The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-24
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

"WITTwE GRAPH" posthumous opera
by Flotow, has made hit at the Buda-
Pesth, Hungary.
NJ. AUDRAN has finished an operretta in
three acts called d" La Belle Fermieren The
book is by Mr. Farnie, and the work will be
produced at the Comedy theatre in London.
8 NOTWITHSTANDING the fun that is occa-
slonally poked at her, the Viscountess Folke-
stone still continues to lead her Indies string
band and chorus, consisting of 100 peri orm-
era
IN the United States navy the flagship of
each station has brass band, paid for by the
government The smaller ships have string
bands, composed of sailors from the ships
companies.
MISS MARIE VANoN1 is in Switzerland On
her return to Paris she is to look for piece
adapted to her abilities and play in it exclu-
slvely. If it prove success she is to bring
1t to America.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX has sued the
Church Musical company of Cincinnati for
publishing poem of hers under Colonel
Joyce's name He has been reciting the poem
of late as his own.
Mr. CoMYNs CARTS dramatization of
dark Days" which Mr.. ]. H. Palser has Sc
cured for American production, is in five
acts. The piece will probably be presented
in New York about the lst of November.
> SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN, the English COM
poser, is good organist, and having little
time at his disposal during his recent visit to
Boston, he went to the Church of the Ad-
vent, and played an hour on the fine instru-
ment there.
IMMEDIATELY after the conclusion OF her
American tour next May Mile Rhea sails for
Australia. Thence she goes to South Amer
lea and Brazil playing there in French. The
Power of Love will be the chief play in
her repertoire this season.
Tnr- Ro1
vices have been put in use by actors and lee
turers to keep from smiling but the simplest
and most effective is to put a small wooden
button in the mouth and bite down on it
every time the impulse to laugh makes itself
manifest.
NIcToRIEy SARDoU. the French dramatic
writer, will sail for New York soon He
comes partly under the directions of his ply
sician, who has ordered period of complete
relaxation, and partly to superintend the
American production of his new play called
"Anselman
THE financial and artistic success of the
German opera singers in this country last
season has caused much dissatisfaction among
their brothers at Frankfort-on the. Rhine.
Every member of the opera house i'll that city
is SAID to be hoping to be asked to come ia
this country and sing
Two Frenchmen, the brothers FORE, have
invented a new kind of harp, made entirely
OF wood. Instead of strings, the inventors
use strips of American fir The sound is
produced, as in the ordinary harp, by the
contact of the fingers, but the PLAYER wears
leather gloves covered with resin The tone
of the instrument is said to be of remarkable
purity
WILHELM not long ago gave concerts in
some Scandinavian towns At Gothenburg
his audience was uncOmmonly small, but next
day when he departed large number of peo-
pie came to the depot to see the famous vio-
linst. As the train moved off Wilhelm re.
marked to a friend: Next time l come to
Gothenburg l shall give r1y concert at the
railway station"