Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-28
Dramatic Notes.

Dramatic Notes.
Salvini will visit America next year.
John Mccullough is worth $4,000, spot
cash.
Rachel Mecauley is supporting Edwin
Booth during his New York engagement.
James T. Powers, who went to England
with Willie Edouin, has joined the vokes
combination.
Mr.. Abbey says Nilsson is the most
agreeable prima donna ever travelling
under his management.
Marie Prescott will revive ssVera" in
the spring. She is now playing sCzeka,
the Jewess," with great success.
Robert Mantell, who scored such shit"
in Fannie Davenport's Fedora" is having
play written for him.
W. 81. Gillette, who wrote Professor
will star next season in Hamlet and Romeo.
The tour Will probably last week.
The youngest daughter of Dion Bouci-
cault played Moya i'll the ''Shaughraun,"
quite recently in Louisville. She is said
to be a clever actress,
Celia Logan has disposed of her play,
'An American Marriage" to John A..
Stevens, who will produce it as soon as he
tinds lady strong enough for the leading
part.
W. D. Howells, novelist, and Mr.. George
Hensehel, of Boston, are writing a comic
opera in two acts. 1t will be intellectual
and free from French smut and it will die
young.
Prominent citizens of Galveston, Texas,
representing one hundred million dollars,
have invited Clara Morris to visit their city
and give series of performances. Miss
Morris has accepted the invitation.
Italian opera, of which New York has
had surfeit, suspended operations on the
22d, for a short intermission. 1t is stated
upon good authority that neither of the
companies has made money. But that
will not prevent them both from returning
to give spring season.
Two drunken negro scene-shifters en-
gagged in fight on the stage of the Opera
house, Middletown, Conn, during recent
performance, one of them drawing razor
and the other firing a property pistol,
luckily only loaded with powder, in his ad
versary's face. Many ladies tainted be-
fore the men were secured by the police.
beautifully illustrated book has Just
been issued setting forth the elegance of
Adelina PATHS $4,000 palace car. The
illustrations fare exquisite, but the one
which will be apt to capture the public is
The sweet etching representing the charm
ing cantatrice asleep in her bed, with Col.
Niccolinl climbing gracefully into the top
bunk.
The literary Chicago Current says:
"Clara Morris is entitled to much praise
for her unaffected method of pronunoia-
ton. Her tones and accents are purely
American, her RS being given sharply,
and all the consonants and vowels their
due consideration" And yet some of the
Anglomaniac critics in the east find fault
with her elocution.
Edwin Booth followed Irving at the Star
theater, New York, last week, and met with
crowded houses and an enthusiastic recep-
ton. 1t is pleasant to know that, after
losing its head over foreign wonders and
mysteries, New York still retains sufficient
Judgment to promise to give the noblest
knglish-speaking actor of his age a reoep-
ton Citing the loftiness of his genius and
the nobility of his character.
1t is recognized fact that the Italian
opera has principally to thank its exis-
tence to the ''star system" tits, however,
strange that these stars are all-but Ital-
Ians. Patti is of Spanish, Christine Nils
son OF Swedish, Gerster of Hungarian,
Luoea and Tremelli of Austrian, Sembrich
OF Polish, Pappenheim of German, valeria
aud Hsuk of American, Albani of Cana
dian, Irebelli, Durand and Marie Roze of
French birth.
a very praiseworthy improvement has
lately been made by the celebrated con-
ductor, Pasdeloup. of Paris. It consists in