Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-11-23
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

PATTI goes to bed at $3.50 p NJ. and rises at
$3.50 A. NJ.
W. S. GILBERT, the English fbrettist, has
dramatized George Eliots "Romola."
SHENANDOAH" has finally been decided
upon as the title for Bronson Howards new
play.
STUART ROBSON will star alone next sea-
son in "The Henrietta' and in a new play by
Steele Mackaye.
TEREsIYA TUA, the violin fairy, has bid
farewell to Berlin, and retired into the COM
forts of home life.
F. F. PROCTOR has just leased the Worces-
ter Mass Theatre. He now controls sixteen
places of amusement.
EMMA ABBOTT, the opera singer. is said to
receive net annual profits of $4,000 from her
real estate in Denver
DUFF's "Queens Mate' has captured
ChicagoanS. The first two weeks receipts
are said to have aggregated $4,000.
THE receipts of "The Wife" at the Hollis
Street Theatre, Boston, for one week are
said TO have reached upward OF $4,000.
A NEW comic opera, to be called "Yetiva,'
with the scenes laid in Albuquerque. N. NJ.
is to be shortly produced in San Francisco
Mr. J. X. EMMETT will produce his new
play, "Fritz in a Madhouse" at the Four
teenth Street Theatre, New York, on April
sd
Mrs. LANGTRY has a fortune of $3.50, 900;
Clara Louise Kellogg has $300,000 Fanny
Davenport $l50,0OO, and Kate Claxton
$l2j,O00
ROSE COGHLN continues to be very sue
cessful in her new play of 'JocelYn," which
she is now presenting in the West to large
| audiences.
FANNY DAVENPORT shaving the most sue
cessful season thlt she has known in recent
| ,.lr u b, Iol
| houses everywhere.
AN inventory of the estate of William
| Warren, the Boston actor, has been made,
and it is found that the actor left $2l0, 699 92,
all i'll stocks and bonds.
CARRIE BAUMAN, the youngest daughter
| of a poor New Orleans carpenter, is being
educated by patronesS who makes the pre-
diction that she will rival Patti.
IT is reported that Jane Hading, the
| French actress now in this country, devotes
! her spare time to the study of English with
view to future starring tour of the United
States.
WILLIAM GILLETTE has secured patent
for his horse -galloping effect. This, he
claims, gives him the exclusive right to use
! on the stage the imitation of the sound of
| horses hoOfS
ETHEL SPRAGUE, the pretty daughter of
Kate Chase Sprague, is studying for the stage
| IN New ork. she Will not appear until next
season, and then probably in play written
| by her mother
A FEATURE of the new play, "A Country
Fair" which Neil Burgess will produce at
Proctor's new Twenty third Street Theatre,
York, in December, will be a race course
with real horses
MISS NEITIE CARPENTER, the violinist,
will close her engagement in Paris on De-
cember %. She will begin an American
tour about the middle of January, under
Major Ponds direction
MANAGER AUGUSTUS PTOU,of New York,
says he will spend $4,000 on the spectacular
production Of "The Corsican Brothers," in
which Robert Mantell will be seen as Louis
and Fabian del Franch
! PAULINE LUCIA, the opera singer, declares
that after her approaching American tour
she will retire from the stage. She has bought
villa at Glmunden, where she intends OPEN
ing school for opera singers.
For the first time in its history Bulgaria
is to have national theatre recognized by the
! State. The new house will soon be opened at
! Sofia. 1t will receive from the government
O animal allowance nf S15 000