Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-03
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
THE WINTER sEAsON-wHAT Is GOING ON-NEw
PLAYS AND OLD COMPANIES.

PLAYS AND OLD COMPANIES.
Mary Anderson appears at the National on
Monday night. She has just concluded very
successful engagement i'm Philadelphia and ap-
peared in different play every night Miss
Anderson has added PygmaliOn and Galatea
and French drama-Berthe the daughter of
ROiande-since she was last here to her list of
plays. She is supported by William Harris, who
was with Maggie Mitchell so long.
PATHS Brooklyn and Boston concerts on
Tuesday and last evenings were great success
at the reduced prices of 50 and IS. Abbey in
tends to give one act of opera at some Of the
concerts, and has secured an orchestra of fifty
pieces. 1t is an excellent idea.
Anna Dickinson is soon to appear in mems
attire and to play Hamlet, Macbeth, Claude and
the rest. Forney's Progress says she is ''brainy
bold elastic. electric and eclectic" and that she
will make a school of acting of her own.
The New York correspondent of the Provi-
dence Press pronounces Mrs. Burnett's new
drama Esmera5t1. now running at the Madison
Square Theater much better play than Hazel
hirke. which held the boards there so long and
likely to have an even more enduring popularity
than that favOrite. The first remark is easy to
believe, and it is to be hoped the prediction as
to the future of EsmerdbIa is equally well
founded. 1t would be good thing pecuniarily
- Mr.. Hess who used to manage the Abbott
Opera Troupe. is in the south with a new COM
bination, with Addie Randall and III. C. Peakes
at its head. Olicette and The Chimes are their
cards. and they are doing we'll Mr.. Hess is now
a WashingtOnian
John McCuiough's popularity is greater
than ever. This is the best season he has ever
had. Last year his engagement in New York
was for four weeks. This year it is for six The
hrst night he ever played at the Grand Opera
House, Cincinnati. the receipts were $50. Re-
Gently at the same theater. the receipts were
Sl.2S0. In Chicago and St. Louis his receipts
in five weeks were $50 GOO. $4,000 a week. 1t
Is not probable that he will do eitherhis tragedy
Me,nnOn. or Louis Wingfield's new version of
Jack Cdde-L0Ue and Liberty.
- Howard Paul in Paris american Reqiste,.:
lone of the characters In La MGsc0tte is called q
nobody, and Immediately says. I'm recognized
This is a refinement of a joke made by the late
Mr.. Tomlins one night at the Savage Club,
member entered and making his way to an
empty chair near to where Mr. TOmlinS sat. asked,
is this anybodys seat?' No. said Tomlins, con-
tinuing; it's nobody's it's yours"
- After rest of two years NJ. LecOcq has
brought out work, which bids fair to
achieve success as great as that of his earlier
productions. Whatever may be the cause. his
most recent Operettas failed to hit the fancy of
Parislan piaygOerS. who, ever ready to break the
idols which they were tired of wOrshipping de-
c1ared that the composer S inventive powers had
dried up. and prOfessed to expect nothing more
from his fluent pen. The new opera is called
lie Jour ct Ia Nut.
- With performances of Patience and one
OF The Colonel this was peculiarly aesthetic
week for Springfield. Mass. play-eoers Pa
tte'ace received its representation with the Gray
son opera company to give it.
- BOucicault's Mimi seems to be as great
failure in London as it was in this country in
partly different >hape
- Grau's French company will this week bring
out two operas new to New YOrk-Adam's
"a Jetdis Roi on Tuesday, and Varney's Les
M0usQtetdires on Friday.
- Some nincOmpOOp who either didn't know
or didn't appreciate the fact of similar venture
when Lincoln was killed, has written play
upon the assassination OF Garfield.
"A London female aesthetic thus remarks on
Dir. 1rving's limbs: MIR. 1rving's legs are
limpid and utter. Both are decately intellec-
tual, but his left leg is poem'
- Edwin Booth says that he will not play in
comedy any more this winter. in view of tn
death of his wife This may shut from his list
Shytock which he always supplements by part
TIE Tanning Of the Shreor.
- The Major has celebrated its Tooth perform
York. This is the eighth consecutive vaude-
Vile by Harrigan aud Braham that has run over
100 nights-a record declared at New York to
be unequaled in the history of the stage.
- Rhea, the French actress, is at Booths in
New York, opening In Adrieane Lecoucreuy.
which stephen Fiske calls % a remarkable per-
Torrance, most attractive in its sweetness and
simplicity" Rhea appears to be genuinely
good actress, but thus far in her brief career
here she has been none too well managed, and
poorly supported.
There is report, which appears to be sup
ported by some show of authority, that the cele-
brated Mrs. Langtry, the Jersey lily who has
so long queened it among the professional beau
ties Of England has been engaged by Lester
Wallaek, and will appear in the melo drama Of
Youth, to be produced in his new theater.
- Noorcons, which is having very success
full run at the Philadelphia Chestnut will be
followed, when its drawing power is exhausted,
by Alexandra new play by Luigi yentu
One of the most interesting theatrical
events of the present week is the reappear-
ance upon the New York stage of Clara
Morris. who is acting in the Union Square The
alter in Camille Lights o. London will be pro-
duced at this thcater on December 5.
-Pendragon, tragedy in blank verse
written by W. w. Young, will be produced this
week at Mcvicker's, in Chicago, by Lawrence
Barrett. The play affords opportunity for
scenic display, and its presentation is looked
forward to as an important event.
joaquin Rankin and Mckee Miler's drama,
Forty Nine, has been reconstructed by Leonard
Grover. and the new version, having been tried
in Indianapolis, is pronounced much better
than the old.
-''What piece will You produce after Lights
o Lo'sdOn?" asked a reporter of Manager
Palmer. of the Union Square. Summer Weather,
who is the author" ''Our Heavenly Father"
Good day" Good day."
- Messrs. Robson and Crane, who have closed
a successful engagement at the Globe Theater
Boston, will play on the New England circuit
during the next fortnight; then two weeks each
in Brooklyn and Philadelphia, and one week
each in Baltimore and Washington.
- The Dramatic Times states that, after two
weeks performance of The School for Scandal
with which Waack's new theater will be
opened on December 6, The SPIDERS Web will be
produced. with Miss COghlan in the principal
role. Is this the play written for Miss Geueyieve
Ward by Hon. Lewis Wingfield? And. if SC. how
did Waack come by it. seeing that it has been