Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-09-25

duction before the LIST of January, and possibly
not then.
- Henry Irving writes to New York friend
that he will certainly visit this country next
season and give Us all we want of Faust"
- Dion BoucIeault is writing his reminfs
cences. They are TO be published in a volume
soon, and simultaneously in England and
America.
- The dramatic papers are making consider
able noise about the discovery in Chicago OF a
man who has never seen ''UncIe Toms Cabin.
The announcement is in order that the
man Is deaf, dumb and blind.
A dreadful report has gained currency that
Bernhardt Is becoming bald from wearing wigs
- IL is said that Joseph JeferSon's latest pic
ture OF swamp, presented 10 the New YORK
lotos Club, is realistic that members who
have never had malaria are laying i'll a supply
OF Quinine.
An authority declares that "there is moth
ing quite heart-rending as to see a chorus
girl trying to hide behind herself the first time
she appears with tights en-.
- Edwin Booths present tour has thus far
proved unusually successful and brilliant. Mr..
Chas. b. Hanford, of this city,who is a member OF
Booths company, has received dattering press
notices for MS work.
-ItIs said that Richard Mansfield began life
rs erraud boy i'm Jordan & Marsh's great dry
goods store in Boston ana rose To the position
OF entry clerk in that establishment Then he
went 10 Europe TO study drawing. went on the
stage and played small parts throughout Eng
land at $50 week and was promptly dis
charged wnen he asked for So week more. He
stranded in London some months,
came to New York four years ago, accepted an
insignificant place in the famous Union Square
Iheater npany. and made hit OF the season
III ~ Partisan komaHcc-
- Col. MeCaull to discourage deadheads, has
been changing the doorkeepcrs at "ailach
theater, New York, frequently OF late, and MI
Wallacf was denied admittance To his own
theaier a few nights ago.
-Gounod new OPERA which is finished, is
taken from a poem called 'Naitre Pierre,
based the story of Abeiard and Heioise
The WORK is said To- bc not so much OF a lyric
poem drama rs dramatic action IA Iour parts;
There are only four or hye important choral
movements IN lie whole compositions, and
there seems to be some doubt Whelher IL VIII
be generally enjoyed.
Nero" blank verse tragedy, by Pietro
Cossa, an Italian dramatiSt, has been trans
lated by Signor Fioravanta idalesci, OF New
York. and viii be produced this season.
Miss Fanny Davenport will make her first
appearance as Beatrice at the Union Square
theater Oh october IL.
-Nlme. Janish will bring over from Europe
two plays, which she will produce in tine
course vi fhe season in America.
Lottas season this year will be much
shorter than usual. The little lady evidently
means 10 follow Jefferson 5 example and take
care OF herself.
The mCurnful cadences OF Adele Belgarde's
voice will continue to be heard in siberia
tins season.
MIR. Walter Dennis, of this city, will be a
member of Nj. =. Curtis company this season.
Curtis will produce his new play, Caught in
Corner, in Niliiamsburgh, y. ", October
4th.
A. c. Gunter's new play, "a Wall Street
Bandit, will be seen N the east for the FIRST
time this evening at the standard theater,
New York. The play was brought out in San
Francisco last year.
-Rhea's friends will be glad to hear that the
Belgian actress is meeting with much success
in New England and elsewhere under her new
management. Rhea deserves some recompense
after the hard times she had in the northwest
last season.
-"Hoodman Blind will open the season at
the Grand Opera house, New York, Monday
night. The company is strong one, including
Joseph Haworth, Augustus Cook and Sydney
Howard.
1t is now asserted in the dramatic papers
that Thos. ". keene's health is fully restored,
and that he viii resume his theatrical career,
beginning about the holidays. y gentleman
VINO saw Keene not long ago declares he will
never act again
Robert Manteil produced Tangled Lives"
and Annie Pixiey 1.-THE Deacon's Daughter, for
the first time in Boston on Monday night. OF
Course. il Is claimed that both plays were i'm
mediate successes.
Marguerite Fish, the soubrette, who has cap
tured Berlin and Vienna will make her Ameri-
eau debu; at the Tnalia Theater, New York,
on December 18th, in German, supported by
the Ihaiia company. She VIII remain through
the holidays, and produce several German
comedies. Al the close of this engagement she
viii make "A snort tOur OF the principal cities,
playing III English.
= Mr.. Jerome W. Eddy continues TO send out
from Union Square his Heekty Sluib, giving the
latest dramatic facts and fancies, in very con-
venent shape.
New York critics differ as to the merits of
which Mrs. Chahfrau produced at the Four
tecnth Street Theater Monday night. The
story OF the play is not novel, but it is said TO
have been well treated.
- Miss Josephine Cameron, an actress whose
name has hitherto been unknown to eastern
fame, made her first appearance a star at tine
New York Third Avenue theater ON Monday
night in Camille" Miss Cameron is not u
novice, and has shone as "a star in the dra-
matte armament of the West Indies. 1t is said
that Miss Cameron and her company make
Camille more like a farce or a buriesq1e than
an emotional play.
- Mr.. j. T. NJ. sanford of the Boston Courier,
has completed an American opera, which he
has named William PENN music by MIR. H. f.
Baker, an ex-president OF the Handel and
Haydn society. The scene is laid in the year
1861 and the story deals with the early life OF
William Penn, whom Mr.. Sanford depicts us q
very different parsonage from the one familiar
10 school children. 1t would seem that there is
coed authority for the statement that Penn as
q young man, fought duel, Won a prize for
CaDciD.,, ana did u number OF other things not
generally asCribed to him.
- Miss Minnie Naddern's literary bureau i'm
parts in confidence to the press OF the country.
by means OF u typewriter, the interesting facts
that Bliss Madderns company this year will be
The youngest and handsOmest on the road, only
one OF its members being over twenty-seve
years Oi age, and the star herself being the
youngest member.
Dixey was OF course received with no end
ofapptause and flowers on his temperance ON
The stage Oh the Fifth Avenue theater, New
York, on Monday evening. But somehow the
crillcs seem TO nave soured on him and We're
not is elusive in their greetings as they used
10 De IN their notices before he went 10 Eng
Ianu The Sun man said Its English, You
know had lost IN humOr OF delivery. and was
feeble as compared with its original quality;
while the Tribune man discovered that "AIr
OXey may perhaps be able To Unreasonable q,
character, 10 express an idea, to touch the heart
10 demean himself truthiuliy and effectively in
a dramatic situation; in other words, he may be
an actor, but Ii so Ne has thus far succeeded in
coaceaIiag mis- talent
York from Europe and South America. He
says Bernhardt has had q greater success in
South America than in Europe or this country.
Be.nhardt is to come to New York by way OF
Havana Mexico, Washington and Phiadel-
phia. reaching there early next March. From
New York she will go 10 san Francisco, thence
return trip she will take in Egypt. Greece anc
Germany. Patti Is also 10 be here under Alb
hey management. Schalchi, Gaisssi and a
Tenor who Is new 10 Americans. by name
Baroncelil Is TO support her, and Arditi-Ma
pleson's old stand-by-is To attend to the musi