Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-22
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Lawrence Barrett is playing three weeks
engag ment in Chicago.
The receipts of Iii ,tori's week at the Chest
nut street o ora house were Sl4,35O.
Miss Kate CllXton i, untitled for the part
Of Osariti I, which she tiles to act n The Sea
OF Ice.
-Four hundred thousand paper roses decorate
the stage OF a Philadelphia tneAte. tor rose
scene
Dion Boucicault's latest play, Robert I'm
MT met with success on its first production
in Chicago.
The announcement il made in n cablegram
from Paris that Sarah BornharIt is rehGarsmg
"TheOdora."
Edwin Boo'h, during hs Boston engage
ment will appear in "Ihe ApOstaJs' and Sol.
mans Iron CHEST.
a niece of Madame JanauschelS, named
Sophie Janauschek, made her American Gcbut
at tho Ihalia theater last week.
At the.reopcning of The Thoator ItaTien in
Paris Niue. SemOrich received a vciitable
ovation on her appearance i'll Lucia.
1t ia said that th9 Oates opera company is
stranded at Cincinnati. The treasurer Is
mis- sing and the members OF the troupe are
peuniless.
Tho Schiller prize, for the best drama pro-
duced in Germany during the past year, has
been divided between Paul Heyse and Ernst
Won MidebruCh.
Mr.. and Mrs. George lIenschel sang at n
recent Gewan ihaus cone rs ut Leipzig, aud.
says the Signalo had no reason to complain
Of - lack OF applause.
Miss Fanny Davenport in "Fedora" at the
Fourteenth street thuater, New York, seems
to be dupli at ng her great success of last sea
son. The theate. is crowded nightly.
Frau Materna is ia luck The other day
Director Poi ii had to pay her 10000 florns
for giving up his intended American tour
alter engaging her services; and now she
comes 60 America after all on a salary which
il said to bs the largest ever given to n
German singer
NJ. Gomol Is entirely opposed to the
modern practice of touching mp the works of
the ~ ii Mt ma, ters. NJ. NaucuIbeil lataly
decided to revive Gluck's "AImide' at the
Paris Opera iouse. " hen. however, he r.-
que ted the composer OF "laust' to re. ocches
trate the work, he was mos 10y an absolute re
tusal. NJ. Gounod thinks that to Ietouch
t'luck would be to destroy the ch tract5r of hIs
mu.ic.
Mr.. Wilson Barrott's American tour next
season viii he made under tho management Of
Mossrs Abbey Il SchoeHel. He will brig his
entire corlpauy and the scenery from the
Princess theatre, London "Caulian, aud
ShiJO5lGbli, together "iH'l IlbUlleJ, 8uu
possibly several other Shabespe,rian plays,
wi constitute his repertory while in tn
country.
A new opera of Carl Marir Won Webor. on
titl,d Silyana, will soon be produced at Ham
burg, Being one of his earliest productions,
it has never been considered well fitted for
the stage, but by dint of developing its
beauties and pruning It's defects it AS been
made present4blo. The lib etto has been
taken in hand by Elnst Pasque and the
musi by Langes. The foundation of the
work is said to be sut iently prolific Of IDEAS
to Justify this business of adaptation.
When Nine. Modjeslta plays in London
under the management of Mr.. Henry Abbey
slo will receive tDr her service one e-thrd Of
the gross receipts # the enterpri-a. At pres
ent She is rr'.ing arher re~id nc, in Poland
and it is understood that she is dnyot nc much
OF her leisure TO u preparation OF an j. giish
adtptatiDn Of Vhora, "a play which has
been widely succo4 fat in the Eussi En-
pire. In her native tongue she has p formed
tha principal ch .ra TOR in this play with very
great success Her route for next season
through thr uted States IS practically filed
already