The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-12-01
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

tralia.
siding in Paris.
EDMOND GoNDINET, the French dramatic
author, is dead.
"a Singed Catn
KATE KAT CAsTtEToN is playing IA Paper
Doll' in the Far West
IGNATIUs DoNNELLY, of Bacon cipher
Tame, is lecturing on his hobby
EDWIN BooTH says that the leading trape
dams of the future will be Americans
Mss MINNIE PALMER, tho clever little
american soubrette, is playing at Newcastle
England.
THE thirty-sixth anniversary of the frs,
performance of Uncle Toms Cabin.n re-.
Gently occurred
CHARLES IT, BEAUREGARD. a nenbaw NJ
the Confederate General, is one of the latest
accessions to the stage.
A HANDSOME monument to John MeCul
Tough has been erected in Mount Morah
| Cemetery, Philadelphia.
MILTON G. BARLOW, the well-known min
$trel, has been engaged to travel with new
uncle TOMS Cabin Company.
AFTER the longest rest during his profess
comedian, has resumed acting.
JOSEF HOFFMAN,, the boy pianist. has ca
far recovered as to he allowed by the doctor
TO practice daily on the pianoforte.
HARRY MCCARTHY, an old actor. and
author OF the Bonnie Blue Flag died lately
IN san francisco in great restitution
NINE. PATTI will make her usual annual
! farewell tour in South America this wear
under the direction OF Signor Ciacchi.
MARY ANDERSON is more slender than when
she lett, but her cheeks are bright with good
spirits.
THE highest priced singer at the French
Grand Opera is the baritone LasaIle He
gets SII600 for an engagement of eight
months.
MISS MADGE WICKHAM who promises to
be one of the first violinists of her time has
just returned from Europe, to begin her
career in America.
1T is said that Sir Arthur Sullivan has
three nleces in the chorus at the Savoy Thea
tire, London, where his opera 'The Yeonan
OF the Guard, " is being sung.
BUFFALO BILL says that all men who wear
long hair are cranks He adds: "I'm as bad
as any of them; my only redeeming feature
being that was the original"
HAPPY Cal Wagner, who, few years
ago, was famous negro minstrel, is fore
hIah VI BduS Oh laDOrerS at work on new
street railway in Syracuse, N. Y.
GILBERT and Sullivan's "Mkadonl IS being
performed in the Danish Circus at Stock.
holm, Sweden, but without words or sing.
Ing. 1t is danced and pantomimed
THERE is both money and fame awaiting
the writer who can produce a play with a
real snow blizzard in it. The water tank has
had its.day, and so has the dog and the baby
business.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON, the comedian passes
many of his odd hours painting sketches in
oil and water colors. He has q delft touch
with the brush, and is q connoisSeur of the
first order.
OLD BoUFFE, the doyen. CT "father" of the
French profession of actors, died recently in
his eighty eighth year. He was one of the
most celebrated players of his day. His stage
career began sixtysix years ago, when he
played villains for IS month.
ONE of the most skillful mountebanks and
clowns Of France is a scion of the LaRoche-
foucauc family This is the bluest blood in
all France and he is the next to inherit the
title of Duke. He was pupil of the IA
nous Paris an Snowman Moliere.
BY recent act of the City Council Of
Davenport, Iowa, the theatrical license has
been reduced from $40 a performance to
thirty-fve cents, or from $3.50 per year to
$50. Freaks have to pay $40 per night as
heretofore Thirty-fVe cents performance
is probably the lowest license paid in any
town in the country.