Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-12
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
CURIOUS ADVERTISING DoDGEs-GILBERr AND
soLLIVAN's NEXT oPERA-"T THE COMEDY OF
ERRORS NEW oPERATIC sCHEMEs-BARr-
LEY CAMPBELL's ENTERPRISES


soLLi'AN's NEXT oPERA-"THE COMEDY OF
ERRORS NEW oPERATIC sCHEMEs-BARr
LEY CAMPBELL's ENTERPRISES.
-"Chatter." which has had a remunerative
run at Wallack's, New York will be withdrawn
tonight. De Wolf Hopper introduced into the
piece with great success the song, For all of
which my son-in-law will pay" from Sousa and
1abers "Desiree." 1t received a dozen encores
nIenuy, and was the feature of the perform.
Joseph Jefferson has made ARRANGEMENTS
Tor season of twenty-five weeks in 1857
under the management OF G. B. jefferson.
Anong the support will be CIV. Couldock Mrs.
viii cd Drsw' and VIM Warren; The repertoire
I'll 2onsIst OF Kip Van Wrinkle" "Cricket on
the hearth, and ''The Poor Gentleman"
humor has 1t that BARLEY Campbell Is en-
gagged on play for Lawrence Barrett The
Aunior, however, lacks confirmation.
1t Is said that Isabel Morris. who has been
seen here with Rhea and other stars will leave
the stage and enter a convent.
-Ihe Milan Opera company will make an
other tour of The country this season under the
management of Henry Wolfsohn. The company
VIII consist OF forty-ive people.
various and cheap are the schemes to be
USED this season by managers to attract atten-
lion One combination will carry photo
SraRnlc apparatus to photograph its audiences,
Wnile another will distribute a thousand loaves
OF bread on its opening night.
speculation is already rife in London re-
garcing Gilbert and Sullvan's new opera.
Hindu subject
Little Ida Mule is playing the part of yum
Yum in 1.-The Mikado," in Sydney Rosenfeld's
travelling opera company. She is said to make
charming little Jap.
New York critics agree that the glowing
promises were fully realized In Robson and
Cranes production of "The Comedy of Errors"
al the Star theater Monday evening. The
mounting OF the play consisted of thirteen
lot IN of IN Is.h nxraryy
source of the stage carpenters and scene
painters art seemed To have been exhausted.
HE accessories in each set were also of the
most complete description. and with the cos
TUNES were as near as might be historically
accurate
Minnie Maddern, perhaps the brightest of
the new generation of sOubrettes. will begin an
engagement at the New York Lyceum theater
on Tuesday in a version of Sardou's Andrea"
10 De called In Spite of ALL She will be sup
ported by Ebon PlymptOn, Richard Mansfield,
John Lane and Selma DOlaro.
Adolf Neuenderf begins a season of opera
comique at the Boston Biou theater ON October
18th. Among the artists he has engaged are
Misses Won Januschowsky. Rosalba Beecher,
Janet Edmondson and Emma c. futile. and
MessrS w III. FeSsenden- ID. NJ Babcock, Wal
Ter Pelham and Signor Brocoini. Several
operas, not frequently heard of late, will be
produced, including Nicolais ''Merry Wives of
Windsor, which the American troupe also pro-
pose To present in New York; Fiot0w's '.Strs-
della, and Maillarts THE Hernt's Bell.''
Niblo's garden, New York, closes Saturday
evening. Rose Coghlan in ''Our Joan, will fol-
low on Monday.
The repertory of the American Opera Com
pany, in which Mrs. Thurber and Theodore
Thomas are the leading spirits, is quite preten-
touS- Among the operas announced tor produc-
ton are Lakme, The Marriage of Figaro"
Faust- -LOhengrin, The Merry Wives of
Windsor "orpheus, 'The Tanning OF the
Shrew and Carmen Among the company
already engaged are Misses Emma Juch. Jessie
Bartlett Davis. Pauline IAllemand aud Alice
Montague. and Me>srs. Vim. Candidus Alfred
fauIet, Myron W. Whitney, George sweet and
John Gilbert.
Mrs Langtry and Fred. Gerhard have been
In Boulogne. By day they visited the gambling
tables of the Casino. and by night the public
dancing room of this resort. As they were
Waltzing together Fred's feet slipped from under
him; and he fell prostrate. His partner went
tumbling after. 4 correspondent says that the
Casino has since been densely packed with an
eXpectant multitude.
"A visitor to John Mccullough in the asy-
1um says that his likeness to his VfrQinius in
Inc mad scene is startling and pitiful. He inn
AGNES that he is again acting the part of the
Oerallged Roman. This Is shown by his aSSump-
lion OF the poses which he employed on the
stage, and his reproduction of tiie gait, facial
preston and even Snatches of the language of
the familiar prison scene.
Sarah Bernhardt looks upon her next Amer
lean tour as one of the greatest money making
schemes of her life. Her debts amount to $780,
600, and she expects her American tour not only
70 pay them of, but to leave her snug little
fortune beside.
-"Both men and women" according to the
Cincinnati Enquirer, '.are fond of theatregoing
In this country. The women like to go To the
society plays to See how the actresses dress and
lie men To the variety plays To see how they
don't Dress
Mime Patti is said to have declined the en-
gagement offered her to go to sing at Munich
before the king alone in LA Traviat.- and al
~ QaV rs n reg hat
she would find it impossible to sing in an empty
theatre.
Miss Jeffreys Lewis is said to be again dan
gerously ill in san Francisco.
Lawrence Barrett has been invited tn de-
liver lecture on dramatic art before the
shakespearean Society at Harvard in March
next.
DAILY will open the regular season at his
New York theatre on October
- Miss Marie Van Zandt has been engaged to
appear in opera at Moscow during the coming
winter She Will receive 800 for each per-
Torrance.
- Mr.. and Mrs. George 5. Knight opened their
Garden WALL
Gerald Eyre, the actor, died at Melbourne
on Augusta after a brief illness. He played
leading parts for several seasons at Walack's
iheater In New York. His real name is said to
nave peen stuart He was an Englishman,
about thlrty-iour years of age, and had
Gently elopsd with u variety actress leaving his
Vile Denind-
- The usual weekly contradiction this week
from the New YORK Bjou theater is in the regu-
lar Attenuation OF negative and positive that IL
mas not been decided when .'Adonis'' will 90 to
Boston all.
-"Amorita' is the name under which Gil
Doulk;is new opera, "Phinesten in Florenz,
VIII be given at the Casino. Ii will follow
"Nanon.'
- Clara Morris this week has had great sue
cess in Chicago. The receipts for the week are
estimated at - 900.
There are indications that BARLEY Camp
bells many enterprises are proving too heavy
Tor him Members of his Clio company saw
they have been asked To accept a reduction of
salary.
Sir Arthur Sullivan will lead the orchestra
OF THE Mikado". at the Fifth Avenue theater
We" OK, some evening in the early part of
next week. The management of the theater
sion.
Lovers Compliment.
ne girl with the freckled face is now fashion,
abie.-FiEshiOn Puper
lie iondly gazed in her freckled face
leii an arm he placed about
heFW waist and gave her a fond embrace.
And called her his pretty trout
Into her face a red flush came