The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-18
THE STAGE.
A Large Batch Of Now Plays A Worry suo-
cossful Dramatic Season Ohronicod
Here and Abroad.
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Edwin Booth IA IN doilcuto health.
Clara Morris has gone TO Shn Francisco.
"rho Tourists hnve dono n business Of $50,
900 In fourteen weeks.
The funny man Of tho Detroit Ffcc ifcaa
has written play for Dcnman Thompson
The Sirakosch Opera Company sing az tia
BrooklS Academy Of Muaic january "a and
81.
During aat yenr seven opera houses" were
burned in Texas. They were built OF pine
boards.
SeHts ara sold for the Pirates Of PcrHance
MT the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, n
month nhend.
Adah Richmond. In 81. Louis. IL snid to have
played to tho largest week i business yet seen
In Popo's Theatre.
Adelaide Nelson's profits during tho FIRST
Ave and n half weeks Of her American tour
are said to have been So. 600
Lolita, Mary Anderson and Adelaide Ncll-
son plny against each other In Boston In Feb
ruary. Now. who will take the cake2
Louise Pomerny IL reported 10 have written
to n Rochester IN. ~ druggist. threatening n
suit Tor ueng her photographs on patent
hunion salye.
March will be presented nj the Park Theatre,
In New York. ut The coee of the present ap-
parently prosperous career of Fairfax.
Daniel Il Bandmann, dislking the Chicago
Tribune critics Views ON his Hamlet, last
week, WAS ass enough to dcbar tho critic
from the usual press privileges during the
engagement
IL la said that D'Oylcy Carte proposes to
utilize theexperiencc Of Max Maretaek hv CIV
garde played Julid In the liunchback IN Louis
Ing him the control OF Pirates or penzanCe
company on the rond.
The Drumatic Nelrs has been Mt some pains
to get up n general estimate Of the number OF
people In Now York who never pay amy price
OF admission To theatres, and finds the num-
ber OF chronic dcadhomds to be 10000 month.
BARLEY Campbell has written play for
Jack Studley. who will take the road with Ii
shortly. Battley. hy tile way, charges All
who apply to him for plays $1,000 cash down,
nowadays before he writes line. Good
terms for BARLEY.
Mr.. D'Oyley Carte announces that, In conse-
ullenee III the Unprecedented success or the
Pirates OF Penzance tho now opera by
Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan he Is about to
form one or more troupcs to represent the
piece In different cities OF tho United States.
Il IA reported that the evening Adele Bel
willie the actor who took the part OF Sir Walter
was 80 ill" that he reelcd on the stage, pat |
ted tI,tiiG under the chin, and announced to |
the audience that hn had 'made II mash" 1t
also bothered SIR Thomas CRGord To walk In |
n straight line.
The Boston Theatre Company drew such n
large portion Of the town OF Fall River last |
Thursday MI ht that Hn opposition house WAS /
patronized by only thirteen people. BY n |
unanimous vote the thirteen, Joined by the |
company they had been To aee. closed up the |
house and went over To SEQ the Boston play |
The art of properly falling on tho stage is
one hard to acquire. Tom keene however. Is
an adept ut IT, He is now astonishing the
Bostonians by his wonderful falls I'm the de-
lrium tremens scene In Drink at the Boston
Theatre. In making one he springs clear Off
the stage and falls lace downward, and In
the other he fails hfadlong off table, and
strikes the floor III confused heap.-Phila-
deiphia Sunday pr,ss.
Mrs. f. l.. Davenport, the widow OF the
DISTINGUISHED actor, will give dramatic read
ings next Tuesday evening Mt the Harlem
Music Hall. A theatrical performance Is also
to occur there. IN which Miss Nina Narian
and others Will participate All that Glittcrs
Ia Not Gold il to he acted. under the name Of
Sacrifice together with The Widows Victim.
large number Of performers. highly es-
teemed III New York. are to cooperate In
these pieces.
Augustus Noodle, of Louisville, furnishes
this fine description of Mary Anderson Can
you imagine some drifting cloud OF evening
Crystalli1ed In mystic limpidness into that
image OF the Maker which we call humanity
pellucd, lit within with azure iife2 1t may
suggest a dream OF that vision of IovelnesS
which have seen. and which shattered ones
soul to pieces. Tall slender but slender like
one of those threads Of steel that carry trains
across Niagara step aS graceful as the
wildcat =, anu Ilhb HECK (! hSplIIHR rs Enb |
AlexandTian shaft that lifted Pharos to light
up the sea-commandtng as the tower OF ivory
that looketh toward Damascus
On Monday last, Mr. George II. Locke, bet
ter known upon he stageas Yankee Locke
died at his home In Dracut, Mass Of typhoid
fever, aged siXty-twp years. lie was born at
EPSON n. H., in 1917, aud made his debut on
tue stage rs Las Cdsdsir Pizarfo, at Boyls-
ton Hail, Boston, ab 5ut 1886. tie was walk
Ing gentleman vt thc Dorance Street Thea
tre Providence. the following year, was three
wears at the Boston Museum and played his
first star engagement" in May, 1850, at the
National Theatre, Boston. He was we'll known
this city undtr The management OF A. ID.
Purdy He married about 1850 a lady VINO
appeared with him on the stage, and they
played at Philadelphia at tho Arch Street
Theatre IN 1852 They went to California IN
1861 but soou returned and he was for several
years manager OF dramatic company which
played principally in the smaller cities OF
New Eng land. Mrs Locke retired from the
stage some years ago. Old theatre-Roer5
will remember Yankees Solomon Strap In |
Jonathan in England, and his Jededidh i'll the |
Green Mountain Boy.
FOREIGN.
The yokes Family are at Drury Lane Lon |
don.
Mignon has created quite furore in st. |
Petersburg.
Money will he the opening play at the Lon
don HaymaI ket.
The Upper Crust is the title OF new COM
edy by Mr.. Byron.
Signor Campanini can sing the tenor roles
of eighty different operas.
A Bulga RAN dramatst, whose name Is not
yet revealed, has written comedy 10 one aet,