The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-01-18
w..seal and, dramatic.

Mr. r. A. Sothern, the actor.
saIylni has been studying King Lear, and
1t will be one OF his important parts next
season In London.
The coming opera festival in Cincinnati
Is to he inaugurated by performance OF
"The Huguenots."
Lawrence Barrett's new play, "Pendra-
gon," will be produced this season al Ia
yerly's Fifth-Ayenue Theatre.
yiolinists appear to be in plentiful sup
ply in the st. Petersburg market. sara,
( safe, Saurct, and Kotek are there now, ana
Joachim is expected before the close OF the
month.
The decoration OF the great French act
/ ors and singers goes brayely on. NJ. Got
and VI. Faure have already received the
/ Cross Of the Legion OF Honor, and II l.
now said that VI. Coquelin will have the
same honor conferred on him some time
/ this spring.
Donizetti's posthumous opera Duca dAl-
ba. Masscnet's Herodiadc, and new opera,
Blanca dc Ccryia, by Smareglia, the young
composer OF Prcciosa, will be the novelties
at the Milan Scala this season.
! The French panada, which is prescribed
| for fair singers after an evenings perform
ance. is made Of bread crumbs, which, with
/ n pinch Of pepper and salt, have simmered
while i'm water, and which are served with
volks OF eggs. butter, and fresh cream beaten
/ together.
1t is reported that Miss Minnie IIauk
may head an English opera company III TINS
{ int n l.. IA
/ that il she does she will meet with better
luck than most similar enterprises have had.
/ The best way to assure good luck Is Ior
Miss Hauk to secure good company.
According to the Paris Figaro Sarah
Bernhard has signed an engagement with
the directors of the Paris Vaudeville TO ap-
pear there next winter in a new play by
Sardou. This will cost the fair Sarah
O0,000f.. which is her forfeit TO the Come
die-Francaise. and which would have been
/ forgiven her if she had returned to the
MaisOn de Moliere.
Miss Anna Dickinson will carry out Il
/ long-cherished plan on Thursday next by
appearing as Hamlet. Her d6bW in this
r5ic will take piece In the Rochester Opera
/ House. Miss Dickinson's experiment will
/ be watched with much interest.
/ IL is said that Mr.. Harry Sargent, dis
! gusted with managerial life by his recent
experiences, has decided TO make tour OF
| the world, giving exhibitions Of legerde-
main and fancy shooting.
Nile. Croizeitc, who has been seriously
I i'll. was in great danger at one time, but Is
now reported cOnvaiescent. Her illness is
said 70 have come from taking quack medi-
cinos to become thin.
Massenct's "Hcrodade" will probably
be given before long in Paris at the The
atre dies Nations. If "Lohengrin should
he given, Massenct's and Wagner's operas
will be performed on alternate evenings.
The name Of Nine. Etelka Gcrster's little
baby and only child j. Linda. The name
/ is taken from DOniZetti's opera, Linda di
/ ChamouniX. The great cantatrice gave
| her the name forthe reason that. at her first
trial before the jury OF the Vienna Conser-
vatory OF Music, she sang the grand air OF
"Linda" and made such an immense sue
cess that she received the first prize in sing
ing.
Somebody has written 4 dangerous play
called GIVE. the Saleslady," which is TO be
produced in Chicago this week. Its author
1 died of consumption soon after it was writ
/ ten, the actress who ordered it died shortly
/ after she got il, and Chicago paper Sug-
gests that Miss Blanche dc Bar, who has il
now, runs a serious risk Of figuring in the
report of the Registrar OF Vital Statistics by
producing it.
The performance Wagner'S BhengOld
at Vienna on December 18th was the first
occasion since the Ring-Theatre fire where
people Overcame their fears and again
crowded those parts Of the opera which had
been avoided for whole week. On the
Sunday following the disaster the Ham,
burg Thalia Theatre, which is usually full
on this day, had only fifty hearers in the
auditorium.
Men may come and men may 30, but Mr..
Sims Reeyes's farewell performances go on
forever. Now it Is announced that il he is
well enough the distinguished tenor will
give still another series OF farewell con-
ccrtS in London in January, February, and
March. This reminds one OF the late Ole
Bull, whose positively last appearance e"
extended over a period Of ten years or so,
and were only stopped by his death.
Verdi spends the winter at Genoa. a.
usual. Ii is said that he has invented q
new instrument, experiments with which
will lie made ut the Scala in Milan next
season. The London Graphic remarks
dprOpOS OF this item of news Gas if we
had not instruments enough in our modern
orchestra. In the end, we shall find that
no particular instrument will possess
marked individuality OF its own. Meyer
beer, Berlioz, and Wagner have been nOta-
bic offenders In this direction"
Nine. Albani has Just appeared in Berlin
as Gilda, and the critics speak of her per-
Torrance. yocally and dramatically, as one
not eXcel,ed on the italian crera stage.
Her rendition Of the "Caro Nome" was
leyOnd all possibility marvellous. One of
says that. after Patti, Atlantis equal has
not yet been heard. Nine. Alhani is now
studying Elsa in German, and will sing
the role in Berlin during the present sea-
son.
Strauss new opera, Der Lustige Qhe
Joyial War, is, according to the Niennese
papers, great success. Some Of the solos
met with warm reception, and n waltz mir
had TO he repeated eight times to satisfy the
encoreitss. This was on the occasion OF
its first production in Vienna recently,
when the compoSerwas pelted with flowers.
Archdukes in the imperial boxes split their
gloves, and Stauss's wife, in Il box at the
premiere, cried with pleasure at her hus-
bands triumph.
Experiments with an American BELL
Blake micrOphOne were recently made at
the Royal Opera in Berlin. Half mile
away the voices OF all the singers could be
easily distinguished, but the orchestra was
effective only when the brass instruments
paused. The addition OF drum or kettle
drum almost completely DESTROYED the elf