The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-22
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

DION BoUCIcAULT will play an engage
ment of three weeks in New York in March
Lolita has bought the copyright of the
new operetta, "Nell Gwynne, for production
| i'll America.
MINNIE PALMER, now playing successful
| engagement in London, returns to America
next season to make a tour of the country.
PAULINE LUCIA is to appear at the Imperial
| Opera house, Vienna, us the heroine in Pom
chelli's "Gioconda,n and is now studying
the part
NJ. JULES CLARETIE has written five-act
comedy entitled "L'Americaine, in which he
| satirizes the influence of Americans on French
manners.
In 1888 PSI dramatic compositions and
| twenty-five operas were addressed to the
| general intendant of theatres at Berlin for
acceptance.
AN opera company that recently appeared
! in Peru, Ind, on a cold night, found the hall
so cool that the fairies in lola nthen wore
seal skins and overshoes.
Mr.. ABBEY will retire from the manage
ment of the Metropolitan Opera-house in
New ork. The opera season there has
proven an artistic success but financial
| failure.
! Mr. HENRY +. ABBEY is now said to have
on foot a grand theatrical scheme which
looks to the pooling of a number of the best
stars in the country, inclu ling Edwin Booth,
SALvAYREs opera of Richard Ill )" which
has been produced at st. Petersburg with
great success, is really a free adaptation of
Shakespeares tragedy set to music. 1t is,
however, too Wagnerian, it is said, TO please
the French.
| RAYMoND's new play, Z" For Congress, "
has made hit. In it he takes the part of
Mr.. Timber" a politician of the modern
! school. The Character is said to fit him like
glove, and there is no end OF fun in the
performance.
THERE are 34S theatres in Great Britain.
OF this number thirty-seven are in London,
eleven in Liverpool, five in Edinburgh, and
four each in Glasgow, Blackburn Blackpool,
Ransgate, and Stockton-ouTees. In Ireland
there are only ten, including music halls.
BRET HARrE, speaking about dramati zing
his stories says: "l'll leave that to some
one who has a tougher hide than |. man
needs more nerve and fewer nerves than
have got to dance attendance ON actors and
theatrical managers with a play. | have
never tried it, but | know people who have ,
and | envy none of them their experience. y
LAWRENCE BARRETT will open in London
| April IA in " Yorick's Love" 1t is his inten.
ton to remove his family to Germany, where
they will reside permanently. Mrs. Barrett
desires to live near her married daughter
NJ. Barrett will return to America in Au
gust, and will act during the season, return
ing to Europe each year.
FOREIGN papers are calling attention &c
the large number of talented singers pro
duced i'll America. One reason of the super
ority of America over Europe, they claim,
is that the ranks of the singers receive re-
cruits from all social circles in America,
while in Paris even course of studies at the
Conservatory is looked upon with suspicion
by the high n classes.
IT is some years ago whe1 BARLEY Camp
bell first SAID: "ln this country | have found
the playwright living in garrett and the ac-
tor living in a villa at Long Branch. The
man who makes the play is treated like a
poor relation by the player. When | went to
Paris found the actor living in garnet
aud the playwright in a villa | think thu
hartley Campbell has done more than any
other American dramatst to bring about the
new condition in which both actor and play
maker can reside at Long Branch.-Nynl
CiiuLje.