Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-02-17
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Oec4R wILDE's "vERA'-sALvINI's FAREwELLs-
HEART AND OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES PRO-
GRAN, ETC.

houses south and west.
Nine. Scalchi and Nine. Albani have created
great success in Canada, the former In II Tro-
vatore" and the latter in Lucia" They are with
the Mapleson company at the National next
week.
-Salvnis farewell season, the scheme of
which has already been given begins next
Monday at the Academy in New York.
The Boston Ideals were at Haverly's Brook
Ign tbeater this week. Monday they open in
New York and then go to Boston for three
weeks.
- Marie Prescott has secured Oscar Wilde's
drama. Vera" and will produce it next season
under the authors supervision
-Janauschek goes to the Opera House in
Philadelphia in March with new play She
VIII also appear In Ziliah"
There is going to be a contest between
Henry French and Fanny Davenport over the
possession of Fedora"
The municipal council of SAINT Raphael.
where Gcunod composed the Romeo ct Ju-
hefte. has named one OF the streets of the city
after the great composer.
Charles Wyndham and his COMPANY will ap-
pear on the 10Th inst. at the Brooklyn Park
Theater. Brighton butterfly Fever" and
Fourteen DAYS" will he played during the en-
gagement. Then they go to Boston.
= Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee Rankin's new thcater
In New York. is to cost $4,000 1t is to front
on Third avenue sixty feet and run back one
hundred and twenty. 1t will be three stories
high and constructed of brick.
= Revivals Unpopular plays will be Effected
ct DAILY New York theater until new German
comedy, which is now in rehearsal there can be
placed upon the stage. 1.-The Squire is still
announced.
= The managers of the New York Chorus So
eiety state that, in consequence of the delay in
Europe in preparing the chorus parts of Wag-
ners .'Parsial. the third concert of the society.
with its preceding rehearsal. is postponed for
Tour weeks. The new dates are Friday. March
IL, and Saturday, March II.
= The actors who have been really engaged
for the Cincinnati dramatic festival, which will
begin its work In April, are Mr.. John Mccullough,
NJ. Lawrence Barrett, Mr.. n. c. Goodwin Miss
Nary Anderson. Miss Clara Morris and Mile
Rhea.
= Miss Adelaide Randall. formerly of this city,
has left the New York Standard theater to fill a
previous engagement, and Miss Sallie Reber will
resume her original and charming representa-
tiOn OF PhiHis in ''IOlanthe' for the remainder
Of the season.
- After such a success as SardOu has achieved
with Fedora" everything connected with the
piece becomes interesting. NJ. de la POmmeraye
gives an account in the Paris of the various
phases through which the work has passed in
ITS development-hOw originally the play was
laid in America at the time OF Washington His
second scenario was Neapolitan and the heroine
IN emissary Of the Bourbons; next she became
tool OF Pouches at the time of the Consulate
and finally resolved herself into the Prussian
grande dame. whom every one in Paris goes to
applaud and admire.
- Running attractions in New York are "a
Partisan Romance" at the Union Square thea
ter, THE Silver King at Wallack's, ''The
Squire at Dalys, ''McSorley's Imitation" at the
Comlque, ourlesaues and feats of wit at the
MINISTRIES and 1.-The Black Venus at Niblo's
These. all different in kind but each good of it's
kind. are well worth seeing
-MiilOecher's new comic opera in three acts,
entitled the Countess DIbarry,' was presented
ct the Fifth Avenue theater Monday night, and
repeated during the week BIZ the company of
the Thalia theater. Nothing was known in
New York as to the merits of the work but the
excellence OF the company and the promise of
tne management make it certain that the enter
tainment will be interesting.
Nine. MOdjeska said in response to the re-
mark that Mary Anderson was cold and unirnpas-
stoned in her love scenes on the stage: 'There
- no such thing as cold and unimpassioned
GIRL Miss Anderson may seem so. because she
has not met the right person. She will meet
him, however, and that will remedy her aDpa-
rent GOODNESS. An actress must fall in love be-
lore you see her at her best. There Is no excep-
0On to the rule"
-Lecocqs opera, under the title of ''Heart
and Hand, appeared in this country at the New
York BijOu Opera house on Thursday evening
last. with cast which includes Misses Marianne
Conway. Laura Joyce and Emily Weathersby.
and Messrs John HOwson, Digby Bell, George
Olmi. George Schiller and Charles ]. Campbell.
The work was produced under the direction of
4EJesse Williams.
John S. Clarke has made a great success in
London in his revival of the COMEDY of Errors"
a ba Ca1ta
representative of DromiO that the present gene
ration has seen. Assuming grOtesqueness of
walk and gesture which carries US back to the
period Of classical comedy and recalls also ia
niliar representations of EsOp,h he shows US the
slave, servile In demeanOr and mordant in
language. Oscillating between the poles of
over familiarity and abiect submission"
The World. of London asserts that during
Ar. Henry Irving's stay in that country next
winter MIR. Abbey will introduce Mr.. Lawrence
Barrett Miss Clara Norris Miss Mary Ander-
son, and perhaps Lolita. at the London Lyceum
theater. The Worlds description of Miss An
dersOn is densely English: Miss Mary Ander-
son Is not very great actress. but she has the
reputation Of possessing the most perfect figure
and the most beautiful face in America"
- Miss Margaret Mather has began her second
week at the Park theater, Boston. Her success
having been phenomenal in Romeo and Juliet"
It has been retained on the bills Miss Mather
assuming the role of Juliet. Next week she
wiz appear in Leah, the Forsaken." s.Iolan-
the" at the Bijou. 1.-The Amadan." at the Mos
cum. and Equine Paradox at the Windsor.
are continued. business being excellent i
-''Iolanthe" was presented Tuesday night by
the Ford Opera Company for the first time in
Richmond to standing room only. During the
second act the clock in the Westminster tower
scene took fire. The house was densely packed.
and considerable number ofthe audience stood
mp TO go. and In the temporary excitement
lew went to the door. A panic was averted by
tne Goodness and presence of mind of Miss
Blanche Chapman and Messrs. Denham and
Bronson, who continued to perform. The dam
age was but slight.
-Brehtano Bios. No. Union Square, NJ Y,
send US the following new music: Tho Leave
You now In Sorrow" words by Geo. Cooper.
music by BassfOrd; Lillian Russell's songs:
"Only This, by Bassford; MY Juliet" a waltz.
By Walker; "Garotte d Amore," by Bierck, and
swo of Mary Vanoi's songs.
=" Her Atonement." sensational play which