Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-11
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Nine. Gerster has gone on tonr with the
Campanini Concert company.
London is to have a new theatre for light
opera that will cost $3.50 900.
Miss Alice King Hamilton is the latest
'society BELIEF who has Joined the stage.
Fontana, the leader of the younger Italian
poets, has written the libretto for the new
ballet.
There are twenty-six first-cass theaters
and opera houses open In New York this
season. ia
The New York Mirror will publish its
Dramatic Annual for 1888 on Saturday,
March "a.
Florence Wood only daughter of Mrs John
Wood, made professional debut last Tues
day in London. te
The Salisbury Troubadors will shortly
begin tour extending from the extreme
northwest to Texas. a.
Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett begin
an engagement of three weeks at the. Baldwin
theatre, San Francisco.
Daniel Bandmann, the dime tragedian, has
written a dramatization of his own from
'Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde"
Huyts ''Tin Soldier" is making big money
this season, having outrun even 'tA Rag
Baby" in the race for popular favor.
Fanny Davenport will ll'begin a summer sea-
management, at the Baldwin, San Francisco,
May ID.
The public takes kindly to plays which
have water-tank scenes. There is always
hope that bad actors will be drowned in them
some night
The Booth Barrett company will go to
London the season after next or in 1880.
They will play fifteen Veeks engagement
at Henry Irvings Lyceum theater.
Fred Marsden is writing a new play for
II. r.. Jacobs favorite little lyric star,
Corinne, who is playing to an i'm
mense business in Dockstader's theater, New
York
Mr.. A. M. Palmer has purchased Meilhac's
new three-act comedy, "Decore,n which the
Partisan critics say is the funniest play pro-
duced in the French capital since the fall of
the empire.
The latest musical prodigy to come into no
tice is little Vincent Emmett Kaup, of Tay-
lorville, Ind. He is two and half years old
and sings in a clear, sweet voice any song
that he has ever heard
Patti is to give forty concerts IN South
America under Mr.. Abbey's management,
twenty of which will be given in ,Buenos
Ayres. She sails from Lisbon IN May and
will open in Buenos Ayres in June.
Buffalo Bill, the Wild West show, big In
juns and all hands-around will bid John Bull
goodbye in the early part of May. They
will give their opening exhibition at Eras-
tina, Staten Island, May 81.
Mr.. Bran Stoker is responsible for the
statement that Henry Irving's gross receipts
during his present American tour will aggre-
cato more than 100000. 1t is said that Mr..
Irving's profits will amount to $4,000.
MY Sweetheart Palmer-will
make herfarewell appearance for the present
in the "land of the free" on May /. During
the summer she will go to England, and in
September will begin her London engage
ment.
A play bill has been discovered of the Kill
kenny Theater Royal in '93 announcing the
performance of "The tragedy of Hamlet, y
originallywritten nd composed by the cele--
brated Dan Hayes, of Limerick, and inserted
in Shakespeare's works.n
tinues to meet with pronounced success.
The work itself is enjoyable in both its music
and libretto, and derives much additional at
tractiveness from its excellent rendering by
j. G. Duffs strong opera company.
Lydia Thompson, the famous 'British