Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-10-21
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
THE WASHINGTON CONSERVATORY or Music
sALvINTs C0AING-MRS. LOUISE CARY-RAY
hoND-PERoLA, THE NEW OPERA, ETC., ETC


sALvINfs COMING-MRs. LOUISE CARY-RAY-
MOND-PEROLA, THE NEW OPERA. ETC. ETC.
Monday evening next the complimentary
benefit to Manager Jno. T. Ford will be given
at the Opera House The house will be closed
for the rest of the week.
-Rice's New Surprise Party begin a weeks
engagement on Monday night at the National
in their new burlesque of ''Pop." 1t is q sensa-
tional melo-dramatic operate comedy In four
acts, and has drawn well elsewhere
- Mrs. Anna Louise Cary-Raymond will
emerge from her retirement in January to sing
IN complimentary concert to be given to Miss
Henrietta Beebe.
Theodore Wachtel has been singing in a
concert for the Berlin Press Association. and
was presented with bronze vase. inscribed ITO
the Tenor Prince" How is that for high?
Mr.. J. P. Jackson, the translator of wag-
ner's earlier operas, has returned safely to
London. The Heard had sent him to Siberia to
look after the survivors of the Jeanette and he
spent his last Christmas somewhere near the
North Pole.
Miss Kate Claxton talks seriously of re-
viving Flowers of the Forest" and starring In
Starlight Bess with Stevenson as The K,ushin
If Kate is wise she will do nothing Of the kind
Stevenson out Of the piece. and without good
Cynthia Flowers of the Forest" is not worth
playing.
-Modjeska made most favorable impression
in Boston during the first half of this week in
''Marie Stuart" She will trv Rosalind next
week. and the new play, 'Thora." These are
her first appearances in these three characters
In this country.
-LecOq's "Trompette, which had over 200
arlorf ID
in the Germania Theater New York, this week
with Nine. Geistinger and the entire company
in the cast.
~ Purtani" opened Col. Mapleson's season
in the Academy of Music, New York. last Mon
day evening. with Ravelli, Galassi. MOnti Va
lerga, and Nine. Laura Zagury was the debu-
tante OF the evening.
-Campanini will not revisit US this year. He
has just given three performances of Carmen I"
at the Teatro Regio, Parma, for the benefit of
the poor OF that CITY, His brother CleOfonte,
new and by Magnan: the orchestra contained
IS members. the chorus 100, the ballet so, and
the staf OF supes was q round hundred.
- The Emma Abbott grand English opera
troupe has thus far had the largest business
with which 1t has ever been favored The &C.
tual receipts in eight performances at Denver
were Sl2,2OO, the largest amount ever taken at
the Tabor opera house In the same space of time.
In Leadville 50 600 worth of tickets were sold in
the first hour
During John I. RaymOnd's recent engage
ment in Boston, he was called before the cur
tain and presented by some waggish friends with
a poker chip bearing the inscription, "You
know me, Pete" Raymond Tor once. was
completely nOnplussed and had not word to
say.
1t is not generally known that Charles
fhn Lob n
as a surgeon in the Union army during the late
war He was present in many of the princinal
engagements. including the seven DAYS fight.
and was afterwards transferred to the LOuisi-
ana department, and went all through the Red
river campaign.
Madame Minnie Hank, who arrived in New
York last Thursday. will begin her concert tour
at Boston on the 26th inst. The tour. as at
present arranged. will be an extensive one dates
having been filled until March Is Madame Hauk
Will not be heard in concert in New York
- Salvini, the great Italian actor, will make,
his first appearance in this, his second pro-
fessional tour of this country, at the Fifth
avenue Theater, New York, on next Thursday
He will have the support of Marie Prescott.
Lewis Morrison and q well-selected English
speaking company.
Young Mistress Winthrop" which has
been received with SO much favor at the Madi-
son Square Theater, New York, has been
touched up and sharpened in the performance
since its first presentation, and now presents
still further claim to the long lease of life which
seems to be the prerogative of the plays OF this
theater.
- Edwin Booth has met with remarkable sue
cess In his tour through the English towns. At
Sheffield he was greeted by a crowded house
with unbounded enthusiasm. He PLAYED Rich
elieu, and after the great scene in fhe fourth
of Of Il a;
Tor Edmund Kean. He was repeatedly called
before the curtain. and was saluted again and
again with cheers and the waving of hats and
handkerchiefs.
The London World thus speaks of Gilbert
and Sullivans new opera: The particulars pub
lished in several papers respecting Gilbert and
Sullivan's new Operetta are misleading The
title Is ''PerOla," Mr.. Gilbert believing in the
magic of the initial ''P" The first act is laid in
st. James park, and the second I'm Palace ward.
the sentry outside the Houses Of Parliament be,
Ing prominent figure in that scene The name
OF the herois Strepton being half fairy and
half mortal His fairy qualities inherited from
his mother Perola unfortunately terminate at
the waist. This idea has already been worked
out by Mr.. Gilbert In story, with most laugh
able result StrephOn can render himself inyisi-
Ole only to a limited extent; he can pass his
body through keyhOle, but his legs stick on
the ether side. Despite his deficiencies, how
ever, he is elected member of Parliament, and
commences to reform the constitution, one of
MS first measures being for the creation of
peers of the realm by competitive examination.
The second act deals with many of the political
questions of the day in highly original man
ner. The honors of the chorus are divided be-
tween fairies and peers. who. of course, fall in
love with each other and are ultimately mar
ried. Mr.. Sullivan's music is said to be more
charming than anything he has yet written.
- Where the stars and combinations are this
week and next: Alex. Caufman is in Georgia;
Ada Gray is in New Jersey; Alice Lingard is in
central New York; Annie Pxley is in Maine;
My Partner" is in Cincinnati; Charlotte ThOmp-
son is In Indianapolis; Barney McCauley is in
Toronto; Lights O. London are in Buffalo:
Clara Morris is in Boston; "Strictly Business
IS In Texas; Emma Abbott opens in Cincinnati
Monday night; 'The Colonel" is in Louisville.
KY; Ford's comic opera opens in Richmond
tuesday next; the Hess opera company Ia In Chi
cagO; John Mccullough is in Chicago for two
more weeks; Janauschek is In Detroit; J.. X.
Emmett begins in Cleveland Monday; Kate
ClaxtOn Is In Buffalo; Laura Don is in Toledo.
Ohio; Lolita is in Philadelphia; Modeska is in
Boston; Mary Anderson will be next week in
n,,ta.