The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-08
MUSICAL AND DRAM ATTIC NOTES.

Miss ABBY MOVES gaze a con cert in Boston
recently. What would a concert be without
Noyes?
R.. NJ. FIELD. manager of the Boston
museum, secured several new plays while
abroad.
The Ace of Clubs. a melodrama, viii! be
the opening play at Wallack's theatre, New
York, next season.
OUT of the thirteen companies which the
Madison Square New York; theatre had out
last season, all but one made money.
Mrs. LANGTRY during her seven months
dramatic season in this country 1ecelved
100000 as her share of the profits.
EMMA ABBOTT has closed a most successful
season of thirty-t five weeks, having given $50
performances, and produced twenty-one
operas. The past season has been the most
profitable in her career.
Mrs. LANGTRY has purchased a new play.
which is to be produced at the opening of
the st. James theatre, London, next season
1t is by B. c. Stevenson and Bolton Rowe,
but has not as yet been named. She VIII star
in it through this country.
Mr.. JOHN Z. KELLERD, who is well known
in the principal provincial theatres of Eng
land, has been engaged for character and
heavy business, by Manager r. M. Field.
and will open at the Boston museum about
August 20, in G.. R. Sims new drama, "a
Soldiers Daughter"
The principal event in Partisan operate
circles last month was the debut at the
Opera Comique of Miss Emma Nevada
Wixon. in Felicien Dayid's opera. ia
Perle du Bresil." Miss Wixon, or Mile.
Nevada as she will be known in the
profession, is a native of Nevada county,
California, and has been studying in Paris
for several years. Her debut proved o
success.
A w~ELL-KNowN and very pretty German
operette, "Zehn Madchen und Klein Mann
Ten Girls and No Husband, was acted
lately at the palace of Prince Reuss, the
German ambassador at Vienna by an
male Character was taken by
Prince Lichtenstein the ten daughters were
represented by the Princess Metternich and
the famous queen of Paris society under the
second empire the Processes Auersl erg,
Kinsky and six other high-titlei ladies. The
owest in the social scale was the Baroness
Rothschild, wife of the Vienna representative
of the great banking house. After the piece
was over a variety performance was gwen, In
which Nine. Aetternich danced a cZardas,
Barones Rothschili recited a comic mono-
logue, and Countess Witzel sang a comic
song. Could not some enterprising manager
bring such q cast over to this country There
would be millions in it
The national sangerfest is to be held at
Buffalo in July. The organization which is
TO give the festival the North American
sangerbuna. is = national organization, en-
bracing in lbs membership the leading Ger
man singing societies throughout the coun-
try. Every two years these gatherings
are held in one of the leading cities.
The primary object of thsss sangsrfests is to
cultivate music written for male voices. Tbs
coming festival will be the twenty-thirs OF
itr kind thus far held. DIR. Damrosch has
beea engaged, ana will conduct a New York
orchestra of 1ol musicians. The FEST"
will open on Monday evening, July 16, with a
"Reception" concert, IN which some five
hundred Buffalo singers, will participate.
The combined chorus expected to at end will
probably number 900 voices. Astately music
hall is being built in the very heart of the
city the building is mot merely a%temporary
structure. but it is constructed of brick.
stone and iron, and will cost $4,000. The
seating capacity will be 300. The building
will be capable OF being altered for theatrical
engagements, and will be ready for that
purpose in December.