Omaha daily bee., 1885-08-15

idan Corbyn's management, will commence at
the Brooklyn Opera house August 90.
Miss Kate Claxton is to open her coming
season in New York, giving her new play its
first production here.
The banjo is a good deal like the cucumber.
A good deal of human misery follows its
pickings.- Detroit Every Saturday.
Layselle, the French baritone, is o million
aire, although bis salary at the opera
is only $4,000. He speculates in real
estate.
Miss Mathilde Landieu, q fine contralto
and an American protege Of Patti, proposes to
return shortly to this country to begin q con-
cart tour.
Madame Adeiiua Patti was pr sented with
q diamond bracelet in London on July 26 IN
honor of the completion of her twenty fifth
annual engagement in that city.
Mr.. Nate Salisbury is the party chic fly in
terested in Mr.. Fred Bryton's new play,
Jack of Diamonds" He has faith in the
piece and is literally backing it.
Mary Beebe is singing in comic opera in a
cheap summer garden at Baltimore. The
tenor, West, for whom she deserted her Bos-
ton husband, still stands by.
On Monday evening next the doors of the
Chlcsgo opera house, which has been in pro-
cess of construction Tor so many months, will
hp OBDh VIZ DuullCs 1llulllA6 w
Keene ami a strong company in !Hamlet"
will be the initial attraction.
Nate Salisbury, red as an Indian, has come
beck to town after plotting the Buffalo Bill
Wild West show through the provinces. He
| will now prepare for his winter season with
the troubadours,-tN Y. Mercury.
Miss Helen Staudish, who, with the Nc
, Caull Opera company, proved a potent at
traction, is now in Europe. Her beauty has
gained her many admirers. She will return
to this country In September and rej1in Mr..
McCaull's Philadelphia company.
Mics Grace Hilts has been upon quite a
tour of concerts and song %recitals in Nebras-
ka and Kansas, where sho panied many new
admirers. She goes this week to the musical
festival at Clear Lake, Iowa, where Miss
Clara Kellogg sang last year as prima
donna.
When the widow of the great composer,
Rossini, died two years ago she left $3.50, 600,
TOR the purpose of founding on asylum for
aged musicians and singers. The plans for
this institution were lately approved by the
municipality of Paris, and work will be be-
gun Immediately.
Mr.. Albert Baker, the singer in the chorus
of the "Blsck Hussar' company, dropped
dead in his dressing room on the night of the
9Th. Quite q handsome sum was raised 10
the theater for his family. Alienation of S2t
was received from % prominent and popular
commedian.
Miss Minnie Palmer opens a six weeks en-
gagement In the Theatre Oomique, London
on December och. AT the conclusion of hei
season there she will sail directly for Austria
liza. Miss Palmer is at present doing the
Highlands, and begins her season in Hull
Thence she plays in Newcastle, Edinburgh,
Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol,
Cardiff, Dublin and Belfast, reaching London
Christmas week.
On Mo, day, September II, Mr.. Robert
Grau's season of French opera bouffe, done in
English, will begin at tie new Chicago Muse.
UNI, which, it is the intention of its promoters,
shall be to Chicago what the Casino is t.
New York. The opening operas will b.
"Geneveve de Brabant," LA Perichole,
"Chilperic" and ola File de Madame
Angot." The season is to last for thirty
weeks.
At Van Amburgh's circus at Medina, N
Y, last Tuesday, Eddie Belmont, the leading
athlete, attempted to turn q double somer
sault over elephants, horses and camels. The
spriugboard was wet; Belmont slipped and
was thrown sideways into the air. He would
have acc mplished the feat even then, butthat
the bed on which actors alight was not cor
rectly placed and he fell on the ground with
terrible force. i~njuripg his spine and head and
receiving internal injuries. The injured aero
bat died in the Buffalo hospital last Friday.