Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-10-29
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
NEW PLAYS.

INV
Patience is a great success in New York and
Philadelphia
The Royal Youth, brought out at Days New
York Theater this week, was as whole sue
cess for new play.
-CtdTice, or Al for lore isanother new play.
written by Mrs. Mary Fiske for Katherine
Rodgers, and is pronounced by the n. Y. Tribune
to be excellent
Honey Bags, a new comedy, written by that
excellent actor, J. W. Shannon, has made hit
In Philadelphia.
- After six months of performance The Pro
fessor is to be withdrawn from the stage OF the
Madison Square Theater. New York and will
be followed tonight by Esmerelfa, a new play
by Mrs. Frances HOdgsOn Burnett, Of Washing
ton.
- Zelda Seguin now Mrs David Wallace. is
devoting herself to domestic drama this winter.
The baby is two weeks old now. 1t is boy.
The Abbott Company will produce new
opera duringthe coming engagement at the Ma
tional here The Ttro Cardtiers or a jolly Night
IN Sorrento. 1t is said to be very bright.
- Dion Boucicault is expected in New York
about Christmas. He will make a tour before
returning to London in the spring.
= Mr.. Frederic III. Cowen has composed can
alta which was to be produced at the Norwich
festival. Its subject is 81. Ursula and the Eecen
thousand Virgins. the same whose bones now
form one OF the curiosities of Cologne Cathedral
- Ttreifh Night is generally acknowledged
tobe the finest and most perfectly constructed
of all the Shakespearean comedies. Yet it has
never been presented in this country i'm a man
ner calculated to display its manifold beauties to
advantage. Robson and Crane at Haverly' g
Fifth Avenue Theater, New York. however are
making preparations for the production of the
comedy on an elaborate scale. and will intro
duce it to the public on Monday, the 3lst inst.
The part which Wagner took in the reyolu-
tion of 1913 has not been forgotten. The pro-
posed series of N5beImgenlied performances at
Dresden has been abandoned because of the
opposition of some high persOnages, who have
not forgiven his conduct on that occasion.
Miss Genevieye Ward has concluded very
successful four weeks engagement at the Union
Square Theater, New York, and appears at the
Globe Theater. Boston. for two weeks. The
SPIDERS Web will be produced in that city, and
1t is predicted will prove to be dramatic at
traction.
- MaplesOn's new prima donna. Mile. Ferni
who made her debut in New York On Friday
night in Mignon, has made great hit. The pa
pers are all delighted and some Of them rank
her with Nilsson and LQcca, She Is TWENTY-FIVE
years old, a native of Turin and comes of mu-
seal family. She has been singing at Madrid
Tor the past four seasons, and on her return to
Italy last spring was warmly received at Milan,
where MaplesOn secured her. She has most
extensive repertOry, ranging from Fra DiarOIO
TO Aida.
- The MGScotte is withdrawn tonight from
the BjOu Theater, New York, to make room for
Audran's new opera, The Great Mog,tl; or, The
Snake Chdrmer. on Monday. The MascoHe
though magnifcently mounted was not sung so
well by the company there as the one at FOrd's
- Adalina Patti sailed on Saturday last and is
due in New York by Tuesday next. Patti was
buttwenty-five when she was last in this country.
She anticipates great tour here.
On January "a the Greek play G'Epus
T57dJuais is to be presented at the Globe Thea
ter. Boston, with George Riddle as the .'King''
and Miss Georgia Cayvan of the Madison Square
Theater. as ''JOcasta." They will be supported
BY company of nearly 100 people.
- Herr Joseph Bayer of the Kings Opera at
Vienna. has arrived here to supeTintend the
production of his oreretta the CIeUalie,- con San
Marco, at the Thalia Theater.
- Booth closes his engagement in New York
tonight. and Rossi follows in the same line and
at the same theater on Monday night.
of Bob which was written for Lolita by
Fred Marsden, and which she has been rehears-
NJ viii heI COMPANY ior Tue past fortnight,
nothing has been given out till produced this
week in Philadelphia 1t is three act play.
Mr.. Frederick Haase, the famous German
actor, is announced to appear every night this
week at the Germania Theater. New York,
(Walack's old theater.) He is an excellent
actor and draws good houses
- La Belle L,arette is to receive its first repre-
sentatiCn in New York at the Academy of Music
In December by Maurice Grau's French Opera
Company. which is now performing in South
America.