Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-24
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

LoCAL ATTRACTIONS-THE COLONEL AT FORD'S-
THE voKEs AT THE NATIONAL.
| The theaters here will be very attractive the
coming week. The Vokes family appear at the
National. They have lost nothing in their anus
ing line and are as nimbae and jolly as ever.
They I'LL the house wherever they go every
night, They will play the Bellies of the Kitchen
the first four nights, preceded by the comedy of
COUSIN J0e In both OF which they appear. The
other two nights they will appear in Fun in a
Fog. /. ;
AT Ford's, Eric Bayley's company will per-
form The Colonel. It had run of three hum
dred nights in London, and has met with great
success in this country. The play and the act
| ing have been highly praised in Philadelphia,
and will doubtless fill the house here.
| -Rossi, who appears at Ford's on January
9th, has met with great success at the Chestnut
Street Opera House, Philadelphia. during the
past two weeks. His audiences have been large
and responsive. and the press has warmly praised
his representations. He played version Of the
elder Dumas Keen on the 9th instant. for the
first time in America, and is said to have achieved
IN 1t his greatest popular success in the Quaker
CITY, This piece was translated some twelve
years ago, by Barton Hill. for Edwin Booth, but,
for some reason, was never played by the Amer
can tragedan.
| Mr.. Dan Frohman, the right hand man of
Manager Mallory, of the Madison Square
| Theater, says he considers "that the road to
wealth runs directly through the most expen-
slve columns OF the most expensive daily news
papers"
- Senator Wade Hampton denies the report
that his daughter Mary is preparing to become
an actress. She makes her debut in society, not
on the stage. this winter
| -JOhan SOudan, who accompanied Mile.
Sarah Bernhardt to this country and is the re-
| nnfp6 If ho hOO hor Au,o
recently published in Paris under Marie Colon
ber's name. fought duel with Rene Maizeray,
another journalist. on the 18th ult., and was
wounded in the arm.
- The Lights O. London has been played thus
far, to larger receipts than have ever been earned
by any preceding play at the Union Square The
| alter, The THO Orphans not excepted. 1t will
doubtless run for the greater part of the sea-
| son.
An actress at Albany last week literally
brought down the house. The lonesome young
man who occupied the gallery went to sleep and
fell over the rail down into the pit, knocking
one OF the orchestra chairs crazy. When they
picked him up. expecting to find him CORY
corpse, he rubbed his sleepy eyes, and earnestly
| inquired, "What act is it?"
- The Drury Lane pantomine, scenery, tricks
and peOple-150 in all-will be brought over to
| New York in the spring and will be produced at
true Britisher on this side of the water assigning
| for the holly and plum pudding and stone beer
| mugs of his youth.
-McCaull, of the New York Bijou Opera
House, has bought the right to Lecocq's latest
opera, whose name in English is The Day and
| the Night, and about whose merits the Paris
critics are just now expressing widely different
opinions. The Snake Chd,mer came to sud-
den and unexplained stop atthis house Saturday
| night.
Mime. Mojeska will, this season, make her
first appearance in st. Petersburg, having
| heretofore been restrained by political senti-
| ments from accepting the offers which have
frequently been made to her from the Russian
capital. Her St. Petersburg engagement is
for 20 nights, during which she will produce
ibsen's Nora The subscription for her
opened.
John 7. Raymond celebrated the 2OOth per
| formance Of Fresh, the American at st. Louis,
with satin programs and good time generally.
The local papers record his experiences with a
colored boy, Willie Wolf, whom he supplied with
new clothes. money to pay for his poor mothers
| funeral, and an engagement as valet. The next
evening the buried mother called at the theater
| to see what sort of a job her boy had got. This
Is not a ghost story. Willie was fraud. and
Raymond Indignantly turned the Wolf from his
| door.
The prophecy that was made by the ex-
IRENE classicists that the sudden favor with
which Carmen was received would speedily fade
| away has not yet been fulfilled No opera
| presented by Mapleson's company this season
| in New York has drawn so well, and every
| performance has severely tested the capacity
| of the Academy of Music.
Mr.. John Mccullough will begin fort
| nights engagement at the Boston Theater on
January 9; Mr.. Denman Thompson will open a
| three weeks season there in Joshua Whitcon,b
| on the 23d, and Miss Mary Anderson will play at
| that house two weeks, beginning February 3D.
The Ideal Opera Company and Miss Anna Dick
inson will follow later, and then probably Youth
will be brought out.
Odette, SardOu's new play. has been received
with some favor in Paris, though not, apparently,
with enthusiasm. The oldest materials in French
scenic effect are skilfuy re-worked in this play.
which deals with three personages husband.
an unfaithful wife, and an innocent daughter
Mr.. Bancroft has bought the right to produce an
English adaptation at the London Haymarket
and Augustln DAILY is said to own the American
right.
The Surprising Revelations i'm Newark.
THE CITY TREASURER SUSPENDED PENDING AN
EXAMINATION OF HIS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS