Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-01-29
NJ USICAL AND DRAMATIC.

son troupe which Melted eight thousand dot
lars. The company appeared Thursday night
n Chicago. Next Week Ne tsIes G5.d Pms, Dliy =
new comedy. vii De pro1uced py M. Dali s
company al Ford'S n Is a very amusing play
and the company r. excellentin every way. Mary
Anderson and cJT1pany begin a weeks engage
ment 81 the National on Monday and will ne
followed, IL IL Understood by Joseph Je fpf son.
M Anderson has been this week In Baltt.n1Ti
ah0 las play cd III IAN houseA Her 'JdItet,'
or critic says. ''"hich wss At one line cTIda
a. lu'Irrf"Cl o. C4Iiiu@ n - LOH r. III lei i1'O
che q tEF most exquisite portraiturei'
h1e yalsria WnO maze suc1 a wInsolne
Marguerite" on TUESDAY IN Ijilis'. Is kno sn ir'
I:lva,. life Is a yoang ADS tom d ii iul1r'. =
great tuture + predicted for her D. he leading
m rbers OF thu company.
- The Emma % 4 troupe opr9 In Philate'-
phia NOHd8y EignL n TIE By'17H4aH CIR. Mis
AIDct, = appearing On five ont OF The SIN nigh
now and has aided "tefmaiuer IL the ctial.S
or Nyrfnd5lIy. s:Ur the FIRST time on Saturday
nexfl. 10 n-T repertoire BrIgDoH Is ~taning
piau0ifs IN hnTthG. and Peakes has reloinad the
troupe.
M. ard Airs. Mckee Rankin appear at the
Arch-SiIee. FnratsT, Philadelphia, on Monday
IN Tn Hc'".f>. Thty received most importaa
rero9 ni;ir" - En,.ard and were the sue ,es 3es
Oh Tue london slaS9n. Inc EGouin troupe al %
ae?r4r "a n" hfst Eui-siTset on Monday.
Nj .ayeEu'2h Is SIM lying eeri0usly III a,
The New YER EO'tl. The result Of a s.yere al
tack OF trOlrhi,iS. contracted from the unus'ia
ha:dsLip aud exposure incident to traye, dur
Ing N" severe TcaJhtr Il d. cember.
- TIE salt ~ sears f5T he series OF farewell
pert, Tm4gces ~ stgaor Salvini began al
Booth Tea or. y. Y, Oh Thursday. S,lyin.
VIII MAKE his respl earanee on Mond ~ IN his
graGG roe or the Gladiator. in which he creatsd
SC rebound al impression during his last visit.
DI'lug Tie final s. eek OF his engagement re-
tsfa vii! b. produced
mas L,Eraaori-. in Chicago for the fist time In
America. The play was not liked, its interest
Centering mostly In the dialogue bu. the act
ing o. BeTuAafdi Is O. ciared superb and her
sister jeanne raised Storm CT braves Oy her
excel'eH Work.
- Fanny Davenport has ct last added .gniIig
70 her list OF playa and made her first appear
anee ln It a. -. Louis Friday night. She says
she isn't so big as Matilda Heron was When she
played GInsFe. But then Miss Davenport IS
growing, and IL she keeps on Will be Dig eaough
for anything.
j Miss Fife El!sier, VINO created the char
aeter OF Hazel hTks and W no mas imper,onatai
II over 500 times, bids fair to rank among the
reading emotional actresses OF America. She
possesses dramatic and magnetic force has q
~ eet. sympathetic voice. and in Der ontbursts
q passion Is credited with "a soul OF fire
-AIponi the great contralto, who made a
yet In her prime recently re-appearei upon the
stage 10 Paris to sing at q benefit; aud curlously
enough, She was terribly frightened AID ac-
tuaiiy forgot half her first ara. Her voice Is a
goOd Zeal worn, the upper notes are shrili and
IuneleSs, Dut The lower register preserves lis
grand fUllneSS; but though she Is -, a Paris
correspondent declares she ..still remain, the
greatest OF living contraltOs."
