The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-22
THE STAGE.
The --latest Plays and How They Are Re-
ceived by an Indulgeut Public.
DOMESTIC.

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DOMESTIC.
| The Galley Slave received It's one h,lndredth
| metropolitan performances last week
| Barrett, unless he takes the California Tn @.
| atfe, will go to Europe next season.
| Boatonjs to have dramatic newspaper
| the Lunte,n
The Kralfys will bring out Belot's Black
| Venus In Boston la a short time.
| Nj lle Singer has been unable to sing during
Mr. Stragosch's Boston season.
| Fanny Davenport is negotiating for the
| right to play the Galley Slave next season.
Gilbert and Sullivan promise n new opera
| for next season to be produced In October,
Lima Tettenborn's play SEQ West" has
| made q decided hit In New York.
| Among the announcements for an early trip
| to Europe at the close OF the season are Lolita
and Lawrence Barrett.
Lolita will reappear In New York on Easter
Monday. Her business in the country has
been enormous this season.
Mr.. Maurice Grau Is said to have met with
much success In Chicago. His agent writes
that his business last week was 100000
Five Thousand dollars were surrendered to
"The Pirates" by the Quaker citizens during
the first week of the "Plrates" stay.
Steele Mackaye has accepted seven new and
original plays, one OF which Is In active prep
aration at the Madison Square Theatre.
The report that Edwin Booth Is not In good
health Is an error. Mr. Booth Is In excellent
health, and, In fact, better than he has been
for several years.
j. Il. Riggs makes Jump from Clncn-
natl to Melbourne without stopping to play
at any point between the two cities about
the longest Jump on record.
Miss Ada Cavendish. after very successful
engagement In New York and Brooklyn, has
begun another tour through the principal
cities OF the country.
The Ed Arnott combination are reported
as having broken UP ut Bedford, Ind, and
most OF them had to walk back to Louisville.
o slight stretch OF eighty miles.
Steele Mackaye proposes to follow Hazel
Kirk with the revival Of several old comedies,
in quick succession. 1t is probable that No
new piece will be put on the Madison Square
for at least eight weeks.
Miss Alice Harrison is not going to Europe
this year as reported and she IL not organ
izlng Boarding School party; but she viii
resume acting next season with AL entirely
rev entertainment, In which her brother Louis
will participate
Chicago audiences have taken IN one
weapon Of defense, and hiss what they do not
like IN aperformance. Lot them go one grade
further, and hiss the late Corners, who spoil
much they do like In u performances - Inter
Ocean,
1t has been decided to have the "Pirates of
Penzlnce' translated into German for early
production at the Thalta Theatre New York
But the question arises ''Can Gilbert's pecu-
liar humor be successfully translated into the
FINNISH language2'
The London Figaro indulges in little
severity at Ole Bulls expense by saying:
This fiddler, discovering that on the occa-
sion OF his eleventh farewell tour In America
he forgot several persons, has now gone to
fhn JIp,tt ad int h thnvr, t,,,.,
Chicago theatrical company came to
grief at Battle Creek, Mich, on the fourth;
the leading lady, Miss Jennie Lyon, the stage
struck daughter of q rich Chicago banker.
having been placed under arrest by an officer
who had her papa's authority for the act.
A movement has been started among the
ladies OF Cincinnati to stop Sunday evening
performances In the better class of theatres
This they are doing by circulating for sigma
lures q petition pledging themselves not to
patronize any theatre which keeps It's doors
open Sunday nights
Emma Abbott now sings "Down upon the
Suwanee River to improve Donizetti's
Daughter of the Regiment Ii only James
Molrisey would sing "Nicodemus johnson"
In Paul and Virginia. 1t would help that Abb
bott-strlcken opera materally.-[NeW York
Mercury.
At the Boston Park Theatre few evenings
since Dion Boucicault, Jr, and Thomas JET
dians on the stage at the present day. made
their first appearance In Boston-the former
as Francois and the latter as the Third Sec
rotary In Richelieu.
Miss Annie Ward Tiffany four years ago
adopted her little niece Rose, on the death OF
the child's parents, as her own. Being anx-
ious to place the little one where she shall
have care and the advantage of fine educa-
tion, through Mrs. James Collins she WAS in
troduced to the Sisters OF the Good Shep-
herd" and by that lady's aid paid them
flying visit Sunday. Monday, after Miss
Tiffanys early departure, Mrs. Collins took
the Little Rose" in charge and saw her
safely ensconced In her new home with the
Sisters" at Our Lady of the Woods" This
little lady Rose has been the "Freddy Slo-
cum" of Mr. Frank Frayne's drama for some
months.
Gtlberts Wedding March has been pro-
duced at the New York Park Theatre with a
strong cast. The Tribune Of the city calls 1t
"a tumble OF bowling nonsense" and thinks
that the production of a few more such pieces
will result In Kidding the stage OF the present
excess OF stage buffoonery. The Heratd, on
the contrary thinks it Full OF comical stua-
lions" plentifully "crammed with laughter
provoking dialogue" and swears that 1t
fairly sparkles and crackles with merry fun
from end to end" The 1tmee says 1t causes
'boisterous merriment on the part OF the
audience" Substantially the same play was
at Roblnson's Opera House, Gin |
cinnati, two years ago by Robson and Crane |
under the name of Our Married Men.
The Philadelphia Times is responsible Tor
the following thrilling news: Six companies
Of Pirates" all under the author and COM
nosers instruction, will soon be on the road
The first has been playing at the Fifth Ave-
nue Theatre, New York, since January /. The
second opens in this city tonight third
company starts, on Monday, February Is, for
the Oil regions, Baltimore and
Washington. fourth company starts on the
nineteenth or twentieth On a Western tour,
having been made by their con-
federates to receive them In Buffalo, Cincin-
natl. Chicago, st. Louis and New Orleans. A
fifth company will be next 10 the field ready
to pounce upon New England, and sixth Is
secretly planning a descent upon the Califor-
MIA coast.
FOREIGN.
It Is said that Boucicault has no engage
nent at the London Adelphl, as reported.
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