The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-08-13
COULISSE CHAT.

Charles Baclus and Ricardo are perform
ing with Moore and Burgess's minstreIs In London.
Mrs Zelda Seguin Wallace has recently
sustained sad loss In the death of her only child
nine months old, caused by an attack of cholera In
fantum.
Anna Boyle will he leading lady for Fred,
b. Warie this season, replacing Miss Florence FL
more, about whom many conflicting announcements
are made.
Anna Dickinson, it is said, made pat re-
mark when somebody deprecated her playing the
mans part-of Homlst. eyes, said she, ''but
there not three In the country who play It,
and II is time the women tfied.'
Arthur Sullivan is hard at work at his new
fairy opera. correspondent says: 81 have seen
the fairies, en- eSql,iSse, but must keep what
and heard to myself. This much Will say, that
when the brought out your eyes and your
will he satisfied and II YOU have any liver complaint
which laughing can relieve you Will be cured thor
oughly.'
Lawrence Barrett's company will have but
one notable addition this season-Percy Winter, son
Of the TrJuneS "liac and lily dramatic critic. ~
Fred. Book retlrcs which Is good thing, and j. w
Thompson Is no longer member OF the organization
Louis James, OTIS skinner. aud Charles Punkett re-
main Mr. Barrett seems to he extremely fortunate
In all these particulars.
The name of the play Fourteen Days,
with which the wyndham Company Will open at the
Union Square Theatre the ith Of October. means
more to an English vsgrant than to an American
newspaper reader fourteen days being the ordinary
term of imprisonment for petty Oncnses. Ten
Days or Ten Dollars would lie a fair American
| translation Of the title " Fourteen Days'
Mr.. James A. Pagan, the popular bassot
SO well known In this city, has gained many Friends
and admirers by the manner In which lie has Rendered
| choice selection of songs at Abncr's during TIN
past two weeks since lie left Washington last Octo'
| ber his voice has undergone marked Improvement
His rich bass voice heard with good effect las
| Tuesday evening In such songs as 1.-The Sentinel,
| the Gloaming. " A brilliant future Is before hi,
young gentleman II he is faithful TO the profession III
| has chosen,
The first success of Menken as .HdsGppC
| was quite an accident. J. u. Smith, a bill poster
had taken the Albany Theatre and did not know ex
| actly what to do with II. Menkcn proposed To pla!
Mdssppd aud be strapped to the hsrse Instead OF th
| usual dummy figure. There was rehearsal an'
| Menken aud the horse tumbled from the runs Il
| the stage. The horse frightened, but MenkeI
was not 81 VIII go mp those runs before leave tn
THEATRE she cried. The next attempt was success
ful and 90 was the performance, which aiterwafh eN
| cited Sew York, London, Pafls, and vienna.
1t is now a certainty that the new Steele
Msckaye theatre VIII be built; that 1t win be upcl
Broadway: that It Will be opened In 1883; that II vii
be larger than the Madison Square and more mag
| nihcent than Walacks that, IN short, all the fore
shadOwlngs In these columns, which have often beer
realized I'm solid stone. los ho seats viii shut NJ
| the audience rises, so as 10 leave clear floor 70
egress. Yes; patent stage viii eclipse the wonder
Of the double stage. Yes; the foyer VIII excel that
tho FranCais II Is all coming tTue and 1t VIII b.
| even more remarkable than we have predicted
| SpfrU ~ he Times.
The Hour says; "a striking example Oft
njudlcuus Interference OF the Society for the PreYen
tOn OF Cruelty to Children recently occurred. well
known concert garden In Fourteenth street employs
the services Of promising young Hungarian violin
list. Tho lad, handsome boy OF about fourteen, ha
made only two three appearances as tOlolst, whe
the proprietor Of the garden was obliged TO announce
that the lad could no longer appear, ms the soclo
had Issued an injunction against his performances
Illegal Tho boy al the time was earning hfeen dol
lars week. Ills parents emigrants but recent
arrived In this city who have not yet found emp 10y
men. The result Of the hOceiy's Interference is tia
the entire family Is plunged into distress, and tho bo
himself IS unable to get that practice which would
enable him ia develop his talent as musician