Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-04-29
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
THE CLOSING sEAsoN-KELL0GG's PAREwELIS-
GOLDEN APPIEs-TOO TRULY RURAL-CHEEK-
NEW YORK FESTIVAL, ETC

| THE CLOSING sEAsos-KELLoGG's pAREwELLs-
GOLDEN APPLEs-TOO TRULY RURAI-cHEEK-
NEW YORK FESTIVAL, ETC.
AT the National Monday evening Hoey and
Hareies Child OF State combination.
= The Anthony-Ellis combination, in "Uncle
Toms Cabin" begin the week at Ford's
- Clara Louise Kellogg had this week third
farewell in Washington during the last six
/ months She Row goes cast i'm opera with Min
| ME Hank, appearing in Providence Monday
/ night. She contenpateS an extended CONT
! Mental pleasure tour after her marriage this
| spring.
| - Miss James. of Council Bluffs, Iowa, ap-
| rearcd as Sittet in Faust on Tuesday night
/ at the Nationel under the stage name of Miss
| van ArIiheim. She is prepOssessing and a
| good art list.
- The Hess opera company contemplates an
English version of Isl J'Etais Roi' as one of its
| attractions for the New York Standard Theater
season.
- Audran's new OPERA Golden Apples" has
been bought by Manager Henderson of England
for f.1f.C09
- Salvinis son, who made his first bow this
season at the New York Union Square, is said
| to have been engaged to play the lover for Mar
garet Mather. A. N. Hills new star.
Lights o. London" received 135 consecu-
tive representations t the Union Square Thea
ter. New York, and the gross receipts averaged
nearly 5000 performance, or over 800, 600 for
| the run of the play.
- Referring to the production Of Z" Far From
| the Maddine Crowd" at the Union Square, New
York, last Monday, the s1n,4t Of the Times says
Clara Morris spoiled the play after Cazauran had
spoiled the novel;
= The New York Times, in giving biograph-
icai sketch of the soloists who will be heard next
week in the New York May musical festival.
puts down their ages as follows Annie Louise
Cary, tcontralto). 40; Amaa Materna 1.-THE new
German ARTIST. So; Nile. Etelka Gerster. 80:
Mrs Aiine OsgOod-nOt given: Myron Whitney,
tbass0). 46; George Henschel, (basso). SO; Sig
nor ltalio Campanini. 36; SignOr A. F. Glassi
lbarltone), 81; Herr Wilhelm Candius, 40; TheO
Toedt, q.
Edward King telegraphs from Paris that
Manager II. NJ. Field of the Boston Museum has
bought George r. Sims new piece which is to
succeed =" The Lights o. London " in London. and
has also secured some new comedies.
- Too. Too Truly Rural the vokes Family's
new piece, which will be played during their
coming engagement at the Globe Theater, Bos-
ton. Will have its first production in Cincinnati
OK Monday next. 1t is a new and original musi-
cal extravaganza, written expressly for the Fam
iiy by their aunt, the late Mrs. Field.
-Narsdens last play of Check" saws the
Dramatic Times, win be rehearsed at the Madison
Square Theater, New York. for production i'm
Chicago On May It'll. Mr. W. Seymour has been
hired to put the piece on. Roland Reed is to
star IN It II succe ssful.
= Minnie Palmer and r. e. Graham are to
play summer engagement in London under
Tie management of John r. Rogers Edwin C.
PIT Is WFitIig them new play, which is to be
finished by June.
Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan and other influential
men are arranging for complimentary concert
10 Brignoii at Chicago May 3.
There is rumor that the once favorite ac-
tress, Madeline Henriques, means to return to
the stage and to this country next season
- Mile Rhea closes. her season with her COM
pany at Lochport, N. Y, next Saturday, and the
| following Monday she begins her two weeks en-
gagcment at the Boston Museum. supported by
the company of that theater. She opens in "Ad-
rienne LecOuvreur."
-Bayard TaylOT's daughter Lillian has lately
translated two of Edwin Booths plays into Ger
man. and so successfully it is said that he will
use them during his German engagement next
summer. he himself however, will act in Eng
iiSn, Dnt with German company.
The regular season ends at the New York
Standard and Claude Duval" will be with
drawn Tonight; and on Monday the Hess Acme
company will open with Calixa LavaIee's opera
Inc WIDOW. wnich was produced at Chicago
a lew months ago. and has since been forced into
| sort OF halfway success. The chief attraction
OF the company will be Mrs Zelda Seguin Wal
lace, for the reason that she then returns to the
stage after retirement of about two years.
= The scheme for grand Shakespearean fas-
tiVai In Cincinnati. next autumn. for which it is
proposed to engage Booth, Mccullough, Barrett.
jefferson. Florence, Robson Crane, Goodwin.
Mary Anderson, Modjeska, Clara Morris, FANNY
davenport. and. In fact. all the leading stars of
the country, is generally regarded as impracti-
| cable. Booth and Miss Davenport will be ont
OF the country, and. provided that the others are
willing to play, their time Is already filed and
The sum required to pay their companies while
lying Idle, to say nothing of the salaries of the
stars. would be greater than the receipts could
| possibly be.
"A Philadelphia paper says: 'Forepaugh's
| $4,000 beauty, Miss Montague, is not with the
show, being dissatisfied with the accommoda-
| tions offered her. and also to the financial part
OF the business, claiming that she has never re-
ceiVed ner share of the sale Of photographs from
last season, although said to have realized a
large sum. Miss Montague's Autographs and
bills are out, but Katie Stokes acts as Lalla
Rookh in the procession"
Davis, one of Barnum's agents on Monday
night, in Philadelphia, took 5000 up to Fore
paugh's tents, and offered to bet him that Jum-
| DO was larger than Bolivar. FOrepaugh smiled
and said he was not betting man.
The Doyley Carte Company, at the New
York Standard Theater, end their season to-
| night. Mr.. Carleton, who had an idea of taking
| the company travelling for short season. has
given 1t up, as he could not get the theaters he
wanted at the proper time. Several of the
troupe 60 to England, but Mr.. Carleton is the
only one employed for the London season until
September.
The following statistics of expenses, sales
of Seats ETC., for the New York May festival.
give an idea OF the vastness Of the undertake
Ing: The total number of seats in the armory
| is 1853, of which 80 have been abandoned
as i,Dpracticabie for various reasons Taking
out 200 for the escorts for the chorus at the
concerts 1905 are left of which 800 are i'm the
boxes. The total resources are as follows:
Receipts from certificates sold $50 COO flor 600
seats), leaving 5000 seats ut $lS, making
| !ed.OO0 more for admissions; ground rent OF
boxes. 5000; 1920 for seats at matinees.
which the chorus will not use total. &13S. 900.