Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-02-11
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

THE NEW PLAY OF oDErTE-TBE NEW OPERA
MANoLA-PATIFNCE IN NEW YORK-wHERE
THE STARS ARE, ETC
j. r. Emmett will I've at the National all Of
next week.
-Atsinsons Jollities open Monday evening at
Ford's.
The feature of the coming week will be the
concert Wednesday evening at Lincoln Hail.
with Miss Annie Louise Cary as the leading at
traction.
Mr.. McCreery's operetta LAfi1qe, at the
Bijou Opera House House. y. Y. continues to
draw though the critics denounce it most I'M
mercifully.
The Colonel viii be repeated at the Park
Theater New York. for an indefinite time. This
play is now quite popular
Mr. Daniel FrohInan states that the receipts
from the performances of Gdip,s Ti,rdnn',s at
Booths Thcatcr during last week amounted to
s9.0GO. These performances will not. however,
be continued elsewhere.
- Jno. :. Clarke opens Booths Theater n.
T.. Monday night in Major de Boots He was
famous i'm this character twenty wears ago. but
has rcmodeIled ii and changed its name, and
claims to have improved it.
- Patience is having a great run In New
York The Standard company is now in its
fourth MONTH and has increased its chorus to
sixty persons. Haverlys company opened at
the 18th street thrater. y. Y. on Monday night
with that charming singer and actress. Miss
Emma HowsOR in the title role.
= O3ehe was brought out at Daly's Theater.
NY. on Monday last to an Overlooking house,
who were anxious 10 Sardous latest effort.
The se-GeTy and play were rOundlv appIauded
but the company. though doing fairly well. were
not used tn the production of an emotional play.
ana not especially commended by the New
York press The play premises to. have q long
run. though il has been so remodclled to suit
the American market as to omit some salient
features of the French and London versions.
- Mdnol1; or. The Blonde and Brunette, as Le-
Cocq's new opera of IL Jo,o- 1t lie Nat is now
called was produced at the 5th avenue theater,
Ny, on Monday night for the first time i'm Eng
fish. The Herald critic says that the stage pic
lures We're never eXcelled in New York. and
therefore must have been very beautiful; but of
the music he adds that it lacks the dash and
sparkle which the author put into Madame An
got while the lbrettO of Mr. Farnie is spoken of
as coarse and vulgar.
- Snt-q-NOr. Mr. Boucicaults new drama
bad its first representation in America at the
Boston Museum Monday night. before an audi
ence which filed the theater to Overlooking and
which was made up of some of the best people
In the community. II may be said at the outset
that the performance was decided success. and
that the author and leading character in the
piece was honOred with a recall at the close OF
the first act and after the final drop of the cur
tain.
- A disgraceful scene was enacted at the
Grand Opera House at Nashville at the hour ap-
pointed for the sale Of tickets TO Booths enter
tanment on Monday. An immense assembiage
filled the street and sidewalk. An arrangement
had beenAlade by which the crowd was To go in
in detail The jam was such. however. that the
large doors gave way with q crash. and the
crowd rushed in pellrnell. yelling at the top Of
TIER voices Men We're run over aHd trampled
upon. faces bruised. arms broken and pockets
picked seats were upturned and the stage
was packed with the crowd. forcing the post
ponement of the sale of tickets until Tuesday.
- Miss Mary Anderson has carried New York
by storm. After playing two weeks at Booths
she closes two weeks more tonight at the
Grand Opera House. On TUESDAY night the
audience was very large and the enthusiasm IN
bounded She played Pauline" in the Lefty of
Lyons. and at the close of the third act she was
received before the curtain with repeated cheers
She appears in Boston next Monday.
- Mrs. Aline Osgood. who has won a high
professional rank in Europe has returned to her
native country. and is soon to be heard here
Mrs Os9o0d was we'll known soprano of the
first class. and her reappeaFance will be wei
coined In oratOTio and the highest character
or concert music she is one of the most credit
able Of artists. She has commanded the adrni-
ration of foreigners well as the respect of her
countrymen and her return will be a notable
event III the musical season.
- The series of concerts given BY Nine AIDE
lina Patti under the management Of Mr. Henry
T. Abbey. has been completed. and Washingt on
has been omitted from the list. The manager
says that the receipts have been greater than
those Of any similar entertainments ever given
IN the tnited States Contrary to her positive
ard widely published assertion when she first
arrived IN this country. dme. Patti has now con-
seilJed 10 appear in New York in opera and Mr.
Abbey has secured the Germania tformery Wall
lacks Iheater. New York as the place for the
performances. tn Thursday evening" the 23d of
February. the first representation will be given.
the opera being Nerdis La Tr0ridtG Six even
Ing performances will be- given thereafter
- Where tho stars We're this week: Edwin
Booth was in Montgomery. Atlanta. Chatta-
nooga ana Nashville Lawrence Barrett is on
the New England circuit. He will appear at the
Filth Avenue Theater. New York Nonday. in
William loun%'s new play Of Peis.lrdqo1s,- and
will remain four weeks John 7. RAYMOND is
at the Walnut Street Theater. PHILADELPHIA On
the 18th he goes to the Park Theater BROOKLYN
----katc C!axtOn was in Richmond Peters
burg. Norfolk and Charleston . .Geneyeye
Ward is at the Grand Opera House ST. Louis
Miss Wards season will be prolonged till the
end OF ApIil- Hr. SUucicault. now at the
Boston Museum. is shortly to fill brief engage
ment at Booths Theater. Clara Morri4 at the
Union Square Theater. played Mercy 1le7rick
on Tuesday and Thursday at matinees jan
auscheh is in Boston and doing we'll