Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-05-28
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
The season In Boston, New York and Phil.
adelphia Is doing remarkably well.

ade1phia Is doing remarkably well.
Genevieve Ward has invited two lights OF
"Sorosis,r Fanny Barrows and Mrs D. G. Croly
Jenny June). to spend the summer with her
as guests In England.
Days Broadway Theater IN. w company
played this week at the Novelty Theater, Brook
Ign. In Needles ana Pms.
Sarah Bernhardt talked exclusively in
French, but she understood those marks Rss
81 In English,
"A new opera will take the place OF Bi1lee
Taylor at the Standard on Monday next ent1-
tied Elfns and Aermaids. which Is said to be
replete with musical beauty.
After very prosperous season OF opera,
Emma Abbott is resting at her home In New
York city. strong lyrical organization is
being formed to support her next season.
Before his departure for England, Dion
Boucicault presented his friend, stephen FIske,
with the fiddle which he had used as Conn. dur.
Ing the run Of the S7taltghrdun.
Miss Jenny Lee Is coming to America again
Carte. N- -''''
The Vaudeville Theater at Ramsgate. Eng.
land. has been destroyed by fire.
Mrs. Scott Siddons viii appear at the Lon.
don Haymarket next September for a short
term.
Mr.. Burnand is writing burles ole drama
eXCou6Ut
theme for this purpose.
-1be little Folies MarIgny Theater, on the
Champs Elysea, where Ofreupach produced his
first works, Is to be demolished.
Sarah Bernhardt Is DESTROYS to produce the
Dame dur Cdnaeltas at the Gaiety during the
season OF French plays and the English mana.
gers have opened negotiations with the licenss r
OF plays.
-Mr.Theodore Thomas continues to examine
or or uan
Festival Chorus. to participate In his projected
musical enterprise.
Clara Weston widow OF the late j. l.. SET.
ton, and stepdaughter OF Edward Falconer,
died recently at Remington, o. consumption,
aged thirty-nine. She was the original MARY
Grace, In Falconer's Irish drama, Peep-o' Dag
The opera of Donna Juanita is drawing
full houses at the Fifth Avenue Theater, N. Y.
This piece has been very prettily mounted. and
stage Tor some time, and Will end the season at
this house.
The Hanlon-Lees company, which is to
appear In New York city, at the Park Theater.
In September. has recently met with much sue
cess. at Glasgow, In the speciality entitled A
Journey Through iStritzeTlGJld.
MIR. Irving, says The Court Journal, has re-
ceiyed an offer Of 100000, all expenses paid,
for seven months theatrical tour In America.
Since, however, this would derange his present
engagements and scatter his company, he mas
declined the oner 1t Is practically the largest
offer ever made TO an actor.
MIR. Robert Buchanan has written another
play. and 1t Is called The Eriles OF Erin. Most
OF the exiles are On Staten Island, and fine
mess they have made OF it; but whether the
sympathetic MIR. Buchanan mas laid the scene
or his piece In that favored region We are not
Informed.
There is no intlmation of the retirement OF
TY,D PrOrn hos
Strong scenic pictures and exciting theatrical
Incidents make this play attractive and salts
factory TO the vast multitude of theater goers,
and, financially, it Is the foremost Jheatrl.
cal success OF the season now closing.
The visit OF Slgnor Rossi. the Italian ira
gedtan is likely to be our next dramatic sensa-
tion. He will probably be here early In the
fan. and though he is an old man now and
long past the meridian OF his powers, our peo-
pie viii be asked or beguiled into going Into
raptureS over his wonderful acting; and what
Is more important to his managers, paying ex-
travagant prices for the privilege OF seeing him
tear passion into tatterS.
The fact Is generally conceded by the
theatrical managers Of the metropolis that the
season just closed has been. artisticaily and
financially, one OF the most satisfactory they
nave experienced In several years. Good plays,
supplemented by good attendance have been
the rule. and where failure has occasionally
occurred subsequent success has recovered It.
The London tEngland) Times estimate Of
Booths "1ago" is as follows: ION the whole, as
work Of art and as piece Of technical skill,
We should be Inclined TO place the Americans
Iago' above the Englishman's; the parts CO.
here better; the cOlOrs are more skilfully
blended; IL Is less startling. less brilliant per
hap5, 10 minds imbued 9ith the Athenngrm
learning for novelty, and there are so many
such TO be met with inside the theater. 1t mas
s. en- tanner, less spirited, bur, as q whole it is
We think, more artistic"
Miss Rose Coghlan is TO receive a benefit
at Wallack'S theater, on the first Of June, on
which occasion she will appear In the character
OF Camille. This will be the first benefit that
this popular actress has ever taken In New
York, and. Since the occasion will present her
In an entirely new line OF character, the event
must be regarded as OF more than usual i'm
portance. This dement, has been rendered by
MT Wallack, In recognition Of faithful services,
and In graceful compliment to brilliant talents
and to the kindly and winning disp 1slJion
" hich makes Miss Coghlan so great fayorIte
with her professional comrades and the public.
The New York Union Square Theater Will
begin its next season In November, and it "a
mysteriously stated that the piece will be a
comedy Of an American author on an American
topic.
- The rumOr that Campanini was to control
the new opera house at New York has no
foundation IN fact according to that singer.
who says that he has not been approached on
the subject. He doesn't want to GO into operattc
speculation; but still he would like to manage
an opera house, apparently meaning that he
should want to do II.
- The Emily Melville Opera Company, about
whose superior excellences San Francisco has
been Dragging for the last year or two, and
which has been given out as lasting and
Virlle institution or the Pacific slope has sue
cumoed TO hard times, and there are lndlcafons
OF row with the singers about their unOaId
salaries.
-" There Is a movement at New York and
said 10 be likely TO be carried out, to form an
English opera company headed by Gersrer and
Bngnon." Doubtful. as Gerster does not speak
English very We'll and Brignou has often failed
10 sing In It.
jules Clairette asserts that he once saw the
late journalistNazet go as one of the guests In
the ball scene OF L'HonBe,.r DE- la Mason. ar
the little Iheater of the Rue de la Tour d,Ar.
veTgne. at Paris, now the Theater EcoIe, Noe
conl emit with Delng mere super" NaZet pre-
tended TO be John Bull and began to talk and
talk In English, 100. The actors, disconcerted
In their parts, became annoyed; but the audi
ence " as delighted, and applauted voctferousIy.
Inc Engllshman was great success, but on
subsequent representations the character was
conspicuous by its absence. The audience then
complained that they were humeugged b.
Cause the part had be.n cut out, aud It was
actually necessary to make an apology, On the
ground that there was no member Of the com
pany capable or rlllinO the mart