The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-12-30
dramatic nnd MusicaI Notes.

Mr.. w. :. Gilbert's new comedy, "Fog-
eerty's Fairy" has been produced with
tolerable success at the Criterion Theatre,
London.
Edwin Booth will return TO England at
the close Of his present American tour,
and in 1888 he proposes 10 star IN the prln-
cipal German theatres.
Mendelssohn's oratorio Of "St. Paul.
will be given in Baltimore tonight by the
Oratorio Society, with a chorus OF 200
voices and Miss Mills and Miss IIenne rs
solo singers.
The Young lady attendants OF the Court
Theatre, London, are now clad in yellow
waistcoat. navy-bme swallow-tailed dress
coat. erect collar, and black silk evening
tie. They are very gentlemanly young III
dies.
The TeleQrdm says ''It seems TO have
become an axiom that in order to make a
prima donna successful opcra-singer the
halls i'm which she sings must be hand
somely upholstered. Ii you would have
the audience wreathed in smiles, wreathe
the auditorium in smilaX."
Mr.. John 4. Stevens has obtained an in-
junction TO restrain Miss Kate ClaXton from
performing outside Of the Windsor Theatre,
Boston. next week. He says she was under
contract to play there for him. Miss ClaN-
tom saws the contract was signed by her
husband upon representations from Mr..
Stevens which afterwards proved false.
Hence she does not intend to keep the con-
tract.
Sarah Bernhardt still finds that it pays to
have her newspaper-man travel with her.
Writing in Vienna paper during her re-
cent VISIT TO that place, the hired critic
writes "WOndrOus and valiant woman
she is. after all and in spite OF all woman
all steel and flame, made up with courage
and enthusiasm, who dares through snow,
storm. ice. floods, to travel afar to klndle
bevond seas something Of France aud
OF French. genius. So long rs she lives we
must admire and adore her,
Frederick PauIding, the alleged actor.
who performed at his own expense about
the country last year, or at the expense OF
his mother, who is wealthy, has been for
hidden by his physician 10 act any more.
II is believed that his mother hired the ply
sician to give that prescription. Paulding
will make good neutrality-suspicious., but
he can never play "Hamlet" so il will be
tragedy. He might play it as comedy on
\ farce or a can-can. The people who at
tend theatres are willing to pay the physl-
clans bill.-Ne,c Orleans 1imeS-Democrdt.
Mile. Ferni, in a card yesterday, explains
why and how she leaves America, together
with the bad treatment she says she has re-
ceiyed at the hands OF Colonel MapleSon.
Towards the conclusion, she says:
Furthermore, | would say that Colonel
Mapleson offered to break his contract with
Miss Minnie Hauk and have me sing In
Carmen should consent TO the reduction
of my salary. | at once rejected this re-
pugnant offer, and informed Colonel Ma
pleson that had no desire 10 encroach at
all upon the sphere OF any other artist.
leave the American public to judge OF the
treatment which / have received at the
hands Of Colonel MaplesOn."
Mr. Mapleson's statement, as given to a
New York reporter, gives very different
phase 10 the ease. From his standpoint,
Mile. Ferni has heedlessly broken the con-
tract with him, and he will hold her reSpon-
sible for the failure of his engagement in
England.