Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-12-04
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Chat About Plays and PLAYERS
Bcrnhard Asain-McCuliOnx

beE8hardt Asain-1NCCultOUgh
- The Graphic thinks the new play OIL Needles
ana Pins had thing for the critics 10 Ill
down On.
- Patti did not score as great a success a.
Berlin this year as usual No premium was
paid Tor the tickets OF admission AMI plenty OF
reserved seats were always 10 be had al the box
once ThlS may De partly due to the fact that
only the dtUG and her tenor, Nicoliui sang in
italian, the rest Of the troupe using their native
tongue. She made her debut In Rossini's Bar
bteTe.
- Notwithstanding all that has been said
about the comparative failure Of Sarah Bern
harot IN New York, It appears that the manage
Ment has worked the ticket speculation so well
mat no seats for even the old Cdflibe can De
secured in advance for less than i've dollars;
yet If q man is not In q hurry 10 buy his seats
he can obtain them at the door a few minutes
after 6 at the regular price. Tonight Is Bern
hardps last in New York.
- TIE Bdct TeJa'tS, to be produced at NIblos
Garden New York, will be very gorgeous
spectacle IL any dependence Is TO be put upon
the promises OF the Brothers Kiralfy.
Mckee Rankin and his wife return to the
Usited States in the National Line steamer
which leaves Liverpool on the 9Th of this
month. They have made plenty OF reputation
and many friends, but not much money. Ii was
In consequence OF the disbandment of the
American company that Mrs Bateman can
eeled the Christmas engagement or The Danttes
The sale OF Sarah Bernhardt's pictures ha J
not come up to the expectations OF the dealers
tD that sort CT dramatic cuTi0s. The absurd
assumption that the methods OF Mr.. Barnam
stin hold good IN the metropolis has once more
been emphatically dfSprOVed.
-Zimmerman's Juvenile Pinatore Company
had possession OF the Park Theater, Philadel-
phia, this week, beginning With PndfOre.
An american GiTl, with Miss Fannie Dav-
export as kate Vivian. has finished Its second
week at the Walnut Street Theater, Philadel-
phia-
- John Mccullough has made pronounced
hit as ''virginius" In New York He VIII make
his last appearance In this country IN Detroit
In the latter .rt OF March, going thence to
England.
In her amateurlst days Mary Anderson was
very much impressed with the character OF
''Ricbard II H., and desired TO make her debut
Ii the part.
- Mr. Perugini, the tenor of the Strakoseh
Company, took the gold medal at Barnum's
hTst baby show In New York many years ago.
He was then Master John Chatterson. and his
Iather was respected stage carpenter.
Spite of angry parents, Jeanne Samary, the
sGuOrette or the Coincide Francois, was mar
ried according to program TO Paul Legarde, only
son OF rich broker OF Paris. Barretta, Bern
hardt'S successor, was bridesmaid, Sardou
Dumas, Halevy and other dramaliSts were
present, the whole company OF the Francois
hled before the bride and kissed her, while that
famous little hoyden paid that raresJ OF all
tributes 10 Cupid, for d FrenchwOman, OF
abundant tears.
The 30Tth performance OF H1zey Kirke at the
New York Madison Square theater was cele-
brated last night 1t will Oe carried up to 365,
and may even be run Indefinitely after that.
This IS phenomenal success, one which dis
arms all criticism, and which Is having the
natural result OF crowded houses to see the
company playing the piece In the west.
Annette Essipon's husband, Theodore Les
chetitsky, has written comic opera called The
W ~ ont
at Weisbaden.
- DeSeret, Dudley Bucks comic opera, seems
to have utterly failed, spite of the pleasant
things said about 1t. Tie company disbanded
In 0neinnat.
Arthur Wallack Is shortly to marry Miss
Petty Moss, daughter OF Theodore Moss, and
very intelligent, pretty girl Arthur WalIack
Will be his fathers heir, and, through the daugh-
ter, win combine the Moss Interest In the house
Also Arthur has, within two years past shown
that there Is great deal of true mettle In him.
