Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-17
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

| MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
The amusements next week promise to be
even more attractive than those of the present
| Letta will be at the National. and at FOrd'S the
kiralfy brothers will appear in the BLACK
CROOK" fine scenic play.
Miss Lolita, on being asked "What is your
| age?' by st. Louis lawyer, the other day, re-
Piled people might not believe me If l told, for
some say am 49," She would make no other
| answer.
"A new play, entitled .An the Rage, " writ
| ten by Mr.. William ID. Eaton, one OF the editor
| ial writer's of the Chicago Times, will be pro-
duced on January 10th, at Thealls Novelty
| Theater, Brooklyn.
"A telegram from st. Louis states that Miss
| Adelaide Nelson closed one of the greatest fort
! night engagements ever filled in that CITY, the
receipts being S15,211. The lady is naturally de-
| the east.
- The following is fair specimen of the aver
age theatrical paragraphs of the day: Miss
| Marion Elmore, of the surprise Party denies
| that she combs her hair with poker, and Miss
Florence Baker says she scorns picked her.
| rings"
A new play by Mr.. Edgar Fawcett entitled
IA False Friend is in preparation at the Union
Square Theater, New York Meanwhile "French
Flats" retains Its interest for the theater going
| public.
| - The Boston Museum has been devoted
| since the 5th instant to Mr.. Bouccaults play OF
1.-The Shaughraun." Mr.. Boucicault acts Conn.
-''Our German Senator" starts westward
this week, after a very successful week in
evidently struck a BONANZA. N''>
| - The FlorenceS are travelling in the west
with new comedy, "a Mill1on,r by Woolf,
auInor OF thelr bonanza piece, "The Mighty
HoSpv,o wbera S ao piS Gasnrt reteneiy u.
sentinr' sin most amIistnG manner the p pr-
plexities of a German professor at a seaside
resort with two troubles in the persons of a
maTrlageaDle daughter and niece, for whom he
nnds great difficulty In procuring mates The
ppecip n,a Oh tne matchmaking results In
CONFUSION ; almost as disastrous as the mixing up
| Oh tne paDleS py Llttle Buttercup, which affords
s % stuatlSns ana iaughaple
With via saroas' n y, no go 49, 49, ,
Enromesn nonas the 5,;i lo. 9i.e notioeu III
Gtard o,,,a II i;o oa 1900 ,s - I'LL, ~ an az w oi
LAID LOUSY iheLoSS WYNN IL ieleIS 10 as lne
donnaS aiIudeS tn :sher 9raeefnl ti1ra w which
shows to a great ADVANTAGE in no6by ulster. y
| just imagine Clara In an ulster,
| The charity of rinstra,s nd otborc 10 os,,od
for nan u Emmett Who iS now ,In,nor - a, r'n o,d
aod IAN ian y. Emmett, VINO Is now living In OLD
a ~ anu "anC az Ut near BrlugeporI suDur6 OF
SaI easo, ~ ne NV was menDer OF Wna1 Is SAID 10
nsne peem oae nIst negro mlnstrel company
t+ ulgahhgH ConsiSGilg Oh Iour men, Emmett,
three are dead he is descrbad as an nm u and
composer of ssDixie," .sGet out of the Wilder.
! ness and other well-knoWn airs
Miss Genevieve Ward is to act at the Prince
VI d., watts 5nealel. London IN .F0rget Me Not"
Mss MISS wary intenus 10 WISH Cne united states
Mt was wrten axnras nI ,nr he U me
| letter to a friend In New York Miss Ward saws
The character of .Stenhanfe, is thought To sy,ii
me exactly. hone they viii not steal ~ .F ~
| Me Not from me. as am yery anxious thai If
| should not be spoilt for me in America
| MRS. zelda Seruin has been seriously II,
with congestion of the lungs at ST. Paul MINI
|
rreos n1o,,,rr - 49, na,, ..s' o,iiio III
fnnnV exneriances Rrenhan, ,nu NJ au Sois
at the scene for the first act in AS You Like It,
| The scene showed a picture of the Brenhan
| opera-house as big as life. Fancy this as back
| GROUND IN the forest OF Arden"
| be doing very well in London. "Blue Beardn Is
| E. L. Bianchard'S Contribution to Old Drl,ry
The mercurial vokeses are prominent features
| of the performance.
At Wallack,s New Yorl, .I ondon assuronco,
hoe boor $500, 80, NonuUn n''ui anoe
nrincinai memhers nf his nomnsnw I'm thu nu elo
manG reGes tae iyoh an In ooedience to
| Stoops to EonGIier VIII he renrodmcSd ..0Id
Heads and YounG Hearts SV vii aisn ba
at an carly dav Tho audjonnas 90 ,hj e tSoMeu
during The nresentation of tbeSa fa o @
| dies have been quite large.
The Boston Theater Company drew such a
| 1arpe norton or the town Of vol p,no- Iost
| Thursday night that an opnos,tion hnnse was
pyT
imOus vote the thirteen ioipeI nv tho oomnonr
| they had been to see, closed nm the housa and
| went over TO see the Roston NAV '.'o Aoo'0 anu
No,,ro1 hos s,,,,,. ss,S.,a byr
,otn IN por,s M de - ~ 80 .,,n,.. iia
died Booth and looked at Irvin9 Mnpgcafi, eI ha
lis said to have been excellent r not nnite yn to
his COMPOSER. DramaticaiiV he seems to bpav 10
struck someWhere hetWeen ,ecbtsr nnd ~ C nate
Ian. If such a thing he nossihle 0nVei anu eosn-
| Coore.o rs ~. s'
-Ieorge Money the famous 'Eccles," has
Deen stricken with paralysis, and Mrs. Charles
mean Is summary allllcted.
III Is reported tnat "a Foors ETand," by A.
c. Gordon, will be the opening play at the Madi-
| son Square Theater, New York.
| Mrs. Barney Williams will annear nm Eas-
ter Monday, at the Park Theater in BROOKLYN.
The return of this lady to the stage was, it Will
| be remembered, effected last season at Phladel-
phia; Mr. and Mrs Williams were favorltes in
Brooklyn as In Philadelphia, in other days. and
the advent Of Mrs. Williams, in what was her
old home, will naturally be regarded as an in
| teresting.and important event.
Lecocq's comic opera "La Camargon is hav-
| ing q run at Haverly's BROOKLYN theater. The
| opera takes its name from a danseuse at the
| Paris opera house, with whom a famous bandit
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