Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-04-03
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC

| - NeliSOn returns 10 the GLOBE Boston, April
10, and onehalf OF the seats are at present sold,
| most OF them In the hands Of SPECTATORS
This week was busy one In the New York
theaters. The Mastodon Minstrels, sixty strong,
were at Nfblo's; Edwin Booth was on his old
stage; Lolita revisited the Park Theater; the
| Bl1ou Opera House opened its doors to the pub
lie for the first time, and Hearts OF OAK" was
! presented at the Fifth Avenue.
- Frenchs Opera Company open in Provi-
dence, Ii they have luck, next Monday in the
merry, Merry Mariner, {"The Sea Cadet.'0
The hftieth performance Of ''Hazel Kirke, "
was given In New York at the Madison Square
| Theater Monday night, and ON entering each
lady was presented with silken program and
bouquet as souvenir OF the event.
Emma Abbott has pet dog. He went on
| the dying scene In 'tRomeo and Juliet. He made
| a hit but the scene did not.
- What bowling there will be among the
penny gaH" cockney actors this summer when
| these ''blarsted Hamer1cans, you know" get to
playing in SUMMER ''They talk through their
noses, you know, and they cawnt speak the
vemacular eyether, you knaw.'
Mrs. Scott-Siddons will have company of
! leyn." SO, too, will Anna Dickinson. who viii
| not alone present her own beautiful play OF
| ANNE Boleyn," but will also appear in several
| new plays all written by herself.
The London production of the s.Pirates' is
| postponed to April 8, and all seats are already
before sailing, completed his ARRANGEMENTS for
the autumn season in New York, when Messrs.
Gilbert and Sullivan will return with him and
! produce new opera
Mr. Wallack expects shortly to produce at
bis theater two PLAYS, entitled respectively
1.-TWO Hearts, and midsummer Madness The
second Is rolicktng little piece recently per-
formed at the Boston theater; the former is an
adaptation OF one of D'Ennery's dramas.
- The Hanlon-Lees combination, an English
variety company Of 20 members, whose enter
tainment is something like ''The Tourists, :" Will
appear In this country next season.
~ always" says Manager Haverley, "prefer
the public Judgment to my own. ] do not pre-
sumo to say what they ought to like, but lind
out what they do like and give it to them,
When produce new piece go into private
box and study the faces of the audience. II a
of every line OF 1t. II perceive that line or a
scene Is coldly received or is displeasing out it
goes. 1t Is easy enough to read the faces In an
audience and to discover what is or what is not
70 oet me popular taste: II mistake is made the
loss is always the least
Miss Emma Abbott and her company have
had successful week In Philadelphia. They
the Regiment" bohemian Girl" and :Romeo
ana an Juliet with two representations of 'sThe
Shimes OF Normandy" with Miss Stone, Mrs.
Seguin and Castle In the cast This evening
Mrs. Seguln Will make her first appearance In
Carmen" with Miss Stone, Messrs. Ryse. Stod-
dard, Tom Karl and Tams In the other principal
parts.
j. C. McCollum, Mrs. Bowers husband, is
supporting Edwin Booth, and the Boston critics
claim that he and ShakSpere are not on good
terms.
Gus Williams, with sOur German Sena
tor Is playing to immense business every
where In the west. The company this week
GAINESVILLE, Ohio
This week marks the last appearance OF
Miss Adelaide Nelson on the Cincinnati stage.
Her engagement embraces but six performances,
including the Saturday matinee.
1t Is stated that Professor James E. Muir
street Theater In Philadelphia on the Sd of Nav
For Mr.. Murdoch'S sake, the Cincinnati CON-.
ntf1'ctat regrets to hear 1t.
Mr.. BARLEY Campbell has written a do.
nestle drama, dealing with eastern life, which
Square Theater next season. The scenes of
the play SHIFT from the wild interior regions OF
pennsylvania to the fashionable sands Of New
p port; Inc same prolific playWrght has also
be produced by Mr.. DAILY next autumn; the
piece Is farcical In character, and Its chief male
parsonage Is journalist.
Mr.. Maurice Graus French opera company
closed their supplementary season at the Fifth
Avenue last week. 1t is said to have been
very successful one. several new operas having
been produced with marked favor PaoIa.
Mares most conspicuous success was in ale
Petit Due"
Colonel Maplesoa is to receive commit
ment on Tuesday evening, April 6, at the New
YORK Academy OF Music The stockholders have
tehderea MIN grand benefit In recognition OF
hls services In the cause of good opera. All the
artists OF the company will appear, and the
performance will consist Of the second and the
third act of "Aida, the second act of Carmen"
the second act OF 'Dinorah," and the last act OF
LA Favorita."
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culture of New York by his memorized recita-
tons OF entire plays Of Shakespeare. He is an
EDgliShman, rather under middle age who has
made l1fe-study of the great poet. He holds in
leading plays, the stage direction which accom-
pany the text, and other matters OF detail which
might alone confuse an ordinary mind. He
arrangeS the text in each case to suit his pur-
poses, and, though not always letter-perfect
In his delivery, makes comparatively few
blunders.
Mrs. Zelda Seguin, the most delightful of
operate contraltOs, has been telling a Detroit
her first appearance In opera in that city four
teen years ago, when she was Zelda Harrison.
and and about II years old: Rose Cooke, "sher'
gum, whom she afterward married, were In
the company. She had been but six months out
of school, during which time she had been study
ing music with Mrs. Seguin, the elder. The COM
pany opened in .La Sonnambula" and she had
the little part OF Elisa" from which all the mu-
sic was cut because it didn't suit her voice: two
nights later she took 'LaZarillo," In Mariana"
and that she regards as her real debut. Since
that time she has usually been engaged and at
WORK In one opera company or another, from
the nrSt OF september to the first OF June, and
has been the contralto with every prominent
soprano who has appeared In English opera In
this country. She has never been abroad. and
does not intend to- Mrs Seguin the elder lives
pleasantly in New York, where she Is loInsd
every summer by her pupil and successor.
Aida" was performed at the Paris Grand
Opera last week with Verdi as conductor Among
the audience were President Grevy and his famf-
ly In the state box, Gambetta, Jules simon all
Patti; Nicolini Nolan Carvalho, Gounod, Mas
senet, Ambrose Thomas Dumas and SardOu.
The mise en- scene was wonderful piece of art
ard archHOlOgtcally, true In its representation OF
the Egypt Of the PharaOhs. The finest scenes
were the monumental row OF Sphinxe5 at the
gates OF ThebeS and the moonlight scene on the
banks Of the Nile In the latter the effect OF the
clear sky and the stars twinkling above the
ancient temples was tndeScribable. The tones
OF the Egyptian tubaS in the march and trf-
umphal entry OF RadameS In the second act
were most thrilling, and lent peculiar color to
the Instrumentation. At the end OF the third
act The three principal artiStS-KrauSS Bloch
AID MaureEpresented Verdi with two superb
Wreaths and Tyre Of ivory and gold. The COM
poser was overcome with emotion, and at the
fali Of the curtain at the close Of the opera he
would fa1n have escaped the ovation which
awaited him. But the public would have their
idol brought forward, and, amid scene OF the
Widest eAcitemen Mt and enthusiasm. Nine KrauSs
appeared, bringing the reluctant Verdi forward
or the stage to bow his ACCOMPLISHMENTS,