National Republican., 1881-10-22
STAGE NOTES.
RossI is said to be badly managed.

supporting Booth. INC great tragcdlan uOnt nko
him.
Mr.. Folin, Maude Grangers husband, will
travel with her this season actor in her com
pany.
Mary Andenon's acting Is said to show great
improvement this season. The public win be glad
to hear II.
Robson & Crane successfully produced "out
Bachelors" at the Fifh Avenue, in New York,
last Monday Ii
A. G. Gunter's "Two Nights in Rome has been
stolen and produced in London under the name
of " Bafiled."
Raymond renewed his triumphs in New York
with Frcsh an American" ut the Grand Opera
House. this week.
Mr. and Mrs. George s. Knight close to-daya !
successful week with Baron Rudolph" OF the
Windsor New York.
Manager Goodwin, OF Philadelphia, is said 10
have furnished the financial backing to bring
Rossl to this country.
Mr.. Booth made rs his share Of the receipts dur.
ing the first two weeks Of his present engagement
| tn New York nearly $4,000.
Manager Neuendorff has signed n contract with
the Sake Meiningen company, ninety strong, 10
| come to this country next September.
The new play by Judge Tourgee and Steele
Macknye, taken from "A Fools Errand," will bo
| produced Monday night in Philadelphia
was successful ut the Chestnut in Philadelphia
win be produced in indianapolis Monday night.
The twelve jolly Bachelors" new connie
opera, Is announced for production In Boston on
the 31st instant by the Stevens & Murtha Company.
| The Haverly Comedy Company returned with
| The Strntcgists to the Fourteenth Street ThcG-
| tire. New York, this week. and playing TO fine
houses.
"Claude Duvnl" the new comic opera by the au.
thos of" Billoe Taylor" will soon be produced at
the Standard, New York. twas a partial failure
| In London.
The Metropolitan Casino, New York. Is a sue.
cess. The receipts for the first week were 5000,
| and 80 far the audiences have been made up oi
first -class people.
Louise Pomeroy Brick" Pomeroy's divorced
| wife, cleared over $4,000 during her recent tour
| In Australia She opens at the Drury Lane In
London next May.
Miss Jenny Lee goes to California under engage.
ment to Mcguire. She adds "The Colonel" Bur-
| nands aesthetic satire, to Poor Jo," and these
constitute her repertoire
The substitution of ofCarlon for Barton In the role
of Crcsse7or IN Patience" at the Standard, New
York, is hailed as great improvement The opera
| still draws tremendous houses
Jannuschek opens at the Union Square. New
York, next Monday night, following Miss Gene.
We've Ward. who did good business there with
"Forget- Mc-Not" for several weeks.
Haverly has leased another thentre-thc CALI
fornia. San Francisco He now controls three
houses in New York, one in Brooklyn, one in
Chicago, and one In San Francisco.
John Mccullough In q speech before the cur
tan last Saturday night. In Chicago, said that the
engagement terminating that night was the great
est financial success he had ever played.
Portions of Ccllier's "Masqnc OF Pandora" will
! be produced at the Casino. New York, next Sum
day night This opera failed in Boston last win
ter Notwithstanding tho fact that Longfellow
fathered the libretto.
II seems to be settled finally that Patti will mako
concert tour In this country. She will open at
steinway Hall, in New York, at $40 per scat. Tho
people would not pay much 10 hear her in OPERA
to say nothing Of concert.
Daily makes another essay next week with an
other adaptation by himself 1t is from ia
Jeunnesse dc Louis XIV" by Dumas pere play
! ] which, years ago, was o Parisian success. Tho
adaptation is called Royal Youth"
- Kate Monroe, the prima donna OF the company
now forming to sing Les Cloches de Cornevllle" {"
at the Casino in New York, who created the role OF
Serpoete in London, where she sang itnearly eight
A hundred nights, is an American girl, OF course
DOyley Carte Is expected in New York this week
to look after his America interests. He will or
ganire a travelling company to sing Patience"
He is said TO have made cool half million OF do-
L lars-principally out Of Gilbert and Sullvana
p operas.
n IT'S now said that tho Union Square, New York.
e will open the season with revival" The lmil :
10 er's Daughter" perhaps. "The Lights O. Londo :
ss with which the house was to open, is a We .
70 elaborate piece and requires an extraordinary
l. amount of rehearsal
y Mr.. Byrne, of Bunes Dramatic Times, New York,
le may be rs bad man as he is said TO be, and VIC
don't care whether he is or not far our pres.
ent purpose Is concerned, which is simply to say
~ that In editing a dramatic newspaper he Is the
- master In this country.
Philadelphia grew indignant Inst week because
u "a going to hear the Comey- Barton Company, Al
a advertised In opera, they found Emma Howsor
N and Mr.. Seymour substituted for Catherine Levi
re and John Howson. The result was poor business
ie and served them right too.
Tho Professor has proven so powerful an at
traction nt the Madison Square, New York. tha
4 | the production there Of Mrs. Burnetts pley Q
n. Esmeralda" is indefinitely postponed. Near,
"a time a company, headed by Agnes Booth, Is don
re 1t in the smaller cities East.
re H. B. Mains Comic Opera Company is said to b
re doing light business this season. The cause Of
a. Is that Jennie Winston and her husband, A.
Of Bell, have left the company They constituted al
ed the draught the concern had, and Mahn has NO
%, succeeded In filling their places to the satisfaction
II. of the public.
of 1t is an old story that Steele Mackaye adapte
he "Hazel Kirk :" from one Of Henry Pcttitt's play
r. called "The Green Lanes of England" Petit
or who was In New York recently, hearing that
Ill was proposed to play "Hazel Kirk in Londoi
H. served notice that he would resort to law 10 pre-
vent Its production.
There are two "Onginal Hazel Kirke" compO
NJ pies on the road, and third will probably sta
out very soon There are two Comley- Barton CON
' panies-one sang at the Arch in Philadelphia, an
81 % the other at the Casino in New York, last weel
NO NO This sort Of thing is growing monotonous an
~ ~ won't pay in the long run.
he ."The Snake- -Charmer" is announced for pos
nor tive production next Saturday night at the Bio
m. New York, with Miss Lillian Russell in the tit
A. role-one requiring In the way of good ngu
N. than voice, the costume suggesting the dou
cs whether Eve was a snake -charmer instead OF VI
,os versa, as the Book hath II.
in. The tie that binds Catherine Lewis and job
of Howson to the Comley- Barton Company Is N
ois ported to be very weak and In danger daily
80 dissolution When these two people leave the
viii be nobody worth listening TO or looking at
the company-except, perhaps, Dora Wiley, wi
re Is singing in the" Casino" branch Of the compan
In ten years from this day every theatre ofprete
sions in America will have its foyer, where ladl
and gentlemen can walk about, eat ices and II
themselves between acts. They arc almost univC
,th sal In European theatres. The Globe aud Bosto
inc In Boston, and Days and Booths, In New Yoi
ton are provided with yoycrs as Wallacks new hou
mol will be,
y- The Dramatic Times Is responsible for the foo'
ege ing estimates: Miss Lotta is worth at the prese
err time about $4,000. Some time ago she made a b.
er- investment, which entailed loss of sl5o.0oo.