Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-03-17
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
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| - The splendid melodramA Of the lights =
London" begins . return engagement on Moo
day night at the National.
- Miss Carrie Swain, Q bright little actress q
the ''protean" order. who does some excellss1
| work, opens the week at Ford's on Monday
- Plans are being prepared for the erection q
q theater about the size OF the Union SQUARE
N. Y. on Connecticut avenue. II suitable. the
building will possibly be erected.
-Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett went t.
Ptttsburg to be present at the nine hundredth
performance Of "Esmeralda."
Louise Psuln has been engaged, says
Freunds Drama, by Sousa and Vance. OF Wash.
| ington, to appear in their new comic opera,
THE Smuggers." She is charming artist
- George Denham has left Ford's Opera COM
pany and Joined the Acme. Blanche Chapman
leaves the company next week
| - Hope Glenn the contralto, with Christine
Nilsson. has added to her list o charming little
ballad entitled Maybe" The author is a tai.
ented lady OF indianapolis. She will sing II q
Lincoln Hall, March 20.
| A bloodhound OF an I" Uncle Tom show
got badly whipped by local cur at Clyde, NY,
and the citizens have presented the latter with
silver collar and two pounds OF beef daily foe
one year.
A bad Chicago shoemaker has been giving
away some OF his customers He says that
Mary Anderson wears large threee and Iangtry
three and half. Agnes Booth gets her pretty
| foot into a No. Is.
| II Lolita and Rhea have had the cream of the
dramatic business this week In Chicago. Next
weeks bills present dearth Of attractions OF
high order there.
| -Augustin DAILY has hit the popular taste
with his laughable play, Seven Twenty III ght"
The New York theater has been well filed at
every performance, and the comedy seems des-
tined to be performed during the remainder Of
the season.
- Mr.. Abbey thinks OF engaging Miss Jose
phine Jones Yorke, the contralto Of the Car,
Rosa Opera troupe. for his coming season Of
opera in this country. She is said to be the
best contralto In England.
Young Mrs. winthrop" Is In it's last
month at the Madison Square theater, New
York. Next month Mrs. Burton Harrison's
| comedy, "A Russian Honeymoon" will be pro-
dnced. This play will be seen for four weeks,
after which another comedy will be presented
| for the spring aud summer season.
| "A Washington man has figured out that
Patti receives just 42s cents for every note she
| sings In "Semiramide." or lust Is cents more
per note than Rossni got for writing it.
= Madame Christine Nilsson thinks that Amer
lean women are beautiful. The men in this
country she thinks are not as polished, formal.
| and do not exhibit as much outward politeneso
as the European gentlemen, but they are more
chivalrous, and exhibit their devotion to the
women from the bottom OF their hearts.
| Wagner has left no complete opera scores.
His Buddhist opera was sketched, but only par
TALLY advanced. Even the libretto of his pro-
| tpctQ0 Greek is tneomnlpta His rt<-
biography will shortly be published.
| - Grau's French Opera Company, with Thee
and Capoul, after very successful season In
| Mexico and Cuba, will arrive ia New York nett
week and give short season, afterwards play-
Ing weeks engageinekD south Paul and
virgins" and Romeo and juliet" are both
promised
- saint-saens' " Henry VIII" has been pro-
duced In Paris, but the cable dispatches are too
meager to convey any clear idea of whether its
| evident artistic success was also popular suc-
cess or not. The music is described as very
elaborate, often very beautiful. but often very
long, which is precisely what might have been
said In advance.
| - salvini and Clara Morris are 10 play at the
Philadelphia 0pera House the week Of April I'd.
This viii be Salvini's farewell to America. Tho
Outlaw" is to be played on April Cd, Sd and 9th,
with Salytni as Conrad and Miss Norris O. Ro-
sale. On Wednesday evening, April 9TH,
"Othello" Us TO be played. with Salvfni In the
title role and Miss Clara Morris a. E'nilia
Miss Lingard has appeared In London IN
| "CamIlle," and has been very warmly received.
The Anteneum praises her graceful appearance.
! musical voice, her delicacy and tact and her
distinct ana effective method" and predicts
| Tor her brilliant future. 1t says that "hee
method is American, and is not unlike that of
Madame MOdjeska, with whom the newcomer
has much In common.
- Mr.. Mapleson's spring season was fnaugur.
! ated Monday night in New York under most
| suspicious circumstances. The house vas
| crowded to the roof BY one OF the most brilliant
audiences ever assembled within the walls of
the Academy. and the performance was one of
unusual excellence. Patti sang In Lucia" and
''Semiramide."
"A young lady who blushingly declared that
| she never played without notes, and had such
| . horribly awful" sore throat that she couldn't
singh she died the next minute" was finally
| Induced to seat herself at the piano. She began
on Hold the Fort" and continued TO hold the
forte until after midnight. The moral attached
| to this little story is, "Take no for an answer"
| Missions hair is Of a peculiar, indescrfbable
color, almost an. ''old gold" and her COM
plexion is as fair and soft as the bloom OF the
peach. She is thirty-nine years old, and yet has
all the spirit, freshness and piquancy OF Young
girl. She isqueeny in appearance majestic In
carriage. and is a splendid specimen of the per-
fectly healthy woman, both ia mind and body
She says she is at peace with the world, and has
high hopes OF reaching heaven.
-Des Moines Ia, Will have the finest and
largest opera house between Chicago and
Denver. The building will be &C by l32 feet.
three stories high. and entirely devoted to the
purposes for which it will be built. The entire.
cost will be $4,000. The opening date is Sep
TENDER 1.
Mrs. Langtry paid Chicago . flying visit
this week, In company with her escort. Mr. Geb-
hardt, and appeared in a single performance Of.
Rosalind on Wednesday afternoon to Q very
large audience. The reporters endeavored to
make Mr.. Gebhardt talk, but he refused, upon
the ground that they never printed what he
said. Mrs. Langtry was more gracious, and
confirmed the report that she is going to make
New York her home. '.New York next to Lon
don she says, sis the incest city In the world"
Charles FennO Hoffman.
reference In Hmpu's Magazine to Charles
Fenno Hoffman, a charming literary figure Of
forfv in IN