The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-10-03
COULISSE CHAT.


The London Adclphi is under the man
sgcmsn! Of Dion nonelcanll.
Miss Marie Ltton has taken the Theatre
Royal, Glasgow, for winter season.
II is said that Agnes Robertson thinks of
making professional trip to Australia.
1t is rumored that Carl Rosa and Clara
IL t,e,..-r viii lie partners In an English opera
enterprise here neAt .e''o"
Christine Nilsson Is fat, sseps late hours,
goes to bed At . 4. NJ, aud doesn't seem 10 care
whether school Keeps of not.
Miss Emily Soldene and troupe will soon
sail tot this country, 10 open on November nj
laveiy's BfooIiyh 1htatie
Mario Van made her dcljdt it opera as
Iiiir IN ''Rgolcttu - In Rome, on tic cfch'nf OF
September TO- with great success.
The Blanche Roosevelt Opera Company
win bc noxt assembled In Boston for the performance
of MIR. Celcr's Masquc of Pandora ~ which Mr..
iongtcliow VIII supervise
Manager "Coloucl" Franklin Warren
suddenly disappeared from Troy, N. ", last week,
leaving the unpaid members of his company TO s''ft
for themselves rs best they could.
A circus manager wanted n new name for
his show, and a sophomore collcglan suggested
''monoppic aggregation" as good, aud tho circus
man Ind got three towns billed he'orc nc was III
formed that "nonohrrlc ~ meant onc-hofsc.
MISS MINNIE flNWk VUSluN''N u'ti'h'H wv
retin a. the United States this scascn. Roth Mcssts
Majesou and stakosci Offer her great Inducements.
She is now In Switzerland She win soon begin
tour through Austria and Hungary returning to Eng"
land In December for concerts.
Farmer Styles (teading)--" Alexandria
Shilling Tea: Tea, bread, and butter, and cake. nj
Iii. THAT'S jam. s'pose Maria; hut don't see
none say, young man, lust You brlng pot Q, az
M. tChuckling.) They sl'nn't come th''r London
ways over me. ''--Fdnng Folks.
Grace Greenwood thinks the American at
| mosrhcre has great deal tn do with the foimn.
tion NJ so many delicious soprano voices. England
now listens Ia more American singers, she says t,an
to those of any other nallcnalltyratti, Alban Ne
vada, yorke, Iiauk anl Lta all singing last season
In London.
Among the lis, of non president tax-paycrs
OF The city Of Portland Me- rs Miss Annie Louise Cay
The Official list that the rate Of taxation Is 81
per 100, and that Miss C,ry's tax blu " f2,i Co.
"By simple arithmetica process, ~ as the king of
the ''rlratcs of Pcnzance'' would say, this shows
that Miss Cary Portland estate Is assessed at 49, 3oo
An alliance bctwcen u member of High
Church cicrgymon AMI ''high- toned actors aud
| actresses under the name VI 'rhc Church and stage
Guild " has been formed, and the Guild has held IT'S
first meeting nj the Ill tuic Club IN Argyll street.
London. Many English actors and Actresses Were
| present, and OF Americans Mr.. and Mrs. W. j..
| Florence.
| Max Maretzek tells the Cincinnati people
that society pieces. freaks farccs and empty non
sense have made the American stage degenerate, he
cause they draw fun houses. Local opera houses, lie
thinks win In the long run bring native composers.
There Is difference between the ring OF gold AMI tue
ring OF silver aud American voices have the Italian
| timbre, says Maretzck In twenty years The opera
will bc naturaliacd here but now things are very bad
Miss Marie Pauline Nininger, n soprano
who has lately returned from Europe where She hal
been singing In opera, VIII make her appearances oil
| the concert stage In New York early In October
Miss Nlningcr. who Is niece of the Hon Alexander
Ramsey, Secretary Of War, Is said TO possess hh'
voice and decided ability rs singer, aud some FOR
egn critics enthusiastic as to her "eNib'li'y u
| voice. exquisite method, and unfalng accuracy o
| intonation. ~
| Miss Alice Oates and her husband had ;
not the bills In rittsburg the other day. rh
| troupe waste appear In Cincinnati on Monday, an,
tho advance agent teegraped from that point, sayiD.
| that the newspaper men would receive Mrs Gate
| kindly, but that they were down watkins, he
husband. Watkins, who IL disposed to he jealous %
Fitzgerald, the leading support. Imagined this wa
| u scliemc tn keep him away and accordingly HE,
himself TO the theatre. fully determined that his VIII
should leave the company. She refused to 20, w'ci
watkins INDUCED In Language more forcible than Gle
giant. Mrs. Oates returned the compliments In lik
manner, and fot q tme TIE srene was decidedly N
elesg Flnsy ,,s tgl ler to e. lie, why qua IL,
mediately put into eSecutiofi.
despatch TO the London Times from Rom
says: A young American soprano, Marie Van, a
CinciDnai las made the daring attempt Of appearing
for the first tit on any boaf,is prn,a donna at til
Politeama Theatre Ia the part Of Gtda, in Verdi
opera Of Rigoietto.'' The enormous theatre, wliic
holds !. 900 people. was iui The audience receives
the debutante with absolute silence. NotwithSantl
ing that natural agitation which made her first note
uncertain. she went through the first scene WE'LL wa
called out twice, and finally attained we'll deserve
success. The Roman musical critics praised III
quality and extent Of her voice. which Is striking
sympathetic, the good style of her acting. and Wit
reservations on the want Of training In the manage
| mcnt OF her voice and pronunciation OF ltilla
words, predict for her a successful career.
The Dramatic NarS, commenting upon 10
Emmct's drunken freak. says: Now, how lon
the public to I've expected to put up with tIiiS si
of thing Emmett Is u man who never even pretendc
| to be anything more than anuscr OF the public
| Ing good. lie has . good looking face anu hgure-
sadly altered now. however, from what 1t wash =,
OF white teeth, fair voice, u minstrel knack VIII
the guitar. and the advantage OF good title to IN
play. These are all the commenting features OF u
performance 10 public that has iavishcd hundred
has made and could have saved hundreds Of Thousand
Of dollars, where clover actors and better men nav
been content to rtge along ut thirty or forty dollar
z q week! 1t cannot 10 pretended that Elninet
o drunkenness Is n freak Of genius What h''Eht y
% parIoncd for dozen tunes 10 Edmund kcai or W
elder Booth or a. V. brooke, will not bc tolerate
half a dozen tunes niofe with Joe Emmett, an iii
crate fellow, whose vocation never character ac
a Ing Emmct las rot the Imagination that wotilu
= necessary TO constitute his sprecs weakness OF e
= MUS. They are simply tho brutal indulgence 81
lrutisI, Passionan indulgence fcl unti the passlo
| has become disease. Let Mr. En-
met take word for II. very short time and
few sprees more, and no manager In the country VI
engage him. Then tho days OF hanging hin'self
chains Of diamonds win he over, and lie may ~ W,
| substitute n plain rOpc.''
Dir. ID. Rawls, of Conncrsvilc, Ind, pr,
fam