The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1881-01-23
coULISSE CHAT.

Harry Peakes has left the SfakosCh Hess
troupe. and Joined the Emma Abbott company.
Miss Kate Forsyth, who supports McCul-
Tough, Is the daughter of philadelphia millionaire
Emnctts profits in Philadelphia week
before last were e. 500 Ills wife. who has left
him. Is said to have secured s0o 600 of his eHrnings
for rainy day.
On account of ill-health, Miss Dean Nc
Conucl, who has been successfully supporting Miss
Fannie Davenport has been obliged to cancel her en-
gagemen,, aud Is now quite sick In ST. Louis, Mo.
Schneider, the goddess of opera boufre who
created the " utande Duchessc, " has lust sold her
elegant mansion In the Avenue du Bois dc Boulogne
for nine hundred ihou9nnd irancs, ana an ra,s
because Schneider wishes TO remove TO some other
place,
Joe Howard says "' Daniel Rochat failed
TO please the public - Of New York. II this piece
would not go down at the Union sduatc. Win the
gorgeous stage setting. strong company and cntrful
good policy ior Slf FORD q Try and ran il. Wien ms
barls in better plays, and which she can ciat mote
effectively
On Monday, the Hess. .ss.alo.ai, tiranG
English opera Company began season OF two Weeks
at the st. Charles Theatre, with the opera OF "Car-
making change Of nl each night Tbs bis, company
tHffnptON, Laura SCnttflcr, anu OStUNt IurrlNnli
sopranos SARA baton, and Miss Antandnic, con-
traltos Arthur Bytci A. Mtnttgrifo, NJ. rerugn,
and w Tila. tenors; VIM, Cnrlctof ana q, Fl lial
| bafiio'ics George 4. Cohioy aid Henry Pcakes'
| bassUs.
The ladies and gentlemen Ia ttis balcony
near the stage at the National Theatre, during uc
Mccullough engagement, have sometimes been treated
to exhibitions not down In the bill. on at least one
occasion, while the tragedan was pillng on the agony
on the stage, Miss Kate Forsyth, waiting In the side
scenes, raised her skirts anu pulled mp her ccmely
N a Sw OF Sos @ OF wSs Srs dfss nSss am
yulsed with auget ut iiioiheit. when they shu,ild
have leen deeply affected by the fotres,iah efforts o.
audience thus favored were rather pleased thah other
wise with their fottihc, bit Il hardly needs 70 salt
that such ncongiuous diversions 90 dot btepf VIII
Intelligent and conscientious artists, nor III Ns!!-
trained companies,
Says the Erening .;faa of the 10th; "Mr
Daly's Nautch dancers and Iiindoo iagsets dp no
| amount to anything after all and he was much Ill,
appointed himself, even before their initial appear
ance last evening The piece too, 'Zanina ~ grea
disappointment, notwithstanding the very pretty
music which 1t contains and the eaboraeness rlcnes
Of costumes, and scenic detail with which has bce
put oh the stage. Miss Laura Joyce, Miss May Field
Ing, Mr. DEFY VI Bell; Aid NJ; john Brand . do ad
| of the company are thrown away. The most aippsin
thing last evening was Mr.. James Lewis sihiaton ?
the Nautch girls, and the young ladies' of the clioft
| who danced In the Nautch girls style, with wavnl
arms, did 1t very much more gracefully an
pleasing'y.'
Madame Favart has sent in her resignation
as a pensfonnafre of the Comtdie Fiancaise whicl,
owing to the Betnhardt example and the discontei
of the Copuellns, to he on the way to dsinte
grafton. s4ins twenty years ago Favaft was a star Q
pSsars and al the retechissa great barts d lead
Fayart. She was a. magnet Of attraction as Mile
Mars had been fbs years before; But time stole on
irohan and Croiaettc beca5 aebnantes, then rivals
To-day Croizette Is eclpsed by samary, sha tarart
thrust back to old women parts: She is yet
splendid actress and 1t may be that her resignation
her position in the leading theatre of tho world is
protest against being gradually pushed into obscurit,
with her superb talents and vast reputation Fava
would be a ,star' throughout France and Belgium
and even In this country, where we may yet wltne
some of her great Representations.
So many Americans will be interested /
knowing as ieaily as may be the measure of Edwi
Booths success or faltre on TIE LONDON stage h
n Timss r''r ITO I Judge " Of tic reception q Eds
. Booth pefformanessin in London by tile despatch
sent hithel Ana bs thqt Quotations generally ina,
eepon s nsa easpe PesS enoagh and cost
e lug character. I've have heard New Yorkeis, stf
that the tragedian should continue, as they put it,
+ play in the face of much prejudice and inapprec
iion The public here seem to have an Inadequate ID,
OF how he is regarded by the public over there Boo
himself aswriten In various private letters TO frlen
on this side ll!at he Is satisfied with his London sui
Y vers CT ftcisia and very mild d,voriess cominend
u tion in certain daartSrS,aif that he y constantly
Ceiving evidence OF MIR heu iIpl lefso
Of prominence Judgment. ami ctiltUf6 m the Brlti
q, metropolis Nobody would suspect this ny mo io'
~ | nastic reports from England lie could not Il
"a example, have been damned with faint praise mo
" efecually than by the London Standard, as cited
Il our columns yesterday and yet the Standard aPpen
~ to have been chosen for Its favorable opinion of Il
) American actor. The people who go ito the Princess
# Theatre night after night evidently hold very di
=, ferent view Of his playing from what many OF q
,s | journals do. Otherwise, 1t would he Impossible 4
% him to lie satisfied allowing him to own a modicu
i, Of self -iove or even TO be resigned to his Lond
~ greeting. As he has said the boxofcc tells wheth
70 lie is liked OF not. file longer o remains the mo
n admiration hG wins. Ills ntesent engagement Is I
three uons but It Is althgeter probable that e "
in he induced by IFS :,anagef who is very desirous IN
~, II should be So TO- make atotfer engagement al
~ he will act in tond lon tntiI the end Of May at ea'
carrying him into the height Of Tie social season.
~ is the general bel ef Of his friends that the longer
4 stays lie more lie win be approved, and that
y spring Will be mofG atspfcous to hs enterprise th
il, the winter has been. As eictyboly knows, he j. az
y ing the PrinCesss under manifold dtsnuvantast
40 Tie antecedens Of the threatre, the comPa!fyi I
20 setting of the piece, the severity of the weather,
all against him. And yet his success is genuine.
!. | disputed, and incontrovertibly growing. Hen
living. wlio Is very popular In London, need
y years to fecelse aptrec.ation, and many Engshni
! think it is the highest eSdehcu q Booth' genius Il
he should have gained FIRM fbbtlola there. III
I teeth of so many discouragng conditions, befs
az ~, close of the second month of his engagement