Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-03
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

The Strakosch italian Opera Company
promise to open a brilliant season OF opera at
the National TheAtef on Monday. They have had
the most successful season in New orleans for
ly for two weeks The reproduction Of the old
operas there proved to be great hit and the
same program VIII be followed here.
The Gotthold combination. which has made
very successful trip in the west, and had fun
Wees in at
twenty-five In the combination. =
1.-THE Pirate of Penzance; or. the Slave of
Duty" was produced on wednesday evening,
and will be sung every night hereafter. with
matinees on Saturday. at the Fifth avenue The
alter, New York. MeSsrs Gilbert and sullivan are
warmly commended for this, their latest pro.
ductfon of comic opera.
The New York Mirror condemns the Gus
tom OF handling flowers over the footiights to
actresses upon the stage. While the Mirror is
hibition OF ankles and shoulders, or any other
manifestations Of feminine vanity.
-Nouvelli, the new tenor, who was much ad-
mred In Paris in 'Aida," has had great sue
cess in st. Petersburg. They think him the
most sympathetic tenor since Mario and in "Lu-
crezia Borgia" they gave him perfect ovation,
encored all his ar1aS, and recalled him twelve
times.
Nine. WILSON'S debut at Madrid in 'sFaust''
on December was one OF the greatest triumphs
OF her career. After the garden scene she was
recalled three times, and three times also at the
end OF each following act, their majeSties join
Ing In the applause, which at certain moments
was almost frantic
Miss Anna Boyle, well-known here, is de-
serving of credit for her excellent performance
OF Miss Weathersby's part in ''HobbieS," which
she took at few hours notice in Cincinnati
and went on letter perfect. not only this, but she
played with an easy dash and apparent perfect
knowledge OF the stage business that was re
marSable considering the brief preparation.
- Lolita can prove an abb. That Is to say,
during portion of the time when that San
francisco chap; Zapf, says she was marrying
and living with him, stephen Fiske says she was,
to his knowledge, residing in London with her
mother, and might have welded Marquis had
she been matrimonially inclined.
The winter season of opera in London closed
last Saturday night. The week was devoted
cena" on her night, Nine. Marie Roze selecting
..Mignon," Miss Minnie Hauk and Nine. Cros-
mond both choosing ELISA" for their respective
special performances.
In New York 'sEstelle," the new play by
! Lancaster, at Wallack's, was a failure; it is a
good play, and was well acted, but the public
didn't want it. The succeeding play is ''She
Another new play, IAN Arabian Night IS a
success at Days BARLEY Campbell's Galley
Slave" is having good run at Haverlys. En-
tive representation at the. Park last week
| .Hearts Of Steel" the Irish play at Niblos
| doesn't seem to amount to much and Manager
Gilmore Is negotiating with Jarrett for the pro-
| ducti0n OF new play.
The Musical Times thinks that If Modjeska
| had been allowed to continue her performances
until her vogue brOadened and deepened into a
permanent popularity, she would now be the
most attractive star in America. But, in spite
OF the advice of Mr.. Boucicault, and the eypec-
tations of the manager she was taken away for
| a provincial tour.
Another prominent society lady" is to
make a stage debut as Laura Hawkins" to
worthless, but 1t may guage the woman.
Realism on the stage may be carried to an
| inconvenient extent. as in a presentation of
''Uncle Toms Cabin at Logansport, Ind,
| where Siberian bloodhound was introduced to
make the audience thrill with the horrors of
| slavery. The creature broke its chain and
! plunged among the performers, inJuring Mrs
Rial 50 that she was laid up several days Mrs
| Rial is a New Yorker. and is sister to Len.
Growers wife. She says that dog has got to
| leave the stage.
The Madison Square Theater, In New York,
which Steele Mackaye proposes soon to open, is
| remodeled with many novelties, the chief of
| double elevator, descending below the floor and
rising above the flies its full height, so that
an a Of the gn play Is o one
| plete for the next act; then the curtain drops
| for minute and the upper stage Is lowered or
the lower one raised. as the case may be.
The Mapleson Italian Opera Troupe began
a two weeks season at the Boston theater in
| Boston Monday evening with 'Sonnambula, I"
| and "Aida," GA Figlia del Reggimento," ''Mar
ia" ''Ltnda di Ghamounix" and ia Traviata'
are to follow the first week. From Boston the
Of two weeks at Haverly's theater, commencing
| January -. They will work around to New
YORK a ain BY Mafch when they will again be
- Richmond rejoices in ga native tragedi-
| enne," Miss Herndon, thus described by a
| local paper: symmetrical in form and Io1i C
rather than Cortnthlan in order, midway be-
| more fixed and substantial beeuty than either
Miss Herndon is the beau ideal, the very en-
bodiment OF tragedy. and while not too heavy
for the higher walks 1Gst OF G9med we SHOULD say
| more emotional and elevated walks Of dramatic
| art"
The Ideal company made success of their
appearance in .'Pinafore" In Brooklyn. The
serves its high reputation" 1t notes that Whit
| ney and Miss Phillips "appear in a new light;r
''their singing Is admirable. and they act We'll
Adele Belgrade is playing out west; she is
afflicted with that mania for playing Hamlet
which often besets tall women but raerly those
| of short stature. She makes evidently a mistake
| but the western papers are mostly too gallant
| to tell her so, except in the most guarded Ian
| guage.
=" Mignon" has been given at Stockholm in
| the Swedish language, at Copenhagen in Danish,
| at Prague1n Bohemian, and at PeSth in Hunga-
| rian. 1t has been as popular in each OF these
| idiomS as it is in French, German or English.
Agnes Robertson (hIrs- Bouccaultl is again
| In New York. 1t is said that she comes to as
sumo the leading female character in the new
| Irish play which her husband Is writing for
| Wallack's, and in which he will himself ap
| pear.
The stage door keeper at Wallack's New
| York Theater has been connectethyith that play
| house for eighteen years, and says that during
| that time he never saw drama, comedy or
opera performed. 81 have no interest in the
| play" he added, land would not sit through a
| piece If paid for it."
Miss May Croly, who has appeared on the
stage with Joe Jefferson and Clara Morris, has
| retired to her home circle. She is the eldest
| daughter of ID. C. Croly, late editor of the New
York Graphic and "Jennie June"
| The "NOuriSts in Pullman Palace Car
mine people, have played to more money this
| their initial tour than any similar organization
| in its first season out. Should the average con-
tinue the party will have $50 900 as the result OF
| years work.
When Remenyi played in Ann Arbor, Mich,
| the students of the university, about so Of them
| took the horses from the carriage In which the
| party were to ride to their hotel, brought Re
| menyi out to 1t on their shoulders hitched rope
| to the POLE and hauled him to the Gregory house
| in lively fashion, yelling like mad all the way.
| At the hotel they again mounted him on theil
| shoulders and carried him In, and after briel
season of applausive bowling retired: The great