Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-09-23
EDITION
DRAMATIC NOTES.

are to take the road next season, 80 lar as
heard from.
Baker and Farron have new play by
Bob Morris, entitled up Salt River" 1t
may take them there.
Booths theater in New York will, it is
reported, be thing OF beauty and Joy
forever, when the interior decorations are
completed.
For the Strakosch Italian opera season
In New Orleans next winter, with Madame
Gerster as prima donna, six proscenium
boxes have already been sold at auction for
a premium OF Sl.6l0.
There is theater in Berlin which gives
performances at half-past 6 o'clock in the
morning, during pleasant summer days.
The price of admission is low, and 1000 or
5000 persons are often present at these
representations.
Bernhardt was recuperating in Paris, or
rather at st. Adresse, ii the last days Of
August, but she does not start until Octo.
ber on her six months tour through
Europe, which is to be conducted under
Mr. Jarrett's management.
The proprietor of hall in Lynn, Mass,
has been sued by local circuit manager
for 5000 damages because he refused to
allow 'Mazeppa to be played by reason
of the hall having been closed as unsafe by
order of the inspector of public buildings.
The Lolita Combination will consist of
p. A. Anderson, Charles Bradshaw, w. 81.
Wallis, C. D. Bainbridge, F. Percy, H. B..
Bradley, C. w. Parker, Florence Noble,
Lulu Jordan aud Mrs. G. G. Boniface. G.
w. Floyd, advance agent, and Edward E.
Kidder, manager. "a
Last Monday, Haverly's new Theater, at
Chicago, erected especially for him by
General John B. Carson, was opened by
Robson and Crane in Twelfth Night"
The theater is one of the handsomest In
the country and its omnibus or club boxes,
to hold forty persons, are sure to be imi-
tated.
At least twenty "Michael Strogoff"
copyright claimants have lately sprung up,
because several managers have invested
some money in its production here. This
play is the offspring of novel published
years since and was gwen at the old Ly.
ceum Theater, under the elder Charles X.
Thorne's management, five years ago.
Since then a German dramatization was
played in Vienna. Subsequently French
arrangement was produced and is now
running in Paris, and also an English ver-
sion was presented in London at loss of
$4,000.
Messrs. Stevens and Solomon's new
comic opera "Claude Duval" is now In
full rehearsal at the London Olympic. Mr.
Cell, who rides one of Sanger's fiery steeds
on to the stage and sings his first song on
horseback, is almost as well known as
good horseman as he is as an actor pos
sessed of good voice. He will certainly
look the bold highwayman to the life, and
says himself that he was born to play the
part. The chorus is the biggest, and, they
say, the prettiest ever engaged in comic
opera In England. There are to be a real
coach and four horses on the stage, which
of course is legitimate in such a piece
Exchange.
Sims Reeves begins his farewell tour of
the provinces about September 22d, and
operatic performances are to be given in
few of the principal towns. Sims Reeves,
however, distrusts his own health, and will,
therefore, only sing twice week. In
deed, so prudent is Mr.. Reeves, that, when
IL was suggested to him that he should, in
fairness, give other "farewells in oratorio"
in lieu of those at which he was unable to
appear in the summer, he declined to be
responsible for the losses incurred should
he be unable to appear. The consequence
is, that Sims Reeves can appear no more
in oratorio in London.
Shakespeare is next to be taken in hand
by the admirers of the Emma Abbott sys-
tenn, and we already hear Of an emascu.
lated Macbeth, intended for Frederic
Paulding, who has found the original text
rather too strong for him. In this revision,
Banquo is made to be a lover of Lady
Macbeth, who lodges Macbeth at bali,
instead Of haunting him at supper. All
the bloody business of the murder of Dun.
can is cut out, and the old King dies
natural death from malaria, to the intense
grief of his host and hostess, who are
elected king and queen by fair vote.
Macduff thus becomes mere rebel, and,
instead of killing Macbeth in duel, he is
arrested and graciously pardoned, after re-
penting OF his crime. The witches become
masked beauties of the court who amuse
themselves by mystifying Macbeth. The
tragedy, thus relieved OF its horrors, ends
happily with Scotch festival, sword
dance and reel, to celebrate the coronation
of King and Queen Macbeth, the sleep
walking scene being occasioned by the
feminine anxiety of Lady Macbeth about
what costume she shall wear. Even Emma
Abbott could play this piece in its new
form,+N. Y. Spirit of the Times.