The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-12-21
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

JUSTIN MCCARTHY has dramatized the
novel, maid of Athens
lENBACH's ''Orpheus' has Loen revived
at he BiJ ou in New York
EDWIN BOOTH is playing an engagement
at the Star theatre, New York.
MISS ANNA DICKINSON was worth 5000
600 before she went on the stage.
IT is reported flat Madame Ristori viii ac-
company Salvini during the next and lat
tour he will make in America.
CuIPPENDALE. an American aotor for
many years connected with the London Hay
market, has been sent t. a lunatic asylum.
He is eighty three
REare | ,Sll theatres ana halls. equpped
with scenery and furnished for theatrical
performances, and used for that purpose in
the t mite States.
AN organ of 124 stops has Just been COM
pleted at Ludwlgsburg for the cathedral at
Riga. 1t contains 1000 pipes, and is blown
by gas engine Of four horse power.
SIGNoR PUERART, a tenor, who is rapidly
rising into prominence abroad, was a LAWYER in
Ae> andria, Egypt, until ruined by the Eng
hsh bolnbaidment, when he took to the
stage.
The two great dramatic successes of the
season In New York have been Lawrence
Barrett in Francesca ia Rimini - by Book
er, and Fanny Davenport in Fedora, by
Sardon.
HERR PoLLINI has offered Rubin,tcin the
sum of 5000 marks, or about 81, $50. for a
tour of one hundred concerts to he given i'm
Ameii a, but the great pianist has not yet
given his decision.
hARL FoRMES, the greatest of basSOs has
now II music com ervat ny in New ork which
Is well patrOni. e !. Among his pupils is a
young bass singer namei Frank Bendinut
Tor whom Forines predicts grand OF, ratio
career.
Mr.. GRIFFIN, Mary Anderson's step-fa her
says that the new pi ce write for Miss An
der ON y Gilbert, sis, out ide of Sha u peale
tie best piece ! ever read Mr. Griffin is
the gentleman who wrote home TO a friend
that me ard Mary arrived safe"
The eminent baNso, Karl Formes, tells Amer
lean parents that they make grave mis-
take in sending their children to Italy to study
music when they can obtain much better re
su Is at home He says musical science is at
its low st level in Italy, and the great singers
are not Italians.
The fiftieth anniversary of Sir julius Ben
lcts frst APP ealanCe as n conductor of
high-c ass music comes in June, ami great
preparations are alrea ly being ma in Lon
don Tor celebrating the event. There will be
series OF ont eris lasting over two days.
and many OF The great SINCE of the day will
take part.
AN inter- sting incident at the breakfast
rendered on Thursday to Mr., Henry irving
by the Clover club, of Philadelphia, was the
presentation to him of the wat h once car
ried by Edwin Forrest. Among the guests
a. h. brea fast were the Hon. " "A, ne Mac
Neagh, attorney general, and Ex-Governor
Henry M. Hoyt.
SARASATE, the celebrated French violinist
i / he posscssOr OF a wonderful head Of hair
One day h. won't to IA barber, while in Lon
don, and as ed h. b. havod. When this la |
been done the barber politely suggested that
his customer had b ter have III, hair cut
al o, for as he wa, lie looked for all the wol Id
lie "Niolin scIaper.
MARIo, the tenor, who has just die in
Rome, was the g eatest II ale singer that ever
lived. he made vast sums of money in the
days of his popularity, but led an extremely
prod gal life. His Sunday dinners in Lon
don TO his friends used TO be famous OF late
y airs he has been working IN "A library in
Rome for a weekly stipend much small er than
he wa once in the habit of giving the man
who brushed his coat.