Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-25
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
'DENIsE" AND CLARA MORRIs-JUDIC-THE
cRAGG FAMILY BARNEY M'AULEY-oDDs
AND ENDS
AN operetta, 'sTwin Sisters" by Washing
ton ladies, for the benefit of Emanuel Episcopal
church, of Uniontown (Anacostia), will be given
at Willard Hall on May 18th.
Herr Schott has abandoned the idea of CIV
Ing another season of German opera in New
Edwin Booth and Madame Ristori will act
together in Macbeth at the New York Acade-
my OF Music on May 7th.
The Home Journal says that Ellen Terry's
visit to this country has had considerable effect
upon the styles in American Dress
Secretary Stanton, of the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York, has engaged the cele-
brated German singer, Herr vogel for the COM
Ing opera season.
-Judic, the French star who will visit Amer
lea next autumn, is nearly forty years old, with
vigorous form almost bordering on the heavy.
She has purely oval face and a mouth that
effectually displays two rows of pure white
teeth In manner she differs from many other
with childlike Innocence.
Henry Irving has so many dinners to do
and digest that he cannot reappear on the Lon
don Lyceum stage till May 4th, when he pro-
poses to play Hamlet, part he materially i'm
proved by his frequent representations in this
country.
-"Denise," the new play by Dumas, fills, in
which Clara Morris appeared at Days theater
this week, was 'incontinently damned by
some of the critics, while others damned it
with faint praise" The characters, it seems,
are engaged most of the time in more or less
witty dissertations on society, religion. science
and art.
The Mallorys have secured new play by
George K. Sims, called "The Last Chance" and
will bring it out in some large New York thearer
In the fall, as the Madison Square stage is too
small for Its proper production.
Mr.. Joseph Derrick, author of that clever
farce "Confusion," did not make such success
with his new piece, ''Twins," which was pro-
duced at the Standard theater, New York Mon
day night John a. Mackay in the title roles,
did not make much of hit, as he failed to
the other a head waiter.
Henry SigOurney, belonging to a we'll
known Boston family, with an income of sixty
thousand dollars, has married one of the
coryphees in the ballet troupe of a theater at
fore his own master.
The waltz-loving Viennese show their appre-
citation of the efforts of Herr Johann Straus in
that direction by presenting him with the free
dom of the city and exempting him from the
income tax.
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leading man with the "Pavements of Paris"
company, has been dangerously i'll with
Bright's disease. He has returned to his home
in Washington.
1T is pretty certain that "Adonis" will run
at the Bijou, New York, all summer. There are
rumors current In the profession that Harry
Dixey shows symptoms of that painful disease
so common among successful actors, which the
Span1srds call reUientn cdbezd, and which is
known in the vernacular as the swelled head
- The New York Dramatic Ne,Os says: sThe
Hon. Tom Ochiltree arrived in New York last
Wednesday, and is to be seen escorting the
Baroness de Rotchkof down Broadway every
afternoon"
Madame Theo and Miss vernona Jarbeau
are to be seen driving every afternoon through
Central Park, New York, the fair American
playing the chaperone to the pretty French
woman.
Misses Pauline Hall, Olga Brandon, Annie
Robe and Lille Grubb and Mrs. Louise Eldridge
formed an imposing array of fiower-selers for
afternoon.
This afternoon and evening have been set
apart at the Boston Museum for the benefit of
Mrs: j. r. Vincent, who has reached the fftieth
anniversary Of her first appearance on the
stage. Nearly every seat in the house for both
performances was sold in advance.
The wonderful Cragg family of acrobats
who made such hit here with Haverly's min
strels, have been engaged for next season by
q
Is understood to be $3.50 week.
- In May John E. Owens will retire from the
management Of the Academy of Music in
Charleston, 8. c., and return to his Maryland
farm. Next season the veteran will emerge
rom seclus1on and enter upon q starring tour,
during which time he will present his famous
"Wellington de Boots"
Kate Claxton appeared in "The Two
Orphans" In GAINESVILLE, Wis.,, last week, and
for the nrst time In years the whole house was
The young man lately known as Lord
Garmoyle, by the death of his father become
Earl Cairns, has sailed from New York for
England. His friends say that he will marry
Miss Fortescue after all, now that his obdurate
nanca stro * .ns ths dhl s would ld be good
family. 49, 'A'
The Marquis de Leuville is going to enter
the lecture field in England. Lovely women
d1ScOurSoS. ~
Manager Abbey's contract with Sara Bern.
hardt provides for q tour OF South America
and North America, beginning in May, 1886.
at Rio Janeiro. One hundred and fifty per.
formances are TO be given before reaching the
United States Only fifteen weeks time is
1SS6-S7. ~
Barney McAuley has been released from
the Cleveland workhouse, to which he had
Daniel was unable to render him any pecuni-
cry assistance, his wifes patience had become
Exhausted, and she refused to move in the
matter; but his brother, John r McCauley.
the Louisville manager, with whom he has not
been on speaking terms for years, quietly
placed q sum of money to his credit. The
quarrel between the brothers was so bitter
that the comedian, In very hatred, CHANGED
| the spelling OF his name.
Thatcher, the minstrel, is said to have one
OF the fastest and finest teams to be seen on the
New York boulevard. He named the horses
after his partners, Primrose and West, who pre-
sented the team with . complete outfit.
Mrs. Labouchere has found a new proteoe
It is Adelaide Detchon, whom she is coachine
| to play Juliet.
New DtSposition OF Grandmothers.
| New Guinea Letter in st. James Gazette
| It was resting-day at village far away from
the coast; and, spreading my chart out ON the
middle OF the door In the small native house in
which we were camping, several sitting round
was tracing our journey done, and the prob
| able one 70 do, when strange drops were fail.
| ing around, o few on the chart They came
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