John Clarke is coming back from London
TO play at Philadelphia next month.
Lawrence Barrett DID cot do very we'll a
New York; the papers pitched into his TO-
lex" anu Inc people did hot turn out as they
ought.
The new buflesqne. entitled Sarah Barn
sGrd. Is drawing crowded houses at the EieY-
enth Street Opera House, Philadelphia
-" Howard writes 10 the Philadelphia Times
that the new play Creole at The Union square.
New York, is not success, and that Hiss
Eleanor Carey failed in it. The wardrobes and
Find ever seen IL New York. it IS said.
- TIE Sc'tOol JO,' Sandal Is having great
Tun In New York. at Wailaes's. JOAN Gilbert
Is ST. Peter Teazie." he played 1t over forty
years ago.
The sale CT seats for the Bernhard season
at the Grand opera House, New Orleans
reached 5000. This II double what was ex-
pectsd. The sales during the first hour and
half exceeded The entire first days sales In Chi
cago.
MI. ". J. Florence and Mr.. Mackey, one OF
The oonaDIa magnates, are travelling together
In Italy. Mr.. Florence feappears at the GaiaJy
Theater. London, in the spring.
Maurice Grau's French opera company with
Gumpy PaOla Marie as the star who were not
appreciated liz this country, but seemed to
strike the fancy OF the Cubans, are now singing
ID MeSlc0 and S26 900 is SO1efnnly declared ~
De The sam Ie7'eissd during the first Week there.
-SoIdene brought out O'icf.fe at Cincinnati
the OTHER day Rival managers were going TO
law about II. and now Tue chances are tina
dozens OF concerns viii take 1t up.
- FOTget-H No, seems ID 10 danger OF being
lost sight OF az once. Not only are Walla X and
Genevieve Ward fighting about it. but Maude
Granger says IT Isl same as her Tro Ni9h,S
ira RO ne, Jenreys Lewis says she owns the Cal
fo!nia hight, James II Meade claims that the
piece ts Ills and nooadJ s else. having boJg1'
the manuscript from MeriS ale SIX years ago.
and along comes q newspaper man who hints
that The play IS noDody's because the author
gave IL tC the world before its production.
BARLEY Campbell says that though he is
not writing, only managing his companies aud
receiving royalties, ne has three more plays
simmertDg in his head. II Mr.. Campbell will
drop two OF them and concentrate his miad on
the other, he may then bring forth what he
mas already nearly dole, but lot qIite-a
really good play.
There were 2s5 new plays operas and bal
lets produced IN Paris last year, but OF The
great number only about 10 were regarded as
very successful. not more than six were great
hits. and only about 81 were regarded as worth
enough 10 take into the country towns But
then lot OF Them have been heralded ia this
country as brilliant successes, and that's some
thing.
Lucy Hooper writes from Paris that Bern
hsrdS had best come back and startle Paris
with her aching 10 Ia Dame d,tr C,lneliaS. or In
FrOu PrOu. before the waters OF oblivion close
ever her aud suomerge her trretrieVaoly.
John E. owens Is coming east With TIE
Nun rom CdttGrdLgtlS the piece iu which he
has lately been reported to have made a great
hit In California
-Maude Changers Too Nig9'S IN RJnla
company have disbanded out west. Business
has been poor for some time.
Miss Blanche Roosevelt has closed her two
weeks engagement at the Boston Tneater IN
Longfellow S AdSI,te Of Pandora. ArtiStically
the piece has been a decided success and the
cultivated people OF Boston have shown Ialch
appreciation OF It's merits. Miss Roosevelt mai
benefit, at which she SAM the r-sr acr M
TfGrt0t1 In italian. In this she, appaarad ia
far better advantage than IN any role she MS
yet assumed IN Boston.
Mary Anderson, who has lust fiatshei 4
successful week in the New England cities.
CT )sed weeks engagement Ia Baltimore TO-
nj hit, Washington, Alsany and Boston follow
In ;. After Boston. Mr.. Joseph Brooks has
m de arrangements with Or. Griffin, Mss An
de-son's manager, for tour through the sou III
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