The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-11
THE STAGE.
Whore the Actors Will Spend Their Sum
mer-Attraotions Promised This
and Next Season.
DOMESTIC,

season.
John Mccullough will close his very pros
porous season May |.
Annie Pixley has made an immense success
at the Standard, New York.
Harry Sargent will manage Louis james
and Marie Wainright's starring tour next
season.
Willie Edouin, Of Rice's Surprise Party, has
company Of his own on the road the coming
season.
John GourIay, of Saulsbury's Troubadours,
goes with the Rice Surprise Party next
season.
Modjeska Is coming next fall, having al
ready been engaged to play ut the Park The
atre, New York, and In San Francisco.
Nelson returns to the Globe, Boston, April
10, and one-half of the seats are at present
sold, most OF them In the hands of specu-
lators.
Ten years ago Joe Emmett was playing In
variety theatres for $40 week. He averages
about $4,000 week nowadays, and Is not near
as good performer as he was then.
They have a lady In Syracuse, N. Y, who
shortly to start on concert tour. Now look
out for an avalanche Of female whistlers In
the business.
Uncle Sam Colville Is credited with making
$4,000 this season. This Ia his last season as
q manager OF burlesques. and he talks of re-
his oti,sn cum dig.
Bedott outright from the dramatizer. Mr..
Locke. The price paid was $50, OOOO and the
purchaser expects to get his money back dur
Ing the present engagement.
Mrs. Scott Siddons has made up her mind
to return to the American stage next season.
An Engiish oompany will be engaged to pro-
duce next September new play, Queen and
Carnival. Mrs. Scott-Siddons will act Anne
Boleyn.
Mr.. W. 7. Carleton, baritone, and W. Comfy,
bassO, are the only two ENGAGEMENTS settled
thus far for the Strakosch and Hess Grand
English Opera Company for next season. The
question OF prima donna is divided between
Kellogg, Hauck and Marie Roze.
There is report to the effect that Lester
Wailack will have a new theatre near Del
monieo's, with entrances on Broadway and
Fifth Avenue. Should he abandon his old
and familiar house, A. NJ. Palmer Is expected
to become his successor as tenant, and It is
rumored that O. r. Thorne Jr., will be his
partner.
Mr.. Strakosch's engagement with Adelaide
Nelson ends with the beginning of the New
York season at Booths Theatre. The Dra-
matte Mems says the. engagement has been
both satisfactory and profitable to all con-
and she has made $4,000. Mr. strakosch's
profits have been $4,000, and those of Mr..
Fred Schwab $4,000. Nelson will make about
$4,000 during her three weeks at Booths
Theatre, swelling her total profits OF the sea-
son to 100000.
Whereabouts Of actors and combinations
last week: Ada Cavendish, Chicago; Band
mann, Canada; B. Macauley, Fall River:
Golfers Combination, Baltimore; DEN
Thompson. on the New England circuit; E.
A. Sothern. st.: Louis; Fanny Davenport,
BSs6on; yGhn T. Raymond Trenton n =
Janaushek, Kentucky; Kate Claxton, st.
Louis; Lawrence Barrett, Washington: Mao.
gle Mitchell, New York. Mary Anderson,
Pittsburg; the Florences, Ia IA Million
Boston, and Mr.. BARLEY Campbell intro
duced the Galley Slave to Minnesota.
The Boston correspondent of the Dramatic
Ne,os. speaking OF the recent engagement of
Edwin Booth at the Park Theatre In that citv.
says: ut has been the policy of this house to
have standard price Of admission, no mat
ter what the attraction might be, and while
Mr.. Booth admitted the theatre to be one of
the handsomest In the country, he Thought
the prices should be raised. on account of the
small seating capacity MeJsrs. abbey u
Schoetfel agreed to pay him the difference out
OF their pockets rather than to break faith
with the public, and 1t is to Mr.. Booths credit
that he appreciated their motives and refused
to take cent more than his percentage Of the
regular receipts"
Many pleasant anecdotes of Miss Nelson
are told by those who know her behind the
scenes, and she Is said to be thoroughly
pleasant and unaffected and fond of Jolly
time. The tribute to her acting, which per-
hhps she Is most proud OF, Is the fact that
when she is "oD," the scene Shutters, gas men.
mechanics and supers generally, instead Of
skylarking or chatting behind the scenes as
usual, crowd into the wings and crane over
each others shoulders, watching her every
motion with absorbed interest. These men
are the most case-hardened critics to be
found, and it Is said that Fechter was the
only actor who shared with Miss Nelson the
honor OF numbering them among her audi
ence.
There was an interesting and most uncom-
mon occurrence In the Madison Square The
atre, Thursday afternoon, at the conclusion
OF the concert given there. Campanini, Ga
lassi. Belocca and ANDRE had sung the quar-
tet from "Rigoletto," and had repeated 1t
not once only, but twice, in Difference to the
they reached the final bars the stage began
to scend. singers and all, and as the last
notes rang through the theatre the heads OF
the singers disappeared beneath the foot
lights. The extraordinary merits OF double
stage were never displayed 80 strikingly be-
fore, and everybody thought how lovely 1t
would be IL some other performances could
be doused with equal promptitude and GER
tainty. The audience cheered and shouted,
and the last sign OF the mellfluous four was
eho hesaohNl SulOl Vi onInPhAlHi WdltlDR d
farewell. The whole affair was delightfully."-
Informal and the enthusiasm was very great.
FOREIGN.
Modjeska Ia giving readings In private
in London.
The King OF Italy has conferred upon Gam
panini, the great tenor, an order OF knight
hood.
In elk weeks Edwin Booth will sail for Eng
laud, where he will perhaps appear profess
sionally during the summer.
tits said chat Victor Hugo has completed q