably starring In the legitimate, the Knights
are doing big business with Otto, and now
1t Is announced that Lawrence Barrett opens
In Liverpool In June,
There is reason to believe that Victor Hugo
has promised TO reconsider his decision not to
allow, either of his two manuscript dramas,
Les Jumeaux and 1orauemada to be pro-
duced during his lifetime. NJ. Delaunay, tho
we'll known actor, and M. Sarcey, the
dramatic critic, both begged ie majtre, at the
banquet given at the Continental, to allow
one Of thesn two chefa duurre to be per-
formed ard Victor Hugo has since been look
ing oves and correcting the manuscript of
Torquemada.
Af1oDg the forthcoming novelties of the
drsmatic season In Paris are Etrangleurs de
de Paris, by Belot, and dramatization of
HDla's Mana, the first to be given at the Porte
st. Martin, the second Mt the Amhlgu; Mon
sieur le Ministre, by Jules Carette, ut the
Comedie Francaee, LIE Petit jacques, by
jules Claretie and Busnaoh, strong judicial
drama for the Amblgu; and L'Indiscrete, by
M. Janvier de la Motto.
Mile. Nevada, the young American who Is
to take the opera going public by storm this
season, and before whom, her enthusiasts
say, the radiance of Patti and Albani will
is diligently practcing. She will make her
debut In Sonnambula at Her Majesty's
Opera. London, early In May, The young
lady, who Is just twenty, Is reported to be
capital actress and is to receive $4,000 for her
services
rTt. ;,,
Church. Warsaw. was unveiled on the sixth
instant. The bust of the composer Is In white
| marble and is the work of Leonard Marconi.
a Warsaw sculptor. The inscription Is as
| follows "Frederick Chopin lin Polish, Szopen),
| from his countrymen. Born March 2, 1909,
| In Isazuna VIOLA; died In Paris October II,
1s49" Under the monument Is Inferred
Cbopin's heart, exhumed from Pere la Chaise,
| religious service was held, at which some
| of his relatives were present.
| In Daniel Rochat, lie. Bartet has her
hair dressed charmingly In wavy bandeaux
with small frisures on the forehead, the
chignon is composed of a nmud Psyche and
| pLaits, and the only ornament Is a gold comb.
| This new mode OF dressing the hair has been
christened by its inventor the "coffure Lea"
| from the name of the parsonage represented
| by Mile. Bartet In Sardou's piece The Golf
| fure has been at once adopted In the salons
of fashion.
Many of the very best opera books have
been founded on ballets, and apart from
Wagner's bretti, which, by their beauty and
significance, stand alone, almost every fairly
good libretto is French. The opera book Of
Norma is based on a French tragedy by Sou
met. La Gazza Ladra, Fidelio, La Favorita,
| Ernani, are all founded on librett derived
| from French plays, and, with the exception
of Wagner's operas and the thoroughly Ger
man Der Freischutz, 1t would be difficult to
name one opera of which the same may not
| be said.
Barpaja, tie great opera manager. WAS so
ignorant of music that when favorate vo-
calst complained that the piano to whose ac-
compartment she was rehparsing her part
was too high, he at once promised that before
the next rehearsal he would see it lowered.
The following morning the instrument was,
as before, half a note above the requisite
pitch. 1t was pointed out to Barbaja that the
piano still wanted lowering, on which he flew
Into a violent passion, and summoDing one
Of the stage caTpenters, asked him why,