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

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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 the Musketeers Thanksgiving evening.
The new play siberia struck popu
lar vein at Cleveland last week. Standing
room was at premium at the new Park
theater.
The "Rajah"is to be withdrawn from the
Madison Square theatre, New York, Dsc.
I, to be followed by Henry DeMille's rew
play "Duty.''
Ill at the Leland house, Springfield, I'll. She
has cancelled all engagements. The ply
stefan recon mends 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
rostrum at the opening of the Knights of
Labor convention at Dstroit, Mich, Dec.
l6, with her new lecture, ITO the Rescue
Miss Jeffrey Lewis will begin her start
ing tour under. the management of Mr..
John a. Stevens at Easton, Pa, the 29lh
inst. During the tour she will be seen in
Mr.. Vikings new play, "Ths Ruling Pas
sion.''
Mr.. West, the husband of Mrs. Cornwall
lis West, the beauty, said to st. Louis re-
porter or 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 Wyudhsm 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 s
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 a two weeks season at the Grand
Opera house January u. The Chicago
people have their feast Of good things
| crowded together and IL very brief
space.
Friday of last week Theodore Thomas
received csblegram from Vienna, con-
frming contracts with Frau Friedrich
Materna, Herr Hermann Winkelham, and
Herr Emil Soaria for City repre-
sensations Of Wsgner's music.
These three artists are preeminent as
the Interpreters Of Wsgnerian roles. They
sang at Bayreuth in 1876, and at the Wag
| ner festival in London. Their frat per-
formance 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, 81. fsui, CnlcaSo, b0I-
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 IN 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 q lump sum on July l.
1873, when the monthly payments were to
| cease The counsel for the defendant
| answers that the signature, If proved, viii
! be admitted, but vas without consideration
| and is void; that the plaintiff and Thorne
came to an entirely different agreemen.
after the. date, which superseded that
! contract; that tbs 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.