Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-19
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
oLD-TrxK PRICES PAYING-MARY ANDERSON
NEvADA's OVATION AT VIRGINIA CITY
WHAT rs SPENT FOR THEATRICAI.s IN THIS
COUNTRY ANNUALLY-AN INDIGNANT IRA
GEDIAN-PATTI AND JENNY LIND.
Mr.. william A. Lackey was In town for a
few hours Sunday, en- route to Wheeling. w. Va,
from Philadelphia. Mr. Lackey was specially
engaged, by Manager Frohman, TO play the part
OF Richard ashcroft, In MAY Blossom, in New
YORK, and made such q success OF the part that
ne was engaged to play 1t for the rest OF the sea-
son.
The attempt to vacate an injunction
granted to Thatcher, Primrose and West re-
straining Carl Rankin from performing with
by Judge Wallace in New York.
- Charles A. Stevenson announces that he
and Kate Claxton will star next season in a
revival of" Much Ado About Nothing" which
VIII De put upon the stage in style like Rob
son ana Cranes comedy of Errors"
Mr.. James A. Mahoney, of Washington, who
Is this season member Of Lotta's company, has
Deen compelled to lay off this week owing to
gagement at the National next week.
- The Rev. John Jasper, tine eccentric col
0red parson of Richmond, Va, is lecturng In
the south on that peculiar assertion of his that
Move ''' '''" '''''''''''' D' sun w.
Howard P. Taylor has entirely rewritten
.Dimples," and Ida Mule will once more go on
the road with It.
Miss Genevieve Ward recently gave per-
formance Of "Antigone" in Melbourne for the
beneht of the Melbourne hospital, which netted
$4,000.
Adelaide Nelson kept copy of every pho
tosraph OF herself which had been published.
and the number Of these in the various sizes
was found on her death to be 600.
Heinrich Conreid, who is expected in New
York next week. will probably bring with him
the score of Strauss latest opera, 1.-THE Gypsy
Baron which he had secured in Vienna
The wisdom of lowering her prices was
proved to Miss Anderson in Boston, where size
played to more money at $3.50 a ticket than
she did In New York at $3.50. The increase
originally was contrary to the desire Of Miss
Anderson.
The mail of Nine. Patti, in Paris, is re-
size, but also on account of the queer things in
IL. About a dozen letters a week contain re-
quests for her to become the gOdmother of babies
just born, and also of babies who are expected.
Among the piles of begging letters the most
original SO far is one from dude, who sends his
photograph as an Irresistible plea for 500
francs
-Boito has finished the sketch for the plot
and scenic establishment of his new opera
Nero" 1t will be a magnificent spectacle.
The Olympian games and the triumplial entry
OF the emperor Nero into Rome will form the
principal scenes. The opera may be produced
this winter.
Emma Nevada had n regal entrance into
Virginia City on the occasion of her recent con-
cert there. Two thousand people assembled at
the depot, and crowds saiuted her as she drove
i'm an open carriage, drawn by four splendid
black horses, to the residence Of one of her
schOolmates.
BARLEY Campbell has rewritten "Paquita,"
and will again send 1t on the road. 1t will open
at Detroit next Monday. All the scenery
painted for the production at the Fourteenth
Street theater New York, will be carried, and
Mr.. Campbell will go along. a number of the
original cast have been re-engaged.
The authors of "a Moral Crime have re-
written some parts of the play, and it will be
put on the road again. IT is quite likely that
Marie Prescott will star in ii.
The New York Mirror asserts that Joseph
Jefferson last week did the lightest weeks BUSH
ness he ever played to i'm Washington. This
may be so, but still Jefferson did a fine weeks
business.
-Caterina Marco, the American artistic,
sang TioleHa In ia Travata" recently in
Turin. The principal paper there said that
seven Patti would have been satisfied with the
greeted by the crowded audience"
Manager John Stetson declares that Mary
Anderson's receips during her three weeks en-
gagement in Boston were $42,5S2, and ADDS,
This is authentic"
-Sardou's new play, "Georgette." which
was produced in Paris for the first time on De
cember 9th, has not made much of q hit. 1t
Is pronounced much inferior to Fedora" or
'Theodora."
A number of organizations, including the
Fedora company, NJ B. Curtis, Evans &
Hoey, ana Myra Goodwin, will not play next
week, on account of the holidays.
John Stetson is organizing a company to
sing the 1.-The Mikado" in Canada. The people
are now rehearsing in Boston.
- Miss Victoria Morosini SchelIing is to have
leading part In Strauss latest and most Sue
cessiul opera. The Gypsy Baron" when it is
produced at the New York Casino She ia scor
ing great success there.
Jefferson, who closed his autumn season in
this city last Saturday night, has gone to his
plantation in Louisiana, where he will remain
for two months.
The Emma Abbott company played in
Kansas City last week by candle light. as the
city was left without gas by the blowing up of
the gas works. They did good business. Il is
said. ~ 40
The company playing SCALED Back" of
which Miss Ssrah Jewett is the star will end
It's season tonight, the people having been motif
fed to that effect. This season is proving but
little better than last to the theatrical business
- This clever bit of satire Is contributed by
"a Personal Friend" to the Overland Montl,ly in
a letter giving "reminiscences of McCullough :.
"John Mccullough did not pose as a student
ala not wear preOccuped air when brought in
contact with people off the stage. nor wrinkle
his brow. as If In deep thought: he laid no plans
To be pointed out as 'One of the most diIigent
students in the profession :; and thus the man
who did not act when out of the theater who
could find time to exchange salutations with
MS friends, indulge in a chop at a rotisserie or
play game of billiards at a hotel WAS rated
as genial gentleman and delightful coInpac-
ion; pretty good actor in some parts but he
doesn't study-he will never rank with Dole
full Lugubrious a STAR
Patti and Jenny Lind, says the W5eaer
Zeitung, recently had little tiff at a private
party. Patti had been singing with great bril-
iiancy, and among other pieces an air of Mozart
Jenny Lind, at the conclusion venfured to ex-
press the opinion that Patti had rather hurried
the time In NOzart's music. "And lest Won NAV
think, she added, "that am like a blind man
speaking OF color. may tell you that am
Jenny Lind GOldschmidt." Patti. somewhat
netfled, Is said To have retorted thus: "Oh yes.
know you were famous singer-Once have
heard my grandfather speak of you"
Mr.. Toole produced in London last week a
new three-act farce, entitled "Going It." by
James Madison Morton. the author of "Rox
and Cox and innumerable other farces which
have kept audiences in roars of laughter for
more than half a century. Mr.. Morton is eighty.
five years old and is a Charter House pensiOner
Until week ago Monday he had not visited
a theafer for thirty years, and most OF the pres
ent generation of fbeater-goers supposed that
he was dead. When he was introduced to the
audience at the end of the play he was re-
ceived with unbOunded enthusiasm.
Frank File, dramatic editor of the New
York Sun, makes a computation that there are
393 companies in the United States, divided as
follows: Two hundred and seventy-eight dra-
matte, forty-four musical, thirty-four vaude-
ville fifteen minstrel, three circus and nine
teen miscellaneous. He says truly that there
never were so many parties travelling, and as