The bee., 1884-02-23
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Dion BoUcICAULT viii play an engage
ment of three weeks in New York in March
LoTTA has bought the copyright OF the
new opere.ia, "Nell Gwynne, for production
in America.
MINNIE PALMER, now playing a successful
engagement in London, returns to America
next season to make tour of the country.
PAULINE LUCIA is to appear at the Imperial
Opera-house, Vienna, as the heroine in Pom
chiellI's ''Gioconda," and is now studying
the Iart.
M. JULES CLARETIE has written five-act
comedy entitled 'L'Americaine." !" in which he
satirlzeS the influence Of Americans on French
manners.
In 1883 25l 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 cold night, found the hall
SO cool that the fairies in 'Iolanthe' wore
seal skins and overshoes.
Mr.. ABBEY will retire from the manage
ment of the Metropolitan 0pera-house in
New York. The opera season there has
proven an artistic success, but financial
failure
Mr.. HENRY E. 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, including Edwin Booth,
for combination season.
SALvAYRE's opera of Richard I'LL, which
has been produced at St Petersburg with
great success, is really free adaptation of
Shas seSpeare's tragedy set TO music. 1t is,
however, too Wagnerian it is said to please
the French.
RAYMoND's rev play, "For Congress- >
has made hit. In il he takes the part of
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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 i'll Edinburgh, and
four each in Glasgow, Blackburn, Blackpool,
Ransgatn aud Stockton-on-Tees. In Ireland
there are only ten, including music halls.
BRET HARTE, speaking about dramatizing
his stories, says: 'Ell leave that to some
one who has tougher hide than l. A man
needs more nerve and fewer nerves than L
have got to dance attendance on actors and
theatrical managers with a pay. L have
never tried it. but know people who have.
and l. envy none of them their experience. :;
LAWRENCE BARRETT will open in London
April IA in " Yorick's Love" 1t is his inten-
tion TO remove his family to Germany, where
they will reside permanently. Mrs. Barrett
NJ. Barrett will return to America in Au-
gust, and viii act during the season, return
ing to Europe each year.
FOREIGN papers are calling attention to
the large number of talented singers pro-
duCe1 in America. One reason of the super
iority of America over Europe, they claim,
is that the ranks of the singers receive re-
cruits from all social circles in America,
while i'll Paris even a course of studies at the
Conservatory is looked upon with suspicion
by the higher classes.
In is some years ago when Bartley Camp
bell first said: I'm this country have found
the playwright living in a garrett and the ac
tor living i'll villa at Long Branch. The
man who makes the play is treated like
poor relation by the player. When l went to
Paris found the actor living in a garrett
aud the playwright in a villa" / think TIM
BARLEY Campbell has done more than any
her American dramatiSt to bring about the
new condition in which both actor and play
maker can reside at Long Branch.-Nyn
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