Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-05-07
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,

What has become Of the projected new
olera house for Washington?
This is the last week of the regular dra-
matte season at the National, which has been
avery successful one.
- Miss Emma Abbott and her company have
been singing In Richmond during last week,
and this week were In Brooklyn. They have
Been great success for the season OF 81.
Mr.. Mccullough continues TO act at Drury
Lane, and advices Tatify the first announce
ment that he Is q brilliant success.
Miss Mary Anderson, after a very success
ful tour In New York state this week, will
scortly arrive home. and VIII pass the summer
at her country seat 1T Long Branch.
Mr.. Jefferson has decided to end his spring
season somewhat earlier than was at irst In
tended, and after a brief visit to Chicago. he
Will come east to HohokuS, aud pass tne SUM-
mer at home.
"A new opera, entitled Donna Juani,a will
be brought out at the Filth Avenue Theater,
New York. on the 18th Q; May; by tho Mahn
Opera company. The career or Ostcette, mean
while. Is TO last two weeks.
-SIgnor CampaDini'5 farewell benefit will
occur at the Academy OF Music, New York. OF
May 16. ~ Troratore will be sung, and there
viii also Dc TeTzetto Del LOatbardt
Mr.. Waliack Will continue the career of The
WOrid, at Wallack's Theater, for an indefinite
time. This drama is drawing crowded hou ses,
and It's popularity has fulfilled the managers
anticipailons It Is remarkable spectacle. but
the text In which II Is framed Is poor.
- Mss Maude Granger, who has been acting
In Colorado Springs and at other places In that
neigh borhood, In the character of Camille"
unusual enthusiasm. The praise bestowed by
the local newspapers upon her proceedings Is
liberal and emphatic.
Mss Lolita, at the Park Theater, N. Y, ap-
peared Monday night In the drama entitled
La Ctgdle. The opera La MaScOtH will be pro-
duced there on Monday next. different YER
sion OF this same piece was produced at the
Bijou opera House on Thursday.
Mile. Bernhard ended her engagement In
this country, Saturday night, with perform
ance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her
last representation Ia New York was given at
Booths Theater. She sailed for France Wed
nesaay.
The May Musical Festival In New York.
this week was brilliant success The chorus
and orchestra exceeded three thousand persons,
Campanini, Nine. Gerster and Miss Cary were
the leading singers The attendance was very
large. filling every seat In the magnificent hall
or the Seventh Regiment Armory.
-Biilee Taylor closes its s0th performance
tonight, and promises we'll for the future at
the Standard Theater, New York. 1t has not
been put on the stage there any better than at
the National here last eek.
Miss Genevieve Ward, acting in F0rGet-Ne-
Not, was, during the present week. at Terre
Haute, Lafay cite, Fort Wayne and Detroit. She
subsequently viii visit. In succession. Hamil-
ton, Toronto, Kingston. Ottawa. Montreal
quebec and Canada. Her season Is to close az
the latter city, On the 2lst OF May. Outside of
New York it opened Ia Washington first, out
did not DO well here or in Chicago.
Herman Is astonishing the New Workers
with his tricks and Decapitation act"
The Vokes Family, who have recently re.
turned from England, reproduced Beles OF The
Kitchen at the Union Square Theater, n. Y,
this week, together With the comedietta en-
Titled Cousin Joe.
A Chinese dwarf, forty-two years of age.
twenty-four inches In height, and who weighs
only forty pounds. has been engaged at Bun
nell's Broadway Museum and will arrive In
New York On the steamer Spain.
AT his new theater, Manager Wallack will
have ten private boxes-three on each side on
the orchestra floor, and two on each side on
the balcony. They will be named after promi-
nent members OF the Wallack companies as
follows: THE Wallack, the Montague the
Blake, the Brougham, the Seton, the Vernon.
the Cannon, the Henriques, the Coghlan, the
Hoey."
The engagement of the De Beauplan French
Opera Company at she Academy Of Music, N.
Y, was brought to close sud denly, but not
Unexpectedly. Bad management was the
cause.
The concert given at Steinway ball, New
York, for the benefit of Miss Florence Copleston
the well known pianiste. was largely attended
and was In every way brilliant success. Miss
COpleston was SO fortunate as 10 have the ser
wees OF Nine. Gerster and Signor Campanini,
Mss Blahcne Roosevelt ana Mrs. Florence
Rice Knox. Miss Copieston Is the Csuybter of
a New York journalist.
The Colonel Sellers" of the dramatic pro-
fession can be met by the dozen on Union
Square, New YORK, now. Every one has
''sure wirler" scheme for making a fortune
next season, complete In every detail except
capital
-Messrs. Gilbert and SuliIvan's new operetta
is mentioned By the London World as advauc-
Ing rapidly. Two poets play the most promi-
nent parts-a high flown poet, and al idylnc
one who gives details about sweet Jane" ana
teasing ''rOm." and makes q rhyme on s'Co-
tally" worthy Of Gilbert.
On the 31st OF May the curtain of the Park
Theater, Brooklyn, will fall ON the twentieth
anniversary OF Colonel VIM. E. Sinus career
as manager. He began it in Washington 10
1861, when he and Leonard Grover managed
the National continuing at Its head for three
years.
-Aesthettca, or The Times and The Manners,
a comic opera La three acts is under way In
Boston, by Charles T. Pldgen and an English
author. The music Is by five American CON-
poseIs. It Is 10 three acts. Act 1. Is Literary
Boston; act III Artistic New York, and act HI.
Musical Cincinnati The time Is SUNNI ar
autumn and winter. The cast includes Rus
Sian. japanese and Chinese artist.
Emile Melville is singing In BRliee Taylor
In San Francisco. Edouin's Sparks IS the
other attraction there.
-Adelina Patti is reported as suffering from
acute bTonchitis,-a thing which which would
soon play havoc with her ma gnincent voice,
-Wallack's new theater, on the corner CT
30th and Broadway. New York, was COM
menced on Friday.
Rose Wood will star through the west next
months In Camille, Agnes. and Frou FrOu
1t won't last long; she Is too hard, metallic and
jerky 10 all she does; and the parts are far
above her ability.
Abbey has decided that Sardous DiuOrcons
Is after all too French to allow OF his producing
even Leonard Growers version OF IL. Perhsp,
the Union Square will take It. New Workers
seem TO stand more of that sort OF thing there
than from any other theater.
There Is report, founded on good author
ity, that Agnes Ethel, famous as "Frou Frou.n
will return 10 the stage next autumn She has
teen living In retirement In central New York
for some yeara
Pearl Eytinge Is writing a new play In
which TO star next season, and intends to spend
the summer In the country to nnish iC quietly.