Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-02-09

PIE IpELS-PERSONAL MENrIoN-A NEW THE
ATEE-NoDJEsKA AND A4Egsox-TuE rRIN-
CESS IDA, ETC.
- The Boston Ideals continue at Ford's ali
of next week.
John Mccullough begins n weeks engage
ment at the National on Monday.
Negotiations are IN progress to bring Patti
here in March, but the prospect is poor.
- Miss Geraldine UiIHar the sweet soprano
of the Boston Ideals. is just twenty years of age.
She joined the company when sixteen.
- Miss Marie Stone. Of the Ideals. is charm
Ing lady In private life, the wife of Mr. Mcdonald,
Ofthe same company.
Brgnofs rendering of "Don Pasquale," at
Lincoln hail. next week. is by the same COM
pany which gave it in New York, and Is highly
spoken OF
- 1T may be the old. old story but there is
nevertheless some good ground for the belief
that Washington will have a new theater next
fall, not block removed from Pennsylvania
avenue.
John I. Raymond will return to the 18th
street theater. New York. on February IL. with
For Congress- which has had a great run
there heretofore.
- Modjeska will begin engagement at the
Star theater New York. on February II, when
l.
play, ''Nadyezda-"
The current joke in London theatrical cir
cles is that Mr.. Edward Solomon and Miss Lii
liam Russell are to he married as soon they
can obtain the consent OF their respective
spOuses.
Nilsson has offered Hope Glenn, Of Iowa.
the use of her residence while In Europe. which
she has accepted. Miss Glenn has some very
important engagements t. fill in England, the
hrst of which is at Manchester.
- Salvayre's opera of Richard ILL.," which
has been produced at st. Petersburg with great
success. is really free adaptation of Shakes
peare's tragedy set to music. 1t is however
too Wagnerian to please French critics.
- Christine Nilsson is taxed for s123 eco
worth of real estate in New York: Henry f. Alb
hey. S1S2.GO: Moses Kimbali. 1922 OOO; John
Stetson, $50. GOO real and SCI G0 personal estate
- Mile. Rhea has taken young Detroit lady
as protege. and is preparing her for the stage.
Rhea has met with great social attention in Bal
timOre this week.
- The Lan@try management has adopted a
three sheet poster. at tie top of which is EN-
blaZoned the crest and coat Of-arms of Albert
Edward. Prince of Wales.
Nine. RistOri will begin her American en-
gagement, under the management of Messrs
Brooks and Dickson. early next autumn. She
will begin her season in New York and will play
in English.
1t is not generally known, but 4 fact, never
fheless, that the gentleman In Mrs. Langtry's
company who. under the name of II. Fitzpat-
rick. played the Overyrown boy Percy in "A
Wifes Peril" at FOrd's here. Is brother to
Mrs. COrnwallis-West, the famous English
beauty.
& alvin will limit his season in Covent Gar
He has abandoned his intention to try any part
In English He will produce Alferi's biblical
tragedy. SAUL if the lord chamberlain will
permit its performance. Next season he will
make another farewell tour" in America.
- 1t is rumOred in Paris that when Mana Sa-
nib is withdrawn Bernhardt will come to this
country again and appear in her latest success
and in Fedora" Jean Richepin, the actor
author OF Mana Sahib, will accompany her.
- The Jefferson company were here on Tues
day. on their way home. r. l.. Downing JEFF
Persons leading man. is staying with his family
IN Washington. He is shortly to be married to
q lady in New York city.
"Gasparou," MiIIoeckers new comic opera,
was produced on Saturday evening January &c,
at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna and scored
success. The opera is in three acts. The
FIRST performance was witnessed by representa-
tiyes of most of the leading German and Aus
TRAN thcateTs. and at its close over forty con-
tracts for its production in other cities were
signed by the composer. Milloecker wrote
The Beggar Student"
- Mary Anderson. the Dramatic Mirror saws,
has taken house in the Cromwell road Lon
don, and is having her brothers and sisters edu-
Gated there. Miss Anderson makes a profess
sional tour OF the British provinces next season
The following season she viii! follow Booths
example and tour through Germany. Then she
VIII return to America for thirty weeks star
ring tour. Miss Anderson it is said is so
pleased with England that her present inten-
tiOn Is to remain there
-Lotta's singing of the hymn. 'Sweet Bye
and Bye" was Kissed in London not on account
of any defect in her voice, but because it was a
hymn And yet it was this feature of the play
OF 'Musette which. more than anything else
made If popular in this country. The Pal Nal
BudJft remarks. in connection with this matter:
zone cannot help regretting that the high moral
tone of the British public was in this case in
compatible with British hospitality and that
the young American actress should have been
made TO suffer so rudely for an offense which as
she pathetcally remarked Il don't understand.
gentlemen
Next Monday Gilbert and Sullvan's latest
opera will have its first production at the Fifth
Avenue theater. New York. Miss Cora Tanner
Uc the (TUCeSS; sane Martin. ISUrltP.
Genevieve Reynolds. Lady Blanche: Hattie Do
faro. Melissa; Eva Bennington. Sacaresa Eilv
COghlan. CI0je; Florence Bannister. Ada: Sig.
BrOcolini. hiIiq Hjbnebrdnde: j. H. Riley Ejao
Cana; Wallace McCreary. Hldrion; W. S.
Rising, Cyril; Chas. j. Lang, Florldn; Ainsley
Scott. Ardc- The costumes. owing to the large
amount OF aImor required. will cost nearly
$lO,OC0- There are fifteen speaking parts and
the singIn" chorus Will consist of twenty male
and twenty female voices. In addition to this
there Is corps OF amaZOns The accounts "a
TO how Princess Ida has been received In on
don are contradictory. Chas. Ford OF Balti-
more. Is negotiating with StetsOn for the south
srn right to the Princess Ida"
Dickens Headings.
6rOm the Scottish Review
We can assure our readers who never heard
Dickens read that they lost nothing which
might help them to understand his creations
His biograrher tells us that he and other friends
demonstrated with him against the unwisdom
of the excitement and labor of these READINGS.