Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-12-11
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
ACTS AND kCTcRs-GoSsIP oF -HE Srt3E-TdVRsBY
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- The principal event OF the week La chicago
was the Inauguration OF the opera seas1a n
HaveTly's Tne8ter. by the Strakosch- Hess Eng
Hsh Opera troupe. at the head OF which Is the
well-kn0wn artist, Marie RMa. Joe jefferson
rs also play ing in Chicago in the R;cdls.
- Gilbert and Sullivan are coming back TO
this country Eext August to superintend the
production OF their long promised new opera
II Alfred Cellier's long talked o. setting of
Longfellow'5 AIs9Ite Of Pandora Is said 70 be
produced by the Blanche Roosevelt company D.
Che HoS'on Theater. January 70.
p. T. Barnun's Illness has resulted in his
retirement from the head OF the company formed
30 Duild gigantic museum and opera house on
The site OF me Madison Square garden in New
YORK, and In the Abandonment or the Intention
70 send his clrcuSes 10 Europe next spring. The
museum scheme will probably De abandoned
altogether.
- Though the 365th performan OF Steele
Mackaye's Htzel KH-be at the New York MadI-
son square theatsr Is about two N 0nthS OIL
every seat In the orchestra for that anniversary
has already been engaged. the success of the
piece Is certainly unique for this country.
- Sothern has obtained an injunction, through
TIE Lard Chancellor, to prevent his daughter
Eva from going upon the stage under the aus
piceS OF his bitter enemy, Boucicault. She Is a
ward 10 ch3aCeEy because OF Sothera'S disagree
ment with his Wife IN which BoucicaIlt mixed
himself.
The ethics of the stage-To many minds
there Is no more delightful amusement than a
good play Well acted. IL stimulates both unp
Intellectual aud emotional nature: IL exciCes
she fancy, enl1yens the Inauguration stirS the
sympathies, gratitles the love OF humor aud
toe sense or beauty, and erlarges IDEAS or LIE.
Next week Mr.. and Mrs. Chanfrau Will be
al the National, and at Ford Haverly'5 Widow
Bedott company appear.
Eight CON einat ons including barry Sar-
gents B.{qdrdp. gave up the ghost last week
and IL wasn't good week for "busts" either.
The coming week promises 10 be equally fatal.
Jenny Linds FIRST night netted $1,000:
Rachels 5,UUd GersteFs. =, 2G=' Christine Nils
s0n'sr s9.S01, and Bernhardts, =, 350.-HtT'rOT.
- In Berlin, at her second concert. In the
SiDgacademie. Hiss Emma Tnursby fully con-
hTIIe0 the favorable IMPRESSION she made at
her debut IL New York. Sac sang Ii05snis
Una vUCe POGO IA NozartS ''PhtlIis an das
ClaYer" the finaI rOndO from la Scnuam-
bGld,' and, IS All extra, ProchS Variations"
III ali OK v lich she was greatly applaJded.
- THIS Is how a rehearsal OF O,aeH0 sounds
b. the salyihi Eugiish-Italtan company:
Orello-Ohi. dessa innda. Ames
iaGO-hhy, how now. General? No more OF
UttIl0-Vanne, fuggI. ALA rota del tOrIaento
MilegaSt. Oh'tel EturO; Inegli1 a5Sat
IDgannatO Del tutto All enc aYegne
Logger s0spe{Jo.
isgO-iiCT now, my lord:
U3eilO-De s30i fGrtiyi diietu
DUAL pLoSaI sense?
fago-GO OF. Your story interests na much
my general
- This is the way Drink affected them in
Atlanta, according to a critic or that burg:
f'The fourth act afforded dramatic contrast 20
startling In It's realism that It almost tnrcg the
women or the audience into slight mysteries
and made the men momeIJ1rily shiveT wish
fright The sixth act hpartrtnding in its
reahsm-terrio,e In its intensity OF pessiOn-
narrowing in its naturalnesS-wr0ugh the
audience 10 the highest pitch OF horror-nelted
1t TO overwhelming piCy-harroGlns up The
souls OF all ~
Alice Oates IS II New York. The faf'
Alice has made the frmest OF promises TO be
III best little girl In the world In The future,
AID she VIII Probably soon go on tle road
again under Miles management.
