National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-05-27
FooTLIGHT FLASHES.

THEATRICAL prices arc being lowered in San
Francisco.
ALICE DUsSINo LNaARD has gone TO Europe for
the summer.
THE EIss of Chicago have benefit at Haverly'a
tomorrow night.
THE TOURISTS" open in Chicago next week,
OLD POP BAILEY the original Uncle Tom, died In
Philadelphia last week.
FRED. wAnDE will support Clara Morris during
her Boston engagement.
JACK HAvERLY will return from England, by
way of Mexico, In August.
THE Hoey- Hardie Combination are doing Penn
sylvania provincial towns.
ADA GRAY has been drawing large audiences in
Brooklyn to see her in I" East Lynne"
Mr.. HERNDoN MoRsELL is meeting with de-
served success in his Maine concert tour.
ToMPKINs & HILL, Of Boston, have bought Bus.
| nachs new spectacular drama "Siberia."
Miss CLARA SPENCE has been engaged for three
years by the Madison Square management.
Lillian oLcoTr will star next winter in Lady Mac
beth, Beatrice. Viola, Ion, Juliet, and Pdrthenta
ROBSON & CRANE are taking " Our Bachelors"
| aud Forbidden Fruit" through Pennsylvania.
MADAME JULIA RIvE-KISG inaugurated scrios
of concerts in San Francisco last Tuesday night
FRITZ EMMET has again become virtuous, and
THE strakosch Italian Opera Company, with
Carmen ana Minnie Hauk, Is singing In provincial
New York.
Miss CLARA LOUISE KELLoo0s engagement with
Mr.. Whitney has been broken of. Something like
her voice.
FoRD's OPERA COMPANY have murdered music
In Chicago for two weeks, and vigilance COM
mittee Is talked Of
BROOKS & DICKSON have engaged the wyndl.am
| Comedy Company, of London, for twenty-five
weeks from october 3Oth next.
TON KEENE, alleged tragedlan, closes his SC 4 on
In Bangor, Me-, tonight His imprisoned s APP
chewing has coined money for him this year
RHEA, at the termination of the season, goes to
London to take lessons from the same teacher who
coached Adelaide Nelson. She returns septem-
Der 8.
ERIC BAILEY and wife have been playing "Tho
Colonel" (which is a comedy stolen. boots and ALL
from "a Serious Family"), in Chicago to large
houses.
"EsMERALDA is still running at the Madison
Square Theater. New York. TO good houses The
management propose to continue 1t ON the boards
until fall.
W. II. MAXWELL and W. NJ Wood, editors of the
Brooklyn Times, have written a play entitled "Bur.
ling Co.." adapted from Rice 4 Besant's novel,
"The seamy Side"
Dispatch, has written a sensational society drama,
and 1t has been pronounced by competent critics
a remarkably merltorlous production.
EDWIN Boor1Is daughter is quite seriously III OF
pneumonia at tho Hotel Brunswick, New York
and her condition may cause her father to post.
pone his departure for Europe until June Z.
ANNA DICKINSON Is playing Hamlet in tights in
the upper part OF New York State Emily soldene
has sent her nn offer to act her premier danseuse
for next season. Why not, Anna HNmlet2" "'Tis
as easy as lying"
GILBERT AND SuLIIyAN's new opera, founded on
The Princess will be brought out at the stand
ard Theater october l by D'oyley carte's COM
pany Mr.. Gilbert will personally direct tho re-
hearsals here aud Mr. Sullivan win direct the first
night.
BYRSE's Dramatic Times numerically critcises
Bob Norris Old shpmates," brought out at the
Fourteenth Street Thcatcr, New York, Monday
night. II Gays; It would be dinicult 10 find IN II
thought, sentiment, or q device that has not
been worn threRdbare."
EDWIN BoorH will pay 500 per week rent for HE
Adelphi 1healer, london, whore he begins sea-
son In June. He will be supported by Eleanor
Calhoun, whose debut hero TWO yoars since created
such n hlrore aud who ha' recently been Studying
with Ryder, the old stage elocuilonis. and traner
IL London,