The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-26
Plays and Players.

Plays and Players.
Salvni will himself nanagshis coming Amer
| lean tour.
Madame Janisch will sail for England on the
LIST of May.
Alice Harrison is playing in the burlesque,
eve, Us & CO..
| William Harris has resigned from Grace Haw-
| thornes company.
| Mrs. Zelda Seguin- Wallace will play at Balti
more during the summer season.
| Mary Anderson will open her season at the
Star Theater New York, in October.
Judic, the Partisan favorite opens her Amer
lean season at Wallack's Theater, Oct. l.
AL. S. Lipman and Mrs. Mary E. Myers will
support Charles w. Couldock next season.
The Marquis De Leuvie Mrs Frank Leslie's
intended) intends to enter the lecture field.
"Perreucher is the title of Audran's new op-
era, now being played at the Bouffes Parsians
Visitors at Coney Island will have to pay ad-
mission to the concerts at Brighton Beach this
summer.
Mrs. Verplanck's play, "Sealed Instructions, !"
has met with evident favor at the Madison square
Theater.
Senorita Ano Ferer. the New Mexican prima
donna, is said to possess voice of wonderfully
rare quality.
Rose Eytinge has closed her season. 1t is re-
ported that she has done extremely well since
the election.
Miss Ada Somers, the original Hebe of the
Chicago Church Choir Company, has made hit
in New York.
Mckee Rankin will locate for a while in San
Francisco as he has secured the lease of the
California Theater.
Mrs George Vandenhoff, a we'll known
actress to the last generation of theater goers,
died last week. in New York.
Mr.. Days company have started on it's sum-
mer tour and are playing in Philadelphia They
| will be seen In Chicago this summer.
| Adelaide Moore, an American actress unknown
| ON this side of the water is making successful
| tour of England in Shakspearean roles.
| Clara Morris commenced her New York en-
| gagement at Days Theater last week. A
fashionable audience was in attendance
| Edward Solomons new opera. Polly" will be
produced at the Casino, New York, next week.
Lillian Russell and Bose Beaudett in the cast.
The first public mention of the piano forte oc
CURED in May, 1867, when the playful of the
'Beggar Opera announced that there would be
a performance on that instrument incidental to
the play.
Meningitis fairy spectacular opcretta. "The
Maid Queen" will DO produced in Cincinnati
week after next in elaborate style. Manager
George A Dickson, of this city, is interested in
| the enterprise
| Commenting upon Irving's late tour of
America, the London Times says: Coming dol
lars must pail on him after awhile, and also
| such fulsome stuff as American criticism, which,
no doubt, he has had too much sense to over
| value"
The cast Of ''Sealed Instructions produced at
| the Madison square Theater, included Messrs.
Fred Robinson, Fl. M. Pitt, Herbert Kelley w.
J. lie Moyne. Thomas Whiffen. Walden Ramsay.
| Fred Ross Harry Hogan and the Misses Matilda
| Madison, Annie Russell, Jessie Mlward and
| Lena Langdon. The scenery is very fine, one
scene. that of the British embassy at Paris, being
especially notable.
| New York World: ''Favette,r at the Union
| square, has proved growing popular success.
Miss Estele Clayton, who impersonates the
| heroine, is beautiful and charming ingenue.
and her play is fashioned to exhibit her charms
to the best advantage. Her delineation of the
naive innocence of the rustic maiden, who
| knows absolutely nothing of the world, is as
| prettily sweet, simple and touching as anything
| we have had in this line of comedy. The play
| can be safely recommended to everybody who
| likes the smell of new-mown hay in preference
| to the apothecary shop
| In connection with the representations of the
'Meistersinger" in Brussels, some particulars
have been published to show the extreme care
with which this work was prepared for the first
performance in Munich in 1868. There are said
| to have been forty five rehearsals Of solo parts
with piano-forte accompaniment, sixty of the
| choral parts alone and three of the choral and
solo portions together with five Of the stringed
| instruments, four of the wind instruments, four
of the complete orchestra, four of the chorus
| and orchestra combined, four OF the scenic set
tings and twelve for the general ensemble, or
141 separate rehearsals for the opera
Eugene Field, in Chicago News: Nine. Adelina
| Patti witnessed the performance of Our Bach
elors" by Messrs. Robson and Crane at Hooley's
/ Theater, last evening Between the second and
third acts she went behind the curtain and had
a talk with the distinguished comedians She
reminded Mir. Robson that he was the first
American actor of prominence to speak words of
| encouragement to her when she was a poverty
stricken little girl singing about the streets for
a living. Singularly enough, too. il Mr..
| Robson who contributed to the New York
Mirror-then edited by n. p. WILTSHIRE criti-
cism of Adelinas first appearance in New York
| in concert twenty eight years ago. This
friendly critique Nine Patti still preserves
among her most treasured archives
|