- Daniel RCc7tGt no longer attracts paying
audiences ct the Union Square, New York. y
gentleman who counted the spectators in the
house one night last week reports that they
numbered less than two hundred. all told. In
Guiding dead heads, which goes 70 show that
Americans 90 not take kindly TO PLAYS with
religious themes.
Mr.. Anton Gerster, a brother OF the prIma
donna. does rustic carpenter work for Prospect
Park, Brooklyn.
-Boucicault Is coming back to this country.
His LAST adaptation, badly OD0'cd, was dat
failure in London.
Mr.. A. c. WheeIer'5 new weekly review OF
the DRAMA music and art, entitled Nm Grim
Ntr'S Ft7iNietO's is very good paper, but it has
3 poor name and the worst head IN the DU5i-
ness
- Il Is very kind OF Manager Abbey to think
OfgiSiug a BSTHhardt performance over In BAL
tiILOTe for the benefit OF Washington: bIJ he
might IS well have spared himself the tr1uo,a
rs Nttie game VIII not succeed TIE people or
Washington are not \ aIOOS. SD hard Up t1r en-
1sTtaiLuent that they need ride f0rrg mites aud
tie same distance Eack, after midnight, for al
evening enjoyment. IL viii take much better
Performance than Mr.. Abbey ever had TO draw
& crowd OF WashiIgtODians so far.
Is alyiai closes his engagement to night In
1iladeiphia at the Arch Street Theater and
viii &c succeeded BY Robson and Crane On
ACLday In Si,dJ1ps end Ftats.
- This is the last nfgSt OF the Maplescn
pera Company In New York TIL the new year.
: Ie season L, reported as unusually success
1GI one.
Ada Cavendish Is In Savannah playing the
SOtd Gran Actress, with Boniface IN the char
scter OF her lover, who looks old enough to De
her grandfather.
The Abbott opera Troupe close their s..
Louis engagement tonight in Carmen. Tney
come east now.
Hoey's Ch1d ofS'ate, 10y George Hoey, OF
the old National TheaTer company here,, had a
run at the Che5Inui-STreet IN Philadelphia
This week, and Is fairly praised as good play.
- The Widow Befott combination have BEN
all the week IN Richmond and now come here.
6. B. Bishop, the WIDOW" was for many years
member OF the old National company here.
Mary Anderson's recent st. Louis engage
ment is recorded among the really memorable
SuCCesSts OF tAe year. Miss Anderson acted
Ihefe during tTO weeks ending November %
and the receipts were IS, T3J.
= - hT. kyTle Bellew, who has acted Ia Lon
don as Harold kYrle, and who IS the son OF Mr..
BeLeT, deceased. the oacc wcli-kn0En reader.
Is coming 10 New YORK under engagement ID
The Union Square Theater.
- Charles Dudley Warner has rewritten one
OF his sketches expressly for the use OF Locke
Richardson. VINO Viii Include II In his program
OF recit2i5- Mr.. Richardson gave one Of his en-
tertalnmehts on Dec. iSt II Hartford ard met
with mQcn favor.
MI Florence has apparel as "Capta!n
Cutie and has had a cordial acceptauca In
that part. at the Galety Theater, London, Tae
signal success Of Mr. Florence fn London IS not
q surprise here, 10 those who have appreciated
MS rare AID line powers. Mr.. Florence Is In
truth, one o. the most versatile b-iluaat
tborougn going Characters or the age and his
judgment Ia theatrical matters IS not less than
Ills SSllL-N- y TrtttLss.
Italian journals or Trieste give fatterinp
accounts cf the success Of our Young country
oman Etdfla Seya4l Mss Nixon OF Austin
NeF2tal. ySGo las recently been singing ia that
80. S.-e 1ao oeen studying tw0 years aud q haI
VIII -dd!NA6si. and S4L- once IN LONDON bafn-p
E2pSstIlDS al trieste. or consul there Mr. a
w Ih3yeT, TIE b!CCrapher OF Beethoven say4
Ia private letter: Her voice IS not very s'r1nt,
Dlt " IS penetrating and very beautiful Asf6
tAet3Joh she Is the 81 -ateSr singer OF her years
j ever heard. ~ GAG