The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Mrs. LANeTRY is drawing good houses
this season.
CARLoTTA PATTI and her husband De
Munck are coming back to America soon for
concert tour under Max Strakosch
The recent performance, in Brussels, OF
Ernest Reyer's opera, "Sigurd, nis pronounced
the great musical event of the season.
REMENYI is at Havana, and he and his fd-
die are being jobbed around the houses of the
swell Cubans. He will give public concerts
later.
BONANZA MACKEY has guaranteed Patti
S65, 600 for season in San Francisco, and
Manager Mapleson accepted the proposition
for her.
NORRIS BARRYMORE, Modieska's leading
man, has written for her play called mad
jerda," aud she will produce it at Baltimore
before long.
Mr. IRvING's engagement in Chicago was
the largest dramatic engagement ever played
in that city. The receipts for the fortnight
were S36, 1914.
p S. GILMORE, the well known musical
director, will go to Europe next summer
The management at Manhattan Beach desire
to re-engage him.
A JEWISH operate company is advertised
as appearing nightly in a Hebrew operetta
at the International theatre, London, for
the first time in England"
JOE JEFFERSON nad regular ovation IN
Wilmington, n. G. The entire town
turned out, with the mayor and common
council at its head. The house was sold in
advance a week ahead.
CARL Rosa has found and engaged for the
Covent Garden a new soprano, named Kate
Bensberg. The is st. Louis girl, the daugh-
ter of wholesale liquor dealer, and has been
studying in Europe for the past four years
Mr. BEECHER, according to a correspond
inf ic pnt II fire oil
a recent performance, which is said to have
been very good, he read a book through the
] first two acts, and then went home looking
bored.
MCCAULL is to bring outa new comic opera.
called "Desiree,n before long at Philadelphia
1t is the work of j. T. Sousa, once leader of
the one-time famous Philadelphia church
choir company, and now OF the Marine band
at Washington.
THE twenty-first triennial musical festival
at Norwich, Eng, will take place on October
IA, Is, IL and II, this year Among other
famous pieces, "The Rose of Sharon an
oratorio composed expressly for the occasion
| by A. c. Mackenzie, will be given. A new
oantata has also been composed for the festi-
| val.
In the absence of one of the actors in the
burlesque of " Prospero,n lately performed at
a London theatre, the blind daughter of one
of the property-keepers took the part of Ariel,
directing her action entirely by sound. More
than this, at one performance she played the
role of the heroine Miranda, and. although
Of necessity often prompted and occasionally
even "spoken for by another actress, she
went through the play without causing the
audience the Least suspicion that she was
blind.
A QUEER occurrence took place recently at
a theatre in Christiana, Norway. The first
representation in Danish of Schonthan's
| " Der SchwabenStreichn was about to beOin.
when patriotic Norwegian excitedly arose
and exclaimed that it was shame to allow
the production of foreign pieces while those
of the best native writers were cody assigned
| to oblivion. The speech created a great
sensation, and most of the audience left the
theatre and went to another theatre where a
| play by native was being enacted. These
| patriots returned however, before Schon-
thans play was concluded, and vigorously
Kissed it off the stage.