Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-07-11
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
THE EosBERG BKNEFIr-THE FoRDs AND ''THE
MIKADo"-A NEW WORK BY AUpRAN-
"NANoN" IN FOR LONG RUN.

AT the benefit to be rendered Mr. Harold
Fosberg, at Willard hall next Wednesday
evening, Charles Reades dramatization OF
Tennyson's Dora" will be presented by a com
pany including Harold Forsberg. W. II. iackev
James A Mahoney, Tim Frawley and Miss
DAISY Hodkinson. Mr.. \. g. Riddle. Mr.. Lackey
and others will appear in farce, and Mr. John
4enedick will give limitations. etc.
Theodore Thomas orchestra has Just closed
q three months travelling season. during which
seventy-hve concerts were given. The only
bad business was in San Francisco
Nessrs. John T. Ford and Charles F. Ford
have secured zrom D'Oyly Carte the right tc
present "The Mikado," Gilbert & Sullivan's
new opera, in the south and southwest. Chas
l. Fords Summer company will put it on al
once at Uhrigs cave, ST. Louis.
1t is said that ave, Us & Co." has proved q
failure I'm San Francisco, and that the engage
ment of the Messenger company at the Baldwin
theater viii be terminated this evening a week
earlier than was arranged.
Says the San Francisco C1H: @The marriage
contract between Dion Boucicault and Louise
Thorndike, made in this city prior to the sail
Ing OF the Iealandia June 9th. and witnessed
~ Lady who is our Informant calls for the
performance Of the ceremony inside of sixty
days. In that case the artieS will return from
Australia mtn and Wife
Mrs. Langtry has been fortunate lately in
london; she made great hit as Lady Teazie at
the Crystal Palace and drew 81 500 at one per-
formance- Her performances at the Prince 8
perously, but Mrs. I4anStTy is longer the
queen of society, and has 10 be satisfied with
lesser professional lights for her social circle
The new Chicago opera house Is being
pushed forward rapidly. 1t will seat $500
people, and is the largest theater in Chicago.
The house will be opened August 9TH. Among
the early engagements will he that of Mr.. Law
first time aGlaucus" and .!r;.nmas a BecIett n
1t Is rumored that Col. Mapleson and
Henry f. Abbey have forgotten the past and
banished rivalry for the future with view to
give Italian opera at the New York Metropoli-
Tan opera house next season. MaplesOn does
not care TO go the Academy of Music. because a
portion of the time of that house has been as
signed to Mrs Thurber's English opera VEN
ture.
-Mierzwinskf the tenor who so admirably
Interpreted the role of Arnoldo in ..Guglielmo
Tell during the Mapleson engagement here
three seasons ago, while recently singing at a
concert in Vienna, was seized with sudden ILL
ness. To the surprise and delight of his audi
ence, he whistied with exquisite expression the
airs he was To- sing and won immense applause
In his new role.
"A version of Sardou's Theodore" by Mr.
ker's theater in Chicago the last week in au-
gust. Very extensive preparations are making
for the production. The scenery will include
eleven heavy sets which are TO he painted
by Marston and GOatcher in New York
More than 300 persons will be engaged on
the stage.
- Georges Ohnet, the plav-writcr, IL only
thirty-seven years old. He was first a lawyer
then Journalist, finally dramatist. When he
had finished lie Maitre de Forges'' he was dis
satisfied with it and threw the manuscript into
the hre but his Wife W 40 acts as his secretary,
rescued It, lie l. satisfied with 1T now.
One of Bret Harte's sons. Francis e. Harte.
named for his father is an actor of great prom
1se, and has taken Dion Boucicault's place in
his most famous Irish parts with success The
other, and elder. is in business. and prefers its
comparatively sure met hodS of success to the
precSriouS ways OI literature and the drama
- Minnie Hank has been granted by Empe-
ror William the honorary title of imperial
chamber singer. distinction shared by only
three other foreign prima donnas-A 1eIina
Patti. Madame Jenny Lind Goldscnmidt and
Artot PldiIla.
