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the stage She is going to get married. Miss
Amelia Watts will take her place
In week 1.-THE Pirates of the Penzance"
will appear ut 1Iayerly's.

Helen l'otter's 'Pleiales' is among the
coming attractions at the Central Music-lall.
Hermann closed Ills engagement at Nc
Vickers last night to house packed to the
door.
It is stated that monthly magazine de-
voted to the drama is about to be started in
this city. -.
Miss Marion Fiske will retire from "The
Fun OIL the Bristol" party at the end OF the
present engagement
Joseph Brooks has signed a lease for the
Grand Opera-House (Varieties Theatre), New
Orleans, for next season.
1t is said that Gilbert and Sullivan have
decided to postpone their threatened visit to
this country until August next
The Leonzo Brothers, with their dogs, will
will appear in The Dog Spy"a at Fox's The,
atre during the coming week. A variety bill
will also be spread out.
The new burlesque on the "Corsican
& Co. Limited),' by Burnand and Stephen,
has made decided hit in London.
Immediately on the heels of Tennyson's
new play Mr.. Henry Irving contemplates the
production OF :" Romeo and Juliet" with
himself and Miss Terry as the hero and hero
inc.
On Friday evening the members Of the new
si ase4 with ndsoms s9ps lpcFet sE Studded s With
diamonds. The presentation was made by
Mr.. Gross in neat little speech full Of con,-
pliment to Mr.. Rice.
The performaasaa 9 Ct "The Galley Gal @ slaven ,,,
be for the benefit Of the Sixth Illinois In.
fantry. Tickets will be sold by members Of
the Regiment, also at Lyon s Healy's, Buck
Il Raynor's, and at the usual ticket Offices.
Miss Genevieve Ward, who arrived in New
York from London on Dec -, witnessed
!" Forget-lne-not at Wallack's on the 25tt.
Sha9Was unable to prevent by legal measures
its production at Wallack's, and she now
wisely reasons that the playing of it there
will be q benefit to her by popularizing it.
ing Of tsCinderella . at the Grand, Rice's
new Is EvangeNne'' troupe at Haverly's,
- Fun on the Bristol at Hooley's, Milton
Mobiles i'll ''The Phmnix'' at the Olympic.
and Barry will perform in Escaped from
Sing Sing y at the Academy.
'California Through Death Valley" is
the name Of new play to be produces; @ al at
The features of the variety program will in
clude Miss Maggie LIE Clair, Russell Br9th-
ers, Haley and Boyd, Howard Dorr and Son,
Fred Levantine, Miss Polly Daily, in special
ties.
Nine. Leontine Arnot Cohn will on Thurs
r
English, German. and French, and will COM
prise selections from T. S. Collier, Btranger,
Shakespeare, Goethe. Anon, Sarasate, Cor
nellie, Uhland, Shakespeare, Lever. Wagner
Wilnelmj, Shakespeare, Racine, Peleg Ark
wright. Anon.
". e. Mitchell will shortly begin the erec-
ton Of a peoples theatre on the site Of the
lately burned ComiQue, St Louis. No. 1t
will have seating capacity for over 1000 per-
SONS, and is to be completed in March next
W. II. Smith will be manager and Harry
will be played, with all occasional variety or
minstrel troupe
The celebrated sonbrette Josephine Pagay
will appear with Collmer IL Isenstein.s Ger
man Dramatic Company at tMcviclSer's Sum
day evening in a new singing farce entitled
';Durehg gang gene Weber" Runaway Won.
en). Miss Pagay made a great hit at hcrtirst
appearance with this company a week ago
last Sunday, and, as she is said to be partlcu-
larly fine i'll this play, q fine performance may
be anticipated, especially as Miss HedWlg
Beringer, the able leading lady OF the alil-
waukee company, takes one OF the principal
parts
The London Theatre sensbly remarks
that American actresses at present waste a
great deal of moneyin material of the richest
quality when something cheaper would do
Just as well. In describing the, costly
garments worn by Fanny Davenport in :. An
american Girl" a critic spoke OF the costume {,
it being like foulard. lie hal seen just such
bouquets stamped in brilliant colors OH
foulard silks, and as Figured foulard" he
put it down. Now that dress turns out to
upon it hand painted, yet it had all the effect
of a Figured foulard,", and cost about one
hundred times as much.@
The educated horses which Mr.. Carpenter
introduced to the public in the Central
Music-itall auditorium last week have ex-
cited so much interest by their remarkable
tricate and difficult things Prof Bartholo-
new, their teacher, called upon them to exc
cute, that they will remain until Thursday
night and give four more evening en-
tSEaln@fHts WtdnesSa1 NV sa as st fe s"ss nms5 e
have. become familiar with, their
surroundings, and are no longer allured by
the dazzling beauties of the organ pipes,
they enter ipto the sport and spirit OF the
program with alacrity, and manifest interest,
and last night gave unusual exhibitions Of
Intelligence
In the performance Of other horses that
have hitherto been exhibited in the arena it
has been manifest by the formal and precise
way in Which they did the things they were
called upon to do that they were strained. -
but this group Of eleven ho1ses foiiow aq no
| trained have received an education which
seems to enable them to reason from cause to
! effect, and to obey because they understand;
| Whatever question might have, been. raised
about introducing such an entertainment
into the sacred precincts Of the Central Music
| Hall seems to have received satisfactory
| answer in delighted audiences composed o1
| the best society people, who find pleasure in
| tile military drill and the leaping of The
| horses.
| Spealllng of Mary Anderson's perform
allces i'll New York, the Spirit says: :" We
| have never seen, and we never expect to see
| a more perfect Plgthe7ria than Mary Ander.
| son. She looks like i Greek statue; she
moves and talks, when her lines will allow
| II. like Grecian maiden. With her upon
tie I'll sta Stage, the Whole story seems not only
| probable, but real and true. The house was
| crowded: Snlvini was i'll the stalls; Belmont
| had bought our box; so, having seen two
| acts from the back rows. and marked the
originality Of Mines I,evick's comic I,aae;
| mar, we went into the green room, and
| found Miss Anderson as complete a
| Ptlrt7.c,,tu off as on the stage, DR.. Grltlln.
| however, is {, wealthy aud happy MyroI1
| now, out Of all his troubles, with an account,
| hook showing average weekly receipts OF
| over $4,000 In the face OF such figures we
| decline to criticise Miss A1lderson's Countess
| in tsI.oye,'' n punpy old play, better known