The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-21

week.
John T. Raymond will be in Boston next
week.
Grau's Opera Company leave for Detroit
Monday morning.
Robson and Crane are in Detroit, playing
the ''Two Dromios."
The name of the Spanish author who
wrote "Yorick" is Tamavo.
Henry Irving has accepted a one-act
comedy by Arthur W.'Pinero.
Salsbury's Troubadours will begin an en-
gage ment in New York City next Monday.
1t is announced that Ole Bull will make
his annual farewell tour next year as
usual.
| Nine. Lucca, it is stated, will return to
| London next season, and will make 'Car-
men" her principal role.
| Mile. Favart's salary at the Theater
Francais Paris is to be, we are informed,
| $4,000 francs per annum.
Mr.. Jefferson will return to the stage in
April. He is to appear in Boston this
spring as "Bob Acres" in 'The Rivals"
The fifty-fourth consecutive performance
of "The Pirates Of Penzance" occurs to-
| night at the Fifth-avenue Theater, N. Y.
| Emmett announces his intention of
changing the residence of "Fritz" yearly,
taking him to Russia next year.
| Miss Mary Anderson closes her engage
| ment in New, York tonight playing "Ju-
liet." Mr.. George Riddle plays "Romeo."
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is still in
Paris, where she has been forced to remain
on account of the sickness of her mother.
The Lauri Family have thus early signed
| a contract to appear in the pantomime at
Drury-lane Theater London, next Christ
| mas.
The Prince of Wales Theater, London,
will be reopened Feb. 23d, with Miss Gene
We've Ward as the heroine in "Forget-me-
not"
| There is Boston report that Blanche
| Davenport has about decided to abandon
the opera and follow her sisters on the dra-
matte stage.
Berthelier. the comedian, lost property
valued at $4,000 francs by a fire which
occurred in his apartment, in Paris, Feb
ruary 18th.
"Blind Tom" is living in Georgia. Local
papers report that he has a repertory of
1000 pieces, and that "he plays night and
day like madman."
Edwin Booth appears at the Park Thea
ter, Boston, March 9Th. He will afterwards
act in New York and Brooklyn, prior to his
departure for England.
The Tooth night of 1.-THE Galley Slave"
by BARLEY Campbell, was reached on Feb
| ~
began at Haverly's Tneater.
Miss Emily Melville Miss Annie Mon
tague, Mr.. Toedt Mr.. Peakes, Mr.. Barrows
and Mr.. Turner are singing III. M. s.
Pinafore" in San Francisco.
It is proposed to give performances at
many theaters in all parts of the United
States on the 18th of March for the benefit
of the suffering poor in Ireland.
Mr.. N. G. Goodwin has provided himself
with new play entitled "Ourselves''-a
title. bv the wav, which is identical with
that of Mr.. F. G. Burnand's new comedy,
founded, probably, upon Labiche's piece,
"Moi."
Two American plays are to be produced
this year at London theater, the Gaietv.
One is 1.-THE Mighty Dollar" with Mr. and
Mrs. W. J. Florence; the other, "The
Gilded Age" with Mr.. J. T. Raymond as
"Col Sellers" .,..s.
The Tooth consecutive performance ol
Miss Nelson's present tour of America was
given on Tuesday evening, February 10th,
at Toronto, Canada. The receipts were
ST. ,357. Miss Nelson has acted in Shaks
pearean Characters and in "Ths Lady ol
Lyons" and "The Hunchback"
John Mccullough is expected to arrive
in New York about the middle of March
He will visit, during the last week of Feb
ruary, the towns of Dallas and Sherman ir
Texas. Shreveport Louisiana, and Little
Rock. Arkansas At Memphis, Tennessee,
he will appear March 1st and will act ont
week.
lie Fills de Coralie" is the present min,
, days wonder of Paris. M. Henri De La
pommeraye has lectured upon it at L,
Sale Du Boulevard des Capucines. The crit
les. including M. Sarcev can not sufficient,
, praise it, and only M. Zola steps in with
few words of warning to the young autho
! to temper the all but universal eulogiun
his work has obtained.
An organ has been placed on the stage o
the Opera Populaire, in Paris, to heightel
! the effect Of the new opera, "Petrarque,'
which is shortly to be produced, and ther
: will also be full chime of bells Tn
: mere stage setting of the piece will cos
s more than $4,000. The number of co.
/ tunes already finished for 1t exceeds
thousand, and there are still two hundre,
more to be made. r....
t The Boston Herald says of Mary Ander
I son, as "Evadne:" ''She has learned tina
a there are other and better methods of ex
= pressing profound passion than by volen
defamation, and she puts them in prac
e tice, seldom falling into her former erro
e of too free use of her grand voice
Intelligent purpose is evident in all her ell
forts. She is no longer the girl playing o
acting; she is the artist who, mprehend
n ing the possibilities of her art feels. an
= bv her great gain in the power of expires
sion makes others feel, the reality of tn
= emotions she depicts. Her performance Q
= 'Evadne showed in nearly every respect