Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-03-05
NJ USICAL AND DRAMATIC,


and In spite OF the details OF the story Its IN
auence IL altogether good. and strongly good
The scene moves with rapidity there are but teS
persons on the stage and the cast Is excellent.
The play OF the FOT-ge.-U9-NOi has nothing In
common with the simple little flower that
might be mistaken for rs title. On the con-
GIaTy, IL i the story OF an adventures, such as
are to be found IN the worlds great capitals.
DESTROYS or tuning over the bl0t-ed pages or
their lives and OF being received whtewashed,
into good society, among pure women and re-
spectacle Lapn. The 'S e0h4nte" OF the play
makes the pea that woman may reform as
well as man, and so long as reOeltant (or the
uDrepentant) roue5 as received IN g0o1 and
decent houses, why should not she also pass
current as fairly? It Is an ingenious argument,
but the w0man's anteced tnts are full OF crime
and her present repentance merely aims at
social restitution, so thaJ the whole Of the
struggle. In spite OF this adrelt fencing, can
only be regarded as so many skilful moves in
the game.
"A new pantomlme comedy entitled PJu,-
FTersdre CoaJe: Or, see,pg S,ci,zsr9ana, was
produced b. Smith & Mestaver's company at
day night.
"A New York paper thus speaks OF Wal
lacks last new play: Upper crust IS a story o
Ghe mixed loves Of an aspiring architect and an
idiotic young baTOnet for the daughters of an
impecuDious nObleman aUd wealthy but vul-
gar soap manufacturer II IS, In fact our B)ys
ever sgaln. ONLY II is far less clever aud &C
cordingly tt failed more emphaticaIly, Dut for
the same reasons. Its whole motive is to cast
rdicule upon the aTlSfO cfacy OF England and
upon the upstairs who crave by reason OF
wealth admission 70 their society. Now this
appeals 70 the British mttdle classes with pecu-
liar force. They would resent a play which Ia
radical fashion attacked the "HIpoeT Crust
because they are 1.-The bJwarkS OF the natioa;n
out hating them cordially In their inmOSt
hearts, they keenly enjoy anything which
turns them into ridicule or holds them 10 to
gentle scoTn and mild cortumeiy, as Mr.. Byron
does In this play.
N1r
ton Theater vas brilliant success, artisticany
and financially.
- The success OF Manager Stetson's enter
prise 10 producing A Celebrated Case at the
Globe TheaJer, Boston, with Mr.. Jas II. O'NeIl.
Mrs. Agnes Booth and Mrs. Thos Barry as prin
clpals, has set him thinking, and the result of
his reflections Is that good standard plays with
a strong cast, pay better and give more salts
faction that many OF the travelling c0mblna-
TONS
-Signor Sllv1nl is not a generous man to
his professional associates AT the reheaTsals
he Will permit them TO have things pretty much
their own way. but ar night On the stage she
subC Tdlnates7 everybody 10 himself, and Will
give no one chance TO via much applause II
he can help Il.
Edwin Booth has made an engagement to
play at the LyCeum, In London IN April
0thel7O Will De the bill for three nights In each
week. Booth and Henry Irving alternating in
The parts Of 'OtheliO' and ''IagJ."
In the new opera OF Btliee TlyIOr the songs
''Just Like That" ''AI on Account Of Eliza
and Charity Bob" have taken New York by
storm.
james Morrlssey, OF the Abbott troupe, is
working on Il new ballad, the title OF which VIII
oe: Take IN the Show 3 5fOre You Give IL
Away
Chicago has two OF the haudsonest theaters
IN the country-EmmeC's Academy of Music
and Hamliu's Grand Opera House The latter
is the best house TO play In that we have ever
seen.
- JohE HabbeTton's Deacon CIGnIptt is going
90 be taken to England In April. Apparently
Magtnley Will go over TO play the deacon. The
TWO certainly ought not 10 bo separated.
Lester Nall2ck'S son and treasurer Arthur.
was married to Adelaide, daughter OF Theodore
Moss, on Tuesday.
- Ada C8yendish. who was more dangerously
III when she disbanded her company than was
at first supposed, is slowly lettering and Will
soon sail for Europe.
Bitz, the magician. Is dying Of cOnsurp.
ton at Philadelphia. He is 62 years old.
The Mystic Isle, whose music is 0y John r.
Grant and libretto by Sydney Resented. Will be
produced at the New York BiJ0I opera house
on Easter Monday.
The Cincinnati papers assert that Adelina
Patti Will be the prima donna at he opera
festival In that city next year. aud that aside
from that VIII only be heard IN coleert In this
country. The London papers, py the way,
DOUBT the authenticity OF tue report that she
is coming 10 this country at all. Audit Is true
that nobody Will be sure OF her until she ia
safely over here.
-Gounod'5 TTj5ut lie ZIn1r1 "a already In
In Paris, and the composer VIII con-
duct the orchestra himself at its production.
1t Is not his latest WORK. for he has lust finished
trilogy called The Re,fOmptiOn for rhp great
7 london 10
which he calls CIlrdiy Is said 10 be the creates
lining ne has ever written, and some enthuSi-
astic friends declare It but little below BeeCh-
ovens NlHth Symphony.
The eight performances OF Olirette at the
New York Fifth Avenue a week ago brought In
$4,000, as much as the house ever took In In
the same time. With OJrette and BiHee T,tylor
we seem TO be having two successors to Pima
7Ore instead OF the looked for one.
-Cazauran's adaptation Of Deipit's IL Fills
de COralie, was produced at the New York
Union Square Monday night, and the name
finally fixed upon is Felicia, or W0aqn,S Love.
1t Is fairly Commended.
-Goethe's Fd'tst has been adapted as a play
IN England by Ella DIetz, aud it Will be played
by company IN which she viii be the sMar.
Suerite.'
Arthur sullivan has resigned from the
hensington training school of music, as he has
Cole Twice before, on the ground that his pro
It SSlOnal engagements do not allow him to pron-
erly perform his school duties He IS said Ia
nave already nearly finished the music OF The
hrst act OF CHoert's new libretto, riifeuling the
prevailing society aesthetic nonsense This
looks as though the late report OF a sertons
quarrel between the two IS unfounde1: as every
body will hope II IS.
-SalVinl Is going TO have hearty racen.ton
at Boston when he returns there, for nearly all
the orchestra and balcony seats at the CLONE
are already engaged, though he does not oDen
until Aprll IS.
George Fawcett Rowe has been readinr hIs
new play The BedNg, not long ago produced
In Canada, TO Manager StetsOn OF Boston and
IL may be brought out ar the Globe before long
-Fords Otirette troupe is highly cornmende1
in Springfield. Mass, for its performance on
Thursday evening. "a
Mr.. Edgar Fawcett, TO whose credit standa
fairly successful drama and bright comedy
has not been happy In his latest dramatic effort
under the name OF SiJeS ami SergfS The faor
that after the production In Boston which
rather pointed 10 failure, the author should
lave retaInped II In New York, SHOWS that he
has faith IN II; but in Its present shane that
faith Is not well founded 1t Is styled "a com
coy OF dIileInmaS and Geiustonsr and f5 Ia four
acts
SHOCKING DEATH OF Az OLD TRAPPRR-Uenry
Pettlgrew. we'll known trapper, met with a
shocking death last Friday. He usually kept
thirty traps along the mountain slope and
the year round. On Thursday he placed one OF
his fran9 I'm The nj O ifofa