Dramatic NetrS.
- The Indianapolis Journal is responsible for
this: Miss Emma ABBOTT the vocalist, is In Gin
cinnatL At the hotel where she stops the bill
of-fare contains In its list OF datntie5 'AbOott
Kisses" They are said TO be meringued not
parOXySmal. The Abbott Company Is In Louis.
vile. Business Manager MorriSsey writes the
prospects are bright for big business In that
city.
"A new comedy drama, entitled Samuel of
Posen will be produced in Albany on the 9th
Inst. and at the Boston Park Theater on the
18th. Its author is Mr.. g. Fl. JeS5up, and It
was written for the young comedian, Mr.. NJ. B.
Curtis.
- Though Sara Bernhardt is not much STAT
ter than match, she Is still not nearly as tain
as we were led to expect by the accounts OF her
printed In the London papers. But she appears
70 be thin enough TO excite comment, for at
the opera matinee the other day lovely AMI
paTtE10ge-nke young woman was overheard TO
say TO another young woman, whose plump
Cd hlyr f1T,E
went last night 70 see the Bernhardt. When she
came on the stage she did not look wider tnaa
The stick OF my fan, and when she sat down on
the G1van she did Lot make any more show than
cord and taSSeL',-N, i. World.
Miss Mary Anderson viii begin her engage
ment at the Fifth Avenue Theater on MONDAY
evening, December 49, Miss AndarSon's OMEN
Ing play Will be EtHdlae. and this is to be sue
eeeded py i3', Nr9 keIT3AeS, The L1dy Of Lyons.
Romeo and Inlet. The H,inch6acB, lore. The
DdugttteT q Poland and Macbeth. THIS IS a large
and difficult repertory for so young an actress
put it VIII serve TO bring her forward there In
several new characters, and thus to make her
talent felt In the most ample manner The re.
VlVai or ION will ce particularly bright feature
OF the engagement.
-Boitos NetstOfele has been produced for
the first time In Philadelphia by Mr. Strakoseb,s
company, Marie Roze assuming the part of
''Margherita,7 in which she achieved such a
pronounced success in Boston. The audience
was very large. and the performance was re-
ceiyed with the utmost enthusiasm, AT the close
OF the prison scene Nine. Rose was called to the
foothghtS, aud ladies In the proscenIum boxes
threw their boauetS at her feet.
quartz TaI'ey, the new play written for
Mr.. Barney Macauley oy L. A. Locke, was Der.
formed for the first time al Po9e'S Theater, ST,
Louis, last Monday evening. The papers say IL
Is OF the same romantic American school as
TIE DdHttes, and that Ii promises to De one of
the most successful melo dramas OF Its class
that has been seen for some time
A. NJ. Palmer Il IS understood has not re-
newed his lease OF the Union Square Tne,rer
and Will open new theater up town In New
York next season. Mr.. Wallack having also
concluded TO move as far up as Thirty.third
street. the two most popular play houses Id the
city Will De In fresh hands by next autumn
p. T. Barnum, undismayed by the non
success Of his Madison square scheme. has
leased the plot OF ground on the corner OF
Broadway and 59th street New York and viii
build new Barnum'S museum.
- FORGET Ne Not is fin rehearsal at Wallacks.
TO follow The Gatr'HO3' IL that diFerting play
ceeded at the Union Square by Diane.
Miss Clara Louise kellogg while in Vienna
recently, received from some unknown admirer
oiro or exquisite plumage IN a cage OF gold.
III was sent anonymously TO her hotel.
Miss Katharine Rogers has bought Town.
send PeIcys Blg1ed Beauty, lately played al the
New York Park, and VIII star In it.
San Francisco Is delighted with W. E. Sher-
mn NrF~ ,1-f1r