The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-15
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

MARY ANDERSON will stay in Europe nearly
two years.
ROLAND REEDS Check scored an i'm
mense hit in New York.
Mrs. LANGTRY sends about fifteen dollars
weekly to her husband in Wales.
The Wyndham Comedy company won a
brilliant success in San Francisco.
NINA DICKINSON will play under p. II.
Lehnen's management the coming season.
AUGUSTUS PINERo and BARLEY Campbell are
each to write a play for the Boston museum.
Miss Rosa RAM has been engaged for
leading business with Joe Jefferson next
season.
A STEAM fan has been successfully intro
duced in the Chestnut Street theatre, Phila-
delphia.
G. d. HESS has accepted a new opera,
1.-The Missing Link" by two Chicago gen
tlemen.
The opening performance of Cody and
Carver's "Wild West" took place recently
at Omaha, Neb. 1t is said to be the most
novel entertainment ever seen.
BROOKS AND DICKSON have secured for next
season the American rights to fetltt and
Sims new drama, "a Soldiers Wife,"
which they intend producing about Septem-
Der next.
Lillian RUSSELL. the well-known operate
ElIECI, luS CICdlCd Il III %NOW WIN
musical and dramatic circles by her sudden
and secret departure for Europe. She had
been engaged to appear in Boston the fol-
lowing week.
ELLEN TERRY and Ada Ward will be the
two most prominent English women on the
American stage next season. and the rivalry
between them in the same paris Will be an
interesting one. Miss Terry is in Irving's
English company, and Miss Ward in Edgar's
American company.
DURING the production of "Sharps and
Flats" in New York recently Mr.. Lane, who
had to smoke in accordance with the .'busi-
ness" of the play, was given a loaded cigar
by Mr.. Crane. 1t exploded and filled the
stage with red fire, to the CONSERVATION OF
Mr.. Lane and the amusement of the audience.
THE Metropolitan Opera-house, New York,
is rapidly approaching completion, and 1t Is
expected that it will be ready for opening by
October %. Faust will be the opening at
traction. A subsidiary company has been
: formed to build up the Broadway corners
of the building, now vacant, with French
, fats, the lower floors to be used as reception
rooms for the opela-house.
WHEN Miss Whom" Emma Nevada
made her debut in Paris in 1.-The Pearl of
Brazil" that other brilliant prima donna,
Marie Van Zandt, occupied a prominent
box. At the close of one of Miss Wixom's
most brilliant passages, when the audience
Nao idoito 4 aoAAA
rah," in a clear soprano voice, but with an
un~mistakable Yankee accent, rang. through
the house. Every eye was turned instantly
to where Miss Van Zandt sat, her face glow
ing with mingled embarrassment and en-
thusiasm, and then for five minutes the
house rang with a storm of "Bravo ! Van
Zandt Bravo Nevada ~
ARTHUR SULLIVAN was born in 1874. He
was a choir boy in st. James Chapter Royal,
and afterward studied music in Germany.
He returned to England at the age of nine
teen, and in a few years became famous for
his musical compositions in various depart
ments of the art. In 1876 the honorary de-
gree of doctor was conferred upon him by
the University of Cambridge. He has written
the oratorios of "The Prodigal Son" and
"The Light of the World" and other rlusi-
cal compositions of a high order, while his
comic operas, "H. M. s. Pinafore," PA
tience, ''Iolanthe," Trial by jury" have
obtained for him a wide celebrity on both
sides of the Atlantic.