Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-13
DRAMATIC NOTES AND NEWS.

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Miss vermiely is the musical prodigy at
Pottsville, Pa. The name can't be sent to
Italy too soon.
What difference, pray, does it make
whether Conrad has Corsair or fine hair,
or false hair or even no hair at all?
Edward Rice is composing the music for
a new comic opera, written by BARLEY
Campbell, and entitled " West Point.
Ofenbach, at Nice, coughs all the time,
wrapped in furs, and yet he still writes
opera bouffe.
Emma Abbott has already begun the en-
gagement OF company to support her
stage kiss next season. Cove Bennett
might take Tom KarIs place
The Topsy of an Uncle TOMS Cabin
Troupe, playing in Pennsylvania, contem-
plating suicide, which was fortunately pre-
vented, wrote letter bequeathing her
body to the doctors-Autopsy.
"Daniel Rochat," Sardou's new play,
was Kissed off the stage of the Theatre
Franchise recently. 1t was too advanced"
on the subject Of the relations of the sexes,
even for a Partisan audience.
While concert and ball were in pro
gress in the opera house at Deadwood, not
long since, heavy wind carried the entire
front of the building out into the street.
Suspicion points to the man who bowed
the trombone.
Minstrel troupes are getting to be relics
of by-gone day. They are all 'clogged
up " with fancy dancing nowadays. There
isn't che true Ethiopian flavor about them
we used to enjoy when Eph Horn run his
" Panama Railroad"
Anna Dickinson cleaned sidewalk on
one occasion for twenty-five cents, which
she invested in a ticket to hear Wendell
Phillips lecture. The manager who then
had charge of Mr.. Phillips paid her a few
years afterwards 800 night to lecture.
W. G.. Wills has produced weak and
stupid melodrama called "Forced From
Home at the Dukes Theater, London,
but has redeemed his reputation by an
original play called Ninon," produced at
the London Adelphi with great success.
There are pianists so expert in variations
that they Can play all around melody
or an old air without ever hitting it once.
A very brilliant player can work up
"Home, Sweet Home so artistically that
in the bang and confusion of the playing it
cannot be distinguished from Moses in
| Egypt"
! Colonel Mapleson is negotiating with
John Mccullough for his appearance in
London next season but although Mr..
Mccullough could not have better man
ager for his London debut than Colonel
Mapleson, still we believe that his visit
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least, says the Spirit Of the Times.
There is much talk of financial 'depres-
sion in England, but it can hardly be
deeply felt in London, or else the humber
folk manage to find money to amuse them
selves in spite of bad times. At Sangers'
Hippodrome the holiday receipts averaged
$3.50 more than they were on the CORE
spondinglnights of last year. a similar
tale is told at the transporting theaters.
At a recent meeting of the London
Church and Stage Guild, brief paper was
read by Miss Ella Dietz, vigorously expos
ing the cant of the Lord Chamber sims
office, which permitted the appearance of
play treating breaches of the seventh
commandment as joke, but rejecting such
as inspired horror, and loathing, and indig-
nation at such vices.
Besides the scarcely successful Lord
of the Manor" Miss Marie Litton, of the
London Imperial (Aquarium), has another
comedy by Herman Merivale, and entitled
g Love for Love-" but does not purpose
to bring it out for some time to come. At
Easter the Imperial will revive AS You
Like It, !" in which Miss Litton will essay
the part of Rosalind to the Orlando of
Kyrle Bellew.
An obscure actress, Miss Emma Vaders,
has gained verdict of 81 500 against the
Polytechnic Institute at Louisville, for in
iuries received by falling through trap
door on the stage. That is the luck of an
actress A newspaper man might have
walked that stage for lifetime and never
would have had an opportunity to fail
through.
General John Haverly on the Sunday
amusement He would run his theaters ia
fashion similar to morning newspaper,
if the thing was practicable-have some
thing going on in them all the time, morn
ing, noon and night not from any avari-
cious motive, but because he is continually
running at a high-pressure rate of speed
himself, and he thinks everybody else
should rush through life in the same way.
Mrs. Fanny Kemble clings, it is said, to
the ancient dramatic traditions, caring not
for innovations. She was asked lately by
Baroness Burdett-Cou if she had seen
Mr. Irving in the part of Shylock. eyes,
she said, 81 have" ''And what do you
think of the performance ?" insisted the
Baroness. g In my opinion" answered
Mrs. Kemble, ''if Shakespeare could see
| - he would 70 ha rork -
Richard Wagner has accepted the invita-
ton of Nine. Judith Mendes, the daughter
of Theophile Gautier, to pass few weeks
at her villa at st. Enogat, in Brittany, on
his return from Naples. His health, which
seemed quite restored, has again become
uncertain, second attack OF erysipelas
| Immediately after his arrival in Naples
| giving some cause, not for alarm, but for
uneasiness.
Don't be constantly explaining to the
friend who may have accompanied you to
the theater, the part and incidents of the
play. Don't keep upa running fire of buzz
zing and whispering either in commenting
on the performance or preparing your
friend for the climax. Even the novitiate
for whom your explanations are intended
Northumberland nor appreciates theplay
half as we'll as though they had been per-
mitted to ferret out the play from incipi-
ency to maturity.
Miss Jennie Lee, well known in Califor-
MIA, the young actress whose forcible per-
Torrance of 10 in a dramatic edition of
Sc Bleak House" was very favorably re-
ceived some few seasons back at the Lon
don Globe Theater. appeared recently at
the Royalty in Nudge" which purports
to be a new three-act comedy written ex-
pressly for the lady by Messrs. Martin &
Burnett. Bat g Nudge proved failure,
and Miss Jennie Lee has fallen back upon
Je, and is again one-part actress.
| Nine. Dolaro has made no better i'm
preston IN Carmen in English, in London,
than she made in Carmen, in Italian, in
New York. The acute critic of the World
says Nine. Dolaro, particularly attract
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