Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-08
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.


1t is estimated that Booth and Barretts
profits from their tour will be upward o
$500, 900
Miss Mary Davis, the well known oratorio
vocalist, has for many years earned $4,000
per annum.
Marie Roze will make a concert tour Of the
United States the coming autumn season.
1t is seven years since she was here.
Nine Jane Hadng sails on May to begin
her engagement with Messrs. Abbey, Schoef
fel & Grau, to appear in North and South
America with MN. Coquelin and Damala.
Herr Elmblad, the second basso of last
winters Metropolitan Opera company, is to
give Berlin audiences taste of his quality
If palatable his engagement is to become per-
manent.
Miss Paddock, a daughter of United States
Senator Paddock, possesses dramatic ability
and longs to become a professional. Her
parents are trying to curb her youthful ardor
for the stage
Rosa Sucher, the famous Wagnerian So
prano is to join the operatic forces of Berlin
This is the only prima donna that Adelina
Patti mas ever spoken of with something like
genuine admiration.
London musical critics have come to the
conclusion that Otto Hegner is even more re-
markable as musical prodigy than josef
Holman. But there should be no rivalry be-
tween the two boys. In fact they are even
now play mates.
Lilli Lehman, of Wagner opera fame, has
worn blond wigs so continuously on the stage
that twothirds Of her admirers thind she is
a blonde, but she is an unoOmmonly dark
brunette with hair turning becomingly and
prematurely gray
A dramatzed version of Emile Iola's Ger
manal'' is soon to be produced III Paris.
Every seat for the first ten nights of the per-
formance has been taken. Paris proudly
considers itself the most civilized city in the
world. Sardou and Zola are the high priests
of Partisan civilization.
The Ladies' Amateur orchestra, in New
York, was organized by Miss Hewitt, daugh-
tet of Mayor Hewitt, and modelled after
Lady Folkestone's orchestra which has be-
come such a brilliant feature of London so
ciety, the members of which are titled
women, some of high rank.
Patti has reached Buenos Ayres. She be-
gins an eight weeks season there, opening in
LA Traviata." Manager Maurice Grau is
with the diva. He will remain until the ar
rival of Marcus Meyer who leaves in
company with Mr.. Henry E. Abbey for
South America next Saturday.
In hespectular drama "Nero," which will
be produced on Staten Island in June, lmre
Kralfy proposes to employ 1000 participants.
The stage will be 300 feet deep, and all sorts
of wild animals, including lions, tigers and
elephants, will be IN the cast, 50 to speak
Ellen Terry celebrated her fortieth birth
day, and declared to a reporter: Il was
born in 1913, in Coventry, in Shaksper els
shire, thank God. My father and mother
were born on the stage. They married when
both were under nineteen years OF age"
Miss Terry says she has now but one wish.
''It is to help Mr. Irving in his great and
beautiful work, for it is grand work he is
doing.
Herr Ludwig Barnay, the distinguished
German tragedian, will begin two weeks
engagement in New York next week and
present redertoire of Shakesperean plays,
including "JulIus Caesar" "Othello" aud
''King Lear in each of which Herr Barnay
made distinct impression at the time of his
former appearance in the great metropolis.
The eminent tragedian will also present an
original version of "Kean" and "Criel
Acosta."
Two years ago a man named Bernard was
singing at his carpenter bench, in Paris,
when NJ Hartmann, the music publisher,
chanced to be passing. Mr.. Hartman stop
ped and learned that the singer did not know
one note from another, bat he had beauti-
full voice, and Nj. Hartmann sent him to the
best schools, That poor carpenter is now NJ.
Bernard, the favOrite French tenor at the
Paris opera house, and is making more
money in a week than he could saw out of
pine boards in year.
NJ Coquelin being in search of new
part for the Grench provinces and his Amer
lean tour, that of itagabas in SardOu's play
of that name was proposed to b i'm and the
statement made that this nineteenth century
French political figure would be a great card
on this side of the water. But in Ragabas
Nj. Sarnou, IT is said, Intended to sketch
Gambetta, who was the French actors
friend. So Coquelin would none of it, and
still searches for new part. He makes his
farewell appearance at the Comedie / ran
case April %
Lawrence Barrett is remarkably strict
discipinaiia ian, So far as rehearsals are con
Cerned, and takes an active interest in even
the most minute parts. He is also very OBJ
servant and will often make radical changes
on short NOTICE. He instructed member of
his company ore day in certain "business."
The next rehearsal he wanted it altered. The
actor demonstrated, saying he had been told
10 do it differently by Mr.. Barrett the day
before. II know that, replied the TRACE.
dian, good humoredly but | have lived
twenty four since then, and this is an age Of
Improvement"
The National opera company played to
large houses at the New York Academy of
Music during the past week The date
! definitely set for the production Of Verdi's
"Otelo' is Friday. April l3. The new aud
elaborate scenery by Magnani of Milan, and
sixty suits of armor, besides all the prop
| critics, were landed from the iceland On
| Thursday. The chorus will number seventy
| picked voices. After the six New York rep
Presentations of "OthellO," the company will
| visit Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati ST.
Louis and Chicago.
| Harry Lacy the energetic fire laddie hero
OF that lurid melOdrama, "The Still Alarm "
| takes particular pTideiin the success which
| he has had in training the stations Pegasus
l and Bucephalus that are ,harnessed 10 the
"real' engine. From the first the intelligent