Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-28
Dramatic Notes.

Dramatic Notes
Rhea is playing in Detroit, Mich, this
week.
John Mccullough is having splendid
season at Cleveland this week.
Margaret Mather appears at the Park
theater at Cleveland, Ohio, next week.
Miss Dora Henninges is now residing in
Chicago, and will fill engagements in
neighboring cities during the winter.
Mrs. Tom Thumb is at the Madison
street Museum, Chicago. She first appear
ed in that city twenty years ago.
The Boston Ideals play the Mascot for
Thanksgiving matinee at Chicago, and
give tbs Musketeers Thanksgiving evening.
The new play siberia" struck popu
lar vein at Cleveland last week. Standing
room was at a premium at the new Park
.heater.
The "Rajah''is to be withdrawn from the
Madison Square theatre, New York, Dac.
I, to be followed by Henry DeMille's Eew
play DUTY"
Lillian Spencer, the actress, is SO -iousiy
Ill at the Leland house, springfield, I'll. She
has cancelled all engagements. The ply
stefan recommends her removal to the hos
pital as soon as her condition Will permit.
Anna Dickinson, having left the stage.
is lecturing again, and will appear on the
rostrnm at the opening of the Knights of
Labor convention at Detroit, Mich, Dec.
l6, with her new lecture, ''To the Rescue
Miss Jeffrey Lewis will begin her start
ing tour under the arrangement of Mr..
John A. Stevens at Easton, Pa, the 29lh
inst. During the tour she will be seen in
Mr.. Vikings new play, "The Ruling Pas
sion"
Mr. West, the husband of Mrs. Cornwall
lis West, the beauty, said to a st. Louis re-
porter on Tuesday that Mrs. Langtry had
made astonishing progress in the dramatic
art. Mr.. West added that the American
newspapers have been unfair to Mrs.
Langtry.
Mr.. Charles Wyndham has settled with
Mr. james Alison, of Australia, to visit
that distant colony at the end of 1884. He
will make his first appearance ct Sydney,
and will open the new Her Majesty IS
theatre. Previous to this he will play at
his own Criterion theatre in London, open
ing there at Easter of next year.
Abbey is booked at Haverly's, Chicago,
for the two weeks commencing January
81, with Nilsson and his other song birds.
January %, Mapleson opens for two weeks
at McVicker's with the divine Patti. And
Amberg's German Comic Opera company
begins two weeks season at the Grand
Opera house January 81. The Chicago
people have their feast Of good things
crowded together and III very brief
space.
Friday of last week Theodore Thomas
received cabIegram from Vienna, con-
frming contracts with Frau Friedrich
Materns, Herr Hermann Winkelham, nd
Herr Emil Scaria for Fifty repre-
sensations Of Wegner's music.
These three artists are preeminent as
the Interpreters of Wagnerian roles. They
sang at Bayreuth in 1876, and at the Wag
ner festival in London. Their frat per-
Torrance will DE in Boston on April IA,
1884, They will then visit New York,
Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington, Bal
timore, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Memphis,
Atlanta, New Orleans, St. Louis, Kansas
City, Minneapolis, st. Paul, Chicago, Buf-
falo, Toronto and Montreal. In Cincinnati
and Chicago their appearance will be In
conjunction with the May festivals.
Ellen Thorne, the divorced wife of
Charles r. Thorne, Jr., the actor, has
brought a suit in the supreme court
against Mary S. Thorne, the actors second
wife, to recover On an agreement made on
Feb. %, 1873, and signed by the present
defendant, whereby she agreed to guar
antee that Charles R. Thorne, Jr., should
pay $50 per month to the plaintiff, and if
he did not pay that amount the defendant
promised to do so herself. She also agreed
to pay 5000 in lump sam on July 1,
1873, when the monthly payments were to
cease. The counsel for the defendant
answers that the signature, If proved, will
be admitted, but was without consideration
and is void: that the plaintiff and Thorne
came to an entirely different agreement
after thu. date, which superseded that
contract; that the plaintiff accepted the
new contract, and waived all rights to the
contract guaranteed By the defendant, and
that the second contract was entirely full
| filed By Thorne.