The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-02-01
DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL.

GILBERT AND SULLIvAN's "Princess Ida,'
Mt the Savoy theater, London, is falling Hat.
The public find that it is wearisome and not up
TO the expectation raised by the chorus OF
critics. The demand for tickets is diminish
ing,
MINNIE PALMER, accepting the challenge
that her ability was confined to the music h'ii
STYLE is now giving series OF matlnees IN
London, when she plays in tarces and
comedies.
The business manager of q Boston theater
saws. al have kept record OF valuable
articles found, and among them were SILVER
watch. three pocket books containing money IN
sums of from 1923 to $50, two real lace shawls,
u number of scarf pins, earrings, opera glasses,
finger rings, three mortgage notes, TWO $loV
United States bonds, a camePs-halr shawl, seal
skin mufIs and boas All these articles, with the
exception Of one or two scarfplns, were return,
ed TO their owners, who had called and proved
their right to them Now let me read you a
list of the odd and queer things found. l viii
mention but few, Just to show what an assort-
mept there Is. Feathers, from ladies' hats !
suppose, packages of lunch, toys, manuscripts
ofboolxs, poetry and music, diaries, mortgage
papers, insurance policies, bottles OF medicine,
tobacco pouches, pipes, photographs, letters
opened and others still sealed as ready LOT
mailing, bank checks, money orders, veiis,
bowie knives (only II inches long,, pistois'
sleeve buttons, and last, but not least, sung
shot When the winter season sets III, we
gather harvest of overshoes, but seldom hno
pair--they are always odd ones. VI these the
male element seems to furnish the largest
share. although the ladies add not little to
the collection. 1t puzzles one to know how
people can 90 out Of theater on a stormy
NIGHT when orershoes are most essential, with
only one on and not know it,"
MARY ANDERSON achieved q brilliant sue
cess at the Lyceum Theater, London, it being
bv all odds the biggest hit she has made that
side of the Atlantic. She created the role OF
Clarice Gilbert's new play, called "Comedy
and Tragedy rewritten by him from story
! of his published few years ago IN one Of
| Clemopt SCOTS ANIMALS.
Mrs. ANNA FORD, aged SO years, mother o.
| Manager John r. Ford, died at her residence
| in Baltimore, Md. She was in good health VI
| TO few days ago, and week since celebrated
.he 40th birthday Of her youngest son.
THERE has been lively dispute as to the
merits of Bainums elephant, Prof Flower
president of the Geological society, consider
| ing it to be an interesting specimen Numer-
Gus experts, residents of, and travellers in
India and Burmnh, testify that the animal is
neither white in a technical sense, nor sacred
In no respect is it different from hundreds O
other elephants commonly seen in the East
| Prof. Flower announces that the pretended
religious ceremony advertised will not be toll
Grated in the Geological gardens.
DURING the last scene of Orchard Ill" a
the Portland, Me. theatre, on a recent night
in the combat between Richard and Richmond
Mr.. Keene's sword broke, swapping off som'
six inches fl ON the hilt. The piece flew di
rectly into the audience, striking a gentleman
on the bridge Of the nose, and cutting q gasl
which extended nearly to the eye.
IT is said that during the run of "Jalma" a
the Boston Theatre, Napier Lothian, the leade
of the orchestra, was obliged TO wear blue spec
tacles in order to preserve his eyes. The ar
NOR worn by the Amazons in the march beln.
SO brilliant was the cause of it.
DE VIVA, "the De Viva says that Sig. Brig
nell is 5S years old.
MAssENT's new opera, "Nlanon" since it
production. has disappointed the expectation
of the diletante. They find the music clever
but not brilliant. To the general public it
tedious.
Mr.. SANTLEY, the London baritone, has suffi
GENTLY put to silence all ridiculous reports tina
he intended to enter q monasllc lfc ana wa
RECENTLY married to Miss Elizabeth Mary Rose
Innes daughter Of the late MIR. George hoze
Innes of Valparaiso.
EMMA LATHAM, an amateur, amused an au
diepce in an unintentional, but inevitable man
ner in Waliack's New York, Star theater Sh
is the daughter of San Francisco banker, an
She has been acting rs Constance IN " In
Love Chase" supported by a Wallack compan
at heavy outlay for rent and wages, with n
income to speak of. She has not shown tn
slightest qualification for the stage, and he
venture has been in all ways so disastrous that
instead of continuing it long enough t
conclude her prepared round OF chaae
tiers in conventional fashion, she decide
to close with a small portion OF Lady Mac
beth, ..Lcah the Forsaken' and Juliet, i
"Romeo and Juliet" The novelty of the pre-
era,nme, and a large distribution of free tick
cts. assembled house nearly full Of people
She commenced with the hunting scene iror
the Love Chase" delivering the Lady Ga
Spanker sort of descriptions OF steepie-ctasin:
and fo1-hunting quite inanimateiy, so that sh
was quietly laughed at from the first. IN
murder scene from ''Nlaebeth' came next, an
as she had little TO do while Barton Hill pei
sonated the assassin, she escaped ridicule, but |
lho ensuing curse passage from .'Leah. sh
berated her recreant lover so mildly and wit
such feaiher-stioke gestures that there wa
much snickering. The demonstrations wer
almost as uproarious as those which eharsc
terized the tragie efforts of the late Coun
Joanncs.