The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MARY ANDERSON has life insurance policies
to the amount of 100000
hartley CAMPBELL wrote thirteen plays
before he met with any success.
NINE. MINNIE HAUK, the American prima
donna, is singing in opera in Switzerland.
NEXT season Henry E. Abbey will manage
Sarah Bernhardt, Mary Anderson and Mrs
Langtry.
THE leader of the orchestra of the Essler
Theatre, Baden, Germany, has celebrated the
anniversary of his l01st birthday.
AMILcAR PoUCHELLI, composer Of ala
Gioconda,n has just finished an opera on the
marion Delarmen of Victor Hugo.
MYRoN w. WHITNEY, the well known
basso, has beautiful home near Boston, and
will retire from the operate stage after this
season.
MORE companies have been "called back"
from their tours this season than ever before
in the history of the drama i'll the United
States.
"LoHENGRIN" has been given 200 times in
Vienna and "Tannhausern IS evenings. The
early works of Wagner are the most popular
at present.
Mr.. MAX STRAKosCH will shortly put on
the road an English opera company to sing
Martha" 'Don Pasquale," and the bride
of Lammermoor
Mr.. ABBEY denies that Mary Anderson
has any intention Of building a new theatre
in London. He says there are too many thea
tres there already.
RHEA's new play" An American Countess
| is said to be the coming sensation of the stage.
1t is strong in situation and dialogue, and the
actress is delighted with it.
AT later period in the present dramatic
! season Lawrence Barrett, Edwin Booth and
Henry Irving will be acting simultaneously
at three different theatres in Boston.
THE theatrical business in Philadelphia is
! said to be tier than in most any other large
cities, though of course the dullness of the
times generally is affecting it somewhat.
WHEN Nine Patti sang in Boston in Mar
tha' Sll $40 is said to have been received at
! the box Office 1t was the largest amount
| ever paid for one operate performance in the
city.
PAUL HENDRICKS, nephew of the Vice
| Presdent-elect, aud private secretary to
Judge Gresham, is n very talented musician.
| He has high tenor voice and operate aspir-
ations.
ABBEY has engaged Wilson Barrett, the
London actor and manager, for next season,
ana we shall see his "Claudiann the most
beautiful of recent English plays, in this
country.
! LAWRENCE BARRETT thinks ''the Great
American drama will be written about the
colonial period and would like part founded
on Warren, dealing with his domestic rather
than his military life.
1T is a curious fact that two actresses who
were famous twenty years ago-Mme. Ristori
| and Mrs Bowers-have been acting this sea-
son under one management Both had re-
| tired from tho stage
CEsARE RIsToRG, brother of the actress
| Ristori, has pull shed book on acting which
| is said by the foreign critics to be the best
book of its kind. 1t has already been trans
lated into German and Spanish.
Miss ANNA HARRIS, daughter of the Indi-
ana poet, Lee a. Harris, is one of the finest
| mezzo sopranos in that State. She has sue
cessfully mastered the leading roles in the
bohemian Girl and LA Sonnambula"
AT a recent meeting of the pastors of the
Reformed church, held in New York, Rev.
George w. H. Clark read an essay on "The
Place and Province of Music in Worship. "
The assembly afterward discussed this i'm
portant subject
DURING rehearsal of Pett's "Alous1ue-
taires" at the Foes Dramatiques Theatre
Paris France, Montaubray, the baritone
slipped and fell, the sword which he held in
his hand piercing his breast At last accounts
he was i'll a critical condition.
EMMA ROMELDI an American vocalist,
who has been singing in some of the principal
cities of Europe, has just returned to New
York city, and will shortly be heard in opera
Her repertoire includes the prima donna roles
in Aida, Faust, Ruy Bias, Traviata, II Guar
any, Huguenots, Trovatore, et,.