, 1881-07-31
DRAMATIC NOTES.

DRAMATIC NOTES.
| Miss Eathuriue liogers has breu engaged ii
the company that will traycl with Signor Ross
next season.
Minnie Conway, who married Levy the cornet
blower some time ago, Is thinking Of returning
! TO the stage.
"Michacl strogo6" requires for its repre-
sentation ut the Paris Cnatelct $50 persons
thirty horses, and one donkey.
J. H. Havcrly has arranged to play the En-
g!ish actress, Jennie Lee, ut tho Fourteenth
Street Theatre during August i'll ''poor Jo."
The widow OF Ben dc Bar Is sewing wrapper!
for the wages of 81 sfny Mt New Orleans
! Seven years ago her husband WIS worth $3UU, 600
1.-THE World" will be succeeded by Mr.. b
Curtis MS SAINT of IaJscn 1T 31cVickcr's Theatre,
The latter piece has had IL remarkable New
York succcss since /: wis last seen here.
Tho American ls1 e1lyagemcnt Of sisnor Rossi
| will Open ut the Globe Theatre. Boston. OH Oct
J. The Italian tragclian will make bis first ap-
pcar:lilcc in New York ut Booths Theatre on
Oct II.
S1cssrs: Paul Merritt and Augustus Harris, two
| OF the cUllabOrators In the authorship Of '' The
World have Just turned cut new drama,
which will shortly be seen in London at the
Drury Lane Theatre.
The foundations Of Wa1lack's new theatre In
| front vi IIarrisan l. Hurts new e1itico Is al
| ready nn orntsnent to the portion Of broadway
On which It is Situated.
John E. Owens is said to be SO strapped 1inan-
| more property. This Is the last remnant OF the
| lArgc fortune of nun who but a few years ago
was called The richest actor In America
1t is not likely thut Eliza weathersby will
ts,rlza- She has several new pieces il which she
| pror,ses 10 appear. i'll roles OF tho nature of
| those performed by Lottn and Maggie Mitchell
| Milton Mobiles IND Dolly Woolwinc were mar
fka&hS AnIu Inf ft1r
| ceremony tho groom gave Miss Woolwno resi-
slencc in the City Of Churches. n cottage on tho
her 10 5000.
had just returned from Il short provincial en-
gagetncnt, How did you get on?'' snid Flor
e1cc: Not very we'll" replied the historiun:
~ played jack-knife cngagements,-I opened
auo SHUT the sa1lc night"
sluce her arrival Mrs. Edwin Booth hns great
" improved in health: She has had the unre-
stns ~ atfenton t r her NV Me-
seems TO have braccd her up far beyond the cx-
pcctanons OF her ph ysciuns.
4 new theatre for the 1taliau population of
New York City was opened last week at No; l,:'
East Forty.second street by the To,nmaso Sal
vini Ihito-Dr:lnatic Society. assisted by Signor
and sgnora Maieroni. Tho house is an exceed
in2'y small one
Mr. John r. Raymond will continue his pres
entauon Of Fresh, tho American" during the
Forthcoming seuson. The play has been greatly
improved and genial Joh,,,'' as he is known in
the profession. expects to win as many lnureis
as he has done heretofore in bis Interpretation
OF the character Of Colonel Sellers.
Alr. Tracy Titus announced in tho Detroit
Neus Letter that Miss Ella Wren would star un-
Hamlet AS she is a rather elderly and very
portly personagc. she became naturally iudig-
nant, n9t atons at the encouragement but also
Miss Jeffreys Lewis, Osmond Tearle, and Ger
aid Eyre opened ten weeks ago In San Francisco
70 large business, which has kept Zip remarks
ceyed y hcE old M;s and sessr
The opening piece, LA Belle Russc,' was a
version Of Forget-me-not"
Geneytevc Warde, with Jennie June as her
guest, is travelling in Switzerland. Miss Warde |
returns to New York about the middle OF Sep
tenber. opening at the Union Square Theatre on |
extended tour Of the States till the middle Of
M neIt May. new play, entitled The Spiders |
Hon. Lewis Wingfe!d.
gnsement with Mile. Rhca, principal actress Of |
tho French Imperial Theatre, Petersburg |
Russia. She is said to be very famous in her
She will play in English, and her successes In |
St Petersburg will be presented In America,
ehem SenE 5an vs sha 2ogar
and handsome.
Manager Goodwin of the Walnut Street |
Theatre in Philadelphia, will play - The World
in that city, Aug IT, He had determined to dis /
regard Nr. Colytlle's proprietary rights in the
play, and fight tho matter In the courts. Mr.
COlyille hacked down, and effected compro-
misc both with Mr.. Goodwin and with Mr.. Hall,
of the Lyeeum, in Philadelphia, where he had
contracted TO produce the play. It would seem,
therefore, that no exclusive property III the play
legally exists. ,.
There are conflicting stories in circulation
the rulnored engagement by Mr.. |
Abbey Of Wy1ldhaIu's London Comedy company
for the Park Theatre, New York. 1t Is conf-
tracts have l'een signed, and on the other that
tho negotiations have come to naught. At the |
Headquarters Of MIR. Abbey most discreet ST. |
[encc is observed, and it may therefore be safely
that positive announcements of my
Kind On this subject are at least premature.
Lawrence Barrett is passing the summer
pleasantly among good friends In England. In
L letter recently received he says: s. went last
Eight July j. to see Irving as Hamlet like
lim muzngy-uuexpectedly to myself. an1 |
afraid to suy how much. Ellen Terry is tho
best actress ever saw. I was greatly pleased
with Julius Caesar us done by the German |
The working of tho moi was tho |
chief glory OF the play The cast was uniformly
rood: the .dnt0hu and Cd$siIs were very good;
1ut the scenery was beggarly, as compared with
vhnt we had in New York under Booths man.
aremcnt. Irving speaks fondly Of Booth, says
here never Was such fellow, and loves him ns
ye All do !
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For The Chicago Tribune