Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-02-21
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,

since, Dion Bpucicault, Jr., and Thomas Jeffer-
son, sons of the two most popular comedians on
ans stage at the present day. made their inst
and the latter as the Third Secretary in Rich
elieu."
The Chicago Tribune Is raising boom in
favor OF kissing obnoxious pieces and actors,
and quotes legal decisions to prove that IL is a
public right No doubt; the question is, do you
want to have row In theater every time
thing don't pleasee
- Kate Thayer has had an artistic and pecun-
larry success in concert out west, and begins
March season on the New England circuit
wxiter says OF her: Without being the great
est of singers, she is in some respects, and eS-
pecfally In her rendering of staccato passages,
singular1y phenomenal.
The project of giving special matinee per-
formances on st. Patrick's Day for the benefit OF
the poor of Ireland has been very generally
adopted by the theatrical managers.
1t is just one week over year since Colonel
Mapleson's italian Opera Company, under Mr..
Haverly's management began that remarks
bly, successful season at the Academy of Music.
Philadelphia, that is remembered as the most
brilliant OF recent years
Miss Minnie Hauk gets most cordial praises
from the London papers for her performance OF
Shrew.
jefferson closed a very successful southern
tour at Nashville, Tenn, and has retired to his
louisiana plantation for the remainder Of the
winter. His company has returned to New
York.
An adaptation of Wagner's latest opera,
''Parsijal," has just been issued from the pen of
Mr.. and Mrs. COrder. Mr.. Corder was the sue
cessor of Mr.. Arthur Sullivan and Mr.. Shake
Speare In the MendelSSohn scholarship.
Mr.. Maplesons New York spring season
will last five weeks. Negotiations for the en-
gagement of Miss Minnie Hauk for the season
are said to have been made, but so far have
come to nothing.
MI Dl,;Ia a1,n1,;o 1nr-n ,>akl
most profitable week at the Park. In fact, this
theater has never done better business since
its opening. On the opening night it was
crowded, and there has been no performance at
which there was single row of empty benches
upstairs or down. The fact Is that 1.-The
Tourists" present very funny, thoroughly
wholesome, and in some respects original enter
tainment the originality, however, pertaining
rather to its form than It's substance. They are
at the National here next week.
Mile. Sarah Bernhardt receives from the
Coincide Franchise an annual salary of sl2 400.
NJ. Got received last year $4,000. The Pal MAJ
Gazette says, "When NJ. Saint Real excIaims
that French marshal only receives 10000
francs year and an archbishop only half that
Cathartne the Great, who made similar re-
mark: Your majesty has only got to make her
| marshals sing"
g Fun on the Pacific" new play which is
the work of John I. Ford's two daughters, was
produced at Richmond on Thursday night. 1t
is descriptive of a party of American voyagers
returning from Shanghai, in China, to San Fran
cisco. There is hardly serious line spoken. 1t
Is fUh and music from the beginning to the end.
Denham, Downing, Misses Bockel, Belle Mac
kenzie and little lille Parsloe, of Ford's Juve-
nile Pinafore, all have excellent parts.
-Sothern and Billy Florence are playing
jokes upon each other and their audiences out
west. In st. Louis the other evening 'sDun-
dreary" was all broken up by ''Bardwell Slote's
rushing on the stage in full mighty Dollar
rig, grasping his hand, saying, excuse me, old
to go to the other theater dozen blocks dis
tant. Slote had got into the midst Of his
counting "Mrs. Gen Giltiory" when In hop-skip
and jumped black-wh1skered, long-coated
snob and put both of them quite out OF counte-
nance.
There came very near being panic in a
Chicago theater few nights ago. A man arose
between the acts and said, 'Come, Colonel,
let's go out ana take something" and half the
male audience In the parquet got up and said
they would.
The 'Damnation OF Faust will be repeated
next Wednesday evening in Steinway Hall. NY.
even the expectations of DR.. Damrosch and the
members Of the Symphony society.
Seven of Shakespeare's historical plays
were given on as many successive nights, in
January, at the Burg Theater in Vienna, an
extraordinary series which may well make the
English and Americans ashamed to think that
the thing has never been paralleled on the Eng
disappearing stage.
1t is possible that s'The Nabob" will be pro-
duced at Wallacks Theater New York, at the
end Of Mr.. Boucicault's engagement, Mr.. Wal
lack playing the leading part. 1t Is also stated
that the latter has contracted to bring out Mr..
Gunter's drama, 1.-TWO Nights In Romen during
this season.
1t is reported that the veteran John
Brougham has written new play entitled
..Home Rule" which he intends to produce next
May, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary
of his first performance on the stage. Few men
have contributed more to the innocent ANUS
ment of their fellow creatures than Mr..
Brougham.
People are predicting the failure of Steele
Mackayes New York theater on the ground that
the heightened class for whom he aims TO run 1t
won't pay. He says: 'My performances are to
those at the other theaterss. This is one Of the
advantages of having short waits. Cool drinks,
lemonade, soda and other refreshments will be
admit only authorized or just dead heads, If 1
may use the word. You see about you the labor
Of my life. l have shaved and toiled here to
have it consummated. have done all could
and if New York refuses to appreciate 1t, then
so much the worse for New York, say"
BARLEY Campbelrs new story, "That Dread
ful Night is said by the ways to be a descrIp-
ton OF the first performance of one of his plays.
He has sold s"The Vigilantes" to j. B. Studley
who intends to star In it; and. besides his COM
| edy of ''Matrimony" for DAILY, is at work on
| play for Miss Effie Ellsler.
|
| style of harmony and Instrumentation, and the
| vitalizing strength of the principle OF wedding
music and drama in the more realistic fashion,
as distinguished from the traditional musical
| forms employed In opera of the old school, re-
ceive, therefore. the full amount OF the support
| that can be afforded by a work of the ca1iber
| and motive of Carmen, neither processing to
| be a grand opera nor to exemplify any school
| with the earnestness or rigor Of propagandism.
| Transcript. Boston. Come again.
1.-THE Galley Slave" as played by Ford's
| company, made a great hit in Richmond, Va.
! Miss Mackenzie is particularly praised by the
| local reporters.
"A new play, entitled midsummer Mad
ness" by Messrs. T. r. Sullivan and W. w.
| Chamberlin, has been produced at the Boston
Museum. 1t tells story Of watering-plac life,
and is termed a ''farcical fantasy" The part
which fell by rights to the leading lady, Miss
Clark was performed by Miss May Davenport,
whose acting is said to show strong marks of
improvement.
1.-Two Hearts," the new play in which ]. NJ.
Hardie and George Hoey will STAR is romantic
melodrama, the scene OF which is laid in the
seventeenth century. For their season, begin
ming April 26, they will be supported by the
Chestnut Street company, of Philadelphia, with
Katherine Rogers as the leading lady. Mr..
Stanley is said to have fine comedy part.
Haverly will produce 1.-TWO Hearts" at his
Brooklyn theater.
-"Pinafore," translated into Russian, is to