The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-12
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC

RIsToRI's personal baggage consists of
.ghty-six trunks
Mr.. IRvING's receipts in New York aver
aged $500 daily.
THE Chinese have built theatre at Los
Angeles, Cal, to hold | ,2OJ people
THE burning Of the Grand Opera house in
ST. Louis has disorderel many an actors
route.
ALEXANDER DUMAS new comedy, entitled
"Denise," will be produced in Paris next
spring.
NILE, BARTET is the actress who is caus-
ing Sarah Bernhardt pangs of professional
jealousy now.
NINE. RAMMELsBERG, an American singer,
has appeared with success in Milon under
the name of Nine Rolla.
PAOLA GIACOMETTI, now dead, is the au-
thor of Elizabeth and Marie Antoinetten
the plays performed by Ristori.
LESTER WALLACE, who still plays juvenile
characters, was born in 1919. He was at one
time an officer in the English army and served
III India.
THE oldest theatre now standing in this
country Is the one III Savannah. The one
ranking next is the Walnut Street theatre in
Philadelphia.
CHARLOTTE THOMPSONS new play is called
"Phyllis; or, a Snow Storm" 1t is an adap-
tation of Hugh Conway's last book, called
Dark Days.
FANNY DAVENPORT claims that her profits
from Fedora" this season are much greater
than last, and from this argues the permanent
popularity of the play.
SIGNoR SALvINI has astonished all Italy
by revivng "a dusty old French melodrama,
" The Coast Guard, and making it u stun
ming sensation and success in Florence.
TALKING of McCullochs 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 Ddily States, is on
| the road as the advance agent OF Grace Haw
thorne, She is the first female press agent.
EMMA ABBOTT will move on San Francisco
again the last of December She carried off
| 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 GoLDSCHMIDT 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.
NJ LAsALLA, the famous baritone of the
! Grand Opera house, Paris, has made an en-
| gagement with Mr.. Maurice StrakOsch to go
| to America within a few weeks. The price
agreed upon is 4 900 francs $500 for each per
| Torrance.
WHILE Victoria Sardou's brilliantly sue
cessful play, Les Pates de Mou he was
being performed for the first time in Paris,
its author spent the evening pacing the side
walk in front of the theatre in a fever of anx-
iety. "If it takes" he said "all right II
not, tomorrow | start for America To found
French newspaper there" He remained in
Paris.
| Miss CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG has nothing
but generous praise for Miss Emma Nevada
the new American operate star. She first
heard the young prima donna in L'gdon
! four years ago, and WAS charmed. There
is a charm in her voice which few singers
have | cannot say too much of her, and
wish her every possible success in her OWL
country"
ONE of the novelties of the musical season
will be a travelling orchestra composed en-
tirely of pig-tailed Celestlas flesl
from the fowery kingdom. The com
pany numbers ten pieces and, with the ex
ception Of one instrument, all the party vii
manipulate strings The exception is al
oddly-shaped trumpet resembling that useC
by the Tartars.