Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-01-28
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
THE NEW PLAYS N NEW YoRK-OpETTE AND THE
MONEY sPINNER-THg NEW OPERA, ETC.
John Mccullough begins the week at the
National.
- anauschek will continue at Ford's all Of
next week.
Maggie Mitchell continues her engagements
at the Boston Park.
Little Corinne Is at the Gaiety Theater.
Boston. this week, driven from the Globe by the
Greek play.
- The Greek play followed Hothe,-in-Lau at
the Boston Globe this week. Rather a startling
contrast.
Denman Thompson succeeded John Nc
CullOugh at the Boston Theater this week, play
Ing Joshua WhitcoB,b
- ArTah-fsa-Pogsae was Mr.. Boucicault's at
traction at the Boston Museum this week,
which is announced as the last Of his engage
ment.
John Mccullough closed his engagement
at the Boston Theater in Jack Cdde. standing
room only" was posted up at o'clock. notwith-
standing the fierce storm which prevailed The
engagement has been marked success. as 1t is
this week in Brooklyn
john s. Clarke appeared at the Phiadel-
phia Lyceum this week as Bob Briefly in The
1tcket-Of LeGre Nan.
= Miss Jefrys-Lewis and her Ttro Nights at
Rome opened at the Arch-street Theater. Phil
adcpha. this week.
- The Boston Ideals one of the most pop
ular of comic opera companies. are at the Phil
adeipha Walnut-street Theater.
Mr.. Neuendorfrs German opera company
began a season at the Chestnut-street Opera
House. Philadelphia, Monday. The company
"A of
- Henry Irving says he is not coming to this
country. at present at least. and that if he ever
does Lester Wallaek has the first claim on his
services.
- Th' Passing Regiment viii reach its one
hnndredth performance on February s. 1t adds
another tn the long list of Mr.. Daly's one-hun-
dred-night successes
- The preparations for Claude D,fral at the
standard Theater. New York. are progressing
in very Iesurely fashion. for the popularity OF
L'afas,'ee shows no signs of diminishing.
- The mley-BartOn company. with Cathe-
rine Lewis. John Howson and the others of this
excellent organization were this week at Hay
erlys Fifth Avenue Theater in an English YER
sion Of NadGme FGrdrt
- Miss keilogg's concert at Lincoln Hall on
Monday night will be brilliant success. as the
house - about sold. private note to THE
STAR says that this Is positively her farewell,
and that she is to be married in the spring
- Arrangements have been perfected for a
season of Italian opera in New York, with Mad
anne Patti aS the prima donna Of the company.
1t will begin very soon after the opera festival
IN Cincinnati, during which Madame Patti will
appear in two concerts Of the kind she has given
ever since Nr. Abbey undertook the manage
menf OF her and her company. She is now in
New Orleans. and will give a concert in Atlanta
and Indianapolis before going to Cincinnati.
which will be in the mid6e-of February.
- Herman Merivale's new play Just brought
out at the London Globe by Miss Litton. and
originally styled The Modern Faust is now
called The Cynic, being the shadow of an old
legend IN modern life. The story presents a
variation upon the pathetic episode of Faust
and Marguerite" but the piece is nevertheless
. comedy.
-On Monday evening. January 80. Messrs.
Comley 4 Barton will produce at HaverIy's
Fifth Avenue Theater an English adaptation of
1S Jo'T et la Nut, the latest opera by NJ.
Charles Lecocq. the composer of La File he
Madame Aagot and Girofte Grofd.
The Money Spia,ser was produced at Wal
lacks Thrater this week. 1t was handsomely
set and carefully cast from Mr. Waliaek strOupe,
but it was received by fashionable audience with
that eoliiy polite attention which very plainly
said that the play was Of little real interest and
not the success that had been anticipated.
An interesting musical event in Brooklyn,
n. T., this week was the first performance in
English of Bruel's cantata. Scenes from the
krifhof sara, by the AmphiOn Society on
Thursday evening.
"A musical journal in the Spanish language
has just been started in New York 1t may not
succeed. perhaps. but it is suggestive of the COS
mOpOlltan character of the city that an educated
man should think he could find a paving con-
stituency there.
-Gilberts Foggarty's Fairy, the piece in
tended for Sothern, has been so dismal failure
in England that it has already been Withdrawn.
Mr.. Gilbert has decided, report saws. to hence
forth write nothing for the stage except comic
opera librettos.
"A C. Gunter has finished the libretto to a
musical satire on the Juvenile literature of
America and Jessie Williams is writing the
music The piece will be called, The Dime
NOcei.
- Hermann, the magician is i'm trouble. His
wifes father, DR.. iii Costa, has just died. leaving
her close on TO $500, 900, on condition that she
hereafter make England her home and live
There Hermann offers to make good the sum
TO her if she stays with him in this country. but
she is bound TO go home, and finding that his
positive command would do no good, the Me-
lawyer hands. And pretty littlerOw is likely
to result.
- According to the London World Gilbert and
sulliyans next opera will, like Foggortys Fday,
mix up fairies and mOrtals in its story II tells
how fairy that had married a mortal eyaded
her sentence OF death by keeping out of sight of
her husband. but finally when her son grew up
to be famous and an attorney general she showed
herself 70 her husband to prevent his marrying
the girl their son loved. This is not i'm the vein
Of the previous operas, and does not promise so
well. But the World has before now printed
news of this sort which afterward proved to be
no news and. as Mr.. Carte says the plot Of the
opera is a profound secret it may be well to
take this synopsis with q wide margin.
A party of New York newspaper men went
10 Rochester to see Miss Anna Dickinson in
Hd".tt- Under assumed names they registered
In the hotels. and avoided the theater until
night. having purchased their tickets tbrouoh
porter. The verdict was terrible With every
desire 10 do the lady kindness. there wasn't
one who dared write in Justification OF her en-
deayor or in commentator Of her IarncntabIe
hZzle.
- Harrigans new tpourri-Sguot,er Soy
ere1ga'y packs the new Comique, In New York.