Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Miss Mathcr has added Pnero's 'Thc
squire to her repertoire.
Minnie Palmer will fill her American dates.
She will star in Europe all next year.
Mr.. Creston Clarke nephew of Mr. Edwin
Booth, is playing Hamlet in Philadelphia.
Nine. Modjcska is still on her ranch at
FL Refugio, in the lower portion of Cali
fornia.
Emma Abbott will sing Gilbert and Sulli-
vans new opera in San Francisco at the Bald
win theater
Mr.. Steele Mackaye went to Boston to lay
out his plans for Mr.. Stuart Robson's new
play, as yet unnamed.
Jane Hadlng, whom they call ''the French
Adelaide Nelson Just made her American
debut in New York in company with
CoQuelin.
Signor Campanini sailed for the United
States on October 90 and the artists of his
company will all be here within very few
days after his arrival.
Pauline L'Allemand will share the honors
of prlma donna with Ielie de Lussan in the
Boston Ideals. Lakme will be produced dur
ing the season The company begins in Troy
on October b.
1The dramatic version of Rider Haggard's
impossible romance, She produced at the
London Gaety theater last week, proved Il
dismal failure, and the audience quickly fell
INTO guyLng mood.
performances named Miss Rchan '"Ihe
Limerick Girl and when the play was over
they would go out in squads whistling the
ballad of that name
Charles Gounod has nearly completed his
new opera, Charlotte Cordav.m IL is to be
come the property of the Opera Comiuue,
which in exchange for it has surrendered
Gounods "Romeo ct Juliette" to the Grand
Opera.
Robert Downing will be seen this season in
''lngomar," "Otheilo," Julius Caesar"
"Virgnius," and the romantic drama ent.
tied "St. Marc" (n which f.. l.. Davenport
once starred), in addition to the old stand
by "rhe Gladiator"
Lille Lehman has been re-engaged by
Mr. Stanton in the Metropolitan Opera
house, New York, tact over which many
people will rejoice, but the name of her hus-
band Kalisch, is not TO be found in the pub
lished list of singers
Nine, Bernhardt's present tour will eX-
tend as far as Cairo, Egypt, and will close
next April, in time to allow her to appear in
for this trip includes, besides "Fedora,"
''Theodora," la Tosca," ''Camlle," !" "Fr rou-
Frou," her own play, LA Vie."
Mary Anderson opened IN Liverpool with
"A Winters Tale last night, and will play
at the Alexandra theatre in that city for a
week after which she will make a brief tour
of the provinces. She sails for New York
on the Umbria October 2S to fill her Amer-
can engagement with Mr.. Abbey.
Miss Emma Juch, after having won laurels
and wealth by many years experience as an
artist. has started out in a modest way as "a
| manageress. Although the contracts for her
concert tour are signed by Mr.. Locke, as
agent of the Emma Juch Concert company
| it is understood by the artists that the So
| prano is the responsible employer.
The cable reports from Loneon O. the pro
duction of Gilbert & Sullivan's new opera,
''The Yeoinan of the Guard" do not quite
agree as to the success Of the piece. Sull-
| vans music, as usual, made a hit, but there
seems doubt about MIR. Gilberts liDretto.
w. S Gilbert was always very much over
rated man.
Sarah Bernhardt began her tour under the
management of Abbey, Schoeffel Grau IN
| Antwerp last night, producing "Fedora, "
| and her husband, Damala, appeared with her
| for the first time since their reconciliation,
| playing Louis. Maurice Grau travels with
her. taking personal direction of the man
aeement.
The season of the Coquelin company will
| be very short, lasting but three weeks
They open at Wallacks with LA Jole fait
Peur." The following is the repertoire (;
"Don Caesar de Bazan," "LAventuriere--
| Home," "Gringoire-King's Pleasure" Los