Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-02-18


give three nights and matinee of opera here
at the National on February %, % and March 1.
- The hang -around-the-door Young men have
grown TO BE- great nuisance at the National.
Youth the new dramatic success in Lon
don, will be produced at Wallack's On. -
Theater next Monday evening.
A play called ''Piety Flat" has been secured
by Mr.. and Mrs. McKee Rankin. and will proba-
bly, be produced by them in Boston.
- There will be the customary season of cir
cuses in New York, beginning on March 13
under the management of Messrs Barnuln
Bailey and Hutchinsoa.
Pauline Maurel, who is we'll remembered
here as a member of the Emma Abbott Opera
company. Dyed last week in Boston. Her
maiden naISe was Nellie +. Wood and her
married name Mrs. Strini.
- Mr.. John E. Owens has been added to the
company of the Madison-Square Theater. This
engagement should be profitable to Mr. Owens
and TO the theater. 1t binds the actor 90 five
years.
-''Durch die Intendanz" was produced Mon
day night at the ITALIA Theater. New York, for
the first time in this country. The leading parts
in this play filed by those fine artists. Herr
August BasSermann and Fraulein Kathi Schratt
The Cincinnati Music Hall was filed TO its
fun capacity Monday night on the occasion of the
first performance of the Opera Festival under
the management Of the College of Music So
thoroughly familiar had the people made them
selves with tine location of their seats that the
5000 We're seated with scarcely minutes delay.
and at the appointed time the performance
began. Les Hugueaets" by Mr. Mapleson's
company comprised the entertainment EncOreS
were demanded of Rossini Campanini and
Noyara- The chorus, augmented 10y trained
band of Cincinnati singers, was warmly ap-
MI oil pe,ftI - ablr H..
day night owing to a cold.
Jessie Vokes is to be married this week at
New Orleans to Z. FL. Warren Wright a big
and clumsey Young man. who tried hard to
play part in Cousin joe when the company
were last here, but could not do it.
-Selina Dalaro will in May give up comic
opera. of which she has come to be called the
leading exponent in this country and will de-
vote herself to cOmedy-in which she ought to
and doubtless viii win abundant success.
"A new singer has suddenly burst upon Paris
in Nile. Merguillier. Nilsson discovered her at
Cannes four years ago aud sent her TO Ambrose
Thomas with letter extolns her voice and
intelligence. She studied at the CoHseryatOrie
and last year took the first prize but remained
another year. and few days ago dazzed the
audience at the Opera Comidue by the finish OF
her execution.
The walls of the new opera house in New
York are up ten feet at 39th and Broadway
They cover one entire bleck, and the building
will be the grandest of it's kind in this country
it is TO be opened next fall.
-GOuned has been requested by the Queen of
England To compose wedding march for Or
chestra and organ, to be played at the nupti ais
of the Duke of Albany and the Princess Helene
Won Waldeck.
The Strakoseh italian Opera Company are
to appear at Booths Theater on Monday, the
Goth, in Lucia Nine Gerster will assume
the role of the heroine, assisted by Signor Clan
nine as Ed9G7Gie and SignOr Ciapini as Aston
Nine GeTSter's PRESERVATION is weil-kHown and
much admired in New York. Her supporting
artists are yet to make their regulations, but
they come with high recommendations from
New Orleans.
- Mr.. Harlin, of the John T. Raymond COM
pany, will direct the business of Miss Minnie
Gaddern next season in new play called
"FOggy's Ferry" Who Miss Maddern is it is
hard to say.
- The one hundred and fertieth performance
OF " Patience" at the New York Standard Thea
ter was given on Thursday evening, the 10th in
slant. There is no indication that the opera
might not be continued indefinitely. Whenever
" Patience is withdrawn, Claude Duyal"
which has been rehearsed, will be presented by
the same company.
-" The Colonel" will not be acted much
longer at the Park Theater. New York The
last nights of this play are now announced. and
1t will be followed in two weeks by 1.-The Mem
Der from !SiOCun "a farce which was procured
in England by Mr. n. G Goodwin Mr. Good
win and his wife. known "a Miss Eliza Wealth
ersby, will perform ia the new play.
- 1t is stated that the sale of seats for the
season of Nine. Aaelina Patti at the Germania
theater. n. Y, has been unexceptionallv lsr e.
Tickets for single performances were disposed
OF at the box-slice after Thursday morning last
'.Trayiata will be given On the opening night.
THURSDAY, the 25d last. to he followed by IL
Barbiere" and Faust" 1t is announced on
authority that the assisting artists are al en-
gagged. and that the chorus and orchestra are
now rehearsisg.
-VictOrien Sardou's play Of ''Odetta." as
adapted to the American stage by Augustin
DAILY. has achieved during the two weeks of it's
productisn measure OF popular success which
foreteits long and profitable run. Days thea
ter has been EEed from the gailery to the Orcfes-
ira by an audience in which rich costumes were
prominent. and after $50 the sign standing
Room only was displayed at the door, and not
seat IN any part OF the house cCud be secured
at the bOx-ofice- Such instant bound into
popularity as that made by -'Ddette'' is rare
even in New Ierk's great theatrical successes
The Loadsn actors are very Jealous of Mrs.
Langtry, and Punch attacks her weekly Mr.
Smaley writes to the " Y T-ilpase that Mrs.
Langtry is the daughter of a clergyman She
always had q respectable and during her Lon
don lie, a brilliant, social position. That is her
crime Coming from the rank in life she does
she is treated as an intruder and a determined
effort Is made to prejudice her"
Among forthcoming theatrical productions
In London may be mentioned Mr. George Roses
comedetta. The Marble Arch at the Prince
OF Waiess, with Miss Eva Sothern i'm the cast.
and 0he-aet piece, My Little Girl adapted
Dy MI Dot Boucicauit from story by Messrs
Rice and Besaat, and to De produced at the
Court
lie Iapin," a new farcicai comedy BY Ia
ta,lle anu fcUgere, has been successfully pro-
duced at Paris. The title is derived from a com
mon practice Of Paris coachmen, who use the
spare hours of their masters absence to take mn
weil-dressed persons and for five francs give
them the chance to ride in an elegant vehicle
and dazzle their acquaintance. This is called
''faire du lapin." and the ofiense is punished by
q fine OF 20 francs
Mir Sheridan has introduced bill to the
legislature ut Albany. n. Y. to compel the pro-
prietors OF the Brooklyn theater to provide tele-
graphic apparatus to be connected with the
headquarters OF the fire department The bill
ha AZ fond of crn,,