Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-09-23
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
FEW PLAYS IN NEW YoRK-MRs. LANGTRT IN
oCr0BER-THE NEW COMIC OPERA MISS
STORY IN CHICAGO, ETC


AT the National next week the Ernest
6tanly combination will appear.
- At Ford's on Monday the comic opera OF
'The Merry War" will open the season.
Maggie Mitchell has dropped her new play
Of Elsa" and substituted " Jane Eyre" in New
York.
On Saturday evening Mile. Rhea produced
her own version Of a. ianne de LyS to large
house in Erie. Pa.
According to London opinions Gilbert and
Suilivans new opera will not be produced Tor
several months yet
-"Patience" viii be continued at the Bijou
opera house. New York. until further notice
with the strongest cast that 1t has had in that
city, 1.-The SOrcereT is in active preparation.
and viii shortly be given
-Planquette's Trip Van Wrinkle" which is TO
be done at the Standard Theater, N. y has
not yet been given in London, but Is in rehear-
sal at the Comedy.
- Clara Louise kellogg is in New York On
Friday last she slipped and fell on the sidewalk.
sustaining injuries which, at first. were feared to
be serious, but which afterwards happily proved
to be but slight.
- Mrs. Langtry is expected in New York
October IL. She opens at the Fifth Avenue
Theater October 80, for four weeks. after which
she will go to Boston, accompanied by Henry E.
Abbey i'm person.
Miss Billy Barlow, who made her first ap-
pearance in New York in the original produc-
ton Of the PIRATES of Penzance has returned
from England. and will play the part of Gomez
In LES Manteaux Noirs." which will be given
by Mr.. DOyly Carte's company at the Standard
Theater on the 26th inst
Wagner declared that ''Parstal" should be
kept sacred to his worshipers at his own par
ticular operate temple in Baireuth but he has
changed his theme. and it is to be produced
next month at the Munich Court Theater with
so to speak. great flourish of trumpets.
MFR. j. s. Clarke. the comedian, Is on a
flying visit to this country. He returns to Lon
don shortly to reopen the reconstructed Strand
Theater. where, i'm addition to appearing i'm a
round of his somewhat ancient representations.
he will for the first time appear as DrOn,io Of
Syracuse.
mankind" will continue at Daly's Theater,
New York until the date fixed for the prOduc-
tlon of THE Squire" The Herald says Mr..
Leciercq's wonderful impersonatiOn of the Gen.
tenarian is OF Itself worth visit to Days.
VIII ID. Eaton, author of ''All the Rage"
contemplate making New York his permanent
. residence, dropping newspaper work and join
ing the colony of playwriehts. good. bad and in
different. who have located there. He spent last
season in Washington.
Miss Emma Thursby was warmly welcomed
to America on Saturday last. She has been
absent for nearly three years. and says she is
glad to be back again. for she wanted to be lat
home and see her mother Miss Thursby was
accompanied by Mrs. Ole Bull. who is one OF her
warm friends. She Will sing in concert at Lin
coin hail October 10.
Every member of the audience that attended
the revival of Patience at the Bjou. n. Y.
was presented with hand-painted program,
of oir I IiaO of
the designs were very pretty, and all were
nicely painted, rejecting credit upon the artist.
Nine. Theos debut at the Fifth Avenue
Theater. New York, Monday, was an unequivO-
cal success. The audience was one Of the most
brilliant that has ever gathered in that thcater
Il correspondent declares her the opposite OF the
famous Jutiic. who could say the Eaughtiest
things in the mos innocent manner. while Thee
could sing Moody and Sanliey hymn in a way
to make les PGris.en5leS shout.
1t is understood that during Mr.. Bouci-
cauit's coming engagement at the Boston Mu-
scum he will repeat his lecture on the Art of
Acting" which he recently delivered at the
Lyceum Theater, London.
Georgia Cayvaa is to be supplied with a
play from Joaquin Miller. who, it is said, will
dip his pen in the gilded silver of the western
sunset and turn out Just one more of his poetic
little American dramas.
since he returned TO England. He has been
supporting Booth and is now endeavOring to
find an opening on the London stage for Elite
Hendersons play, Almost q Life"
On Wednesday of last week Lawrence
Barrett cabled Augustus Harris. OF Drury Lane
Theater his acceptance of an offer to play there
next June. Mr.. Barrett will sail for England at
the close of the dramatic festival IN Cincinnati
which will be about the end of April.
II Miss Mary Anderson, according to some
English scribes. is known here as the apollo in
petticoats.' The London Figaro states that she
is in London. and has consented to play there
for two nights only. The real, true, original,
genuine Mary Anderson is here. Is there, then,
another Mary Anderson in the field? No. our
London contemporary has mixed up Mary Ander-
son and Fanny Davenport II American writer's
were as ignorant OF English theatricals as
English writer's are of American theatricals,
what laughing stocks they would become!
- The Chicago Hitey- Ocean thus speaks Of a
Washington lady: Miss Anna Warren Story.
playing opposite parts to Mr. Keene this week,
is an ambitious and painstaking woman, who
has been but a little while on the stage. She is
lady OF fine education and bright intelligence,
and mas better knowledge of her work than
deftness to define it. She has a sweet we'll
modulated voice. and. though it Is not of great
power or compass, she uses it with good advan-
tage, and her reading is very pleasing In the
cradle capability for graceful acting and won
warm applause in her lighter scenes.
Life i'm = Montana Frontier Town..
The f. lowing amusing description of the mixed LII.
of frontier town IL given in L. V. Smalleys third
paper The New Northwest"
The picturesque feature Of life in Western
Montana town like Missoula are best seen as
evening approaches. Crowds Of roughly clad
men gather around the doors of the drinking
saloons. A group Of Indians who have been
squatting on the sidewalk for two hours playing
some mysterious game of cards Of their own in
vention. breaks up. One of the sguaws throws
the cards into the street. which is already deco
rated iroVl end to end with similar relics OF
other games. Another swings baby upon her
back. ties a shawl around it and herself secures
the Child with a strap bucked across her chest
and strides of, her moccasned feet tOeing
inward In the traditional Indian fash
1on She wears gown made of q
scarlet calico bed-quit. with leggings of some
blue stuff but she has somehow managed to
get civilized dress for the child They all 90
Oft to their camp on the hill near by Some
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