Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Joseph jefferson will play only about thir-
teen weeks next season.
j. w. Morrisey will be business manager
for James c. Duff next season.
Margaret Mather proposes TO play Peg Wof-
fingtOn in MASKS and Faces
SignOr GalasSi has been engaged by Henry
E. Abbey for the Patt; concert tour next
season.
Wilson Banett's repertoire in this country
will consist only OF "Cllto, "Claudian" and
"llamlet."
Normandy has been selected by Mary An
derson as the scene of her self-impoSed two
years rest
The Great Eastern is now used as variety
theatre in a small inlet adjoining the Mersey
river, Liverpool.
Evans and Hocy in "Parlor Match open
their coming season at UoOleyS Iheatcr,
Chicago, on August So
!, Laura BeIini is to be the prma donna Of
travelling company this coming fall.
An Anglicized version of 'llazel Kirke"
was pronounced a bore last week by n Lon
don audience at the Vaudeville Thcater
Mr. Henry Il. Walton is preparing for a
starring tour through the United States and
Canada in repertoire OF new and standard
plays.
Miss Blanche Weaver recently returned
from the West Indies, where she has been
playing principal parts in the Mcdonald
company.
Charles Pope will have large repertoire
the coming season, but will devote himself
Richard Ill"
Mr and Mrs. W. y. Florence play at the
Baldwin Theater, San Francisco, next sea-
son--their first California engagement in
seven years.
The "Robinson Crusoe" girls in "Adonls"
were photographed By u London artist, but
the police would not allow tue pictures to be
exhibited i'll the shop windows.
Patti strenuously insists upon being called
and addressed henceforth as Nine. Patti-Ni-
colini. It's too late, though. To the public
she will be simply Patti forever.
Colonel MaplesOn's 'IiAfracaine" and
sold by San Francisco sheriff for $9,342, to
satisfy railroad claim OF S2,OSO.
Herr Sonnenthal, the Austrian actor, will
shortly give q performance of Schiller's
''Walenstein," at Prague, to begin at two
in the afternoon and to end at midnight.
Gilbert & Sulliyan's new opera will not be
upon an Egyptian subject Mr. Gilbert al
that imtators might be thrown off the track.
Thomas Whiffen, of the Madison Square
company played PitticuS Green in Hazel
kirkep at the Vaudeville theater, London,
last Wednesday afternoon, and failed with
marked success.
Messrs. Hoyt and Solomon are finishing
their new comic opera, The Maid and the
Moonshiner." A chorus of the daughters of
an arlstocratic Virginia family is expected
to be a feature.
=. a private cablegram from Berlin states that
"Caprcciosa," an opera comique by Herr
Raida, had its first production on Friday ut
Walhala theater, in that city, with much sue
cess, and has been secured for this country
by the Kiralfys.
Miss Margaret Mather opens in "Romeo
and Juliet" at San Francisco the first week
of next month Mr.. Frederick Paulding will
again be the Romeo, and the scenery and
costumes seen here in the Union Square pro-
duction will be used.
Miss Rose Coghlan it is announced, will
not be seen as Our Joan next season. S he
will have wider and more varied scope for
her talents by starring in THE School of
surance,' "The Lady of Lyons" much ado
About Nothing" "As You Like It," and
Macbeth"