The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-24

WHEN Bernhardt leaves Paris, women
of decided enbonpoint are to be fashion
able there.
JULIA RIVE KING is to have frst-class
concert company out on tour through
the next amusement season.
CHRISTINE NILSSON. in her correspond
ence with q personal friend, states that
she will not come to America during the
forthcoming season.
PERFORMANCES of Tristan md Isolde
and Die Weistefsinger Of Nuremberg
rank among the coming events at the
Royal Vienna Opera house.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON, actor, artist and
agriculturist, during his vacation among
the Vermont pastures has selected fine
herd of short-horn cattle for his Louisiana
farm.
AN uncontradicted rumor has it that
Alice Oates Watkins is to forsake comic
opera next season, and be the bright
particular star of melange called Long
Branch.
THE death of the once-famous tenor
Ivanoff, the contemporary of Rubin, Is
announced. His career on the lyric stage
was brief, but very successful, both III
Italy and England.
Mr.. CHARLES CoGHLAN has COM
menced q country tour OF England with
version by himself of the play of La
Morte CiUile, in which Signor Salvini
has occasionally appeared.
MADAME PATTI will appear next winter
in Paris at the theatre DIES Nations.
Messrs. Polloni and Franchi will be the
impressariio of the Italian season. 1t is said
that Semirdnide and Mcfistofele will be
mounted especially for Madame Patti.
Mr.. LOUIS MAS, who has oeen en-
gagged by Mr.. Theodore Thomas as solo
pianist for tour Of the United States,
resigns his position as Professor in the
Kings Conservatory, Leipsig, on the LIST
of October. Mr.. Mas is an English
man.
mento, California, during July, 1859.
Her fathers brother, resident of
Louisiana, vouches for the truth of it;
so does her mother. The latter ought
to know, and the other says he does.
Yet photographers hint and doubt.
THE dramatic and musical obituary
for the year 1880, thus far, includes the
names of Mrs. Mary Chapman, Felicita
Vestvai, Henry Wieniawski, George
Honey, j. b. Omahundro, j. r. blanche,
John Brougham, Z. L. Donnelly, L. III.
Majilton, Ole Bull, Tom Taylor, and
Adelaide Nelson.
The first man who ever sang negro
song which made success was George
Washington Dixon. The song was called
"The Coal Black Rose" This was in
1923, at New York. After making thou
sands of dollars and great reputation,
he died in the Charity Hospital at New
Orleans, in 1861.
AMONG printers who became eminent
in the dramatic profession, are the names
of George Jordan, James f. Murdoch,
George Clark (whose real name is
O'NeilD, Miron w. Leflingwell, VIM. e.
Burton, Tom Placide, Sol. Smith,
"Artemus Ward" (whose real name was
Charles Brown, and Augustin Daily, the
manager.
The theatrical season this fall and win
ter promises to be unusually attractive.
Three brilliant luminaries, at least, from
the other side of the water will shine
resplendent upon the American stage
Salvini, Bernhardt and Gerster. It is
possible that Nilsson also may come. but
this is not yet definitely settled Owing
to the remarkable success of the operate
and variety combinations last season the
musical feature will predominant, and
the prospects of fine italian opera, under
the able management of Mapleson and
the Strakosches, seems to be unusually
bright
Mr.. SoTHERN, in all human probable
ity, will never play again. He has been
broken-down man for the past two years.
He is not an old man in years, but he is
lamentably old III reality. "It is the pace
that kills, and the comedian has always
pushed himself from eend TO eend." as
the late Mr. Harper was reported to
have said. With him will die Lord Dun
drcdyy, and also certain style of easy,
nonchslant acting, grotesque, quaint,
and effective as 1t was original The wink
OF Sothern was equal to volume of Joe
Miller. 1t was sly, knowing, confden-
tial. Each man in the audience took it to
himself and became at once an intimate
friend of the actor. OF his private char
acter there Is nothing to be said; that is
his own care. IL Is as an actor alone that
the world at large has n right to look
upon nina fictitious being who won it
to laughter by discovering new and be-
fore unheard-of ticklish spot. He who
creates innocent laughter is n public
benefactor, and to my mind more worthy
OF sculptured monument than ho who
under the impudent disguise of mill
tary uniform shoots down his fellow-men
and compiacently looks around for APP
plause. CoUicr-Jomnai.