Telegram-herald., 1888-07-28

Musical MATTERS
NJ. Potter kss greatly exteaded her
r~nerssry for aext season. sae MI Flay
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Charles Box~er has beea enzsge1to pay
tas Erisa -~rxe&at n The k4aiz Di4m0n1'
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= sac epeas - season AZ t1e faaFteesth
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cess a. - l.Yeeau fhe4tsr "a "kiiiAa's
Blsgl-4.r las beea engaged - plav tle part
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Heraa. Ia ae~ play Knlch Ars- tlArF
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~ sLaer TIE management u J. y XII
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yer Klng Tor als aew play, -. yea named,
aad via proaaee if IN I.aadoa la ie,1 1ae
.cadiag nart IS tha- 81 ag rs cnly eighteen
years 0l 1ge, 2nd - sad - 0e stroagly ez1o
ti0nal-
Nay Amber formeriy q Deiy's company,
his beel engaged Is ie4iilZ lady Tor Robert
B Mattel wL0 Cpcas his season Oh August
~ 81 iae G.obe Theater. Boston. Airs. Van
deaAod al4 tal CATER have also been en-
sase,i, and Ma LO-lnger VII be lhe basl-
ness manage.
Elitvia Boofh aud Lawrence Berrctt are
making extensive aad costly r. paraii.ns
far elaborate productions u "Othello and
Toe Merchant OF Vcaice" during Their
New YORK c1y1yerlenf, which Opels n ths
firm Avenue Theafcr November II and
continues for eight weeks.
TLonas Keeue VII open his season uader
the management OF Ariel Barney a. the
Chicago Opera House, September 3 wlth a
graud production OF Richard III, FOR
which SPECIAL scenery Is being painted oy
V0cghtIn. THIS piece win DC played by
Mr. Keeae during Els New lork engage
mrnt ia February.
Daniel T. Bandmann IS reported 10 have
bcea vlctinized few days ago q Stockton,
/ Cal, by has manager. W c Howard. who
went OF with the receipts. Mr. Bandmann,
who bad engaged the man in 81. Joseph,
/ No, discovered too late that be was an
escaped Sln Francisco convict named VIII
IAN II Cowcn
| Edward c. Unit. late scenic artist OK tho
/ Lyceam Tbeater, New York, has been en-
gagcd By Manager Hooley, Of Chicago, for
/ the season OF lssSS9 Mr. Unitt has been
Z working for tie past three weeks on a new
I act-drop for the opening Of Hooley's, and
I also on new and elaborate sets for the pro-
/ ductioa OF "Tkc Wife," which Will be done
a. this house early in September by Mr.
/ Frohman's Lyccum Taeater Company on
/ Their return from san Francisco.
Kate Claxton has sold . T.. r. S,ocl<well
/ the righ, TO perform The World Against
/ Her in al territory west Of tho Missouri
I river. Stocigvel will produce the piece
/ only at the san Francisco Alcazar Theater.
go the remainder Of the country described
/ viii be played by Joseph K GriEser and
/ his wife Paabe Davis.
Mss MAY Waldrcn has signed contract
with William Henderson, the veteran man
/ oger OF Jersey City, and Fred Hines. 20
I star in Mrs. Eta Henderson's plays,
claire. the Forgemaster," and Almost q
/ Iife.~ beginning season Of 1889. The venture
Will have abundant financial support, and
Miss Waidron viii be surrounded by a
most competent company.
agreement with Colonel ncCaull to write a
new verse for De Wolf Hcpper's popular
I topical song. "He's on Very Good Terms
with Himself" FOR every night during the
run of The Lady or the Tiger" at Wal
lacks, New York Mr. Hopper has already
sung on different nights more than twenty
extra verses 10 the original song, TO the de-
| light OF the laughing audiences.
The Wagner symphony, which was leased
By Nine. Wagner TO Herr Wolf for one year,
VIII probably not be heard again in public
after the close ofthat period. The sun paid
| for the right OF performance has, with char
| acteristic generosity, been donated by Nine.
| Wagner 70 the ''StipendIary Fund for the
I purpose OF enabling poor artists TO attend
the Bayreuth representations, defraving tho
expenses Of the journey 10 and board and
lodging a. Bayreuth.
Nar-v Anderson sails from England on
I October 80. She opens At Wallack on
| November u Her tour will cover twenty
five weeks and viii INCLUDE all the princi-
/ pal thcascrs OF the Fast "The Wintcr' :
Tale is 70 form the cisef feature Of the
rcpartory. which VIII also include Romeo
and Juliet. "a You Like It." - Pygma-
lion and Galatea." :. Comedy aud Tragedy, "
'sI.ady of Lyons' and "IngOmar.n
Steele Mackaye saws that the Clark street
bridge scene, paiGted by Walter Burridge
for his new play, ' A Noble Rogue Is the
most startling and realistic work that he
has ever seen. II would seem a difficult
feat 20 reproduce Gu the stage so poaderogs
piece Of machinery as Clark street bridge,
and have Il actually work with smoothncss
and precision. But this has really been
accomplished. Tho bridge - practical. pc
dcs.raas cross and u opens TO admit the
passage az river traffic in q manner that is