New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-17
INCIDENTS OF THE STAGE.
SOME OF THE PLAYS THAT MAY BE SEEN
THIS WEEK

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| ,ho Grand Oncra House this week. Miss Georgia Cay
van and Herbert Kelccy will appear in the principal
parts which entirely new TO them. Among the
others in tho cast Frazer Coulter. Robert liila'
W. J. Ferguson. D.. T. Rnggold, John W. jennings
! r. w. Montgomery, Ethel Greybrooke. May Roberts,
Agnes Dowal and little Graco Pauldng
| For the last two or three weeks Mr.. Aronson has
been preparing the souvenir for the fftieh rcprcscn
taion OF Nady, which at the Casino on satur-
day evening, June 30. 1t Is to be in the shape Of
| handsome miniature Hungarian flag. Tho three
colors, green white and red to be of heavy sah
and the centre Of the flag is to be adorned with Inc
! golden crown of Hungary The reverse side VIII be
OF white satin. upon which tho cast Will be printed In
GOLD The pole is TO be of metal with an ornamental
top. This souvenir will DO of the pretIest and
| most unique presented at the Casino. 1t Is TO
be enclosed I'm a polished white boz tied with wide
white silk ribbon, the whole resembling, not little,
| the boxing of a slice Of wedding cake.
Considerable interest attaches to Mr.. Mansfeld's
| appearance tomorrow night at the Madison Square
Theatre, Baron Chevria, in A Partisan Romance
This Is the part I'm which no first won fame In New
| York. and since the run at the Union Square Theatre
It has been given only three times In this city, The
following is the cast: Miss Cameron. Marcelle: Miss
Sheridan Baroness Chevrial: Miss Maudc White. Rosa:
! Mrs Sol Smith, Nine. De Targy; John T. Sullivan,
Henri: ID. H. Iar1sins, DIR. Chesnel: Joseph Frankau,
Jullanna. with tho Misses Bennett. Gddon. Emerson.
Sltgrcavcs Haynes, Lockart Weaver and Haswel. and
| tho Mcssrs. Crompton, Burroughs, Holland, Parry,
| Booth and Goodwin I'm the remaining characters. 1t
is probable that Mr.. Mansfield and his company will
| spend all next In England.
Nine. lima dc Murska has arranged with Manager
| Ambcrg appear at Terrace Garden IN a series of
Sunday evening concerts which viii begin on juno
"a Nine dc Murka is said to have entirely recovered
| from her recent nervous illness.
The play in which A. NJ Palmer will present Eflle
Ellslcr at the Madison Square Theatre July will
engage the services OF Miss May Wolcott, Mrs. Hart
Jackson, f. ii. Vanderbilt, Frank Weston f. C.
| Bangs, Walden Ramsay, Harry Eytinse and others.
The drama in three and the laid in France.
It has been adapted by Clinton Stuart and Will be
produced under the stage direction of Ben Teal I'M
mcdlately after the close Of Miss Eslers engagement
at the Madison Square shc Will appear in Boston,
| Philadelphia and Chicago.
! Although the Academy gives the appearance out
waIdly of being dark and dismal within dill IS bust
ness and work The carpenters have begun To tear
up all the cd paraphcrnalia of the stage, including
| the fly galleries and rigging lofts, which
have done twenty years service, to mako room for
the scenery and appliances to be used In the sold
| Homestead BY August 1 only the three walls Of
tho famous old stage Will remain, the popularity Of
| PhilippCtcaux work requiring distinct and novel
method Of setting and producing the effects Of
! light necessary to cyclOramlc receptions. The date
of the production IS set for Saturday, August 80.
| Tomorrow night Joseph Arthurs local drama,
| " Tho StIll Alarm will ontcr the last two weeks
| Of its long and exceedingly successful run at the
Fourteenth Street Theatre where 1t has drawn large
audiences from tho start. Manager Rosonquest
nounccs that places be secured for any of
remaining performances Next Wednesday night tho
play Will reach its Tooth performance at this house,
when the $1,000 fie-engine, built for Lacy &c
by Silsbe q Co.. of Seneca Falls. this State
| will be irst used.
Tho Duff Opera Company in the "Queen's Mate'
win enter the eighth week Of a successful at
! the Broadway tThcatrc tomorrow evening. The
grand march I'm tho last act I'm which 160 armored
amazons appear improves with each performance and
| Is received nightly with storms OF applause. on
Tuesday evening next the fftlcth performance will
occur The management have had artists at work
| for several days designing handsome and appro-
priate souvenir.
Chevaer Bondn, tho famous tght-rope artist and
Of Niagara Falls, will reappear in this country
after absence of twenty-seven years, saturday
afternoon at ST. George Staten Island, when he Will
lie I'm his marvellous feas on the tight rope, a d
Will cook the famous Niagara Falls omclet tho
rope 800 feet above the heads of the audience His
entertainment begins at p. H. and will be continued
every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at the same
hour, with change of bill at each exhibition BlOn
din VIII not appear in Nero, or tho Fall Of Romeo
At the benefit concert at the Bliou Opera House,
tonight Dr. Richmond Will appear for the first time
| In fcats Of paror magic.
william H. Crane and wife were passengers on the
| City of Berlin yesterday.
Charles Dickens wife and daughter, and Carl stra-
kosch and wife CLARA Louise Kellogg sailed on the
| serva yesterday.
Mrs James Brown Potter sailed La Normandie
Yesterday She will devote her summer to studying
Cleopatra and getting dresses for that play.
At Terrace Garden, Manager Amberg's Company
will present on Monday, Prince Methusalem' Tues
day. Black Hussarr; Wednesday, Gypsy Baron;
Thursday, Glronc- Glrona7 Friday and Saturday,
| La Vie Parlsicnne."
Next wednesday evening, II Friday nights storm
did not do too much damage, the summer season Will
| no opcncd at St George, Staten Island, when lmrc
Kiralfy,s gigantic historical spectacle Of Nero, or
the Fall of Rome" will be given for the first tlhe
There will be chorus Of five hundred voices, band
OF one hundred musicians grand ballet of one thou
sand and three hundred athelces gadators, etc, the
entire number Of people employed reaching twenty
tbfcc hundred, the largest ever introduced In ono
performance in any spectacle. The hugo stage, which
covers nearly three city blocks, will be alive with men
and women I'm gorgeous costumes, and the scenery
will the most realistic ever presented to the public
Tie entire grounds at st. George, have been trans
| formed into the ancient city of Rome, with 100000
square feet OF moving scenery, not only In painting
but I'm massive structures, with realistic palaces, tenn
pes and public buildings, several stories I'm height
| with hundreds OF peo pie moving about and In them
The De Torrance Will include realistic naval battle
| the burning Of the body Of Emperor Claudus, Nerc's
grand triumphal cortege, introducing ManzottPs
! famous procession from Amor in which twenty
| three hundred and women Will appear, exterior
and interior of Nero's palace, grand bacchanalian
! revels the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus, in
which exciting chariot races, Olymplan games, glad
atorial contests and realistic battles between men
and wild beasts, introducing herds Of trained elc
phants lions, camels and horses, Will take place.
This spectacle will close with the burning OF ROmo