Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-22
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Nine, Ristori has an idea Of going on the
stage again.
Pauline Hall has engaged with the Garlic
ton opera company.
Mrs. John r. Raymond it Is said, is anxious
to secure an engagement on the stage.
Annie Pixley's 'Deacon's Daughter
failed to please San Francisco audiences.
William H. Sherwood, the pianist, is to
make a tour through the west this month.
Clara Louise Kellogg and Minnie Hawk
are to join forces and sing in opera next sea-
son.
Rosina Vokes begins an extended en-
gagement next week at Days theater, New
York.
Alice Harrison is to play Topsy in a great
production of Uncle Tom" in Boston next
August.
The musical season of 1ss1-sS in New York
has been pecuniarily Improbable to Theo-
dorc Thomas.
Nine. Scalchi has been engaged for the
next opera season in London, which will be-
| gin early in June.
Maggie Mitchelr's new play, "Rae," by
Cal. Wallace, will be produced for the first
time in Providence, RI
Thomas w. Keene, the tragedian, will
probably take a financial interest in the man.
agement of Julia Marlowe.
Nine. Emma Nevada Palmer, who re-
mains in Paris, is, it is said, anxious to be
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Nine. Fursch-Madi will sail for London
next month to take part in Augustus Harris
projected season of Italian opera.
"Nadji' is the name of the opera that is to
succeed the $50 nights of "Erminie'' in New
York. The scene is land in Hungary.
The role of Carmen has been taken 100
times within a year past by Mile. Blanche
Deschamps, at the Opera Comique, in Paris.
The financial result of Henry Irving's visit
to the United States is the enlargement of
his bank account to the extent of about
| SS0,0 00.
Dion Boucicault is said to be the author in
collaboration with Mrs. Sarah A. Grier, of an
historical romance founded on the first
French empire.
w. j. Florence has purchased of Mr.. Pal
mer the right to play Heart of Hearts next
season and will produce the piece as part of
his repertoire throughout the country.
Kari Forms, the famous basso, who has
lived in America the past thirty years, has
been engaged to sing at the approaching
| London season of Italian opera. He is
seventy-three years of age.
Sadie Martinez havingsreturned from Eu-
rope alters flying visit to Vienna, Buda-
Pesth and Paris, has been delighting the ar
tistic souls of the New York journalists by
showing them the elaborate toilets which
she is to wear in the opera of ''Nadii."
Colonel Mapleson has been heard from
again. AT Manchester, England, he had ad-
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the remnants of his royal company, with
Ravelli and Dotti in the leading roles. Ra-
velli did not appear. The colonel made a
little speech to the audience, assuring them
that he had never yet disappointed his pat
rons, and that he did not intend to begin
now. 1t was many years since he had sung
Maurice, but he would attempt it, relying
upon the indulgence of his friends. He did
attempt it, and by lowering. the key a couple
of notes went through the part very well,
and was overwhelmed with congratulations.
AS a lad in the school room, in white
trousers and black jacket, edwin Boath re-
cited with John S. Clarke (who afterward
married his sister, Asia Booth,) the quarrel
scene between Brutus and Cassius, Booth
then, as now, taking Brutus. His father,
unseen, witnessed the performance. A few
months later the chums gave an entertain
ment to the college students. Booth recited
from Orchard Ill, - Macbeth 'Hamletn
and Julius Caesar" and between times he
and Clarke BACKED up and sang negro melo-
dies. In 1851 Edwin Booths salary was Sc
a week. In 1868 he became recognized as a
fine actor.
18Th amount of work which Sarah Bern
hardt has had to get through daily for sew
eral weeks past would be enough to kill any
body but a fashionable actress" says the st.
James Gazette. "Never home from the the
atre before | O'Clock in the morning. she is to
be seen in her atelier as soon as there is light
enough to work, busy finishing her three
busts for the next salon. After n hasty break
fast-a mere apology for a meal-she drives
off to the theatre to rehearse 'Therese
Kaquin' and the other new pieces in which
she is to appear in the course of her ap-
preaching professional tour. While her own
drama was in preparation at the Odeon she
had, after her long mornings drudgery, to
spend her afternoon in the superintendent
of the rehearsals; and, not content with the
ordinary method of coaching the performers
by way of advice and suggestion, she practi-
cally went through the roles herself as she
conceived them on each occasion. And after
a day thus spent in ceaseless toll, there was
still the work of the evening TO face-her
performance in M. Sardou's drama at the
Porte st. Martin. Now her own piece is off
her hands, she will have a little less to do,
and she is quite radiant at the prospect of
having only fifteen hours work a day for
some time to Gomez