Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07

He sent the entire proceeds Of a special mat
NEE given by his minstrel company at his
theater.
A Russian opera company, composed Of
300 performers, including forty-cight ladies'
who play on twenty-four pianos at one tlme,
is filling an engagement in London. The
programme consists entirely of selections
from Russian operas.
The gross receipts of the Booth Barrett
combination at Kansas City for seven per-
formances were SIS, 600. On November IL
Messrs. Booth and Barrett begin an engage
ment of eight weeks in New York at the
Fifth Avenue theater.
The Worcester, Mass, music festiva
closed recently with II magnificent perform
ance Of Handel's grand oratorla, The Mes
siah." The soloists were Misses Emma
Juch and Hope Glenn, and Messrs. Max AL
vary and ID. M. Babcock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Osmond Tearle are playing
tragedy in the English provinces. He is &C
copied as a clover and graceful actor, but his
company. it Is said, varies from bad to
shocking" He appears in "Virglnius,"
Hamlet and "Othello."
Miss Gertrude Griswold has been engaged
by Manager Rudolph Aronson, of the Ca.
| sino, as prima donna for the new Gilbert and
Sullivan opera. Last April she made her
| debut in grand opera in this country with
Nine. Adelina Patti IN Carmen"
Nine. Patti has consented to revisit South
America next season, but has raised her
| III Nt. ITO I'al NV - sc,op - Y
Torrance; next spring she is to have $3.50.
Thus her thirty representations next year
will bring her close upon $500, 600.
1t is announced that Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall
| and the famous st. Jamcs's theatre company,
| of London, will visit this country this sea-
son under the management of Daniel Froh-
man, of the Lyceum theatre. The company
will play for four weeks in this city, and
then will visit Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago
and other large cities.
j. Is. Cassell has written the libretto and
ii. B. Iszard the music for a comic opera,
which they have named "Oriana.'h Both arc
well known young men of Leadville, Col,
where the opera was tried at a private re-
hearsal last week. Mr.. ls2ard is on his way
east, where the opera will be given its first
production, either in New York or Philadel-
phia.
Immediately after the production of the
new Gilbert and Sullivan opera mt the Ca sino
a company will be sent out to cover the
principal cities of the United States. All the
tours Of the Casino companie S this season
will be under the direction of Joseph Brooks,
who managed Robson and Crane last season
and has Frederick w arde under his charge
this year.
When Mr.. Days comedians first went to
Paris they offered n modern farcical 90 medy
OF German origin and were received wi tn in
difference. The fact that MIR. Da ly has had
the courage to accost the Par isian public a
second time, and 10 present Shakespeare,
hA' :. $500
sentiment. ''The Tanning of the Shrew''
was u pronoun ced success at the Vaudeville.
The correspondent of a Boston newspap err
sends this story of Verdi; when he ar
rived this summer at the house in Monteca-
TIM where he was to spend his vacation he
found in his sitting room a fine grand piano,
open, and on the rack the score of 'Trova-
tore all of which was TO show the landlords
appreciation Of his famous guest. The COM
poser walked to the piano, ierkod the book
from the rack, closed the instrument, locked
il, put the key in his pocket, started for a
long walk. and threw the key in a deep
ravine.h
A movement is on foot in London TO hold a
theatrical exhibition at South k~ensington in
1890. The object is to provide n fund for an
orphanagc for children of deceased actors
and actresses, and q home for aged and dis
abled persons connected with the stage in all
its branches. 1t is intended to show the
mode of manufacture and preparation Of ev,
e~rything relating to a theater, before and
behind the curtain, models OF theaters and
the various methods OF construction most
favored on the continent and in America,
collections of historic theatrical costumes,
properties and manuscripts, and to lay out
the grounds TO resemble familiar scenes IL
Shakespeare. ~ ''
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