Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-17
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
WHAT IS GOING oN-rHE NEW PLAYS.

WHAT IS GOING ON-rHE NEW PLAYS.
Lolita fills the bill and the house at the Ma
tional next week.
The opera season in New York is about to
close. It has only been fair success.
-Fords will be closed next week except on
Saturday night, when The Colonel will be pro-
duced.
The Lights O. London has proved such a hit
At the Union Square, Y, that the house is
sold days ahead and the box office is closed at
night.
-Mofte,-in-ld,o at the Park Theater n Y
has drawn good houses since its opening night
despite the severe criticisms on the piece. The
same company and scenery are used with which
the play was produced here.
Miss Anna Boyle. who, as leading lady in the
Bankers Daughters combination, attained a
pleasurable degree Of success. is very favorably
criticised in the character of Hazel kirke.'
- The B0ntlnea. Wingfeds new play does
not meet with much approval. though John
Mccullough is still playing it in New York 1t
is Jack Cdde over again. but not as good a
drama. r.
- The son of the great italian tragedian. Sal
vini. recently recited some scenes from Hamlet
before Mr. A. NJ. Palmer. and it is said to be not
altogether impossible that he may be seen at no
very distant date in connection with the Union
Square 1hcater company.
- BARLEY CamplSeirs new play. first entitled
A Goddess of Bohe,Ei0. hut now called Friends
and Foes. will be produced by one of his travel
ing companies at Detroit in Christmas week
Another new piece Of his The White Stare will
be seen in Chicago in April next
- The Money Bor, the new farccal comedy
shortly to be produced at Woods in Philalel-
phia is an adaptation by William Davidge from
the French of La CCgpoHe a Paais Royal sue
cess OF several seasons ago.
- Carl Sontag the German actor. is meeting
with great success in San Francisco The Cl5on-
ice says he is compounded of about equal parts
of Fechter. Barry Sullivan aud Charles Mat
thcws. all at their best
At the Park Theater. Boston. last Satur-
day. according to managerial kilograms Edwin
Booth played to So, 90. and Adelna Patti at
the matinee concert at the Music Hall sang TO a
Boston audience renresentnn in addition to
the usual aesthetic element ind;Ssolute from
all gatherings in that enlightened vicinity. the
snug little fortune Of SloS10 in the box office
-Shakespeare's As fou Lie It was per-
formed at private seminary in one Of the prin-
cipal cities of northern New York on Friday
evening last, and all the parts were sustained
by the young ladies OF the school in appropriate
costumes. there being no gentlemen admitted
The Forthcoming pantomime Of Robinson
C'usoe. at Drury Lane Theater, London will
probably be transferred at the close of the holt
day season to Nibio's Garden New York The
scenery, properties and dresses will he trans
ported. together with the entire company in a
special steamer.
- The Isc0 Orphans will be revived at Booths
Theater, New York. on the Goth with Kate
ClaXton, Ida Vernon. Marie Watkins, James
ONeill, E. F. Thorne and c. A. Stevenson in The
cast.
- Stars may come and stars may go, but
Michael .S-Ogof and Patience if they do not run
forever still hold the stages of the Boston Thea
ter and the Museum.
- The Booth performance of The Colonel at the
Prince of Wales Theater. London on the 2tst
ultimo, was celebrated by a dinner given bv
the management to the home company and
that which had been travelling in the prov
lnceS.
- An association has been recently formed in
New York city called the New York Tonic
Sofia Association. The purpose of course. is
to promote the study of music according to the
methods of the English societies Of similar
name.
- Old Mrs. Puffy SAYS: That if she has a dog
she wants one of those great Sarah Bernlardt
dogs that dig those dear old monks out of the
snow in Switzerland.
"A Philadelphia theatrical wig maker saws
that Clara Louise Kellogg wears a profusion of
blonde hair a yard long as ..Margueriete' at a
cost Of 800: but, "a a rule wigs worn on the
stage are cheap limitations. Tie curly brown
wig worn by Jefferson as Pip Van Wnkle'
weighs less than an ounce, and is considered a
marvel of good workmanship while the gray
one cost. with the beard, $50 Rose Wood
lately paid $50 fer a blonde wig Ada Gilman
Sl23 Marian Booth $780, and Fanny davenport
S225.
- Joe Jefferson has performed the role of Rip
Van Wrinkle" over .20D times ard his share OF
the receipts has averaged 500 per performance
which would make his total receipts from this
character Oyera million and quarter His share
in one season reached the sum of S1l5 600 and
in six and half months OF one year he received
70.000.
- NJ. d. Conway writes: Jenny Lind now
residing in London. is by no means the aged
lady that some reports describe. She is only CO.
and does not look so, her hair being but slightly
touched with gray. her eye still bright and
happy, and her form well preserved"
- 1t would appear that BoitO's Mefstofele
music is gradually gaining in popularity in New
York. The beautiful duet between Helen and
Pantalis. one of the most pleasing numbers of
the opera. was sung at a benefit concert in that
city last week. and was redemandcd. Nine
Hank and Mrs. Rice Knox being the singers
Anna Dickinson begins her tour in her own
palace car after New Years day. She opens in
Macbeth. playing Macbeth" and follows with
Claude" in the Lady Of Lyons. All of her
characters are male. She has selected good
company.
How to Cook the Turkey.
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Mr. Roth at the Lindell, said when asked
how to cook a turkey, that much depended upon
the stuffinp He prefers chestnutS to ovotarS