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STAGE NOTES,

STAGE NOTES.
Mile. Belocca has met with great success in Bor.
dcaux.
Lester wallack is having $4,000 yacht built q.
Poughkeopsic
Barlow, Wilson, Primrose & Vests Minstrels
have dissolved.
Mile Rhea Is having all her past troubles healed
In splendid houses
Lytton sothern will shortly come to this country
on professional tour.
The Emelic Melville and McCall's BiJou .troupes
have been combined.
Clara Louise Kellogg has "snlted away" &c.,.
900 net profits this season.
Christine Nilsson will soon revisit America, with
an eye to Yankee shckels.
AldriCh and Parsloc are having n successful
Southern tour in MY Partner"
Billy Emerson's troupe are doing the interior
towns in California and Nevada.
John T. Raymond don't believe that stock COM
panieS will ever be fashionable again.
Irving, the English trngedian, asserts he has
made no positive engagement to come to America.
Patience" will be shelved shortly and Claude
Duval put upon the boards at the Standard, New
York.
Frank Mayo Is said to have sunk upward of
$1,000 since he abandoned " Dayy Crockett for the
legitimate.
tits reported that Marian Hood will succeed
CathnrnG Lewis in the Comfy Barton Troupe
next season.
Willie Edouin has lost sl2 900 in his Philadel.
phia Photograph Gallery lie doesn't sec any iun
in 1t, either.
Theatricals were booming in st. Louis last week,
Booth, Loua, and Mapleson's Opera Company all
drawing packed houses.
Mrs NJ. AiL.,,.,, l.. 4.
chant of Venice" at the Elks benefit matinee in
Baltimore on Wednesday.
Walden Ramsey has replaced Charles Thorne as
the hero in Lights o. London" at the Union
Square Theatre, New York
The Boston Ideals have been delightng crowded
houses since Mons. Sullivan, the Bay State nsthete
polished of Professor Ryan in the Pr.
John 4. Rnymond's wife, nee Courtney Barnes,
has presented him with nn iniantile Fresh Truly
this must seem u " Gllded Age" to Colond Sellers.
Venio Clancy, the charming artistic, who forsook
the realms Of burlesque to be married last year. is
reported to be very i'll in Lower California with
consumption.
Bison William (Hon. W. +. Cody is killing In
dans, rescuing captive maidens, &C., with blue.
fire accompaniment on the stage throughout the
Eastern circuit
The Mallories will put three companies on the
road next season with the three Madison Square
Theatre successes" Hazel Kirke" "The Pro-
fessOf" and Eslneralda."
A grand revival OF "a Celebrated Case" has
been in progress at Niblo's Garden during the
present week, with James O'Nelll Lewis Morrison
and Maude Granger in the cast.
England will soon get value received for inaict.
ing Oscar Wilde upon us, for Anna Dickinson is
engaged for short season at the Crystal Palace
Theatre, London, commenclngin May or June next
The three hundred and inieth performance of
Fresh" by John II, Raymond, took place at the
Park Theatre, Brooklyn, on Monday evening.
handsome souvenir programme was presented to
the ladies.
Roland Reed, the German character actor will
star during the season of 80 in play written ex.
pressly for this talented comedian by Fred. Mars.
den, entitled =" Check" The name is synonymous
with hard luck.
Pierre Bernard, husband of the lamented
Caroline. Richipgs- Bernard, has presented q life
sized bust of his wife aud all OF her music, which
she had been years in accumulatlng, to the Mozart
Association of Richmond. Va,
Eliza Newton (AIrs Blackmore), once a popular
actress at the olympic Theatre, New York, died in
that city short time since and her body laid in
the morgue for week before funds could be raised
from the profession for her burial
The spectacular play Of the Thousand and One
Nights" at the Chacct Theatre in Paris, has four
hundred people on the stage. There are 800 cos.
Tunes no two of which are alike, thirty-one tab
leaux, and 100000 have been spent on the scenery
alone.
The music which Dave BrNham has set to the
songs sung by Harrigan and Hart in their latest
creation, known as "SQuatter Sovereignty" Is
even more popular and catchy than the airs of
the Mulligan" and Skidmore" SERIES and this
Is saying a great deal.
Lawrence Barrett has made great success In his
new play of" PendragOn in New York where he
received gen ulne ovation Ht the initial perform
ance. His own acting Is warmly commended for
its vigor and spirit. The play Is criticised some.
what on account ofits length and the number of
extended declnmatory passages, and judicious
pruning is suggested,
The alleged comic opera. "LAfrique," by Way
man McCreery, a st. Louis journalist has not
proved "gO" at the Bijou Opera House, New
York and, ailer three weeks of Indifferent bust
ness, will be removed the Goth instant to make
way for an adaptation Of the latest German ope-
ratio success, entitled "Ap0iune, the Water sprte"
with Miss Emelio Melville in the leading role.
There Is lkely to be a lively dramatic sQuabble
in the courts over Taken from Life" the new
sensational play, by the author Of The World"
MT. Henry lettitt, Of London. Both Messrs. Sam
COlville and Thomas MacDonough claim to have
purchased tue Iknt 10 produce II on lnlS side Of
the big pond" aud already there appears to be
blood on the face ofthe tmRnGgenaD noon"
"MIss Morris Is the greatest actress ever saw"
said Oscar Wilde Al the Union Square Theatre "if
Il be fair TO form mn opinion Of her from her rem.
ition of this one role, Mercy Ne,r lck We have no
such powerfully intense actress In England. She
is great artist in my sense Of the word because
all she does, all she says, In the manner of the
doing and of the saying, constantly evOkcs the
Imagination to supplement 4, That is what
mean by art"
The dramatic season at Fort Reogh. Montana,
was naugurated ON the Sd instant with two per.
formances. The first was Tom Taylors comedietta
in one act, entitled TO Oblige Benson" which
was rendered In u manner most credltabe TO the
cast which was composed of Captains Butler and
Oyenshine, and Lieutenant Woodruff, Finh In.
fantry, and Mesdames Carter and Girard. The
second was Grosmiths bright little operetta, en-.
titled Cups aud SRuceS" with Lieutenant and
Mrs. Particle as General Deedh and Mrs. NankeeH
Worcester. The opera was given with full Or
chestral accompaniment and was sung and acted
In fine style. When the curtain dropped on the
last net loud and continuous were the acclamR-
iuns Of the audience, in response to which MajOr
Casey, fihh Infantry, manager and his able as
sislant Lieutenant Allison, Second Cavalry, ap.
pe0red before the footlghts and made few happy
remarks Last week was presented "a Cup Of
Tea" combined with musical entertainment,
and next week Who Killed Cock Robin p will