Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-25

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- 10th theaters win open IN this CITY the ls8
Of September Mr.. Ford has nearly died tn
season already with engagements
- BerSely r. pccscly has rewritten Barley
CampheIs Fnt'. and Lillian Clcycs Clark win
pay VI under the title OF 4 ntsS+7ous WoDS0n-
- Another salt Lake City story is 10 be nut
en- The stage next season. N Is entitled Rnsh an
i'as''icsn Hge. ard is written by Mira r. Ever.
cit. IN starts out August Is
hayeily's Genuine Colored Minstrels sailed
Tor England this week. They are sixty-thnee In
number. and they are to make tour around the
world.
Wa'lack's new thcater In New York win
hardly he ready before November. Hayerly's
NE" thlcago theatcr is progressing rapidly IL
has very imposing front
- Miss Fanny Addison. a weI'-known English
actress is in New York and II Is said to be prob.
able that she and her sister Carlotta Addison.
may both act there EeNt season.
- SI,al OF Pos,7a is still running AZ uayer,ey's
Fourteenth Street II eater New York. II VIII
probably be Kept on the stage for n month
longer and then the theater Will b. closed for
repairs.
- The T'ne're Jolly bachelors is the title Of q
new comic opera to be produced in Boston by
john A. Stevens.
JOHN I. Raymond Closed his season at Dem
yer last night. His vacation extends TO Sen
tember D. when he oreas in Boston.
1t Is now said that Neumann is TO give the
wagner friiogy in London at Her Maes,y's. and
that Mapleson expects 10 induce Wagner himself
to come over. II ii We're not thar the author Of
the Flying JhlfchpaGa hates the sea perhaps Hay-
eIiy might get him over here
Minnie Hauck has returned to Maplcson'e
troupe, and has been singing " Carmen" at Her
Majestys. CamPanini having also. returned to
sing Don Jose" The .Mchaela" Ys-of all per-
sons In the world-Swift. who now figures as
" MGile. Dott." The next novelty promised IN
~ h.7raegGo. a new Turco-lIangarian opera by
Baron Bodos orczy. The composer will direct
the first performance, and MISS JGch is to sing
the soprano role
Manager Mendum, of the Arch. Philadel-
pha. has closed contract with Anna Dickinson.
and if that lady comes to time. which isn't very
probable, judging from the past she will appear
next fall. She is to play in 4 ,y.4aa and f,,o,cu
OF 1hornS. and Mr.. Mendum hopes to be able TO
secure W. T.. Sheridan la support her Accard-
ing TO the contract, Miss Dickinson IL 60 star
through the country. one OF the objects OF Mr.
Mendum visit Ia England is to arrange for her
appearance there next spring.
-Mdlle Rhea whom H. j. Sargent is going
TO bring over here next fall to play Modjeska's
roles in English, is a very bright and well-e,iu-
Sa''U aClItSS. WHO ma Nlatf some rPtfu-
tation at 81. Petersburg, but her recent ATTEMPT
to play in English in London was not a success
She essayed Much Ado About Nothing for one
afternoon only and il was generally said that she
might have made pretty good beatrice" il
she had known the language Possibly She may
learn TO speak English before November
Mrs. Burnett, of Washington, assisted by
Mr.. Gillette, is converting two OF her stor1es
into play, which will probably be presented at
the opening of the next regular season of the
Madison Square Thcatcr New York
Max Stakosh viii open his next opera
season here as usual and then 20 to New Or
leans, where he expects To open in December
and to remain ten weeks. vice DE Beaupan,
gone TO pieces. lie says that Gcrster is engaged
TO him.
The Honlon-Lees open at the Park NY. I'm
September, in their wonderful Journey ia Sicitz-
e,la1sd.
- The London critics generally agree that
Rubcnstein's II DsTmGnO. which has been pro-
duced at Convent Garden under the COMPOSERS
own direction. is strangely destitute OF dramatic
Character. Though written within the past few
Years, IL is more artificial and conventional thaa
the operas of generation or two back and t6Ss
only part of the music that Seeas TO meet vita
general approval is that which has no need 10 b,
dramatic. the ballet aud some marches. drinking
songs and Tue like OF a semi-oriental character
- Kate ClaXton viii have an entirely new
company next season.
Edwin Booths engagement in Booths The
alter viii begin on the Sd of October
w. L. Sheridan opened in San Francisco
this week. Charlotte Thompson viii join him
later
Nat Goodwin is reported to have made q
genuine hit with Cinderella at School, in the Boz
ton Museum.