Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-02
SOME AMUSEMENT NOTES.

:, London. is to have new theatre for light opera that will cost $25O, ,OO0. 05.r,3s1-y
 Jane Hading, the great Paris favorite, will probably come to America Wl1n Coquenn next October. .ts f,guoa aaIi9iNvT
 It. is rumored that Mary Anderson lntenos T to play in Germany before returMng 1o America next August.
 Etelka Gerster is on a tour with the Cam panini Concert company and VIII contanue with them some weeks o9ai i99ubo75a. 5t 2 Mary Anderson, is bringing her London season to a close. Her audiences are almost exclusively composed of provincial tourists N Clara Louise Kellogg, it is announced, will tour next season with an opera com pany of sixty y-five persons, under the manage ament of her young husband, Carl Strakosch.
 The annual pay roll of the Paris Grand Opera foots up $473. .241, and in spite of the fact that no rent is paid and government fur nishes $160, 900 a year, the manager IS invari- ably loser. sl, g1aI ra .b.urG--, a
 Arrangements have been completed whereby Fanny Davenport will play sum- mer season on the Pacific slope under Al Hayman's management. Miss Davenport opens at the Baldwin theatre, San Francisco, May IA. 3 -s rI.jesa3nu
 Theodore Thomas may be forestalled in his professional tour through Europe. The French conductor, Lamoreux, is going to make concert tour through Spain, Portu- gal, Russia and England with ninety per formers. e& ba T f7z sf@3-tst 2.a55f "
 Mrs Alice Shaw, the whistler, is to go to England in the spring, and, as social nov city, she may vie with Adelaide Detchon, whose pretty pipings and bird limitations have been the correct thing to listen to for several seasons past
 Australia has just got roller skates and is 70 busy with them that the theatres suffer. It is decided not to take "A Parlor Match" there, but George Knight will undertake professional tour. ;. .r.5sT While w. s. Gilbert is building a theatre in London there is no foundation for the rumor that Gilbert and Sullivan have had falling out. Their union is as strong as ever and a better opera than "The Mikado" is said | % be preparing. @fs baGa1ussih T ad
 Lillian Olcott is credited with the most ec- | centric fashion of these times. The young actress has small live snake of a greenish l hue, imported from Africa, inclosed in a 1 ,ort of harness of gold encrusted with small diamonds and fastened to her collar with @ diamond clasp. 7lii "A s~2saAslt s"- ttaJi l Coquelin, the French comedian, is having ! social as we'll as an artistic success in | Egypt. His five performances in Cairo were attended by the khedive, and he has been re- ,eived at the palace with distinguished honors. M. Coquelin has broken the record in Egypt by declining to ascend the big pyramid. A 'lii al'S - -,- 5-e'i-.5.-'
 Nat Goodwin broke glass at a dinner
 some time ago. One of the guests, a very homely man, remarked, laughingly, that he had never broken glass in his life "What,
 4uizzingly inquired Nat, snot even when you looked into oneg-Dramatic News.
 .E Charles H. Hoyt, author of "A Rag Baby, "Parlor Match, :" Bunch of Keys," "Tir Y Soldier" "Hole in the Ground" and "Brass
 Monkey,' says his sleep is interrupted by tht
 fear that after he is dead some Ignatius Don
 nelly will arise and attribute his dramatic
 works to William M. Evarts. -a.tnu 3ff