Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-23

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THE COMING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IN wAsurso.
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- Eoth theaters viii open In this CITY the ,.sf
Of September. Mr.. Ford has nearly f,ed m.
season already with engagements
- Berkely E. Peescly has rewritten Bar.,ev
Campeelrs Fdte. and Lillian Cleyes Clark vii,
play under the title OF A DHsgross Wopsan-
Another Salt Lake City story lie TO De put
en- the stage next season. II Is entitled Run an
An'sscsns WIFE, and is written by Mrs. X. Esers
cit. IN starts out August Is.
Haverly's Genuine Cclored Minstrel. sailed
for England this week. They are sixty-three i'm
number, and they are to make tour around the
world.
wallaek's new theater in New York win
hardly be ready before November. Haverly's
new Chicago theater is progressing rapidly. It
has very imposing front.
- Miss Fanny Addison. a wcll-known English
actress, is in New York and II is said to be prob
able that she and her sister, Carlotta Addison.
may both act there next season.
- Sdml Of Posea If still running at Haverley's
Fourteenth Street Theater. New York II will
probably be kept on the stage for month
longer and then the theater will be closed for
repairs.
- The Ttce'ue Jolly bachelors is the title OF
new comic opera to be produced in Boston by
John A. Stevens.
john T. Raymond closed his season at Dem
yer last night. His vacation extends TO Sep
tehlber >, when he opens i'm Boston.
1t is now said that Neumann is TO give the
Wagner Trilogy in London at Her Majestys. and
that Mapleson expects to induce Wagner himself
to come over. IL II were not that the author Of
the Ftyang buchanan hates the sea- perhaps Hay
erly might get him over here
Minnie Hauck has raf,.rnad "a
troupe, and has been singing " Carmen" at Her
Majesy's, Campanini having also returned TO
sing "Don Jose" The '.Michaela" is-of all per-
sons in the world-Swift, who now figures az
Mdlle Dotti." The next novelty promised in
IL Resasegato a new Turco-Hungarian opera. by
Baron Bodog orczy. The composer viii direct
the first performance, and Miss Juch In TO sing
the soprano role.
Manager Mendum, Of the Arch. Philadei-
phia has closed q contract with Anna Dickinson,
and If that lady comes TO time, which isn't very
probable, judging from the past she will appear
next fall She Is TO play in Aureiidn and "A Crocn
Of T7ao'ns, and Mr.. Mendum hopes TO be able TO
secure w. Z. Sheridan TO support her. Accord
ing to the contract, Miss Dickinson is to star
through the country. One of the objects of Mr..
Mendums visit TO England il TO arrange for her
appearance there next spring.
Mdlle. Rhea, whom III. j. Sargent is going
to bring over here next fall to play Modeska's
roles in English. is very bright and well-edu-
Gated French actress who has made some repu-
tation at st. Petersburg. but her recent attempt
to play in English in London was not a success.
She cssayed Much Ado About Nothing for one
afternoon only and ii was generally said that she
might have 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 stores
into play, which will probably be presented at
the opening of the next regular season of the
Madison Square Theater. New York.
- Max StrakosA will open his next opers
season here as usual and then go TO New Or
leans, where he expects TO open I'm December
and to remain ten weeks. vice De Beauplan,
gone to pieces. lie says that Gerster is engaged
TO him.
The Honlon-Lecs open at the Park NY. in
September, in their wonderful Journey %, S,rits-
esland.
- The London critics generally agree that
Rubenstein's IL Degaonio, which has been pro-
duced at Covent Garden under the composers
own direction. is strangely destitute Of dramatic
character, Though written within the past few
years, IL is more artificial and conventional thaa
the operas of a generation or two back and tx.s
only part of the music that seems To meet VITA
general approval is that which has no need to be
dramatic the ballet and some marches. drinking
songs aud the like of a semi-oriental character
- Kate Claxton will have an entirely new
company next season.
Edwin Booths engagement in Booths The
alter will begin on the Sd of October
w. e. Sheridan opened in San Francisco
this week. Charlotte Thompson will join him
later.
Nat Goodwin is reported to have made q
genuine hit with Cinderella ut School, In the Bos-
ton Museum.