Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-01-20

HOxE-HOxE AMUsEMENTs-THE CINCINNATI
FESTIVAL, ETC.
The Boston Ideal Opera Co. will be at
FOrd's all of next week.
BARLEY Campbelrs White S1aue will appear
on Monday night at the National.
- The Sparkling London Criterion open at
Ford's the Goth. They are just splendid!
Miss Minnie Maddern as Chip in Galatians
romantic play, "Fogg's Ferry" is announced to
appear Monday evening. February 5th. at Ford
Opera House. Minnie Maddern Is said to be an
actress native to the stage, blending the cult
walton of art with those natural instincts which
of comedy-drama. "Fogg's Ferry is said to
be production of merit, Astounding in DRAMATIC
situations and brimful of interest. 1t will b
presented with the original scenery and effects,
as at the Park Theater, New York.
Nine. Modjeska closes this week in a round
of her famous characters at the Grand Opera
House, Cincinnati.
- Miss Lillian Russell is rapidly cOnvalescing,
but it will be weeks before she can make her
temperance on the stage.
= Mr.. J. H. Haverly has already made ar
rangements for the reappearanc e of Mr. Henry
Irving at his Chicago and Br ooklyn theaters.
- Miss Couch, the new debutante has not
proven success at the Bi.ou Theater, N. Y.
and Miss Madeline Lucette, we'll remembered
here, will take her place as Virginia.
-" THE Queens Lace Handkerchief has
made such hit at the Casino, n. Y, where
It Is now running. that second company is
being organized to make descent on the
provinces.
- Pauline. the daughter Of the Deschnpelles,
has retired from the boards of the Fifth Avenue
Theater, in order to give The Daughter of Roland
chance to entertain New Workers..
- "The Princess of Paris" was given at the
Brooklyn Novelty Theater Thursday evening.
with Rose Eytinge in the leading character,
supported by Col. Sims company. There was
large audience present. and the performance
passed off very successfully.
lin Paradise" Raymond's new play IL
doing fairly well in New York. His character OF
Major Bob Better is really COL Sellers over
again, but 1t has proved an attraction
Maggie Mitchell denies the current rumor
that her eldest daughter Fanchon is about to
make her debut on the stage "My daughter, -
she says, lis still child, and at boarding school,
not even dreaming, 1 trust, as yet, of profess
siOnal career"
- The Casino concerts in New York have
secured the leading position among Sunday
night entertainments. and afford another proof
that the public will support an enterprise con-
Quoted on proper basis Mrs. Seguin sings in
them.
In Buffalo. NY, Margaret Mather con-
ciuded her weeks engagement on Tuesday sue
cessfully, at the Academy of Music, with two
brilliant performances, the matinee being one
OF the largest ever known.
Nellie Hazeltine, the st. Louis beauty,
who became noted through fight brought on
by filtration with an actor several years ago,
and by report that she was engaged to Sam
uel }. Tilden, has gone on the stage. She is
now Mrs Paramore, having married the man
VINO undertook to whip the actor.
AT the concert given by the Paris press for
the benefit of the sufferers by the flood of the
Seine and Marine, Mr.. Edward Scovel sang
Good Bye" by Tosti. Mr.. Scovel, who is well
remembered in New York for his rom antic mar
rage with Miss Roosevelt, has been prosecuting
his studies in Italy tor some years, and has
sung with great success.
Mrs. Emma Abbott Wetherell, 1t appears.
has by some means succeeded in procuring a
complete set of band parts COPIED from the
Originally Of Sullivan's latest work, Iolanthe, 81
and has been so unWise as to proclaim the fact
as well as the amount paid.
An old bald-head-a frequenter at the thea
ters-who had heard. that the hairs On mans
head are numbered. asked the check -taker re-
Gently, at the theater-if there was not some
place he could get the back numbers.
- Clara Fisher (Nlrs. Maeder) has been sixty
five years on the stage. Her present age is
seventytwO. The time has been when the name
Of Clara Fisher was even more famous in
America than that Of Nine. Patti.
-Signor Campanini has been singing In his
native town, Bologne, with but i'll success,
affording another proof of the adage that "a
prophet Is without honor in his own country. ~
He was vigorously Kissed in Carmen" and q
carpet bag and a miniature ship were passed to
him on the stage.
- The Kiralfy brothers are at present In New
York experimenting the production of the
"Black Venus" which is to be produced at
Niblo's Garden theater on the 9Th of February.
Elaborate new scenery is being prepared, and
new costumes The piece has been entirely re-
constructed. Miles. Gillert, Eugene Capalinni
and Touri will be the premiere danseuses.
The grand Cincinnati opera festival begins
It's eight performances on January goth. The
orchestra will be one hundred musicians, and
the chorus two hundred voices The big organ
will be used in some of the operas. AdeIine
MaplesOn's opera company. "L'Africane" is the
opening opera. The prices are very reasonable,
considering the attractions-only two dollars a
night for reserved seat. In New York, patti
nights" commanded seven dollars seat.
The first opera ever given in Chicago with
Nine. Patti in the cast called forth on Wednes-
day night an audience as large as McVicker's
Theater would hold; in fact, the sale of standing
room was stopped before the curtain rose. The
audience represented much larger sum of
money in the box than any like performance
there ever did before, The opera was Sc
miramide" Nine. Patti received an ovation
throughout, being frequently called before the
curtain, and the favor bestowed on Schalchi
was only slightly less marked than that awarded
Nine. Patti.
- The scenery which is used in the first,
second and fourth acts of young Mrs. VIM
throp," at the Madison Square theater, is con-
structed Of wood and brass. The metal was cut
By hand in India. In India this metal ia used
for decorating rooms dedicated to special cere-
mOnials. The walls and ceiling OF the scene at
the Madison Square theater contain over 200
Oriental designs Its full beauty can only be
appreciated by minute inspection through an
opera glass. 1t shows the kind of house dec
Grafton which the more wealthy are now intro.