The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-09-14
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC

Mrs. LANGTRY draws crowded houses in
Scotland.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG will sing in opera
next spring.
Mrs. LANGTRY opens her next American
season at Burlington, Vt, October "a,
DIR. CREsw1CK, the London actor, is pre-
pairing his fifty years experience of the stage
for publication.
MARY ANDERSON, the American actress.
ecnleVed a great success on her opening
night in London.
ENGLISH literary men protest AGAINST Hol
Gngshead and Burnand's scheme of Shakes
pearean burlesques.
MISS G~ENEVIEvE WARD will shortly start
on a tour round the world, taking the London
olympic company with her.
-GERsTER has offered to give two concerts at
Naples i'll aid of the 1schian sufferers, before
she comes to this country, in October.
NEW YORK will have two rival Italian
opera companies at the same time next sea.
son; In one Patti and in the other Nilsson
will be the star.
NINE. MoDJEsKA, the actress. and her hus
band and son are now American citizens
Count Bozenta secured his full naturalization
papers recently, i'll a Francisco.
THE Washington Republican says: "It
may not be generally known, but it is a fact,
that the ii rst theatre ever opened in this
NOuitiy vas ~ w lllltlllSDuTG, ' u, III lIOS."
THE admirers of Shakespeare in England
are beginning to write to the newspapers to
protest against the impending burlesques of
The Tempest " and Hamlet y to be played
in the Gaiety theatre. What they will think
of the proposal to dig his bones up remains
to be seen.
The idea of getting Jenny Lind to visit
this country anil sing is agitating musical
circles in New York. Although she is sixty
wears old and has lost nl hpr 11ptOa- tptaS cla
sings with all her old %fervor, and would be
glad to come to this country.
IT is reported that Mr.. W. H. Vanderbilt
has offered Miss Thnrsby $4,000 a year to
sing in st. Bartholomew church, New York,
on Sundays. Miss Thursby will sing in con-
cert also, the coming season. The average
salary of a singer in a quartet choir of a New
York church is six hundred dollars a year.
FLowTow's posthumous opera, after being
tried over on the pianoforte at Dresden before
a distinguished company of musicians and
amateurs, has been secured by the director of
the Cologne theatre, who proposes to bring it
out i'll December, with Frau Peschka-L eutner
and Herr Cote in the principal parts. The
title of the opera is est. Megrin."
Miss ELLEN TERRY, the leading lady Of
Mr.. Henry lrving's English company, will
receive a salary of 81 800 a week while play
ing in this country. Though she is an actress
OF the first water, the sum is considered very
."i So LII LuhSuy WIZ Is HOO du dc-
tress at all, says HaTper's Weekly, earned
more than twice as much.
HENRY IRvING's American route will be
as follows: Star Theatre, New York, Octo-
Der -, four weeks, opening in "The Bells"
on the second night Much Ado About Moth
ing will be given, with Miss Ellen Terry as
Beatrice and Mr.. Henry Irving as Benedick.
November 26 he opens at the Chestnut Street
theatre, Philadelphia, for two weeks; thence
to the Boston theatre, December 10, two
weeks; Academy of Music, Baltimore, De-
cember "A, one week; Haverly's theatre,
Brooklyn, December 81, one week; Haverly's
theatre, Chicago, January 7, two weeks;
Olympic theatre, st. Louis, January II, one
week; Grand Opera-house, Cincinnati, Janu-
airy %, one week; he then plays the smaller
cities in February; then to Washington,
March 3, for one week. Returning to New
York he plays a farewell engagement, after
which he embarks for England. Mr.. Irving,
Miss Terry and Mr.. Ferris leave England the
first week in October; the rest of the troupe
follow in succeeding Gamers The folding
scenery will arrive in advance of the com
many.