The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Mas. LANGTRY will go to Australia next
winter.
-, SUPrE has finished another operetta, "The
Twins"
LAWRENCE BARRETT will summer at tho
birthplace of Shakespeare
JUCH and Fursch. Madi sing at the Nav
festival in Pittsburg, Penn.
TwENTY-EIGHr thousand people in London
make living off the stage.
HENRY IRVING, England's leading actor
says he will not appear in this country again.
Comic opera in tent holding 1000 persons
VIII be the novelty in New England next
summer.
Miss ALICE LAKEY, of New York sopra-
no, achieved great success in a concert in
London.
SIGNoR RoToLI, one Of the most popular
musicians in Rome, has been selected to fill a
professorship in Boston.
PROFESSOR JOHN F1sKE, the scientist and
lecturer, is delightful vocalist and excels in
the rendition of German ballads
THE PRIVATE SECRETARY has made
more than $4,000 profit for the Madison
Square theatre, New York, in six months.
The will of an over. sensitive musician in
Wisconsin contained the request that the vii
lage brass band should not play at his fun
eral.
AT the production of "Saul' by the Han.
del society in London every one present stood
up at the funeral march in honor of General
Gordon.
THE Queen of Roumania has written the
libretto of an OPERA "Neaga,n which has
just been produced at Stockholm with great
success.
SoNNENTHAL. the leading Vienna actor,
achieved an artistic and pecuniary success by
his brief engagement in New York, and has
gone back to Austria.
of the general, and Emma Sheridan, daugh-
ter of another general-appear in Dakolar,
the opening play at the New Lyceum, in
New York.
MILE. NEVADA took severe cold in New
Orleans. Ulcers formed in her throat, and
since her arrival at San Francisco the famous
little prlma donna has been unable to sing
to those who have been waiting six years to
hear her
A SINGULAR trial is before the courts at
Gotha, where the tenor Segmundt is being
sued for an indemnity of ~, 900 marks by a
chorus singer, whom in the opera Lucia he
had inadvertently wounded SO seriously as TO
necessitate the amputation of the injured
limb.
THE average life Of actors and actresses is
rather above than below sixty-iive years.
Macready, the tragedian, lived to see eighty.
Roger kemble was active at eighty-one.
John Philip kemble, the kemble lived to
see sIxty-slx. Kittie Give, Sweet Kittie,n
attained the age of seventy-four
THE receipts for Henry Irvings tour this
season are as follows: New York, four weeks,
S7O,GO6; Philadelphia, two weeks, ST. 900;
one week divided between Pittsburg and
Cleveland, $l4.0J0; Chicago, four weeks, $685.
900; Washington, one week. $1,000; Phila-
deiphia, two weeks second visit, S33, 900;
Boston, two weeks, upward of $4,000.
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. musical prodigy
of Shortsville, New York, recently completed
an instrument made almost entirely with an
ordinary jack knife, the component parts
being wood, an old sheepskin and brass reeds
made from ordinary brass wire On this in
strument the youth, who has never had any
musical training, is able to play almost any
tune found in the musical books of the day.
ABOUT 200 students with great mob of
people gathered outside the Opera Comique
in Paris the other night and tried to break into
the building to manifest their feeling against
Mile Van Zandt, the American prma donna.
They were repulsed by body of police after
handto-hand fight Mile Van Zandt not
withstanding the tumuit outside and the
Kisses inside, sang her part through amid the
cheers of her friends. Afterward she notified
the manager that she would sing no more in
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