Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-03
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

1t is rumored that Boston is to have two
new theaters next season.
Gounod's new choral work is 90 LIE Vim
DIES Gaulois ct la Danse de lEpee"
Miss Dudley, pupil of Nine Ruders-
dortf, made her first appearance in "The
Pirates of Penzance, in st. Louis recently.
"Alsatia is to be the title of the En-
glish version Of Erckmann- Chatrain's I'M
acted play.
1t is rumored that Edgar Fawcett is
writing new play, the scene of which is
laid in Virginia.
1t is reported chat John Mccullough will
play in England next year under j. II.
MaplesOn's management.
Milton Stevens made drama on the
subject of Edwin Brood" which was
produced at the Surrey Theater, London,
in 1871.
Miss Nelson is to play an engagement of
one week at the Boston Globe, beginning
on the 10Th of April, and will appear in
g Measure for Measure.
Ed F. De Nyse has prepared play
called " Lightning Joe, the Telegraph Mes
senger, with which he proposes to take n.
y. NOOu through Tile country.
BARLEY Campbell has written a comedy,
the scene of which is laid in this country,
and it is said that it will be produced at
the Union Square.
Messrs. Robson and Crane'splay, "Sharps
and Flats" has nothing to do with music,
but is a satire on Western mining specula-
lions. Robson is Sharp and Crane is Flat.
The Bancrofts are making a financial
success of the Haymarket. The first
months receipts are said to be the largest
ever taken.
The Indian Huntress, in Buckstone's
" Green Bushes, in which Madame Ce-
leste played, was personated by Miss
Steinberg at the second revival of the piece
at the Royal Park Theater, London.
Miss Bella Beringer made her debut re-
Gently at the Stuttgart Conservatory of
Music, where she has been studying for
two years, and played Beethoven's Minor
Concerto.
1t is said that VIII Gillette, a nephew of
Henry Ward Beecher, Will appear in his
new comedy, "The Professor" which por-
trays the embarrassments of a bachelor who
tries to avoid the women who set their caps
for him.
When ''La Damnation de Faust is to
be produced in Boston, on April 18th,
under Mr.. Longs direction, the solos, it is
announced, will be assigned as follows
Marguerite, Mrs. f.. Humphrey Allen
Faust, William j. Winch Mephistophiles,
Mr. Hay Brander, S. B. Schlesinger.
Mile. Nevada, young American, is
studying in Nice, and is to make her debut
at Her Majesty's Opera London, early in
May, in ''La SonDambula." She is 20
years old, is said to be good actress and
a phenomenal singer, and will receive
f3, 600 for her services.
aida" with Verdi conducting, was
given in Paris, at the Grand Opera, with
magnificent success. The audience in
cluded President Grevy in the State box,
Gambetta, Jules Simon, all the Ministers
and diplomats, Adelina Patti, Nicolina,
Carvalho, Gounod, Massenet, Thomas, Sar-
dou and Dumas. Verdi was the recipient
of an enthusiastic ovation, and the scenery
is said to have been superbly realistic.
The Welsh Musical Scholarship which
John Thomas, the harpist, is endeavoring
to endow flor fl,000) in the Royal Acad-
envy of Music in London, is intended to
give each successful candidate three years
musical education at that institute, so that
at the termination of the period of each
scholarship another educated musician may
be added to those who are indebted to that
institution for their musical education.
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