Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-04-17

STAR NEXT YEAR IN ''THE GLADIAroR"-THE
CoaISG DEPARTURE OF DIxEY-A NEW
COMEDY, WITH THE SCENE LAID IN WASHING
ToS.
Tho company which Miss Rosina vokes
will bring over next season will include most
OF the people now with her, nearly every one Of
whom Is a competent artist Fred. and Victoria
Sokes will also be in the company, probably.
An nsT GJfrs - nsh ne ,h 10,
exquisite little comedy. "My MilIiner's BILL" is
engaged on q new play for Miss Vokes.
- Mr.. Robert L. Downing closed his season
with "vautour' at the termination of his two
weeks engagement in Chicago, on Saturday
night, and has returned toWashirgton. The play
seems to have failed To draw in Chicago. 1t was
understood when "Vautcur' was put on here
that the company had been engaged for an
eight weeks season. IL l. said that Mr.. Down.
Ing Will isext season be starred in "Ihe Gladi-
stor." under the management OF wcll-known
friends in Washington will be glad to see him
In play worthy oil his exccptiona; powers.
Alfred Thompson is at present busy on the
book of comic opera for which solomon Is
during the time of Louis XVI.
oils new comedy Arcadia" which was
presented In Boston last week, is pronounced
rubbish of the most rubbishy nature.
-Apropos of German opera in Chicago,
critic Of that city suggests tina: if the original of
Marguerite had weighed more than 225 pounds,
Fausf would never have trIied with her young
affections
Sarah Bernhardt will open ut the London
Royalty on April 81, and win, during her short
stay, appear in Fedora" LA Dame aux
Cameiias' and IA third piece, rs yet TO be fixed.
- Mrs. d. y. Bowers has been engaged 10 play
the Queen IN Hamlet and Emefia IN ..O;hello"
IN the Booth-Sa!vini performances Miss Marie
Wainwright will be the Dcstienaoaa and Opheiia.
- Miss Alberta Gallatin, u beautiful Virgin
Ian, has arrived in New York to prepare for her
debut She is the daughter OF famous con-
fcderate general who was killed during the
war.
- Mile. de Lussan Is credited with the brill
liant success Of revival In English garb. OF
Donizetti's "Elisir d'Amore" by the Boston
Ideal Opera company.
Next season an ambitious managers viii
place on the road THE TicketofLeave NAH"
with u spectacular setting.
John 4. Owens, that admirable old come
dian, has almost entirely recovered his health.
The event OF the CARL Rosa opera season at
BruryLane will Je the production of NJ Nerves
new spectacular opera "Frivoli." The scenes
Of the three acts are laid at Florence. n Town on
the Austrian frontier. and "a y ipics. F5iroli
i wandering minstrel. y. Heryo has Just be-
come n naturaiZed British subject.
Mime. Judic will appear, for the first time
In America, In the role Of conductor at sun
day evenings concert at the New York Casino,
when she viii lead the orchestra in the first
public bearing OF new waltz, entitled .Sous
Bois. The occasion will also be her farewell
appearance IN America.
The Dixey cult Is still very prevalent in
New York. The grand banquet to him has
been postponed until few days previous to his
cepartu.e for England. y steamer crowded
with friends will convey him dow n the bay on
the day he leaves ana whole iincrl of carrier
pigeons will be from the Steamship after IL
Is cat on the ocean.
- Edwin III. Price intends starring r. g. Man.
tell ana sara Jewett IN Fedora through Cam
ada, beginning the season on May 10.
--Eben Piympton. who is nothing If not
English. YOU know, has committed the fur
pas .: sailing for England in steamer called
America, His friends In New York are alarmed
AMI do no. know what To make OF il.
In a recent letter To Il personal friend in
New York Mrs. Langtry writes that she will
positively come to America in the autum...
w j. Florence i said % De reading IL new
comedy. which he may produce next season,
enii,lcd ~ Bit OF Scandal"
In Chicago, on Nay 2G. John A. Mackay
Will prod uce a u vs. facial comedy on the Con
fusion" order, which has been specially written
Cor him.
