Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-02-25
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Carmen" with Miss Minnie Hank. will be
the opera Monday night at the National 1t
Is her best character
The Lawrence Barrett Dramatic Club COM
posed of fine line Of amateur actors. has been
engaged for three nights at the National from
Thursday next.
The Strakosch opera season Of twelve
weeks opened at Booths New York on Mon
day. and the first week, with Gerster, has been
successful.
William j. Florence has recovered from his
Illness and is on the stage again. He is really
an applicant for lucrative consulship.
-''PendraSsn." at Haverly's New York The
alter. with Mr. Barrett. has crowded the house
nightly since its first production there The
play seems likely to have long run
Miss Mary Anderson this evening closes the
second week of her annual engagement at the
Boston Theater, appearing as Euddne. Stand
ing room during the week was announced. over
three thousand people being in the auditorium.
-Messrs. Sydney Grundy and Edward Solo
mon have together completed new Operetta
called the Vicar OF Bray" Mr.. Solomon is the
composer of '.Billee Taylor and Claude
Duva"
= The new comic opera which Gilbert and
Sullivan have about completed is called '.Inde-
pendence."
= The New York Dramatic Ne,os this week
unqualified success, and ought to be repeated
at an early day.
w. NJ. Morton. a well-known actor, (whs
was at one time clerk in the Third Assistant
Postmaster Generals Office here.) was found
with his little family i'm a starving condition i'm
New York last week. They had been without
food for forty-eight hours.
- Lester Wallack has offered Mr. Eric Bayley
$1,000 a week for the services of himself and
wife and the use OF the play THE Colonel" for
next season He will also allow Mrs. Bayley
maid and pay all expenses. Mr.. Bayley has
refused
- Clara Morris is paid $500 for every matinee
at the Union Square Theater. and she is draw
Ing several times that amount.
j. III. Hayery and Eric Bayley are reported
by the Dramatic Times to be negotiating for
lease of the Metropolitan Casino i'm New York,
with an idea of making it similar in style to the
London AlhanIbra-
- ''MOther-in-Iaw" drew good houses i'm Chi
cagO. but the company will be disbanded at the
end of its engagement there. and most of its
members will come east to appear in ''DivOr-
Con" in the Boston and New York Park thea
tiers.
The Boston Ideal Opera Company has been
doing aa enormous business at Booths Theater
On Saturday night last they sang ''Pinafore." and
people were turned away from the bOX-Office.
The Ideals are certainly the best singing COM
pany now before the public.
Dion G.. (''Dot0 Bouceault son Of the
original Dion, has turned Besant and Rce's
story of My Little Girl into a cOmedietta
which will shortly be produced at the Court
Theater in London.
- Rossis performances in Chicago were
highly praised by the critics. but somehow did
not draw the crowded houses they deserved.
The Italian tragedian will appear in PhiIadel-
phia next week.
THE tranquil career of 'Esmeralda'' goes on
at the Madison Square Theater, and that inocu-
Gus play will continue for the rest of the season
to Contribute to the serenity of a yirtuous public
and the interesting PallOr of the cheek of innO-
Cence. The other cheek has been taken out of
town by Mr. McGeachy and is with The Pro-
fessor."
"A London journal has discovered that NJ
Paierons play, Petite Pluie." upon which
Mr.. A. W Pincro's play. '.Daisy's Escape" was
founded apparently in turn upon one of Eugene
Scrlbes scenes in dialogue. while the story told
by Scribe appeared in an English story called
welcome Guest 20 years ago. 1t is doubtful
however. whether Mr.. Pinero really borrow ed
the subject of his little play.
- The pOstpOnenent of the opening night of
thePatti season of opera at theGermania from the
2'd To the eth inst. is the only annoyance to the
New York admirers of the diva likely to result
from her recent illness in Cincinnati. Mr.
Abbey. who has just returned reports that Nine
Patti is now entirely recovered and is much
eiated at the prospect OF brilliant New York
season.
- How pleasant the thought that in a few
short weeks we can have the chance to get
away with one of those glorious circus lemon
AIDES, and buy peppermint candy for five cents q
SUCK, with thirteen red stripes around each
stick, or money refunded-at the end OF the sea-
Son.
-"Olvette" has been removed from the bills
OF the Strand Theater, London, after run Of
not far from five hundred nights. ''Manola' is
to take its place.
-Gounod's new opera, .'Lorelei," is now
nearly complete. 1t will be unique among
modern operas in at least one respect-the hero
Inc viii be ballet dancer.
"A dispatch from Cincinnati says that Nine
Patti celebrated her birthday Monday last 1t
has been generally believed that Nine Patti was
born on the 9th Of april. 1S43 Biographical ac-
Counts of the lady in musical libraries and in the
London and New York press. published so far
back as 1860 and at various times SINCE have all
agreed on that date. Has the musical world
been wrong these many years?
On Monday next Butterfly Fever" an
adaptation by NJ. j. Mortimer of Sardou's ia
Papilloune." which had long aud very success
ful run at the London Criterion Theater last
season. viii have its first production in America
at the Boston Museum. The piece is a farcical
comedy. as full of fun as an egg is full of meat.
"Napoleon's Old Guard Will be revived on the
ediHe OccdSlOn Win Nj. W arfen in his famous
performance Of Hdcersack
But Anna Dickinson. not content with
coming down to represent man. must needs
come still farther down and represent very
mean types Of men, first the talking machine
called the Prince of Denmark thing destitute
OF the simplest and noblest properties of man
hood, then CIIssfde Mel,sots. the tool of set of
knayes, That she does not succeed in letting
herself in the place of either is ali the more TO
her credit. would TO God she would
Cease her wanderings on the plan of ono" 90
BACK 10 Jerusalem. put on her apron, take her
trowel. and resume her place among those who
are building tae walls. and let Sanballat and
Goshen attend TO their own affairs.-Jane Graz
SscissbeiDa.
- The thanks of the audience at the BROOKLYN
Philharmonic concert at the Academy of Music
were due TO Mr. Theodore Thomas when he
Brought his orchestra to full stop aud an
nounced that there was much noise in one of
Boxes that he must decline to go on with the
Concert The audience applauted and the con-
cert was given without further disturbance
ihis same nuisance. caused by vulgar people
VINO nave the money Ia buy boxes but lack
The brains to appreciate music or the decencY to