Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-10-30
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
HAROLD FosBERG GOING OUT AoAIN-THE
LARGE NUMBER OF COMBINATIONS on THE
ROAD HAsTRETTER's SUCCESS ABROAD
UNHAPPY VIOLET CAMERON.


UNHAPPY VIOLET CAMERON.
- Rose Coghlan has apparently made q nne
impression in Toronto as Lady 1cazte, Lddy
Gay Spanker. Rosatind and Pauline Her sea-
son In Canada thus tar has been most success
iul She opened in Boston Monday night In
las You Like It." and met with great favor.
- Harold Fosberg will resume his starring
tour next week. having gone back to the role OF
PiconRe de Fzacon in 1.-THE Pavements OF Paris,
| him. Those who saw him In 1t here couple OF
seasons ago can still look back and laugh.
Fanny Davenport is said to be collecting
material for biography of her father, E. L.
Davenport
-"Erminie' is said to have played to
Sc, 900 in Philadelphia last wee.:, the largest
light opera business ever done in that city.
'Ermfnie" is a moderately amusing skit, out
What people can see in 1t to give 1t the success
| 1t has had must ever remain mystery.
Minstrelsy seems to be the only species OF
entertainment that can draw frst-class bust
ness in Washington or any other part OF the
country.
- Mr.. Walter Dennis, of this city, has been
engaged as a member of Manager Bidwelfs
stock company at the New Orleans Grand
Charles Wheatleigh, May Brooklyn. Minnie
conway and Isabelle Waldron, are also mem
bers of the company.
- Mr.. Nat Goodwin will commemorate the
| at the Bijou Opera house, New York, Monday
evening, by the distribution of fitting souve-
Mrs.
-Eben Plympton will appear at three matt
nee performances in Wallack's theater. New
York. next week, in the English comedy drama
Jack" which he will take out on the road
should II prove success.
-"Jim the Penman" will be produced at
the Madison Square theater, New York, Mon
day night. Frederic Robinson, H. NJ. Pitt, C. p.
Will be in the cast.
The "dates ahead" columns of the New
York Mirror, probably the most complete to be
found in any dramatic paper in the country,
contains the names OF no less than 213 dram
ATTIC companies, % opera and concert COM
panies, 8 minstrel companies, 16 variety COM
blnations and miscellaneous companies enough
10 bring the aggregate up to 27O. Allowing an
average of Is people to each company, we
nave a total OF over 1000 actors and actresses,
so-called, scurrying up and down this country
In pursuit OF ducats and fame.
1t is said that Mrs. Langtry is an expert
with the foils. She fences an hour every morn
Ing. She knows how to handle pistol. too,
and can clip card every time at fifteen PAGES.
her success In Pauline is a marked feature Of
the New York theatrical season.
Edwin Booth will open his season at the
Nsw York Star theater Monday evening in
Hamlet" The production will be notable for
new scenery, which has been painted by
Goatcher. and is said to be very fine and
four weeks.
Those who ought to know attribute Miss
Helen Dauvray's success on the road in small
degree to her possession of a real Union Square
mascot in the person OF Mr.. Walter Hudson,
her private secretary, who no doubt derives his
mascottic qualities from his aunt, Maggie
M1tcneil. These qualities are by no means oc-
cult, however, and consist simply in close and
Intelligent attention to business.
Mile. Rhea played in Montreal last week.
On the opening night students OF McGill Uni
versity came TO the theater in a body carrying
French flags and baskets of flowers. which they
presented TO Rhea while they sang the "Mar-
seillaise"
Dion Boucicault will begin his engagement
| In New York, at the Standard theater, this
evening, in "The Jilt."
Kate Claxton has given up "Arrah ma
Pogue" and returned to the 1.-TWO Orphans"
Miss Claxton has arranged with D'Ennery to
write her new meodrama for next season.
The enterprising manager of Fred Warde
| is employing all sorts of schemes to boom that
actor. Last week in Wheeling he was escorted
from his hotel to the theater by torch light
procession OF the knights Of Pythias, OF which
he is member.
Mime. Hastreiter, who is now with the Ma
pleson company In Ireland seems to be carry
ing off the honors there as she did here while
with the American Opera company. The critic
or the Cork Constitution credits her with having
saved recent performance OF III TrOvatore'
from being Missed.
- Mile. Sardou, scarcely in her teens, the
daughter OF the great French playwright, has
SO seriously questioned her father as to why he
Will not permit her to go to the theater to see
MS plays, that he promised to write one she
might witness. 1t Is now finished. and is called
lie crocodile NJ. Sardoa warrants it to be
perfectly harmless, and persons who have read
the manuscript declare that it Is amazingly
funny. 1t will soon be produced.
Robson and Cranes production of 'The
Merry Wives of Windsor" was seen for the
fret fifv,a tn
Boston theater, and was received with great
favor. The audience enthused several times
during The evening, and particularly at the
close OF the third act when Mr. Crane, who Of
treated to an ovation. Robson got great deal
out OF the small part of Slender.
Mr. Wilson Barrett, apparently wishing to
give New Workers a taste OF what he could do
In less snowy roles than Claudian, appeared at
the Star theater last Saturday afternoon in two
short pieces, IA Clerical Error" a comedy with
serious undertOIe, and "Chat;erton," Il tragic
piece, depicting the last day of the life of the
precoclous and unhappy boy poet. Some of the
critics praised in the highest terms the wide
range OF power and of artistic attainment re-
veaied by Mr.. Barrett In the leading roles of
these plays. Other critics, who have evidently
determined that nothing Mr.. Barrett Goes shall
provoke them into nything nearer approba-
ton than patronizing tolerance, found his
comedy In "a Clerical Error Technically cor
rect, but lacking in genuine sensibiiity: while
they admit his 'Chatterton' to have been very
good.
When we are told that "beside Ike nil
worth such pieces The Rag Baby and a
Bunch OF Keys, rise TO heights OF iu.meas ura-
bic grandeur" We no longer wonder that Violet
cameron Is PLAYING to very poor business at the
New York Casino. "keniiworth" is said to ne
lntOlerably stupid, its fun consisting tor the
m st part or idlotic puns, which the English
seem 10 think so funny. Violet Cameron, on
me whole, seems to be playing in hard lines in
New York. and the critics are very savage
towards her