Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-21
DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL,

NINE. MARIE RozE recently gave her Tooth
performance of Carmen at Liverpool.
IT is proposed in New York to give Billy
Birch a substantial benefit as the veteran fun
maker has for the past two years suffered
severely from business reverses.
NINE. ALBANI has started for tour through
Holland and Belgium. She will sing the
soprano part in Redemption" in the first per-
Torrance in Paris under NJ. Gounod of the
| birmingham oratorio.
HERMAN AND JONES new melodrama sue
cessiully launched at the Princess Theater,
London, under the title of Breaking a Butter
fly" is an adaptation from the German of
Wilhelm Langes "Norali," which, in turn,
was taken from a Norwegian play by Henrik
! lbsen.
! The Paris Figaro states that M Gayarre has
! signed with the managers Of the Paris Italian
opera for Is nights at $1,000 per night. This
sum is to be paid in a peculiar manner. Each
night the tenor sings he is to be paid three
mig IS salary until the total amount is col
lected.
EDWIN BOOTH writes to n New York play.
writer: at is not my intention to add to my
repertoire, and therefore cannot encourage
you to write a play for me. My health is far
from good, and every fresh exertion seems to
PROSTATE me. Henceiorth hope to limit my
engagements to few weeks each year, and to
the few roles which the public seems to prefer"
The testimonial to be rendered Sir Jules
Benedict by his English admirers will consist
of two festival concerts in Royal Albert Hall,
and q purse Of money will be added to the
receipts.
MISS ODER, the well known manageress
said to a Boston Herald reporter; "The
simple reason is l cannot get an American
opea that is worth producing / think have
found one ut last, and that Is written by S. j
| Studley. | have heard q great deal ofthe mus
&c, and 1t lmpressces me very iavoraby, us it has
excellent judges. l will give it a trial as soon
as it is completed. 1t is strange that, in Il vast
country like this, with over 50,000000 nopu-
lation and so much musical culture we can't
! produce IN opera, but such seems to be the
fact. | have the morey to pay for it, and will
be glad to secure such thing, if it exists, but
| haven't heard of it yet" ado YOU not have
many operas submitted to you?" Hundreds,
and | read them ali carefully, and give the
music fair trial, but there is something lack
ing in them all. The authors don't Use to the
occasion. | suppose experience is what we
lack. and then there is not such rich field
here TO call from as the foreigners have Man
ayers do not go abroad as matter of choice
for their materials they are compelled 10 go
! TO foreign olllrcs tor want of Il home supply
| Not only are we lacking in musicians who can
compose original and attractive music, but we
have no really good librettists, or any one who
can translate with happy effect. From my
position, / think / should know such if they
were to be found, but cannot find them"
The managers of the Wagner festival con-
certs under Theodore Thomas have concluded
arrangements for series of these concerts in
Memphis, Minneapolis and number of o her
! f.tft al
antees being received in each city.
SUpPE's "Trip to Africa appears to have
gNined widespread popularity, as managers
all over the country are cndeavoling to
secure it,
The London success of the princess Ida" is
an undoubted fact. The receipts in the first
three weeks of its run exceeded by fSl5 lSs.
those of the corresponding three weeks in 1888
with 'lolanthe," and Gll90 those Of the cores
ponding three weeks in 1882 with "Patience"
while the booking in advance is the largest ever
had at the Savoy Theatre.
Mr.. AND Mrs GEORGE S. KNIGHT have a
new play, called "Max Lindermann," which
they produced in Cincinnati with considerable
success.
AUGUsrIN DAYS company will go to Lon
don next summer, for season Of two months
at Tooles Theater, under the management of
William Terriss, leading man in Irvings COM
pany. They will leave ON july s in tho Alaska,
and open in London on July 10.
MIR. BuRNAND's new burlesques ''Paw
Clawdian," at Toole's theater, London, is an
immense success,and is pronounced on all lands
to be one of the very best PAROLES that has
been seen Tor many years, Toole hits off Will
son Barretts peculiar manner to tho life, and
Miss Linden is not less happy in her mimicry
of Miss Eastlake.