Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-12-15
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

INV YoRB-GCssIP ABuyT AC1s AND ACTORS
L0NGfELL0W : "SssQUE CT PANDORA, BIC.
- On Monday night Mr.. and Mrs Caanfrau
opened this weeks engagement at the Nation Al
IA a fair house ia t4eir we'll kLOHn line Of plays
NhiCn are not as attractive LOr as popular as
icy USED 70 BE-, bat ? hich contribute 10 iii uD
tiie d[aioatlc season In tine provinces Mr..
CnailiTau appears every night this week a5
Kit, Mra.ChanfIau appearing only at the mat
Nee tn2S and Saturday afternoons In Parted and
EIsi Lgis'e. Next week kiralry'5 spectacular
PLAY o. around ne WDq-I| ~ Eigttg DJps viii
be az the National. aud George ;. Knight holds
the boards Tor the same time at Fords. TINS
week the Widow BedOtt Company, with q. -.
Bishop as the inimitabie widow, is doing very
well AT the Opera HOUSE. Mr.. BlSaop was a
fayOrfte comedian at the old National and Ford
for many years.
-Archibald Forbes, the well known war cor
respondent OF the london Telegraph, lectures
Oh Monday night next, ar Lincoln Hall, on the
Inner Life OF q War correspondent
Mr.. John Mccullough Is TO open at Drlry
Lane in April, as virgnaias He win probably
take an American company over with him.
Mckee Rankin, Mrs. Rankin AMI Miss
Emma Marble return 10 America Oh the Both
mia, which sails from Liverpool IN saturday
next
Mr. Tom Mcguire Is much cast down b.
Mr. Abbtys Judiciou5 Withdrawal OF Tts Pas
s'0H Play. which, as read by Mr.. Saint Morse.
8 Ems 10 be a wonderful piece OF hignfalutin
r. bDsh. The ineffable stupidity OF the play
would probably have saved Il.
Dlii) IIo9 VI i<Att VI " >, NC"
ne kintesE ana brightest OF stage managers.
q, about $4,000 ~ his widow and two ddugh-
tesS
Mr.. A. NJ. Palmer IS quietly planning his
rev tbeater and c0utemplates a new sort OF
sage. which viii che3ply out completely eclipse
zoe Wanted Two decker OF the Madison Square.
New York.
Mr. Geo. Favcett Rowe who declines to .
specify the particular spell which he has cast
over Mr. Henry c. Jarrett Will have his 29Jh
chance R0Qft'G Npw York shortly
His version OF TIncie Toms Cabin IS to be pro
duced there at the close OF the C'febr1tef Gus
engagement.
In Mr.. Palmer's New York theater refresh
r.ents will probably be handed round between
the acts In the European manner.
The production or Mr. NallOry's own play
at the Madison square Theater New York has
been again postponed by tie ineXpliCabl3 sue
cess OF Hazel hfrif.
Miss Mary AndeTs0n's latest pictures repre-
s. hts her with a heavy bang" Of hair aud a
general resemblance 10 more than usually
pretty milineT. Nobody would take her Tor
Americas greatest fragile actress" as she Is
occasionally, and enormously, entitled
- The Partisan press persists In regarding
Mr.. VIM. Winters criticisms upon Sdrln Bern
haTdt as an OutburSt or American hu,n0r.
- Miss Emma Abbott VIII produce several
rev EJglish operas AZ the New York Fitch Az
enue TEeateT IN January.
A dramatKation or Aic|,Gel S'fDgOf has
version was produced at the ersLVhlle Lycaum.
BCtH we're dismal failures becauS. hey were
cheaply mounted and acted. But a 5pendidly
cOStumed ana SumptuOuSly equipped dramAtl-
zat1Cn or Nerne's novel has III tde an immense
hit In Paris. from which one is led 10 liner that
the EiTalfyS Will soon tiud q mate for drJ,gtd
DtF World iIt Ejg'tty Days.
The energetic and irrepresslb!e Mr.. George |
&. Goodwin. OF Philadelphia. viii soon be in |
control OF one of the best and handsomeSC Op- |
ETA houses III the country.
