Evening star., 1885-06-06
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
MR.. HANFoRD NEXT sEAsOS-MoRE PEBoN Al
AENTioN--''rHE BASKBR,s wIFE"-vIcToR
HUGos BLAYs-HENRY Irving AGAIN-FRED
sCHwAB AND MISC NEvADA-Brc

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Mr.. Chas- d. Hanford, of this city, has
returned TO Washington. after q long season
with keene He has signed with Robson and
Crane for next season. t. play Kpeon, in their
great revival of 'The Comedy of Errors, which
they are TO play the whole OF next season. Mr.
h'ni"rds engagement for 1E9eon Is the result
oi has signal success in that part at the Cincin
natl dramatic festival.
Il EStelle Clayton will begin a 90 weeks tour
in "Favette' on september IA.
- Dir. and Mrs. Geo. y. Knight will spend the
summer in Europe, instead OF at Saratoga
The New Magdalen" has been revived In
London a. the Standard theater, with Ada
Cayendish as Mercy nerrick.
-"Fedora'' reached its three hundredth
English representation at the Royal theater, In
Glasgow, last saturday.
The statement that Miss Fortescue, the
disappointed fiancee of Lord Garmoyle, would
come to America next season, ishappily incor-
rect. She begins provincial tour Of Great
Britain in September, having just closed one
that was highly proftable. 1t is said that sh3
cannot act, but that her nOtoriety draws good
houses.
"A dramatic paper makes the startling state
ment that John X. Rogers will manage Lotta in
America while Minnie Palmer Is making her
tour around the world.
John Howson and Emma Howson viii go
out next season In new comedy by Robert
Griffin Morris.
Theodore Thomas concert season in San
Francisco is said to be financial failure thus
Tar.
Ezra Kendall, who made such hit as Dr..
lHuIo NeGticus in "We, Us & Co." will produce
his new piece, "a Pair of Kids, at Tony Pas
tors theater, New York, on the 18th instant.
-"Nanon, which is soon to be put on at the
Casino. New York, has now passed the 35Oth
night of Its run in Berlin.
-"The Bankers Wife" is the latest member
Of the family to be made the subject of play.
Its i is 10y Howard Rus; Russell, and was pro.
banker himself, or the bankers confidential
clerk. would be put into play, but it is feared
1T would harrow up the popular feelings TO too
great an extent.
Mark Twains play, called "Tom Sawyer"
was tried on last week in Hartford, New Haven
and other towns. 1t was failure. The piece
aPpears to have been pretty bad, and the fact
the author resides is sufficient indication of
its quality.
Frank Mayo's excellent play "Nordeck," !"
seems To- have taken hold i'm New York. Its
stay at the Union square theater which was to
have ternined week ago, has been prolonged.
Harry Lee, who was not conspicuous Sue
cess as leading support to Fanny Davenport in
Fedora the past season, will, it is said go out
play, "The Dom"
-.'It was the cat'' which caused a delay in
the ns thc curtain on the first scene Of
..Adonis at the BiIou theater, New York, one
night this week. There are five of them in the
house. and several occasions they hal
broken the spell of Harry Dixey's Inspiration
by appearing OF the stage at the most critical
moment. Therefore, Dixey refused to go ahead
until all the cats had been banished from the
stage.
- Minnie Palmer will remain abroad for two
years, il is said, visiting India, Australia and
New Zealand, and returning home by way Of
San Francisco, in May, 1887.
John T. Raymond begins bis summer en-
gagement at tae Madison Square Theater
New York. on Monday next.
MIR. Whitney Mockridge, the tenor, who
was heard here recently in the Choral Society
concerts Will assist Clara Louise kellogg In her
forthcoming summer concert tour.
Mrs Augusta Foster will play Lady Mac
beth, F0tumnin in "Corolanus,' and the Em-
press in The Gladiator with Salvini next sea-
son. having been specially engaged for these
parts
Mr. Arthur B. Chase. formerly Rhea's man.
ager. and who will manage Lawrence Barrett
next season, had ehe misfortune recently to
break les While fishing at Rangeley Lakes
Victor Hngo's dramas have furnished the
subjects of many operas. Verdi based two Of
his great works on "Hernani' and lie Roi
s'Amuse." Douizetti took "Lucrece Borae,"
Mercadante Angelo and Salvi LES Bux-
graves. Two other composers besides Verdi
wrote operas from "Hernan;" Marion de
Lorme" inspired two, Marie Tudor two,
meralda," no less shan nine-French. Italian,
Belgian, Russian, Hungarian. English and
The cure of one actress-smitten man is re-
ported. He had for many years been an inmate
Of an insane asylum. He became furious lover
of kistori Mary stuart. and immediately went
DAFT OF late years the one mania Oflove for the
mimic Queen was all that allied him Seeing
that RIstori. on her recent farewell tour h ad
become a middle-aged woman, with none OF
her personal beauty left. the physician decided
astonishingly successful. There was enough OF
the former Ristori TO convince the man that
she was the same individual; but he SO
thoroughly disenchanted that recovery was
almost instantaneous.
Henry Irving Is thought by nearly all the
London papers TO have been greatly improved
In his acting by his American tour. The Satur-
dW RerigW says that Ibis enunciation has
ism; the articulation of each word is far more
distinct. and as corollary the sentences are
better balanced and carry more weight, with
out losing anything in nnene,s, and goes on to
moderated"
Mr.. Gustave Frohman's Lyceum Theater
Co., composed of the principal scholars of the
Lyceum School OF Acting, will open their season
at lonkers on th@12th. large theater com pany
-. N New ork Will go up to observe the per
Tor = nee David Belasco and Bronson Howard
are W ~ " on plays ior the LyceuIn pupils.
- Mr. Thorn IS W. Keene's manager declares
that he did not have losing week the past
season. heene confined himself to "Richard
III aad "Sla1beth, the former being his piece
tS EestNttHce- Next season he VIII do ''OthellO"
and "Halnlet frequently. His manager said:
- am going TO do thi, tragedy business as il
has never been done in America We shall have
entirely new scenery and costumes of the very
best quality, and we shall engage "a couple Of
cars in which To carry this stun through the
country"
The Ford Wallace season at the Fifth Ava
nue. theater, New York, will last six weeks
The arrangement upon which the theater is
held by the management. provides that IL the
receipts go over 81 900 Ford and Wallace must
pa. hall the rent: il not, then Rice Miles and
BARTON pay Ii all Last week IL is said the
receipts were $1,000. and the nrst week nearly
that sum- and the opera management have not
been obliged ~ inlhll the obligation respecting
rental.
In an interview cabled frora London to a
New York paper Emma Nevada the singer is
reported as saying, in speaking OF Frederick
Schawb- dramatic critic of the New York Times.
- naturally concluded that he wanted money
from me in return for favorable notices. and
f&ii:Ds 10 get money he wrote uaiavorable
nOtlcSs OF my performance" Mr.. Schwab said
in relation TO this: Il nave instructed my law
yer To arrest Nile Nevada on u charge of crimi-
nal IIDtI, De IL one or ten years hence, when she
returns TO America i have also cabled to
friends in London ana Pari. TO watch the Euro
pean papers, and if Mile. Nevada has the mis-
fortune TO make any statement OF a similar sort
n any European city she will ind herself where
MIS-. Weldon IL at preseDt-in JAIL
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