The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-04-19
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC DOTS.

The Cincinnati Dramatic festival begins on
the goth of this month.
Miss Mary Anderson opens at the London
Lyceum theatre September I.
Miss Lily Langry plays her farewell en-
gagement in America at the Chestnut street
opera house in May.
Kate Claxton was lying i'll at Muncie, Ind,
last week, suffering from a severe and threat
ening attack Of erysipelas.
Salvni and Miss Clara Morris will appear
together IN The Outlaw and Othello in New
York, beginning on the 23d.
The regular season of the Union Square
theatre, which ended on April T. was the r2th
OF that exceedingly popular and prosperous
house.
Colonel J. II. Haverley is in New York
city busily engaged in completing arrange
ments for the tours of his two Silver King
companies next summer.
The scene being completed for the first act
OF the Squire, to be produced by Augustin
Days company at the Walnut street theatre,
represents the courtyard of baronial estate.
The scenery and properties of Booths
theatre have been purchased by Messrs. Hyde
X Behman for their new theatre, to be built
on the site Of the old Aquarium, New York.
Mr.. BARLEY Campbell will leave for Europe
on the 24th instant and will visit Germany.
with the view Of making arrangements there
for the production of his plays.
Signor Salvini sails for Europe, aboard the
Labrador, on May 2, and has no intention of
ever returning to America. He takes about
100000 as practical and sweet remem-
brancer of his American trip.
The new "Stabat Mater" of Anton Dvorak,
the Bohemian composer lately performed by
the London Musical society," seems to have
made genuine impression. Ii is said to be
full OF originality and OF special beauty and
power.
1t is said that Verdi is busly at work on his
new opera "lago," the libretto of which is
founded on Shakespeare's "Othello +" by
Arrigo Boito, the poet and composer. The
The new work is to he produced next winter
at La Scala, Milan.
Madame Modjeska will play the part of
lmogene next year. Next year she says she
will leave the English stage. She cannot
stand playing every night. She wants to have
some time to do something else than playing.
She goes soon to California. Next year her
husband will be her manager.
The managers of the Madison Square thea
ire make known that the play of The Pro-
lessor will be laid aside after the present
L.
thor, will endeavor to act Buxton Scott in
Young Mrs. Winthrop, which play is to be
taken on provincial tour.
Nine. Nilsson, who will leave New York
for Europe on the 18th instant, announces
final concert at Steinway Hall tomorrow
evening, the 10th, with the assistance of an
orchestra conducted by Mr.. Theodore
Thomas, Miss Glenn, Signor Del Puente, Mr.. /
Bjorksten, and the Mendelssohn Quintet
club, Of Boston.
While witnessing a performance of The
Lights O. London at Newcastle Tyne re-
Gently, young woman was taken with such
a fit OF laughing as to dislocate her jaw. An
exchange says that this would not have &C.
Cured while looking on any of the Lights O.
London companies on this side of the water.
1t is said that during a performance of
"One Woman's Life" by the Berlin Welby
at small town in New York, a
r. N. Hudson arose and denounced an actor
on the stage as an evil man. The inference is
that she became insane through the bad acting
She is now 10 the lunatic asylum.
Mr.. Frank c. Bangs, the popular actor, who
distinguished himself recently in 1.-THE Corsi-
can Brothers," has been obliged to give up
work temporarily, and is now resting at
Lakewood, N. J. On account of his poor
health Mr.. Bangs could not go to Toronto
with Mr. Stetson's company. He will, how
ever, reioin this company, which is still per-
forming in "rhe Corsican Brothers." in two
weeks.
Three or four new theatres are contemplated
in New York. Besides the Rankins' new
hous', Ed Stokes wants theatre, Josh Hart
is negotiating fora site, ard Hyde and Beh-
man, the brooklyn managers, have already
purchased one. There is another movement
on foot to organize a stock company, with a
capital of quarter of million dollars, to
build theatre in upper Broadway.
Mr.. Bartlett, of San Francisco, is writing a
play. According to Mr.. Barnes, of the Call, |
sit is thrilling and bewildering. A newspa-
per man falls in love with female compos-
itor. She scorns him, and the curtain falls on
the second act as she brains him with brass
column rule. believe the author intends to |
close the piece with the suicide of this female, |
who swallows cup OF molten type metal, and |
expires in the arms of the proof.reader, for |
whom she entertained an unrequitted affes-
ton"
Cause of Failure.
Want of confidence accounts for half of the !
business failures of to-day. G. Schasse, A.
Drelss and L. Orynski, druggists are not liable