, 1884-06-29

DftNU- DUNN u NhC udulc VI u new
%farcical musical comedy.
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Mr.. Irving will return from England
without Miss Terry or Mr.. Terriss.
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1t is said that Mr.. Gustave Levick and
Miss Ada Wallace are shortly to be mar
ried.
Mrs. Catherine Lewis is appearing in
Prince Methusalen, at the Spanish Fort,
near New Orleans.
Lawrence Barrett, nothing deferred by
his London f~asco, will play a season at
the Star Theatre in New York.
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Madame Adelaide Ristori will make us
another visit the coming season under the
management Of Brooks 4 Dickson.
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1t is announced that Sarah Bernhardt
will come to America next season under
the management of Mr.. Henry E. Abbey,
4 Christmas GIFT is the title of a new
play written by Mr.. John A. Stevens.
which he says will be produced next sea
son.
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The latest agony among the Partisan
dudes is to carry cambria handkerchiefs
with the portrait of a favorite actress
printed in the corner.
Mr.. Edwin Booth will begin his season
the latter part of November under the
management or. NJ. Field, of Boston,
playing alternate weeks with Clara Morris.
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Nine. Modjeska supports in Hungary a
school for teaching lace making to girls
and wood carving to boys. In the United
States some of the best wood carvers are
women.
Miss Nellie Strickland will go with W.
j. Scanlan's company next season, rlay-
ing the leading roles. Miss Strickland is
an exceedingly pretty and clever Young
lady.
Rose Coghlan's salary has almost doub-
led itself within the past few seasons. She
now receives $3.50 per week at Wdllack's.
in New York, and S475 a week when on
the road.
Pretty Fay Templeton and her star
company will be the next attraction at the
Opera House. Fay is as cute and clever
as ever, and no doubt she will enjoy good
large audiences.
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The Litta monument. to be erected to
the memory of the dead songstress by her
friends. at Bloomington, Ills, will stard
II feet 5 inches high, and cost when com
pleted 81, 45o.
Jacques Kruger intends to have a first
class company to support him next season
in Dreams. He has secured James Pow
ers, who was in the original production,
and Louise Searle.
Mrs. Sinclair, who was divorced from
Edwin Forrest years ago, is still living IN
Staten Island. and is a hale, hearty, hand
some old lady, beautifully provided with
this worlds goods.
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Miss Genevieve Ward has met with
brilliant success at the Princess Theater,
Melbourne, and has created a sensation
that has not been equaled since the visit
of the great Ristori;
Ten tons Of ice are used nightly to cool
the auditorium of the Madison Square
Iheater, where May Blossom Aourishes.
This mechanical process reduces the EN-
perature twelve degrees.
Levi is getting out an autobiography,
and promises to publish some of Mary
Ann Conway-Levi -Tearle's letters to him
some eight months before she shook him
for the other Englisman.
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Mile. Rhea, after n very prosperous
tour throughout the West, will close her
season in Detroit on July /. She sails on
the Alaska for London on July 5, to re-
main absent until September.
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Annie Pixley is e~ndeavoring to cancel
all her time for next season. wishing to
remain in Europe for at least one year. 1t
is more than PROBABLE that she viii not be
seen at all in this country until 1885.
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Florence Marryatt (Mrs. Rose church,
is coming to this country expressly to de.
liver her prize conundrum lecture, what
Shall We Do With Our Mem" when the
answer is obvious: Florence-marry at
once.
Mime. Janisch, who is a Countess of
something or other, has been engaged by
II. j. Sargent for three years. She will
play in English some of her strongest
German roles and also one of the Shakes
perian plays--prObably CyDtbelne.
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After singing her last song in Cincins
natl, Nine. Christine Nilsson told an in
terviewer that this was positively her last
tour in America; that she should sail from
New York July ., sing a little in England.
go to Sweden, and bid farewell forever to
professional life.
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Most of the theatrical business in Amer
lea is now being done in San Francisco,
where Lille Langtry in A WJe's Peril,
and James O'Neil in Monte Cristo, are
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