Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-02-05
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

the sane varIcf line OF plays ana 10 Int. ret
them with the same peculiar 70 az neTloSnS " M
suffer by contrasts With the finished WORK OF
Others "a the standard drama. Next week JOS
Pph jefferson VIII bill the house With 'rhe
Rivals aud the everlasting KIP an HinSle.
AT FOrl's Willie EiOIluS sparks troupe BE-
Gin an engagement on Monday evening. This
r. a T,lelange OF pathoS and real fun brightly
illustrated by clever company, though II is
20 be regretted that Mrs. Ed0Uin is no longer
the leading LADY. II has mad great success all
over the country.
- The attractions In Philadelphia this week
are the same as last week. The Emma Abbott
opera troupe repeated their program to fair
houses
- The G1rH0T Is In IT'S third month ia B15
ton, and still drawing good houses Mrs. scott
Siddons Is at the GLOBE, and will be followed on
Monday by Genevieve Wards combination in
For. 6lt'- Ns-IYOf. Lawrence Barrett Is az The
ParF aad Denman Thompson az the Boston.
- The Mapleson opera company open IN 81.
Louis next week. The choice seats are already
sold for the season. The Rice Surprise Party
close tonight az the opera House and next
week Kate CIaXtOn appears.
-Amore robust style OF acting than tina
which fs fOstered by the comedies or the DAY Is
called for by the Pal AGll Gdsette. which ey-
presses the opinion that the school OF actors
which now holds the stage IS largely made no
OF amateurs
- Bernhardt has been success 10 Cincinnati
this week Her receipts In ST. Louis last week
were 81, los. She played Camille at the matinee
and the audience got excited, calling her twice
before the curtain at the end OF each act
John Mccullough has just closed the
largest engagement ever played at Cleveland.
in the Euclid Avenue opera House. He has
Gow gone south.
- Fanny Dayenport's Camille Is highly
praised IN the west. II IS called robust but
goOa-espeeially In the ball room scene-and
realistic when 1.-The bloom begins TO fade In the
last act She Is In Cincinnati this week.
- Lolita has purchased a new play called
Eadge. il was written by lady clerk IL the
Treasury department, and the scene Is laid In
Virginia In the slave days.
- Harrigan d Hart give up their Theatre
Comique at New York May !, and have leased
and WIZ rebuild the old Globe theater. Il will
cost about S145,0G0 and VIII seat 400.
- Wallack is having some trouble about
securing the land for his up town New York
theatef. and may have TO stay where ne Is for
another year. But IL WalIack leaves Neuendorff
viii move his German theater there.
- John HabbertOn Is said to have rewritten
and greatly strengthened his Deacon CruHHeu,
but the new version Will not be produced I'LL
next season.
Now the various schemes by Barnum
and others, for immense opera houses Oh tie
site have succeeded TO the fate of the New
York Madison Square garden and fallen to the
ground. that place Is Detng rebuilt, and win
De- alive with the din and gaUdiness OF public
balls.
John T. Raymond Is going 10 bring out his
new play by A. c. Gunter at the New York
Park on February :. 1t IS 10 he called Fresh
Rte American, and il is a name that would
strangle good piece.
w. j. Florence passed Christmas at Nice
with Mackay, the millionaire, and is now off
for Geneo. Florence, Rome and Naples. but
hopes to be back in London TO welcome John
Mccullough in April. He and Mrs Florence
are studying their new play, which they will
present at the London Gaiety in the spring.
- Edwin Booth has been tnjudicious enough
TO appear In Ou.ell0 In London, part he could
never play. He was criticised numerically.
and soon changed over TO "Iago" 1t isa pity
thai MT. Booth should tempt fate In his former
character, after fighting so hard and winning so
enyiaole position by his RicIelteu and Der
t.cc1O.'
A full length portrait of Edwin Booth.
dressed In the cardinals robes which he wears
In the character OF "RIchelieu, is being painted
for the Royal Academy exhibition London, by
Mr.. John Collier.
--SaiYllL dntin Mccullough. Lawrence Bar
fett, Nine. JanauSchek, John T. Raymond aud
1'hes Robertson VIII take part in the enter
!Slnmer: % ~ !-,,s., $3.50 80 80 Oh
Sullivan and W. :. Gflhrrt have had a serious
quarrel, and VIII not work together again. l.
is to De earnestly hoped that there i no truth
In this but II it IS true. il becomes an interest
ing question whether their new opera, s2tiriL-
ing the aesthetic nonsense OF modern society. i
really finished, as vas lately given out.
Gen. Sturgis daughter Ella, wel-known in
Washington society, who nor long since made
q promising debut at y. Louis, has decided 10
IN Cra1 IN
travel for TWO or three months With john
NcCullOughS company, after his departure for
England; but the family opposed IL, AMI uef
father Came nome from the plains On purllSo
TO plead with her. The -. Louis opiniOa
seems 20 DC that the stage has lost a real orna-
ment-
- The Norris matinoeS are the talk Of the
town Ia New York. 1t is certain that the way
ward Clara has never done more conscientious
work. The L MON Square Theater Is like a
female academy on exhibition day The women
Gock 10 see her. They know she Will stir them
10 the depths. They want to De stirred. They
want TO cry. They cheerfully ask their hus-
oandS Tor $50 70 spend IN simulated woe.
Hnole cargoes OF handkerchiefs are ont ana
USED at one and the same time. Every oddity
OF Miss Morris + caught and watched. II she
rroWns they say. she how she suffers
As an instance Of the extraordinary care
with which rehearsals are carried on at the
Francois. Paris. 1t is stated that an entry OF a
sensational kind. made by an actress In one OF
the scenes OF Alexandra Dumas new comedy.
TIE Princess, - Btqddd, bad to be repeated by
her i times the other afternoon before the au-
thor and director were satisfied that the ell
max or effect had been attained.
The Stubs BILL that passed the Ohio house
last week is calculated to pretty nearly revolu-
tiOn1Ze the show business In Cincinnati, should
10 become law. Beside the prohibition OF
sunday entertainments and the provision
which PROHIBITS children OF the age or II ap-
pearing In any kind OF public performance. II
also provides that no liquors or any kind shall
De SOLD IN any building ''appantanU or adjacent
10 any SHOW" This ought 20 be the law in
Washington.
Serena FetteT. the Louisville society belle
VINO has lust begun her stage career by a week
OF IT,, W.. i>G5-'G. ana L0re,S Sacrifice really
seems TO have taken that city by the heels. and
though she Is the niece or Henry WatIersnu
ard seems 70 nave oSen taken under his special
care IL Ter stage venture. that can hardly ac-
count for all the columns OF guSh lavlshed upon
her, and wound Up IL this way: Thus closes
an episode or stage adventure remarkable and
dramatic. fOTecasIing 1871 this courageous gjrI
who baS ali the elements or brain and heart as
well as beauty. q most notable career There
has never been anything comparable 10 Il in
this part OF the world. and old theater- goers
pronounce II altogether uneXampied III the
category or rirst appearances"
- Joe jefferson made his first appearance on
the stage when q little more than three years
OF age as the child in Pt5IrfJ. on that occa-
sion his aunt, Mrs. Chapman, was playing
IN \ no chi