Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-03-08
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,
EEw PLATs-EIiEN TERRY's DAUGHTER-MARY
ANDERSON AGAIN-FAIKA. THE NEW COMIC
OrERA-GAE&oYLE AND FORTESGUE, ETC.

ANDERSON AGAIN-FALKA. THE NEW COMIC
orERA-GAEHoYLE AND FoRTEsGUE, ETC.
Young Mrs. Winthrop and the Madison
Square company appear at Ford's next week
Maud Granger In the play Of THE
Master of the Forge" appears at the National
Monday night.
Nine. Sembr;ch has gone to Boston. Just
before leaving Baltimore Saturday she sent
Mr.. Abbey a card: AT last my dsappointments
and annoyanCes in this country are at an end.
/ am done sing no more here
- Emma ABBOTT made more money in Cali
fornia than all the operate combinations. big
ard little in tie country have made this season.
She is now in salt Lake delighting the Nor
mons.
- Nerzwinsky, the tenor, who was here last
season with the MaplesOn troupe. has created a
great sensation in st. Petersburg recently by
his performance in The Huguenots" as RaOul
- In Judge Gedneys opera, THE Culprit
Fay. in which leading character is Arthur
ChfStd'. 81 Vermont. who Is thus addressed
thet: Oh boy. delighted to see you. Say there
are ,nior.nefs around. Got any dynamite with
You: And Chester replies: II am Arthur
chester Chef OF the Hydraulic Engineers; I've
Deem In some pretty tight places"
Labouchere. of the London Truth says
Mary Anderson is making more money in Henry
Irvlngs theatcr than he could make himself
anu re IS making more money here than she
Could Lave made
- Mapieson took eighty people, members OF
H. NJ. Opera company. to California.
- Lillian Russell is singing in 'Billie Taylor
through Germany and France. Solomon, the
composer. is her manager.
- 1t has been falsely reported that Emmett's
dog is TO sue the manager of the company for
putting JOes name in larger type than his "a 600
majestys.
- Johann Strauss has written a new comic
opera.
- Minnie Palmer has been doing so well in
London that she has just made second extern
sion of her engagement.
-"COnfusiOn" seems to be in demand. Nat
Goodwin has made StetsOn an offer for the Cali
fornia right. but StetsOn knows he has a good
thing ard intends to keep it to himself Louis
HARRISON and Courley made bid for it in Lon
don last summer. AMI George K. knight has
tried in vain 10 buy it.
- Blanche Davenport (Banca Lablanche) has
achieved phenomenal success in Palermo,
SiciiN She has received an offer of re-engage-
ment to sing three nights OF a week at s., GOO a
night.
-'Peeks Bad Boy" has caught the Philadel-
phians.
- How much does it cost to get in, mis-
~.
at the door of the Boston museum. "Thirty-
five cents is the lowest" Are they really going
TO fight:' Fight, What do you mean?"
why, Gilbert and Sullivan, mster.''
Frank Mayo will produce new piece in
May "NOrdeck' is the name. and Mrs. d. P.
Bowers in the leading female part.
- Ellen Terry's daughter, TALL graceful girl
OF fourteen will make her debut at the London
Lyceum after hermother's return from America
Her stage name will he AljSa Craip
The "Crittenden-Patti kiss has been the
subject of much comment. They all do it,. but
some do it more aristocratica!ly.
james E. Murdoch, the veteran actor was
Lonored with reception at the Academy of
Fine Arts. in Philadelphia on the occasion Of
his sd birthday.
PRINCES Ida still continues popular at
tracing crowds both in New York and Boston
Louis Harrison has just married the pretty
soubrette o. his company, Emma Schultz. His
partner. Gouriey. is soon to be married to
handsome young Australian.
number of English authors are endeavor-
ing TO secure the English American copyright
law Among others. BiackmOre. Wilkie Col
Lns, Charles Heade. Cardinal Manning George
Augustus saa, Charlotte Yonge and Walter Be-
SAINT.
C W Cuidock ''aMadison Square Theater''
celebrity. Is to have a grand testimonial next
year. which will he the occasion of the 5Oth
anniversary of his first appearance as an actor.
1t viii be golden jubilee.
- An English lady writing to the u london
Theater." a celebrated theatrical magazine. an
article on the comparative merits of Anderson
AID Terry. preferring the latter. concludes with
Il have been told that Miss Anderson's popu-
iafIty is CHIEFLY owing to the immense admira-
llon her looks nave excited in the minds Of her
Cwn sex: if such he the case | can ONLY saw
that never realized until the present time how
great is the influence we possess over the
opinions and Judgment of our several lords and
masters.
W. e Sheridan is to be under the manage
ment of j. j. Collins next season
-"Falka," the new comic opera. which Was
successfully produced March 4th for the first
time in this country at Haverly's Theater. Phil
adelphia. has been favorably commented on bv
the press OF that city. Ii was written by H. B.
Farnie. with music by F. Chassairnp and was
hrst produced at the Comedy Theater. London.
october 18th. 1883. The plot is of very simple
construction laika, pretty girl of eighteen
summers. tired of convent lite resolves to clone
With her lover Their flight is immediately dis
covered. and the culprit to elude unavoidable
detection. resolves on the eXpedient OF changing
places with her ad,nirer who. on assuming the
blue and white garb of the convent is at once
carried on. while his intended bride attired as
boy. quickly earns for herself the good opin-
Ions OF Baron Folbach. to the detriment of Tan
eie" ul> Ii-Hllui lielf- lHc subsequent cOmDli-
cation OF affairs is illustrated by music. which
lends itself with admirable versatility to MANY
humorous situations.
The Queens Lace Handkerchief" as suno
b. the Patterson O. y Opera Co., PLAYED re-
Gently to packed houses in Topeka. Kansas.
Locai papers say the people We're wildly infatu-
ated with il.
G"rster succeeded in drawing g. Geo the
first night at the Tabor Opera House-about
Sl.3to hehind Kansas City-but not bad for
Denver
- OF Coloael Maplcson's chorus the Denver
Tribune says: 'tirey-haired men. who reco,-
ected II from the time they were children.
welt at the associations and memories IL recalled
a. II liied ont from the wings i'm its familiar
antiquity Nations may rise and fall obellsk
Ray erumblr into dust pyramids NAV ioin the
sands over which for So long they have scowled
Their siIilen defiance but that chorus. i'm ALI its
fascinating n-i!aess will Tile out i'm all places
alo IN All tunes, proof against DEATH and proof
AGAINST change There is something weird
about it
olive Logan. in her London letter gives q
graphic description OF Viscount Garmoy,e and
his eX-sweethcart. Mss Fortesque. the actress
VITO Is sueing him fo- breach Of promise The
AFFAIR IL the popu!a. sensation in society circles
III London ~ present ''Only a few EVENINGS
ego the eNlgencies OF space in a crowded exit
hail at thcater caused me to be Knocking
elbows with this girl. while Lord GarmoyIe had
gone out 20 hurry the arrival of lis cab. She was
f.iliufr To Willie Wila br. o.