The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-20
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MRs. LANGTRY is drawing good houses
this season.
"HAzEL KIRKEn is in It's fourth year under
the Madison Square management.
CARLoTTA PATTI and her husband De-
Munck are coming back to America soon for
q concert tour under Max Strakosch.
TIE recent performance, in Brussels, o.
Ernest Reyer's opera, 'Sigurd, us pronounced
the great musical event of the season.
REMENYI Is at Havana, and he and his fid.
die are being jobbed around the houses of the
swell Cubans. He will give public concerts
later
BONANZA MACKEY has guaranteed Patti
So, 900 for a season in San Francisco, and
Manager Mapleson accepted the proposition
for her.
NORRIS BARRYMORE, Modjeskas leading
man, has written for her play called Mad
| jerda," and she will produce it at Baltimore
before long.
Mr.. 1RvING's engagement In Chicago was
the largest dramatic engagement ever played
In that city. The receipts for the fortnight
were $50, l6i.
p. S. GILMORE, the we'll known musica
director, will go TO Europe next summer
The management at Manhattan Beach desire
TO re engage him
A JEWISH operatc company is advertised
as appearing nightly in Hebrew, operetta
at the international theatre, London, Tor
the first time in England"
JOE JEFFERSON had u regular ovation in
Wilmington, n. &. The entire town
turned out, with the mayor and common
council ut It's head The house was sold in
/ advance week aheai.
CARL Rosa has found and engaged for the
Covent Garden new soprano, named kate
Bensberg. The is ST. Louis girl, the daugh-
ter of wholesale liquor dealer, and has been
studying in Europe for the past four years.
Mr.. BEEcnER, according to n correspond.
ent, is not oyeriond of ilrst-claSs opera. Az
. a recent performance, which Is said 10 have
been very good, he read u book through the
. first two acts and then went home looking
!, bored.
McCAuLL is to bring out new comic oper.
a called "Desiree,n before long,a Philadelphia
', IL il the work Of j. Y. Sousa, once leader o
y the one-time famous Philadelphia churcl
>. choir company, and now or the Marine ban'
"a at Washington.
q THE twenty-frst triennial musical festiva
,d at Norwich. Eng, will take place on Octobe
m IA, Is, III and II, this year. Among othe
n famous pieces, "The Hose of Sharon" a
If oratorio composed expressly for the occasion
to by A. @. Mackenzie will be given A ney
b. cantata has also been composed for The ieSti
val.
In the absence Of one Of the actors in tn
burlesque Of Prospero," lately performed
r a London theatre, the blind daughter of on
70 Of the property-keepers took the part OF Arie
s' directing her action entirely by sound. Nor
., than this, at one performance she played III
20 role of the heroine Miranda, and, althoug
a, a, Of necessity often prompted and OCCASIONAL
M even spoken forh by another actress, sh
ly went through the play without causing I'll
SO audience the least suspicion that she wa
IN blind.
Ia A QUEER occurrence took place recently
m a theatre in Chrstiana, Norway. The fir
on representation in Danish OF Schonthal
mr. "ber Schwabenstreich" was about to beSi
Ir when patriotic Norwegian excitedly arc
an. and exclaimed that it was shame to allt
ely the production of foreign pieces while thu
lol of the best native writers were cody assign
'es to oblivion. The speech created a gr
Je. sensation, and most Of the audience left
hin theatre and went to another theatre wher
/. of play by native was being enacted. 1T
,Ir PATRIOTS returned, however, before Sch
Mt. than's play was concluded and vigorou
lad hissed it OIL the stage