Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-02-03
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

LESTER WALLAcK is writing his Recol-
lections of the Stage
RosE CuGHLAN hss left Wallack's, New
York and viii be q star once more.
THOMAS b. Macdonough will revive Bart
ley Campbells siberia next season.
THEODORE THOMAS was fiddler at 81
week in the old Broadway Theatre in the me-
tropols.
THE authorities at Mldrid, Spain, have or
derel every theatre unorovided with electric
lights 20 be closed.
THE salary of the Rev Lyman Abbott,
temporary pastor OF Plymouth Church, has
leen fixed at $1,000.
THE Duke of Sparta, son of the King and
Queen of Greece, is to marry a younger
daughter of tile Prince of Wales.
MASTER WoRRELL. a nine year-old
prodigy, recently payed the cOrnet before
the crowned heads of the Vanderbilt family.
EDWARD HARRIGAN says he pays 10i poo
pie every week, and that his salary list is
larger than that of any other theatre man i'll
New York.
Mas. I.ETITIA MCCULLOUGH widow of
John Mccullough, the tragedian, died re-
Gently in Philadelphia. She leaves an estate
worth 5000.
The opera is said to be having hard time
all over the world, but twenty five new ones
were produced in Germany last year and
thirty-fve in Italy.
EDWIN BoOTH's first appearance on the
stage was with sChoolfelows in Baltimore, a
juvenile minstrel perfofmance-admission
one cent-giving him his Opportunity
FREDERICK WARDE is making an extensive
( tour of the large Southern cities and is said
| to be drawing big audiences everywhere. At
the close of his season in the South he goes to
San Francisco.
RUDOLPH ARoNsoH has secured the Ameri-
can right of the next Gilbert and Sullivan
opera, an opera on Spanish subject, by
Tito Mattel; la Valliere," by Charles
Lecocl, and ''Nadgy," by Paul Chassaigne,
composer OF "Falka.n
! LARGE returns are still the order of the
day from Messrs. Robson and Cranes invest
ment in The Henrietta" dividends being
paid nightly at the Union Square. Mr..
| Howard's bright play shows no signs yet Of
losing its popularity.
TIE performances of the Irving Company
in this country are regularly advertised in
| the theatrical advertising columns of the Lon
don papers, just as though the company was
| appearing at its own Lyccum, instead Of
| 1000 or 5000 miles away.
IMRE K1RALFY has commenced active
preparations for the big spectacle which he
| will produce at st. George, Staten Island, in
June, and on which, it is said, 400 men and
women will be employed, including Chevalier
Blond IL, the famous tight-rope artist, who
has beer. engaged.
| Mr.. W. l. BISHOP, the ''mind reader" will
! give his entertainments for the next twelve
months under the management of Mr. n. B.
! Leavtt After his present California visit
is finished he will make tour of Southern
cities and then go to Australia where he
will remain eight months
| LITTLE JOSEPH HOFFMAN recently con,
Quoted Neuenlorffs orchestra Of seventy
musicians at the Metropolitan Opera House
in New York and astonshed the audience
| The 'tPolonaise Americaine," which the boy
composed and dedicated to his manager
Henry L. Abbey, was played.
H. J. FURBER, JR., a young Chicagoan
not yet twenty, and now a student at the
University of Berl II, has conceived the idea
of founding in Chicago great university, tc
be modelled after that at Heidelberg. He will
devote 81, ,000, 600 to the project as an induce
ment to other citizens to join him in the
movement.
| RUSSELL SAGE, the Wall street, New Yorh
City, magnate, serves as central figure in 6
| pay written by his private secretary, Johr
Z. Mccain, and ycleped Puts and Calls.
| Puts and calls are speculative contracts
whose peculiarities were invented by Mr..
| Sage when he first entered wall street, not SO
rich as he isnow, years ago.