Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-07-01
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

ODDS AND ENDS OF THE sEASON-NEw ENGAGE
MENTs IN LONDON, ETC.
- Frank Evans has seeded from BARLEY
CampbelIs Galley Slave company
- kittie and Myra Goodwin have been en-
gagged by Barry and Fay for next season.
Alfred p. Bevan has been engaged by Nat
Chlds to go in advance Of Janauscheck next
season.
Harry Rainforth and wife have been en-
gagged for one of the Hazel kirke companies
next season.
John Ince will not retire to his villa at
Newport until his yacht, which is hourly ex-
pected, arrives from Europe
- Mary AndersOn's yacht-the Gaatea-will
not be launched for some time yet. There is
hitch in the machinery.
w. S. Daboll and wife Fanny Corey) have
signed with J. c. Collier for next season in The
Lights o London" company.
La Belle Russo. with Jeffreys Lewis in
the title role, opens at the Arch Street Theater,
Philadelphia, September is. A return engage
ment will be played at the Walnut.
Helen Coleman will be supported in her new
play. entitled aunt Rebecca's Pawn Shop"
the coming season by Frank Wynkoop and
Louise Raymond. Miss Coleman will also play
the widow" alternate nights and thus be the
new play will monOpOliZe most of his acting
time. The Coleman company propose to play
only the large cities and two night stands
and will open September II either in Trenton or
Philadelphia Dramatic Mirror.
Mrs. Langtry continues her successful tour.
The excitement at Liverpool was unprecedented.
and Mr. Saker handed to the now favorite artist
check for Fl 100, the largest he has ever given
to any star. Mrs. Lan@try. who has done we'll
III pecuniary sense everywhere, has decided
on coming to America in the autumn in the
White Star steamer.
- Henry Abbey is hard at work in London
completing details with Henry Irving respecting
his American tour, and spends most of his morn
ings rushing about in hanson cabs.
- II. J. Byron is out and about in London,
after an illness of four months duration though
in that time he touched up burletta for Toole
and has written two acts of an original drama
for popular star.
- Lolita opens at the London Gaiety after the
engagements of the French troupes are con-
Guided.
j John Mccullough and Lawrence Barrett
were to meet Manager Miles in New York be-
tween the 1st and the 10th of July to arrange
matters for the dramatic festival. AS the latter
has gone to Europe and the former up the
Yellowstone for the summer, it doesn't look as
If they were much interested.
- The scenery and mechanical effects of the
new melodrama, Taken From Life" according
To Mr.. Colville, will be the most expensive and
intricate ever seen in this country, and will re-
qure months Of preparation before its prOdUc-
ton.
- Minnie Maddern is overrun with offers from
alleged play-writers. Since her successful APP
pearance at the Park theater, New York she
has. had two applications every week from
authors who are certain they have - Just the
play for her" Miss Maddern and Manager Hay
lin are content with "Fogg's Ferry" and 'Wild
Wave for the present.
- 1t is said that band of genuine Romany
gypsies will be engaged for the great encamp-
ment scene in 'ROmany Rye Negotiations
are pending for celebrated band now in this
country. The effect of genuine gypsies in
gypsy melodrama will be good one
1t is reported that the Stewart family, who
played an engagement at Haverly's theater, New
York, last summer, have been shi pwrecked and
lost at sea on their way from Melbourne to
Dunedin The youngest daughter was the only
one Of the family saved.
BOucicault has taken a villa, with a large
garden, in st. Johns Wood, London, where he
resides with his daughters, who will accom-
pany him to America in September Nina is
studying for the stage. He thinks that the pro-
posed Academy of the Drama will fail for lack of
teachers. IF l had no better fish to fry" he
writes, 81 would buy two houses in Charlotte
street, Fitzroy Square, knock them into one.
build theater in the yards, ally myself with
Mrs. Kendall, Herman Vein, Mrs. Stirling.
Arthur Cecil and Regnier and make the theater
fashionable for private theatricals as well as
tuition. Twenty pupils at f4O a year each
would pay the expenses, and all over that would
be clear profit for the faculty. That would be a
practical academy"