Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-12-11
NUMBER Is.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

RIsToRI's personal baggage consists OF
eighty-six trunks
Mr.. IRvISG's receipts in New York aver
aged s. 200 daily.
THE Chinese have built theatre at Los
Angeles Cal, to hold / 200 people.
The burning OF the Grand Opera-housa in
st. Louis has disordered many an actors
route.
ALEXANDER DUMAS new comedy, entitled
''Denise," viii be produced in Paris next
spring.
MILE BARTET is the actress who is cans
ing Sarah Bernhardt pangs Of professional
jealousy now.
NINE. RAMMELsBEBG, an American singers
has appeared with success In Milon, under
the name Of Nine. Rolla-
THE vescelius Sisters WI have concert
company for tour Of the country, under
Major Ponds management.
PAoLA GIAcoMETTI, now dead, is the au-
thorof 's Elizabeth and Marie Antoinette,"
the plays performed by Ristori
LESTER WALLAcK, who still plays juvenile
characters, was born in 1919. He was at one
time an officer in the English army and served
in India
The Oldest theatre now standing in this
country is the one in Savannah. The one
ranking next is the Walnut Street theatre in
fnlaQelpnld.
CHARLOTTE THoMPsoN's new play is called
Phyllis; or, A Snow Storm" It IS an adap-
tation Of Hugh Conway's last book, called
Dark Days.
FANNY DAVENPORT claims that her profits
from Z" Fedora this season are much greater
than last, and from this argues the permanent
popularity Of the play
SIGNoR SALvISn has astonisbed all Italy
by reviving a dusty old French rnelodraTnR,
g The Coast Guard, and making it a stun
ming sensation and success in Florence.
TALKING of McCuIloch's mental troubles,
an Eastern paper alleges that the proportion
Of insanity among actors is greater than
among members of any other profession
BESSIE BERNARD, at one time dramatic
critic of the New Orleans Daily States, is On
the road as the advance agent Of Grace Haw-
thorne. She is the first female press agent.
EMMA ABBOTT viii move on San Francisco
again the last Of December. She carried of
the victor's palm SO far as that CITY was con
cerned last season, having sung TO upward Of
$50 90 in four weeks.
JENNY LIND GoLDscHAIDT is a member OF
the faculty of the Albert Hall College Of
Music, London She is the most devoted
teacher you can imagine; tremendously strict
but appreclative, and the idol Of her
scholars"
H. LAsALLA. the famous baritone Of the
Grand Opera-house, Paris, has made an sn-
gagement with Mr. Maurice Strakosch to 20
to America within few weeks. The price
agreed upon is 1000 francs tSoO0 for each per-
formanee.
WHILE Victoria Sardou's brilliantly sue
cessful play, LES Pates de Mouehe,H was
being performed for the first time in Paris,
its author spent the evening pacing the side
walk in front of the theatre in fever Of anx-
iety. 'sf it takes he said, " all right III
not, tomorrow / start for America TO found
a French newspaper there He remained In
Paris
Miss CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG has nothing
but generous praise for Miss Emma Nevada,
the new American operatic star. She frst
heard the young pri1na donna in Leghorns
four years ago, and was charmed There
is a charm in her voice which few singers
, have l cannot say too much of her. and
wish her every possible success in her own
country
ONE Of the novelties Of the musical season
viii be travelling orchestra composed en-
tirely Of pig-tailed Celestials fresh
from the fowery kingdom The com
pany numbers ten pieces, and, with the ez-
ception of one instrument, all the party VIII
manipulate strings The exception IS an
oddly-shaped trumpet resembling that used
by the Tartars.