The production or an Operatic version OF |
IOngfeIlOW'S MGSI'tP Of PGItd0s'd at the Boston |
TheateT early In January assumes special iJn- !
pOTtance fIOm the fact that the Distinguished (.
poet has supervised or SuggeStei the dramatic |
treatment OF the poem, and that the music by
Alfred Collier, and the scenery and costumes
after designs by Alma 1adema, are the result !
OF conferences with Mr.. LOngfel.ow. In which
he has carefully explained 10 composer. lbret-
fist and artist his special views OF tae Greek
legend which formed the basis OF bis poem. and
al the same time expressed his wishes as 10 the
manner in which his work should Dc transferred
TO the lyric stage.
-Zolas Mana is to be dramatlZed for the
Paris Ambgu; and, by way of doing everything
artisticaIly. Mile MaSsin, who plays the heroine.
is 20 appear In the last scene with an imitation
OF small pOX done TO the death
The composer OF Charity Begins at HJnlo
the lew operetta produced by the company at
Pixies, Cincinnati. Monday night, Is Dir. Alfred
Celiier, who is credited oy some with the auth
oTship or the best music 10 PttGJOre.
- Miss Katherine Rogers is teachi1g pupils
for the stage In New York.
- Hayerlys Mastodon Ministries have re
eeiVed offers from Vienna, Paris and ST. Peters
burg.
The Dramatic Ne'rS says that Robson ami
Crane are TO produce new version OF FceIJih
Night next season
- kenward Philip. the man tried for the
forgery OF the famous Morey Cainese letter, Is
going 10 lecture. The subject or his discourse
Will Dc "MoTey-Antique.'
The Criterion Company that recently
distaI ded In the interior OF ONO is no. IA
Criterion Company playing Freaks under III
management or Mr. GoSche.
- The Musical Club VIII celebrate the ami
versary OF BeethOyen's birth with a program or
great variety and beauty. larger number OF
distinguished artists than usual will take part.
The London papers at hand speak on the
whole very favorably OF Edwin Booth In Richie
Ueu. The T,H:eS says that Ibis cunning Is the
cunning OF brave man, whose experience OF
those dark and tTeacherous times mad shown
him that the open bravery OF the solder was
no match Slngle-hdnded for the hidden craft
or the courtier, or 10 use bis own words, he
put on the foXS skin only when the Hons Was
TOO short. The Datty Telegraph frankly
ayows that we do not see Ia Mr.. Booths Richie
lin performance OF any very suDerlatiye eX-
cellence. IL Is able aid excellent enough but
We can detect no genius In it, The Sdndard
nndS less fault, but gives less praise OF indi-
T1dual scenes CurlOGSly enough. all the
papers concur IN tinding FAULT with the cast OF
The piece, Booth excepted.
-Rice's Opera company and his extrava-
CANA are at the two Cincinnati theaters this
week. They opened Monday night.
Mccullough, Lotta and Polk are at the
Academy, Holiday and ForT5, respectively, liz
Baltimore, this week.
IS alvini opened in New FORK Monday night
In Otaello. Friday he plays Hamlet.
Mary Anderson appeared IN New York for
the nrSt time IN two years In Erddae, at the
Fifth Avenue. Monday evening.
"A large number or leading Philadelphia
citizens presented Slgnor Saiyini with a compli-
mentary letter at the close or his engagement,
congratulaJing him on bis success and express
ing the hope that he would soon return ID the
City OF Brotherly Love.
1t viii be remembered that the program Is
sued al Booths Theater on Sarah BerDhardt's
INST performance OF CdH,ttle, contained the fol-
lowing announcement: las Camille" Mile
BernhaTdt has Won In the Old World some OF
her brightest laurels. Ii was said OF this bril-
nanI artist Dy an English critic OF emlnence
'tnat her representation OF the character OF the
heroine or THIS play literally liked the admira-
ZION or her audience and aroused their emotions
OF SORROW 10 Such an extent al the sight OF her
intensely realistic suffering that strong men
Wept, While the mole deiicaIely oryanized
among the ladies swooned, and In some in
stances fell from theiT chairs. The recollection