- Clara Morris has beautiful home on the
Hudson within short distance of Greystone,
Mr.. Tilden's residence. She still Use. the copy
OF Shakespeare which sine bought and stud ed
when she played minor parts at $. per week
Miss Morris Is said 10 be one of the most rapid
OF readers, hating in day reaC:. that much
was remembered, the Life and Letters Of
George Eliot
- Edwin Booth calls his summer home at
Newport ..Boothden."
- Mr.. Drank Mayo. after n season OF forty
weeks, during which '.Nordeo1' was played II.
times, has retired to his country home. Crock
EFT Lodge, for the summer.
NM Ar.onne,iu and Burvanni have writ
Babies in which two bright children will
shortly make their debuts upon the stage In
Paris
- Mrs Jessie Bartlett Davis. one of the most
Charming women on the operate stage. and the
only good thing artistically tina. has came out
OF Chicago in years. has refused offer. OF an
engagement by Emma Abbot: for grand opera
and several managers of comic opera, and Will
most likely sing with the Anne ric.In Opera COM
pany. OF which Mrs Thurber Theodore. Thomas
and MIR. Charles l. Locke are the promoters.
Charles Thorne, the veteran, was given a
complimentary benefit at the Baldwin theater,
San Francisco. June 20. The occasion marked
his fifty-fourth year on the STAGE Nest.ver-s
company and Others assisted, and Nr. Tiiorne
appeared in the dagger and concession scenes.
as 81 ffeTr@. in "fnc Wife. The manager. OF
man. Hall and -icyeaS-volanteere To act as
u>hers. NJ t. Curtis t''Sam'I OF Posen''J was
the doorkeeper. and Ma. Curtis and other
ladies OF the profession handled the bouquets.
-"Open House. IL. j. Byrons po,thumous
piece, will not follow For Congress at the
Madison Square theater; The royalty is CON
sidered too high. and Mr. Palmer does not think
the piece as good - In Chaucery.
- The cast OF "Paquita.' with which BARLEY
Camphel will begin his first season as manager
Of the 14th street thJater. New York on Au-
gust Slst. will incinde Frederick DE Belleville,
h NJ NIT, Ivan Shl--s. g +. FIpcktrn, Rus
sell Ba..eit, Mary Mills, Kate Forsyth and
Asuie stuart
M. Cooper. of the Paris Varieties has signed
contract in Paris with u. Maurice Grau To
COM 10 this country with Nine Judic They
VIII sail on August % n. VI. CooDer will play
the part of VI. Dupuis. lie returns next wear
t. The ' arIettS.
- Ofrnbach : "itobinson Crusoe'' was pro-
duced for the first time in the United States at
the Tivoli Opera House, san Francisco, on June
23th.
- Miss Mary Anderson is ruralizing at STRAIT
ford-upOn-Avon with Mr.. William Winter and
other friends. and is studyin. the part ol Rosa-
lad II AS You Like H.
- IL Il said that sadie Martinez. Just at
present one OF tlie chief attractions of the
"NanOn'' company in New York Will be a
member OF Jani>h company next season.
- Maggie Mitchell begins her new season at
the Grand Opera House, New York September
Nth.
-"Nanon' seems destined for an indefinite
run at the New York Casino. The manage
inert Chains that the receipts OF last week were
over $4,000. The production is is generally
agreed Is on oftne IlOst brilliant light operstic
spectaeiss ever seen in this country.
- The preparations for the forthcoming spec
tacular production by Robson * Crane or ..The
Comedy OF Errors" are going on finely and the
management think they could put IL on at the
beg inning OF August ii necessary The scenery
with tue exception OF one set, has all been
painted. Among the sets will be the Palace OF
Justice at EpheSus, by tioatcher; the House OF
fhry ne, by HOyt; the Magnetism Gates and
Market Place, by GOstcher: the Interior OF the
fsock Cut Church OF the Early Christians aud
the race OF Execution, 10y Hoyt. the Gyne-
coeuin, OF NOnen's Quarters. in the House of
AntlphOlu>. and le nd Mt III