1t has been decided to close the season of
tie Lyceum theater. New York, with the 2GOth
performance of lone OF Our Girls which oc-
ours in the latter part OF May.
Treasurer Al. L. Miller, OF the Vine Street
opera house, Cincinnati. has become insane
through excessive cigarette smoking He has
been removed to an asylum and IL Is not be-
lieved he will recover.
- Financial disaster Is bringing many of the
would-be Stars TO their senses and teaching
them that IL is better TO get SIS week and
have Their name In small type than to be ont
couple OF hundred and have their name fn type
three lEcIe- high. Young Ed. S0thern Is learn
ing tGe secrets o. acting in Helen Dauvray 5 COM
pauy, where he Will remain two seasons more:
and w T. sheridan las, signed 10 support Celia
Alsbef::, the new western star, next season
Edwin Booth and Sig. Ssllvini will each re-
ceivc, IL Is said, during their joint engagement
So per cent of the gross receipts while the mama
gers Of the theaters in which they play will re-
cefve 20 per cent. Thus 20 per cent is left for
NcssTs- Tnayef and Chizzoia to pay the support
Ing company and ali oi.er expenses attending
The engagement.
u NJ Hill wi'. send "Pepita- on the road
next season. wiz the same company now pre-.
senting 4 q. the Union Square theater New
York. in -iuding Lillian Russell. The opera
Viii DC continued al the Union square to the
END OF the season.
- The new comedy, sour Society" which is
10 De presented at the Madison square theater.
New York, on Monday evening, is an adapta-
ZION rom the French. Manager Palmer has
had the story Americanized, and the scene OF
action has 1een laid in Washington.
Silie- Rhea and her company went through
qnite NJ experience In Tennessee week before
last they were detained on the road BY floods
whicis prevented trains from running two days
AMI nn3!ly had To- walk over the mountains
Through deep Innd and In a drenching rain.
Sir Arthur Sullivan is said 10 be filling in
the SPARE moments between working at his new
Egyptian comic opera, in writing a serious can
tata-
-Ambroisc Thomas is reported 10 be engaged
OIL new ballet, founded on Shake,peure's
''rsmTesE'
-Opertic stars have always received extrays-
CANT salaries. FaTineiii received in London
during the seasons Of I734-35. no less than
9.1,COU. and II mus. be reIn,..Ivered that this
sum represented thrice that amount in modern
money In 1S17 Pasta received sis 7-,0 f,r a
three DiO.:ih> >ea>tln in London. MtibraI re-
c~lveC $4,000 Tor Ssfniar engagement in
ISIS. and AlDon u like SUN svera wear, LATER
while SbEt.s eIrued SD. 900 in the course OF
RE sPriE All sum me- season of 1919 also i'm
l. :IiOn. Rublui died .sof. 1. about > 900 600
cnt'hy es1Tpcd IN Russia and England t;,ffl-
re.l., however, madv more money by singing
ts4f: any ether Nu.sl ~ Oi present times
He In .OrtuGs vi ~, 2OU. 900 \ few wears
oet"Ee as> Gc.,tn his IeWe.ry and plate, !or the
uissss par D. escDicj TO him 10y his admirers was
valued a.: S-,oOO,DOU.
- TIC contract Tor the American tour of the
great company OF Meiningeu players from
c., ntny was signed April 9th, and Manager
c les SissoI says that The entire troupe will
pa-itsve!. come, the required guarantee OF
$1j,O,ts haNIE[ been easily raised. Adoph
NeaendOTH Is 10 be the artistic director of The
refTestotsiio.is- AK Sisson promises that the
Lczets sits's be sold ut prices no higher than
those s.sSeu ~ Henry Irving. The plays Will
Dc "JuliuS Caesar, n Winters Tale" Mac
beth, - wealth Nigh, Merchant OF Venice -
MUCH Ado About Nothing" Tanning of the
chreN, tshtgieo and Juliet" "The Robbers ~