Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-03
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.


BELLS TRoUBLEs-MNE. JUDIc's AMERICAN
DEBUT-How "ADoNIs'' WILL BE KEPT IN
NEW YORK.
The revival OF "Evanseline" will take place
at the Fourteenth Street theatre, New York,
Monday evening instead of ut the Bijou opera
house. There will be "a people in the cast, and
Il il thought the extravaganza Will have long
run.
Louise Pomeroy is out on the road playing
Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet" the fair
Louise appearing as Hamlet and Romeo. She
will be seen at Herzogs, in this city, during the
season.
- The FIOrences close their engagement at
Days theater, New York. this evening. On
Monday they will appear at the Walnut-street
theaier, Philadelphia.
George c. Min was arrested In Denver for
aSsaultng one OF his employees. and was heavily
fined. The Min company will probably dis
band for good on account of many legal entan-
clements.
-Signor Salvini, who acted as best man at
the Palmer Nevada wedding in Paris on Thurs
day, sailed from England for America to-day.
Mime. Janish will next week close her sue
ces<f,Il engagement in "Anselma' at the Madi-
son Square theaier. The lady has become quite
istvorite in New York.
-Tamberlick, the tenor, who Is now sixty
five. sang the other day at the Casino at Trou-
Vile in the first act of "Trovatore," at . benefit
to the artists of that establishment.
Couns and Countess Magri formerly Mrs.
Tom Thumb, with q troupe of specialists, will
commence a tour of the country on October g
under the management of John w. Hamilton.
- Miss Minnie Maddern's engagement at the
New York Lyceum. originally for four weeks,
has been extended TO eight weeks. 1t began
September 10.
sarah Bernhardt is to reappear in Paris at
the Porte St MsrtiE, on October Is. She has
applied to the executors of Victor Hugo for per-
mission to play Marion Delorme.'
"A play which Mr.. Louis James will proba-
bly, produce early next season is "a Poets
Dream" 1t is written by Mr.. George Hoey, and
deals with the life of Shakespeare.
- Mr. II. l.. Coleman, an actor of strong real
1>tic power. is a member of Mime. MOdjesk a g
company this season. Mr.. Coleman is the hus-
band OF Margaret Tanner minnie Frye, of
this city.
e F. Thorne will disband his Heart and
Handcuff' company after this week. He will
resume his old part in 1.-The Black Flag COM
pany.
= Miss Kate Forsythe is anxius to secure a
New York theater for the production of Sardou's
"Theodora."
Lolita drew an average of 81 200 perform
apce last week at MeVickar's Theater, Chicago.
The French composer, Leo Delibes, is at
present in Galicia, where he is collecting ma
tional songs and melodies of the Poles and Ru-
thenians with the intention OF composing an
opera upon u Slav theme.
Verdi has bequeathed his villa, Novo
d'Arda, to be transformed into a hospital. He
has given 16 900 francs to the poor at Bassio,
and, in consequence of the bad harvest, has
taken of ten per cent from tho rents OF all his
tenants.
M. Marin, the French tenor, asked the
triing sum of fi0O for singing each night at
the Italian performances at the Paris Opera
next winter, or IS, 600 for twenty nights. Ulti-
mately, as a mark of friendship, he reduced his
terms 10 $4,000.
-Modjeska begins her tour Monday at Eas-
ton, Pa. Mr.. Daniel Frohman gives her q GER
tainty of 81, $50 per week.
- Fred. Warde got into trouble in Lima. Ohio,
last week. Two years ago John j. Collins, his
manager, borrowed $500 from local banker,
Warde endorsing the note Collins never hqui-
dated, and the banker came down on Warde
and attached the box Office receipts and bag
gage: AT last accounts the company were still
Rose Coghlan produced Cazaurans new
play, .Won and Lost. play of character with
out plot" in Providence, X. l., Wednesday
evening.
Miss Alberta Gallatin, a Virginia beauty,
nineteen years OF age, the daughter of a famous
confederate general, who was killed during the
late war, is In New York, and will burst upon
the public as star before the close of the sea-
son. Her family is one of the best known and
wealthiest in the south.
The so-called Milan Opera Company for this
year will INCLUDE Carrie Morse, Miles. Marietta
Maltri, Adele Vamani, Emma ROmeldi, Signors
1dYllcrl, OdrtanO Slll1 ana L. lehman.
"A New York dramatic paper intimates that
the reason Louis James left Lawrence Barrett's
company was that the former had become en-
tirely too big for his roles. II there Is to be any
sweilsd head in the Lawrence Barrett company
Lawrence Barrett Is going to have IL himself.
The Tooth performance of "Nanon' at the
New York Casino was fttingly celebrated
Thursday night There Is a prospect that the
piece will run all the season. A recent decision
OF San Francisco Judge is said to put Nanon"
about on the same status as 1.-The Mikado," so
that Carletons supposed exclusive right to play
IL outside of New York may not be OF much
value 10 him.
BARLEY Campbelps affairs seem to be rap
idly approaching an acute crisis. "Paquita,"
which Is said to have been a financial failure,
was Withdrawn from the Fourteenth street
stage on Wednesday night On Tuesday the
company struck. presumably, for overdue sal
the play wys kept ON for two nights longer
After rest Of two weeks, "Paquita' will be put
on the road.
Mime. Judic made her American debut in
New York Thursday evening In mile.
Nitouche." Wallaek's theater was crowded to
welcome the fat little Frenchwoman, who
seems to have jumped into favor at once. Her
stage appearance Is described as fine. She has
q charming smile and beautiful eyes. Says
one critic: 1.-The chief charm of her acting was
her apparent unconsciousness of effect, her
droll surprise at the result Of her well con-
cealed art; her occurrences Of look while sing
ing the most risky couplets; her sublime innO-
cence when caught in the most questionable
situations"
= Boston is not to have Dixey and "Adonis'
after all, and at last the reports and contradic-
tons about that popular pair seem to be set at
rest. Mr.. Rice thus explains ho1 the thing
was arranged: Dixey remain5 at the Bijou
opera house for the season; the Fifth Avenue
"MikadO" company, in place OF going to the
Globe theater, Boston, remains at the Fifth Av-
enue theater indefinitely, Stetson having TO buy
OF Booth and Modjeska. A new "Mikado''
company will be formed, of which John Stet-
son will be manager, to open the Hollis street
theater in October. "Evangeline," which was
10 have been given at the Bijou opera house
Monday, goes 10 the FOurteenth-street theater,
and the Globe theater in Boston continues un-
der Nr. Stetson's management TO play Its regu-
lar combinations.
Ashrewd Mexican Postal Trick.
Superintendent warield in st. Louis Gobe-Democrat
They have no regular mail service down In
Mexico The railroads there receive not a cent
for carrying the mails, and no one in the Re.
public seems TO have any knowledge of how
mails are sent or received. / think what the
star reuters are complaining about Is this
Having no system OF their own. the Nexicans are
trying to- take advantage OF ours by sending
their mail around through Texas and back
again into Me xicO. Come To this map and I'll
show you what mean. Here, for instance, Is
the City of Laredo, Mexico, near the Texas
line II they want To send mail matter tC
Piedras Negras. town way to the north, also
In Mexico and on the Texas line, their scheme
Is this: First, mail will be sent to San Antonio
Texas, which lies far east into the interior oil
Texas, yet north of Laredo. From that IL goes
still nOrthward, but at the same time back tC