National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-25
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

"Landord and Tenant" Is the title of a new
! Irish drama by II. A. Lewis.
| Rossi will commence an engagement at Ma
| guircs, san Francisco, April j.
The Kirafys are crowding Robingon's Opera
| House, Cincinnati, with the Black Crook"
Alf Burnett is in Cincinnati, engaged in per-
| tecing plans for next season with his piece "Our
| Club"
| Edwin Booth will commence a two weeks en-
gagement at lIayerly's Theatre, Chicago. OH Mon
| day next
W. l.. Sheridan has sailed for tour of Oregon
aud British Columbia, intending to give series OF
dramatic readings.
Kate Claxton is meeting with great success in
the West. This week she has drawn crowded
! houses in 81. Louis.
The IIoey- Hardie Combination have been play.
! ing at the Academy of Music, Buffalo, The Child
| of State" to large audiences,
Mary &Ga" ms' h ,BH sfSiiSh IL psToit
! viii squander money for bouquets.
Nearly all Of the Boston theatres HAVING tboir
available time filled, Anna DlcknsOn's appear.
| ance in the " Hub" is a matter of doubt
A new Danltes" combination will soon be mt
on the road by George 7; ulmer, with George Q,
| Boniiace, Charles Chapclle and Wife among the
people. NV
Havcrlys Opera Comique Company will moko
its litst appearance In Philadelphia Monday might
PATIENCE ' Wv
"Houth" " is In the first of n three weeks en-.
gagement Mt The Grand Opera House, Chicago, by
| thus far have been large.
The villa Combination will shortly plav
MMohetIe' by l.; e. Jeirles, at the authors home
successful with this nielodrama. ''N
-" Far from the Maiding Crowd"a drama by
Thomas Hardy aud j. Comyns Carr, was originally
ncieu a ~ lhe Irlnec OF wales Theatre Liverpool,
February "a, aud achieved a decided and graIfy-
ing success
Harry Meredith has leased the Eighth Stree,
Theatre, ihilndelphia, for brief period, for the
purpose OF producing there his new play, Ranch
M. To- The first performance will be given on
Monday night VI
Mark Klaw the legal representative of the Nal.
lory BIOs. ana N-manAger OF the Hazel KiTken
Company No. l, and Miss Nellie Johnson, of Chi
cago, formerly of Louisville, Ky, wera manila
recently in Chicago
4 series Of summer concerts, under the business
management OF Milward Adams, will be given by
TLeodoro THOMAS and his orchestra in the Ex.
position building, Chicago The first concert will
take place about June l.
George Riddle, who is said to have been engaged
for five years by travelling manager is to be sent
by the latter TO Europe for year TO study the
French school of acting, after which he viii do
tragedy roles IN this country.
MeSsrl. Primrose and West, Of the Wilson Bar
low, Primrose X West combination will be nsso.
CiNied next season with Mr.. George Thatcher, and
they will present the strongest minstrel OrganiZa-
ton ever placed upon the road.
The famous French theatrical writer's, Meilhac
and llaleYy, who wrote 80 many celebrated opera
books, comedies, and iarces, have dissolved part
nershp lialeyy is now writing Purisian sketches
Ccutly brought out u book" l. Able Constantin"
in which the heroine Is an American girl.
An exciting incident occurred during PATHS
trst performance IN Boston in the accidental igni.
tion Of the scarlet stage curtain during the ilrst
act and lust at the conclusion of PATHS "Semper
LIBERIA" IN la Traviata," The fire caught by the
curtain coming In contact with lighted candles on
a table on the sluge hut the flames were speedily
cStinsuIshed by the stage hands A mementary
patic was the only result; but excitement quickly
subsided, and tho opera went on quite smoothly
everybody having been frightened, but no one In
Iured.
The New York critics handle Miss Anna Dlokin.
son without gloves. The Clipper says of her first
performance Of Hamlet" at lIGverly's Fifh
Avenue Theatre "One Of the largest audiences
OF the season 0t-ihis theatre had come 10 see how
she would treat Iiamhd apart from dressing
him; but Of the many hundreds who waited until
the third act had been flushed scarcely e-half
remained 90 see HTaid die, II Is nothing more
than naked Justice tOan Intelligent, studiuls and
ambitions woman To say that she made u promis.
ing beginning. But that was all. Her first speech
was her best, aud gradually all the promise van
ished, giving way 10 the stern reality that Miss
Dickinson Is one more 10 be added to the twenty
or 50 females who within the past half century
have failed to present the Dane IN manner salts
iuctOry 10 New York audiences"
Tho Cincinnati musical festival will take place
May 10, II, Is, aud 49, under Theodore Thomas d.
recupn. Nine. M0tcrnn, Mrs. +. A. OsgOOd, Eliza
beth lletliCh, Adah Is, Wilson, ElcnOrR Kopp,
Annie Louise Cary, Emma CNnCh, William Can.
didu', Theodore j. lueit, Goorg Hcnschel, Franz
ktluucIlN, VI, W. Whitney, aud I, j, sullivan are
whHg The yOulsIs engaged. George L, Whiting,
ulSWNhli Hclmun Brandt, NlOlln ana H. Diez,
chulr VI boys nom the public schools, a festival
chorus uud grOud orchestra, Arthur Noes Is the
chorus conductor Muzarts Requiem, BeethOyen's
Symphonies IN + and A, lluudeIS Dettingen Te
pyum, BNCh's Passion music selections nom Wag-
rcl's Wulks, BeriioLs Fail Of Troy" from Les
i'uNchs, h.cnll.!s piiIo composition; "Tho
selections.