Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-12-21
MUSICAL, AND DRAMATIC.

THE latest London success is widow Win
some"
JANUsCHEK, the famous German actress, is
still acting.
BOOTH AND BARRETT will produce ''Mac
BETH next season.
H r JACOBS, a New Yorker, manages
twenty-five theatres.
ROBERT MAxTEIL has added the "Corsican
Brothers to his repertoire
IT is suggested that jefferson and Florence
will appear together IN comedy
a GIRL dancer in Paris named Lisuado, only
seven years old, has created sensation
MARY ANDERSoN's engagement is the
event of the season thus far IN New OK
city.
WILSON BARRETT, tn English tragedian,
will make tour of the United States next
season
CLAY GREEN is writing a comic opera on
the lines of Longfellow's The Courtship OF
Miles StandlSh.'
THE 1O5 performances of LA Tosca,"
given by Miss Fanny Davenport this season,
have realized S96, co.,
ACTOR ROBERT DOWNING has married Miss
Eugene Blair, the leading lady OF his COM
pany, at Minneapolis.
A NEW play which Tennyson has written
for Mary Anderson is on the subject OF ROBIN
Hood and Maid Marian.
THE Tennessee Jubilee Singers and the
''Black Patti" are now drawing large houses
at Colon, Panama, in the tropics
"THE BELLS OF HASLEMERE" has been a
dire and disastrous failure in Chicago with
the best cast possible to procure.
THE Sultan of Turkey has bestowed
the highest decoration in the gift of the En-
pire upon Sir Arthur Sullivan, the composer.
LILLIAN RUSSELL has been discharged
from the Duff Opera Company for absentng
herself without leave. Lily Post has taken
her place
L..
gagged to play Macduff to the Macbeth Of
Charles Coghlan and the Lady Macbeth Of
Mrs. Langtry.
EMILY SoLDENE is about to profit by
benefit performance in London, in celebra-
ton of her completion of twenty five years
of stage service.
ALEXANDER SALvINI will be the leading
man in the company supporting his illustri-
Gus father, the italian tragedlan, in this
country next season.
HELENE HAsTREITER, the American vocal
ist, has achieved most extraordinary success
in opera at Rome All the Italian newspapers
are full of her praise.
THE sixteenth opera of ''Faust" has been
successfully produced in Koenigsberg, Ger
many. The author is named Zenger. The
first Operatic Faust" was written by Spohr
in 1913.
EMMA NEvADA-PALMER has made a tri-
umph in Madrid, where she sang in ''Lakme"
before Queen Maria Pia of Portugal and
queen regent ECnrlSIlna Oh SPAIN Oh IDe
same evening.
THE Russian Opera Company, which has
been visiting the principal capitals of Europe.
completely failed in London; the members of
the troupe are to be sent back to Moscow by
public subscription.
MAUD BANKS, daughter of General N. p
Banks, of Massachusetts,, is playing at the
Haymarket Thestre, Chicago. She was we'll
received in Chicago last year. By her pluck
and energy she has won enviable place
upon the American stage.
The English actors in New York are given
to cape coats and long hair 1t is said by
shrewd observer of things theatrical in Eng
land that Henry Irving set the long hair
fever. At all events, it is certain that
Englishmen do not crop their HAIR as they
did during the sporting period of 1875 and
1876.
EDWIN F. MAYos new play, "Silver Age"
is scenicallY elaborate. In one act is seen a
whirlpool of real water. The villain and the
hero both tumble in while engaged in hand
to-hand fight. There is also a mine
pIosion; house is struck by lightning; a
stage coach dashes down mountain and one
scene gives practical illustration of fight
and a lynching.