Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-19
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
wHAs SOME wAsHISGToN ACTORS ARE DOING
AND INTEND To Do-MARY ANDERSON
LATEST RIyAL-THE REVIVAL OF "EyAN-
GELINE."
Mr. Walter l.. Dennis, of this city, joins
Clara Morris company this week. and will re-
main with her for five weeks. He then resumes
his place in Rheas company, joining Louis Al
drich later in the season.. Next season Mr.. Den
mis- will star in a play which has been specially
written for him.
The KiraIfys have in preparation new
musical spectacular play, in which Herbert
Wilke, n fine artist, is to be starred.
George a Dalton, of this city, will be q
member of the company which will support
Margaret Mather during her engagement at the
Union square theater.
The Bijou opera company, of which AIDE
laide Randall is prima donna, will appear in
Alexandria Monday and Tuesday evenings of
next week. Clara Randall, Alfred Wilkie and
Arthur W. Tams are also members of the com
pany.
Maud Miller, who is said to be a daughter
of the author, will be a member of Loudan Nc
Cormacks company, presenting Joaquin Mil
ber n orty-Nine on the road this season.
Richard Golden is to play the part of Ro-ho
in a "Nikado' company which j. w. Ryckman
and Alexander Comstock are organizing.
Crypt Palmoni, of this city, is said to have
in burr Oaks
w. j. Ferguson will not play his original
part of Mdcdr in called Back" this season.
Kate Claxton was in negotiation with him, but
they failed to- agree upon the question OF salary.
The title of Maurice Barrymore's new play,
''The DOn," is not from the Spanish, nor does
the college professor figure in it. The Don is a
Title bestowed upon d gentleman by the COM
mon LondOner.
Lawrence Il trrett is arranging for the pro-
duction of Charles Auburn's Thomas a Beck
et," which will positively be seen during the
season. He is also busy writing life OF Char
Iotte Cushman, which will be published by the
Dunlap society
Mime Janish is doing well with her new
play of "Anselma'' at the Madison Square
theater, New York. She will remain there four
weeks longer.
Two American girls are to make their debut
next season under the care of Mile. Nevada
Nellie Everest. of Philadelphia, and Miss John
ston, OF Washington. Both have been study
Ing for years in Italy, and are said to be gifted
with good voices.
The new StLouis Grand Opera house, which
Nat. Goodwin opened on the 18th with his
Skating Rink" is said to be magnificent
theater.
- Among the novel features introduced on
the opening night of Haverlys new minstrel
theater, Chicago, Monday last, was q chorus of
16 madrigal boys.
The company engaged to support Emma
Abbott who opens her tour next Monday, will
consist of seventy-two persons. 1t includes Liz
Zie Annandale, Laura Bellini, Bertha Fricke,
Slgnor MontegriffO, Fernando Michelena, G..
Ronconi, Vim. Pruett, w. Frederick, and An
gelo Barberis. SignOr Tomassi will be the mu-
steal director. Among the operas to be pro,
duced are .lakme,' The Star OF the North"
carmen" "Lalla Rookh,' .'Traviata," and
Norma"
Adelaide Moore, the new rival of Mary An
derson, will open her travelling season in Rich
mond ON October II. She will be supported by
fairly good company. Her repertory will in
el9de Romeo and Juliet" LAS You Like It.
"Hunehback, school for Scandal" lingo
mar and Lady of Lyons while other plays
Will be added as the season progresses.
- Rehearsals for the revival of -.Evangelner
at the Bijou Opera house, New York, October
oth, have already begun. Among the people en-
gagged for the representation are John A. Mac
Kay, Fay Templeton, Irene Verona Edwin 5.
Tarr, Mollie Fuller, Josie Hall and forty Others.
Ten new musical numbers have been written
for the burlesque, as well as grand Amazon
Ian march. which will be take part in by twenty
young ladies in most magnificent costumes.
Dix song-anddance-meE have been engaged es-
pecialiy To represent the SIR Miserable RuJidaS.
Joe Jefferson is again a father. 1t is boy,
and was born last Saturday.
Minnie Palmer opened her second season
in Hull, England, on the 31st August, in "My
Sweetheart, which has been much improved.
This cable, with John r. Rogers at the other end
OF Ii, says she was received enthusiastically.
right of Mr.. Gibert's one-act play Comedy and
Tragedy" 1t is the first time Gilbert has sold
play right out.
-Osmand Tearle is playing "virginius,"
Hamlet and Richard I'LL throughout Great
Britain. His wife, Minnie Conway, and his
cousin, Edmund Tearle, support him.
Frau Materna has returned to Vienna from
her successful American tour, and is now again
engaged tor the Vienna Court theater.
Davis Panel Device.
DESCRIPTION OF THE CUNNING TRICKSTER's
PLAN AND PROGRESS OF ROBBERY
New York Correspondence ofthe Boston Herald
Invent this morning to see the panel in the
partition of Tom Davis office. There is some
thing dramatic about a spot in wall that Sc.
cretly opens and shuts for devilish purposes.
We are apt to look at such devices on the stage
as things outside of real life. Here was a panel
that had been used in an actual tragedy 1t
was n simple apparatus, being two small doors
swinging ON oiled hinges. The cutting of the
boards OF the partition would have been
plainly visible but for desk that stood
against it. A recess of the desk had the black
ened surface OF the doors of what seemed to be
its own back, that, on being opened
thus made could not readily be s aeer1 hy
person in the outer apartment. When a Gus
TONER concluded the bargain for $4,000 in
counterfeit notes, and counted out $500 from
his own pocket in payment, and watched the
packing OF the supposed bogus bills they were
really genuine ones) in . small handbag for de-
nSery To him. the most important instant in
the doings had arrived. Tom practised the
tatics OF sleight-ofhand performers, who dis
tract the attention of the spectators from the
Vita point in their trick by some clever pre-
text This he usually did by saying, 81 think
somebody's coming, and laying the bag
soiicltously back in the recess of the desk The
dupc might watch the bag steadily while ii
lay In that dark but seemingly safe spot, with
out seeing Toms confederate open the panel
remove the money and substitute the packages
OF paper. This was done rapidly and then
Tom, still pretending To be nervous about inter
ruptlon. passed the bag To the victim and hur-
RED him OIL. The real danger to the swindler
lay in the liability OF the stranger TO examine
the contents again before quitting but that
was not great, tor he had with his own hands
put the money in, and a peep would only re-
veal packages similar in appearance
Davis had made the trick the study and
practise OF more than ten years and was as per
feet in II as Heller used to be in the second
sight mystery. Ii was the careessness of his
hidden brother in eIpptying and refilling the
bag through>the panel that betrayed him to the
Texan.
Cocaine as q Cure.Al.
From the N Y. Tribune.
Cocaine is becoming one of the popular rem
edies OF the day. Its function of allaying the
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