The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-10
Music and the Drama,

Mary Anderson declined to act in Holy Week.
Carl Rosa's English opera company, tits stated,
will be brought to this country next season by
Mr.. Hayerly.
J. j. Sullivan, leading man of the Maude Gran
ger Galley Slave" company, and Kate Putnam,
who was at iIamlin's Chicago, last week, were
divorced in Dupage county on the 18th by mu-
tual consent.
Mrs Scott. Siddons will return to the stage
next season, opening in America in September
with an English company in Queen and Cardi
nal, )" the principal characters being Anne Boleyn
and Cardinal Wolsey
The dramatization Of the Tichborne case, en-
titled 1.-TWO Mothers" has been produced with
fair success in Chicago. "The Heart Of an Ac-
tress,' written for Clara Morris, has made hit
in San Francisco. The old English play "The
Mariners Compass" has been revived as "Eearts
Of Oak" In Philadelphia, as 1.-THE Loves Of
Two Sailors" in Chicago. A translation OF a
French play is to be brought out in Philadelphia
under the new name of 1.-TWO Hearts" A new
border drama by Joaquin Miller is to be acted
next fall.
1t seems that Miss Katharine Rogers, who
played Adriand in COMEDY Of Errors" with Faw.
cett in this city some months ago, left the Phila-
delphia Chestnut, because she could not have
her name on the bills in type AS large rs that
used for W. +. Sheridans, who played star en-
gagemcnt. She said she had been a star long
before he thought OF being one, and she couldn't
think OF submitting to this sort of thing. So,
under the management Of Mr.. VIII Chapman,
the gentle Kate will take the road at once. "Our
girls" will be her piece. They appear in Chicago
on April 10Th.
Bernard Macauley, who built in Louisville one
Of the handsomest theatres in the country, now
says: 1.-The man who builds Il magnificent thea.
tire makes great mistake. The elegance and
elaboration Of the auditorium cheaper all the
scenic effect, and make it look tawdry and com
monplace. If | ever build another theatre | will
make my auditorium plain as is consistent
with good taste. Then any effort may make Al
scenic splendor or stage effect will be hcightcnd
and enhanced by the comparison with the front
Of the house"
Barbaja, the great opera manager, was SO igno-
norant Of music that when a fayoritc vocalist
complained that the piano to whose accompani.
mcnt she was rehsarsing her part was too high,
he at once promised that before the next re-
hearsal he would see II lowered The following
morning the instrument was, as before, half n
note above the requisite pitch. II was pointed
out to Barbaja that the piano still wanted lower
Ing, on which he flew into violent passion, and
summoDing one Of the stage carpenters, asked
him why, when he had been told that that piano
was too high, he had not shortened the legs by
two or three inches instead Of doing So by one.
"1he Royal MILDLY is an adaptation OF Ger
man musical play called "Der Seecadet" Man
ager DAILY bought the American right TO use the
piece from the alleged German author, and has
prevented lie production by others by means Of
injunctons. Philadelphia manager was thus
compelled to close lis theatre; hut now he comes
out triumphantly with the same play under the
title Of Captain Charlotte" IL having been dis
covered that the German claimant IL plagiarist