Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-24
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
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y oth theaters will oren in this city the lasf
Ct September. Mr. Ford has nearly filed the
season already with engagements
- EerSely f. feesCly has rewritten Barley
Camrbeifs tcfe. and Lillian Cloves Clark win
pa. II under tire title al 4 DGq1y-ous Woman.
- Another salt Lake City story Is 20 he nut
On The stage ncN season. n is entitled 6,,a IA
American " fe. and is written by Mrs. n Ever
EFT. IL stars out August Is
HaNeriy's Genuine Colorcd Ministries sailed
Tor England this week They are sixty-,hrec I'm
hui'in'r' ana they are 10 make a tour around the
world. "'
Wallack's new theater in New York win
hardly he ready before November uav.rlv,s
new chicago thcater is progressing rapidly. It
has a very imposing front.
Miss Fanny Addison. q wcIl-known English
actress. is in New York and il is said 10 e prob
able that she and her sister. Cariotta Addison.
may both act there next season.
- Srn,l Of Pose, Is still running NJ Uaverley'a
Fourteenth Street II eater. New York II will
probably be kept on the stage for a month
longer and then the thcater will be closed for
repairs.
- The Ttrelre .yoiy Bachelors is the title OF q
new comic opera TO be produced in Boston by
John A. stevens
John I. Raymond closed his season at Dem
yer last night. His vacation cNteads 10 Sep
teEber ,, when he opens in Boston.
1t If now said that Neumann is 10 give the
Wagner Trilo9y in London at Her Majesty's. and
that Mapleson expects to induce Wagner himself
to come over. iii were not that the author Of
the tty'ng D7ttc@a'adn hates the sea perhaps Hay-
erly might get him over here.
Minnie Hauck has returned to Mapleson's
fra,a I loeg L.,
Majesty's. Camparini having also returned TO
sing Don Jose" The ..Mchaela" is-of all per-
sons in the wofld-Swift. Who now figures as
" Mdle. DUtti." The next novelty promised is
~ I.rns.9ato. a new Turco-iiungaran opera by
Baron Bodo. ORGY. The composer will direct
me frSt performance, and Miss Juca Is to SIM,
the soprano role
Manager Mendum, Of the Arch. Philadel-
pha. has closed a contract with Anna Dickinson,
and if that lady comes to time. which isn't very
probable, Judging from the past. she viii appear
next fall. She is TO play in Aurelida and a Cro,cn
~ Ihorns, and Mr. Mcndum hopes to be able to
secure w. L. Sheridan to support her. Accord
Ing to the contract, Miss Dickinson Is 10 star
through the country. One of the objects Of Mr..
Mendums visit TO England is to arrange for her
appearance there next spring.
-Mdlie Rhea, whom III. J. Sargent is going
to bring over here next fall to play Modjeska's
roles in English, is very bright and well-edu-
Gated French actress. who has made some repu-
tatlon at st. Petersburg, but her recent attempt
TO play in English in London was not a success
She essayed Much Ado Aloud Nothing for one
afternoon only and it was generally said that she
might nave made pretty good Beatrice" il
She had known the language Possibly she may
learn TO speak English before November
Mrs. Burnett, Of Washington, assisted by
Mr. Gillette, is converting two Of her stoues
into a play. which will probably be presented at
the opening OF the next regular season of the
Madison Square Theatcr New York
Max Strakosh Will open his next opera
season here as usual and then go TO New Or
leans. where he expects to open i'm December
and 10 remain ten weeks. vice DE Beauplan
gone to pieces. He says that Gerstcr is engaged
to him.
The Honion-Iecs open at the Park. NY, in
september In their wonderful Journey in .Sscftz-
GRAND.
- The London critics generally agree that
Rueenstein's II DaRorio. which has been pro-
duced at Covent Garden under the composers
own direction. il strangely destitute Of dramatic
character. Though written within the past few
years II is more artificial and conventional tasa
the operas OF generation or two back and tfe
only part OF the music that seems TO meet win
General approval il that which has no need to be
dramatic. the ballet and some marches. drinking
songs and the like of a semi Oriental character
Kate ClaNton will have an entirely new
company next season.
Edwin Booths engagement in Booths Tho
alter will begin on the Sd of October
w. f. sheridan opened in San Francisco
this week. Charlotte Thompson will join him
later.
Nat Goodwin il reported to have made q
genuine hit with Cinderella al School, in the Boz
ton Museum.