National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-12
STAGE NOTES.


Globe Theatre Boston
Miss Eleanor Calhoun opens in Nash.
vile, Tenn, on Monday night.
Days new musical trayesty, Cinderella
at School" has proved successful.
Lawrence Barrett plays next season at
the New York Fifth Avenue Theatre
VIC. Willis has written new play for
Modjeska, which he calls I" Juanita."
Out of respect to Rossini, Verdi will call
his new opera Iago" instead of "Othello"
Thomas Keene and company will visit
San Francisco before the close of the season.
Miss Emma S. Howe, of Boston, will be
the leading soprano at Plymouth Church, Brook
lyn.
Catharine Lewis will sing in comic
opera under Ccmley q Barton's management next
season.
Miss Blanche Rooseyelt's concert at
chickering Hall on Thursday night was a decided
success.
Abbie Darlington made a most favora-
BILE impression in the role of Matilda in civilian
Tell,' in New York.
George Riddle has had a new version
him by Genevieye Ward.
will conduct a series of summer concerts at the
Exposition building. Chicago.
The Emma Abbott English Opera Com
Dany will commence an engagement at the Globe
Theatre, Boston, on Monday night.
B. E. Woolf, the author of the Mighty
Dollar" and musician of high order, is finish
ing the music and libreto of new three act comic
opera.
RnGSInI icyc cold 70 90 Tho
Barber of Seville" in thirteen days. 1.-The Mes
siah," the most wonderful Oratorio ever written,
was composed in twenty four days.
Dion Boucicault is still PLAYING "The
Shaughraun" at the Boston Museum. He will re-
Vive " The Colleen Bawn" on the Dist instant and
onthc 18th will give "Sull Nor" C' The ODowd" D.
Mr.. w. S. Resting, the young American
tenor, has been selected by the Choral Society of
Milan to sing the tenor part in the forthcoming
performance in that city of Berliozs Damnation
of Faust" .E
Gilmores attraction at Manhattan
Beach next summer will include Walter Emerson,
the cornet soloist; Salcedo, also cornetist; De
Carlo. piccolo; Lefebre, saxophone, and Raffeolo,
trombone.
Strakosch q Hess are organizing an
"0lyette" party, which will include some of the
best artists, and will open at the New York Biou
Theatre on the Dist. Tracy Titus will have the
management.
A general competition between all the
singing societies in France and Belgium is to take
place on September g. 4, 5, ads, at Brighton. The
judges are Charles Gounod, G. Macfarren, Arthur
Sullivan. and others.
The Neue Zeit says that Richard Wag-
ner has sold the right Of producing The Ring of
the Niblungs" for two years in London and Amer
lea to Angelo Neumann, of Leipsic, for ten per
cent. of the gross receipts.
Mr.. d. H. Harkins seems to be winning
high place in the esteem of the provincial play
goers of England. rs has lately been making
special study of Adcbsta He was the best Sartorys
in 80 FrOu Frou," we ever saw.
w. III. Vernon, who was brought to
this country by John s. Clarke will appear at the
Broad Street Theatre, Philadelphia, ON Monday
night, as Godfrey Harriott in play called i" Nam
mon; or, A Man of Business
An enterprising English manager has
offered Mr.. Sims Reeves 10000 if he will allow
him to superintend the farewell tour of the great
tenor and receive the profits Mr.. Reeves has re
fused, because he believes the receipts will be
larger than the sum named.
John P. Smith and w. A. Messenger,
who have made The Tourists so popular, have
DCCu ~ appear III Ill appuCdllOn Dy
Simmonds & Brown for an injunction to restrain
them from playing their new piece, Pour Prendre
Congo or, Seeing Switzerland" which they claim
is almost the same as LIE Voyage en- Suisse" now
being played in Europe by the Hanlon Lees, who
are under contract to them to appear in this coun
try in September next.
Great preparations are being made for
the grand musical festival to be given in New York
during the first week in May. The solosts will be
Nine. Gerster and Mrs. Imogene Brown, soprani;
Miss Annie Louise Cary and Miss Emily Winant,
contralti; Signor Campanini and Mr. Theodore
J. Toedt, tenor; Herr Georg Henschel, MessrS. N
W. Whitney, Franz Remmertz, R. s. Stoddsrd, and
Adolph Sohst, bassi. DR.. Damrosch will be the
musical director and conductor.
At Padua, after the first representation
of "Mefstofele," banquet was offered Signor
Boto. During the performance the composer re-
ceiYed a silver laurel wreath and an address.
On the first sheet three leaves from the historical
palm of Goethe are reproduced. This palm. by
the way, still exists in the botanical garden in
Padua. Its historical interest dates from the day
when Goethe visited the garden during the year
1857 admired this palm, and took three leaves from
the same. Since that time it has been known as
" Goethe's palm"
Salvini believes that Shakespeare in
tended Oatelo to be Moor of Barbary, or some
other part of Northern Africa. There were many
of these Moors in Italy during the sixteenth CEN
fury. 81 have met several" SalYini says, "and
thinkI initiate their ways and manners pretty
well. But the historical OA,sllo" he continues
was not black at all. He was white man, and
a Venetian general named Mora. His history re-
sembles that of Shakespeare's hero in many par
tieulars. GiraldO Cinthio, probably for better
effect, made out the name Mora moro black
moor; and Shakespeare, unacquainted with the
true story, followed this old novelists Lead