Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-09
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC

Edwin Booth sails for home next Sat.
urday.
Joseph Jefferson has gonetoL ngBranch
for the summer
1t is said that there are over s., 600 act
ors In the United States.
James Barton will shortly organize q
company to play comic opera en- the road.
"The Bat" by Strauss, will be produced
at the Boston Bijou Theatre next season.
There is some talk of o theater on the
site OF the Hollis Street church, at Bos'
ton.
Emma Thurs5y receives So, eco for
seven concerts with Mr.. Thomas in San
Francisco.
A Chicago girl, Miss Lena Weis, has
made d successful concert appearance in
Vienna.
Lawrence Barrett, Modjeska and Charles
WyndhRm are acting to full houses in San
Francisco.
Frank Curtis, q brother of Samuel Of
Poser. will manage MIR. Mckee Rankin's
New York Theatre.
Miss H,len Barry is the tailest woman
on the American stage. She is six feet
one inch in height.
Denman Thompson has closed HE season
with Joshua Whitcomb," and is summer
ing in Swansea, N. H.
A young soorano, Miss Ida Schulcr,
from Cincinnati, q pupil of Max Maretzeki
IL preparing to appear in opera next sea.
son.
Miss Mary Beebe Is reported as having
signed with the organization formerly
known as the Chicago Church Choir Opera
company.
A complete series of performances OF
Wagner's music,drama Is being given dur
ing the present month at the Hamburg
S~tadttheatre.
Walter l.. Dennis, late Of Jeffreys.Lswi
LA Belle Russo" company, will play Jack
Here In Brooks and Dickson's "Romsns
Rye" company next season.
A letter from Henry Abbey, the New
York manager, announces the discovery OF
o remarkably bright little actress in Paris
named Leontine Gravoche. He will proba.
bly, bring her to this country next season.
There IL no doubt about there being a
tremendous amount of musical culture in
Kansas City. During the recent Theodore
Thomas season there the big bass drum
was "the cynosure of all eyes,"
Mary Anderson has sailed for England
Lolita goes to England; Lewis Morrison
has q new house Of his own at Ocean
Grove; Maggie Mitchell, John 'Albaugh,
the ChrAnfrAus, William Henderson, and
his interesting family are ON factors
Row at the Branch.
New York IL, II Is said, to have g Chin.
ese theater. Loo Chin Coon, the great
Monaghan actor of San Francisco fame, il
getting up q company Of twelvs actors
actresses not being allowed among the
Celestisls- with whom to open in the fall.
Mr.. Amberg, the mansg + of the ITALIA
theatre, has Just concluded an engagement
with Herr Alfred Grueufeld, the court
pianist of the emperor of Austria, for loo
concerts TO be given in the principal cities
of the United States next season. Herr
Greenfield ATTRACTED q good deal of atten.
ton last season in London, and has re-
Gently been playing with much success in
st, Petersburg. He will his
American tour at Steinway hall the mid.
die of October. Mr.. Amberg viii proba.
bly, bring from Europe a prima donna to
sing ia this series of concerts.
When the Brooklyn Philharmonic socie.
! ty gave their first concert ia 1857, the or.
ohestrR comprised only forty players. AZ
the last concert of this season the number
of performers was increased 10 1i0, and the
average size of the orchestra for the season
has been liz. This is probably the largest
concert orchestra that can be heard in any
! city except at festivals. The Brooklyn,
ties appreciate the enterprise OF the direc'
! tors, and have increased their annual re-
ceipts from SIS, 600 to almo't $500
within the last five years. Next season, in
l addition to the regular series OF concerts
and public rehe,rsals. 1t Is proposed &c