Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-02-04
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

pl Fufu eActlfHt opera COHpditN
- John Mccullough begins another week on
Monday night at the National, opening in the
Gladiator.
The New York Philharmonic Club will give
a concert at Lincoln Hall on February@t Miss
Miss Annie Louise Cary has been invited and
Will be present
The Apollo Glee Club. wellknown musical
organization. propose during the coming spring,
to give series of three subscription concerts at
Lincoln Hail. They will be assisted by a full
orchestra of forty pieces, all under the leader
ship Of DR.. f. :. kimbail The number of sub
scri0ers.is limited to 500. The price fixed for
membership is %; which will be good for three
seats at each concert. As the list will not be
open later than Monday next. those desiring to
take advantage of this musical treat Will do
well to call on some member of the club and
leave their name.
Mr.. Samuel Colville has purchased the
latest of the English melodramas. called Taken
from life, and will shortly bring this work to
New York.
A new operetta called Queens Of Hearts
will be presented in Chickerirg hall, New York,
on February Q. 1t is the composition of Mr..
Henry Warren. and Mr. Paine is the author of
the book.
An Operetta entitled LAfrique was pro-
duced at the BUou Opera House, New York,
Monday night The libretto is said to be clever
and the music original and bright.
- The management of the Park Theater st ates
that The Colonel. now performing there, has
grown quickly popular, and WILL therefore, be
repeated for an indefinite time. This piece fur
nishes. especially at this dull season, some bright
entertainment.
- The Gaety Theater, of Boston, has been
leased by Mr.. Frederick vokes and Mr. George
Tyler. and will be entirely reftted and redec-
GRATED by them. Mr. VoheS will thus establish
himself permanently in Boston. and will direct
the new theater according to his own ideas.
- There was an immense audience at the
matinee of the Greek play in Boston Saturday
last and the receipts were nearly e. 600 George
Riddle. the .'Fdipus" was presented with laurel
wreath at the close of the performance.
- Mr.. William Young's play. Pendragon, will
be produced at the Fifth-Avenue, New York.
during the second half Of February This play
has already been acted with marked success at
Chicago. and will bring forward Mr.. Lawrence
Barrett in character which is said TO be well
suited to him.
lie jour ct u Nut, lie Cocq's new opera,
will be sung for the first time in En- gsh in this
country tonight at the Fifth Avenue. New
York. Great preparations have been made for
the event Miss Catharine Lewis and Mr.. John
il said to be as bright as that of Madame AnJot,
aud the story about as perilOus as it well can
b.. for it tells how two women arranged that a
man should be the husband OF one by day and
OF the other by night. and how it all comes out
right next day. Probably so much OF the wick
edness will be cut out that the point will be
lost or only suggested. as in The Mascotte.
- The fiftieth anniversary of Mr.. William
Warrens first appearance on the stage will be
celebrated i'm Boston on the 2Sth of next OctO-
Der. letter rendering a benefit to the come
dian on that date. and inviting him to sit for his
portrait. so that it may be finished at the time
ofthe anniversary, is signed by many prominent
Bostonians-
At Days New York theater on Monday
evening, February g. Sardous new drama,
Ottttte will be played for the first time in this
country. The names of the actors who have
parts in this drama have already been printed
although one change has lately been made-Miss
Emma Hnckiey having been chosen for the
character Of the Princess.
Miss Mary Anderson left Booths last week
and has been at the Grand Opera House, N. y,
this week. Miss Anderson's engagement in
New York has been a decided success as COM
pared with a former one. and especially in
Pygmd6On and Gdldteo she has been highly
commended. Next week she visits the New
England circuit.
Blanche Roosevelt took the part OF MAR
gberita" in Faust for her debut with the Stra-
kosch opera company at New Orleans. But she
was not a success; the verdict concerning her
was that she lis aSpleuded-looking woman and
very fair singer. ut she does not fill the re-
qurementS of this role" When the opera was
repeated a few days later another singer took
this part
Mrs BUrnett's EsnerGld celebrated its
1Gth performance at he Madison Square Thea
ter, W, last night, and as usual at this thea
ter handsome souvenir was given to every one
present 1t still promises to have a long run.
Maggie Mitchell Closes tonight her third
weeks engagement at Boston. She has ap-
peared in a new play called The Lite !Sardqe.
and it has been a fair success. 1t is the old
story of love triumphing over all difficulties,
with the scene laid in the Island of Gaudaloupe
There Is some pretty music in the piece.
- That New Orleans man had a rare ex-
perience when La TiUridta was performed liz,
his city by the Strakosch company. He SAYS:
with sweetness that was trespasSlng on the
realms OF the angelic. the overture began it's
tender plant. weaving web of subtle gossa-
lneT OF sound that the ear at times could but
barely catch Then With an airy grace the yio-
Inns carried one over pleasant meadows and be-
Meath foreseerches, until with the rising of the
curtain on the reception scene, La TFdotdtd was
opened"
ID. 4. H., A. C. Gunter's new farce comedy.
was produced by Robson and Crane, for the first
time on any stage. at Norfolk, Va, last Tuesday
evening. The scene is laid in Paris Robson
plays "MOliere Shakespeare Analogue" an i'm
pecunious dramatist, and Crane T. Blackstone
Perkins" district attorney of Montana The
plot reyolves about young American girl really
poor. but supposed to be an heiress. to whom
all the unmarried men in the neighborhood paw
courJ. in the hope of getting her fortune.
Analogue" and Perkins are the most prominent
OF the sutors, and each dOesa all he can to dspar-
age his rival: but, after numerous adventures
the American wins the prize. The Norfolk
papers say the large audience witnessing the
production was kept in roar of laughter from
nrst TO last.
- Henry French has bought the American
night to Pnero's Spare, and it is ntimated that
Waiiaeh will bring it out. This is the play
which has got literary and theatrical London by
the ears because Of the charge that IL is taken
from Hardy's novel Far From the Maddenino
Crowd, charge which Mr.. Pinero stoutIy de.
MES He says, moreover, that he had never
seen the novel up to the time Of the production
OF his play. Yet the reSemblances between p;ay
and novel are many and marked.