Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-04-16
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.


leans few days ago.
Wilhelmj has recently been giving con-
Certs In California.
Mr.. Mackaye and his troupe are this week
In Connecticut, acting In Won at Inst
The Acme Oivette Company is to appear
at the Brooklyn Park Theater next week.
Mr.. Edward Lamb, well remembered In
Washington, comedian always excellent ana
deseryedly popular In eccentric characters re-
Gently made an unequIvocal hit 10 Boston as
"UIiah Eeep." }
Mime. Japauscnek viii act In Boston next
week. She closes In Philadelphia to night.
- Robson and Crane produced their new
play. A. d. 1900, in Chicago this week. 1t met
with success.
-Jne New YORK World says that 1.-The lively,
lovely little I.otta, at the Park Theater, in
1.-the Nell: or. The Warehouses, has been q
great success this week.
The Cincinnati papers are full OF praise for
William E. Sheridan, who Is playing Louis III
there. Miss Kate Forsythe is supporting him.
= The latest news from Mrs. Edwin Booth In
London Is that she is much worse, and that she
may Ole at almost any moment She is said to
De lnsensible good part OF the time.
Fanny Davenport is preparing to prodace
The Princess or Bdgdad at Boston on Easter
Monday. IL is story OF bad woman.
- BiUee Taylor seems without doubt to be
the best comic opera since P1naf0re, aud we
lave heard men whose business 1t is to CRITICS,
the stage wax enthusiastic over Its melody,
humor and prettiness. The audiences at the
New York s andard Theater continue very
large, and the managers are forming companies
10 play it ali over the country.
- Cinderella at School, one Of the brightest
things now on the stage, will be repeated at
Days Theater until the end OF the month. 1t
will then be followed by something new, which
viii serve TO open the summer season at this
theater.
il. II. Haverly and Marie R0ze's husband,
Henry Mspleson, have formed a partnership
for an English opera company next season.
Mapleson says he has already engaged Marius
Edward Terry and Florence ST John, English
favoTites.
- Soldene's company have been doing ruin
ously bad business In San Francisco, and there
is talk OF their having to disband there. There
are rumoTs, too, that the local managers would
Ike TO see the company break up so as 70 take
the best OF them for troupe TO send to Aus
fralia In support OF Emily Melville, great fav-
or1te In California.
The Cornley-Bart Company are to re-
appear In OIirette at tue Fifth Avenue Theater,
New York, on Easter Monday.
Georg Henschel is coming back from
Europe In the fall to be the conductor OF a
large orchestra In Boston which will give
twenty Saturday night sympA5c concerts at
Music HALL
While giving her recitals In Boston. Miss
Kate Field was suddenly troubled by an old
having seemingly disappeared. Miss Field Will
probably go abroad for treatment,
1t is stated that Nine. Gabb., pr.ma
donna who has made success In Havana. has
been engaged by Mr.. Mapleson and viii appear
with his company In London. after which she
Will come TO this country next season.
Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera Is booked
fNr Ens-Io m
men are also booked to superintend its anticl-
Pated production 10 New York at the beginning
OF next season.
The season of French opera, under the
management of NJ. de Beauplan, Will begin at
the Academy of Music, New York, next week
Six performances will be given each week, and
IN the first week Les Hltqtte1lO:s, La Jlire
Faust, Aida, and L 4fricatHe VIII be pre-
scented.
There Is a brief but pointed bill before the
New York assembly making 1t a misdemeanor
to sell or offer to sell a ticket to an amusement
In any City in the state, at any price over the
boX-oflce rate. IL Is to be hoped that this bill
Will pass; for ticket speculation has become an
lntOlerable nuisance In New York city. 1t is
almost impossible to get into theater without
being roughly solicited by some of these tmpu-
dent fellows; and the worst OF 1t is that a good
many OF the managers are more snan suspected
OF aoettlng the sWlndle. That Is the right name
Tor 1t.
- The scenery, costumes and properties for
the Spanish spectacular play, Castles in Spain,
which Is to De produced at Niblo'S Garden In
May, have just been brought to New York
The play Is In Three acts and seventeen tab
leaus, and its scenic features are said TO be
novel and beautiful. A new English loreGto
for the piece has been written Dy New York
Journalist
A New York paper asserts so solemnly
that IL arouse5 suspicion OF a JOKE, that one OF
Steele Macsaye's novelties 10 his new theater,
now assured Will be patent seat which dis
appears when the audience arise, leaving tne
entire floor or the auditorium clear. The next
thing should be u theS.ter whose walls should
sink into he grOua1 after the performance
relieving the audience OF the trouble OK getting
out CT dooiS
-Moritz GTau has made good deal of money
In Mexico and the West Indies with his French
opera company, headed by Paola Marie, and
has now taken them to Rio Janeiro. They Will
also visit Para, Pernanbuc0 and the Brazilian
cities, and Will then go to the Argentine repub
lie and Buenos AyreS, and possibly to Chill
and Peru. getting back TO New York late In the
autumn.
Mile Sarah Bernhardt'5 farewell engage
ment In New York begins st Booths Tneater
on Monday, when she will appear for the first
time there In Dumas play La Princess Georges,
Wednesday, F-Ou-FrOu on Thursday, Adrienne
on Friday, and Camille at the Saturday mat
1Lee.
For the Poets Festival under the direction
OF the Poe Memorial Committee, to be held at
the Academy OF Music, New York, the program
Will be varied and entertaining. Perform nces
VIII be given at 2 In the afternoon and in the
evening. Addresses Will DE delivered by Parke
Goodwin and Algernon S. Sullivan. Poems by
Holmes, Boxer, Parsons, Moran, SJoddard
Whitman, Howells, Winter, Lanier, TrOw-
bridge and Fawcett Will be read Music will
be furnished BIZ JoSefy, Miss Maud Morgan
Mrs Florence Rice Knox, and an orchestra ana
chorus, and tableaux illustrating Well-knovu
poems will be presented.
There is talk OF handsome George Clarke
leaving the Madison Square Theater, New
York, and starring 1t next season in Barney
Williams Old repertoire. Mr. Clarke
viii be foolish to do anything OF
the kind. The Irishman that Barney
Williams presented never had an ex
istance save on the stage, and has been cas-,
into the shade by the North OF Ireland man
who has at least some claim to resemblance e
his original
Anna Dickinson has at the last nomen,
refused to play Claude Melnotte" with sal
WINS company at Philadelphia. She was tc
have opened Tuesday. She may possibly essay
IL IN Boston, however, though her friends vii
hope that she win conf1ne herself TO Shake
6perean parts.
Fanny Davenport wants something In the
"A do