Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-03-20

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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
| The musical and dramatic season, with few
exceptions has been very decided success in
all of the leading cities. Boston seems to have
led In this respect, If we may believe what the
Abbey, DAILY, Wailack and Palmer in New YORK
has been pretty well established. st. Louis has
not done 50 well as Chicago, while San Fran is
co seems to be- behind ri d. both: 9th. good spring
the travelling combinations.
Zone Hundred Wives" is the rather start
ling title Of new American play which will be
produced in New York next fall under the man
q NM ss a
now had two successful seasons, Will be reor-
gained with special reference to this new
Partner and 1.-The Danites,S and is said to
be strong In sympathetic interest and in comedy.
The opera bouffe at the Fifth Avenue Thea
| ter, New York, by Mr.. Maurice Grau's COM
pany colosed successfully its second week last
Musette." The usual lavlshness was shown in
the production OF the opera that has character
iSed all the past performances by the company.
On Good Friday, in New York, Rossini's
" Stabat Mater" will be sung by the principal
| ueInDeTS OI her MaJeSIyS opera company, In
which will be the full orchestra and chorus
-Messrs. E. E. Rice and j. Nunnemacher
have leased the Fifth Avenue Theater, N. Y,
! for an indefinite period, commencing Monday,
| March 20, easter Monday and on that day
U Ulll produce Mr. James A. Herne's Hearts Of
The novelty Of the season-verdi's grand
opera, ia Fora del Destino'-will be produced
| on Tuesday evening, March %, in New York.
This opera was originally produced at st. Peters
burg and after being reWrtten By the author
The part of "Leonora" will be taken by Mrs.
Marie Louise Swift, who will make her debut
IN opera IN 3t this country Mrs Swift Is young
ford, Mass She went to Italy five years ago,
and studied in Milan for four years under Sangi-
ovanni She has been singing in the United
States in concert.
turesque in the last act of the ''Taming of the
Shrew." Pulling of her cloak of black silk, lined
with pink, she appears in magnificent dress of
sapphire blue velvet, looped over skirt of pale
blue brocade into which are woven tiny red and
pink flowers Her hat is Rembrandt of gray
felt, bound with gold and trimmed with pink
and white ostrich feathers
BARLEY Campbell's Galley Slave" has left
the Boston theater, and Gilbert and Sullivan's
Princess Toto" succeeds it Monday.
Kate Field did her "musical monologue,
about London In Boston last week to great ac-
ceptance, "both socially and professionally"
says the Transcript.
Clara Morriss new play, 1.-THE Soul of an
Actress" succeeds In San Francisco. 1t is an
episode In the life Of French actress who In
her lover, and afterwards relents, not only
working for his release, but for his marriage to
her rival. This impossiblity is said to just suit
Mrs. Harriott.
-Agood story is told Of the celebrated flute
player, John S. Cox, just after Mr.. Goodwin
resumed the management of the Park Theater,
Philadelphia. Entering drug store, he asked
the attendant:-"Can you give me something
| sorrow and bitter recollections7" And the
druggist nodded and put him up little dose OF
qulnine and wormwood, rhubarb and epson
him; and he has not thought Of anything since,
except new schemes for getting the taste out Of
his mouth.
Miss Estelle Mortimer, one of the most es-
teemed ladies on the stage, is married. The
resumed her professional duties at once, ap-
peartng the same night as Psyche, who has,
singularly enough, to speak the lines, SIT takes
all the fun out OF marriage to have to hide
away like this-''
- Mr.. p. S. G1lmore's three grand New York
concerts on st. Patrick's day for the benefit of
the irish relief fund, took place at Madison
and evening at s. Ths ar aray If masea
celebrities, novelties and grand ensembles pro-
v1ded by the author OF columbia" for the o.
CfiolOu was luuIlcuSe. COTueU players, prl0la
donas, pianists and tenors OF various degrees Of
excellence, sang and played. while a band OF 100
musicians and chorus Of 800 voices interpret
America "a Day With the irish Sf By9ase p
erin E Plur1bus Unum Go Bragh," the sAnvil
Chorus, and columbia"
The attendance at the Madison Square The
| alter, New York, continues to be as large as
when the theater was opened, and Mackaye's
drama OF "HaZel ktrke" will accordingly be con-
tinued for the present. "Masks and Faces" is
| ready for production when needed.
The success Of the Boston Ideal Pinafore
! company at Niblo's in New York has bel so
great that they stay till Easter.
John Mccullough has given flag to the
| ChickaSaw guards OF Memphis, Tenn, of which
BODY he Is an honorary member.
Edwin Booth is playing his first engage
ment In Boston within two years, and drawing
great houses at the Park. Concerning his
Hamlet I" the AdrertiseJ. declares that at has
steadily grown more and more free natural
ana vivid, and In its reserve 1t is now almost
model"
Mr. Mapleson has engaged the daughter Of
| certain DR.. w. W. Wixom, of the United
Italy as Mile. Emma de Nevada. and Of whose
voice and dramatic knowledge the well-known
teacher, Nine. Marchesi, speaks very highly.
-Carlotti Patti disappointed the Sandwich
islanders !, by declining to sing there This is
has gone thence to Australia.
-"Uncle Toms Cabin with Mrs G. c. How
ard as 'Topsy," will be revived for one week
only at the Windsor Theater N. Y, beginning
Monday night. Two hundred colored per
| sons will appear in the great plantation scene.
Lolita will begin an engagement at Abbey's
Park Theater, n. y, on Easter Monday. The
Dramatic NetrS asSails Mrs. Crabtree. Lotta's
mother, for charging that the managers made
too much money out Of her daughter.
Mr.. j. X. Emmett is attracting immense au-
diences nightly at the Grand Opera House, N.
Y, with his perennial "Fritz." On st. Patrck's
day there was special matinee in aid of the
| Irish relief fund.
1t having been loosely announced that
Fred Zimmerman had engaged Mr.. Gilbert, OF
| the Philadelphia Sunday World, to write bur-
| leSque opera entitled "The Pie Rates of Penn's
! Aunts," Mr.. Zimmerman has been formally no.
| titled that this will be an Infringement of the
| copyright OF Mr.. Charles F. Pldgin, of Boston.
Mr.. Pidgin has a comic opera entitled "The
| Quaker Bakers; or, the Pie Rates Of PENIS
| Auntsn
The spring season of the Mapleson Opera
company in New York has opened brilliantly.
| Thus far there has not been a single diSap-
| pOintment from the 1ndispositton of any of the
| artists, and Marimon, Valera, Cary, Campo
mini, Galassi and Signor Ardiu are doing splen-
| did work. The Academy is well filed every
| night and the critics have nothing but praise
| to write OF the performances.