The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

EDWIN BOOTH is collector Of rare old
books
LAWRENCE BARRETT has reached the half
hundred mile post OF life.
MAUD POWELL, the violin virtuoso, will
undertake another Western tour.
MINNIE TERRY, six years old, earns fifty
dollars week on the London stage.
THOMAS MAST, the cartoonist, talks OF
building theatre at Los Angeles, Cal.
A VIOLIN made of clay is now on e1-
hibition in Berlin. 1t is said to have strong
and full tone.
LOUIS JAMES and Marie Wainwright will
do dramatization Of Hawthorn's 1.-The
Scarlet Letter." next season.
AT concert in st. Petersburg, Russia, two
pieces were played upon twenty -four grand
pianofortes by iorty-eight pianists.
Mas. LANGTRY is to pass the summer on
the Pacific coast and has not made any con-
tracts to appear next season as yet.
RosINA VoLKEs and her English -Ameri..
can company are playing very successful
season at Daly's theatre, New York.
CHRISTINE NILSSON proposes to end her.
artistic career by singing for the last time at
Albert Hall, London, May 25 and June 80.
THE great success in Paris at present Is
the comic opera in three acts by the late
Bernicat called "The First Arms OF LOUIS
XVI
CAMPAEIEI, the opera impressario, has
gotten rid Of his $500 per night tenor, Mar.
conf, and is singing the title role OF "Otello'
himself
PHYLLIS BRoUGHToN, Of the English comic
opera stsge, who is shortly to marry the heir
to O. wealthy Earl, is reputed to be good,
womanly girl, who is universally respected.
TANK" plays are not new, as q tank was
used in 1905 in play called Life On the
Ocean Wave" in which a dog rescued a
rag" baby from tank full OF water ON the
stage
Miss EMMA THURsBY, the great concert
artist, says she does not see the necessity OF
going to Europe to cultivate the voice, as we
have as fine teachers as are to be found any
where.
CHARLES WYNDHAM, the English come
dian, got his first engagement on the stage
be "a charming fellow and an excellent COM
panion."
AFTER MRS. Brown Potter engagement IN
Ban Francisco, she will take her summer
vacation, and then 60 to Wallack's Theatre,
New York. 1t is ass umed that this will be a
trial engagement for the difficult position OF
leading lady at that house.
"SwEET LAVENDER" will be the first play
presented at the Lyceum Theatre, New York,
| when the regular season begins next fall
MIR. Frohman will get number of valuable
points on how to produce this play while he
is absent in England
A STORY comes from Bordeaux, France,
| that Nine Cornelie Fauvelle lately cele-
brated her eightieth birthday by playing the
same sombrette part in which she made her
debute three-quarters of a century ago In
the audience were her children, grandchil-
dren and great-grandchildren
The dramatic profession have arranged
benefit for the veteran actor, Lester Wallack,
to take place at the Metropolitan Opera
House, New York. on May 2lst Hamlet
will be performed, with the following re-
markable cast: Hamlet, Edwin Booth
La-rtes, Lawrence Barrett; King, Frank
Mayo; Ghost, Charles Couldock; Polonius,
John Gilbert; First Gravedigger, Joseph
jefferson; Second Gravedigger, w. j. Flor
ence; Rosencranz. Lawrence Hanley; Guild
enstern, Charles Hanford; Marcellus, Steele
Mackaye; Bernardo, Herbert Kelcey: Fran
cisco, Louis Massen: Priest, Harry Edwards
First Actor. John Lane; Second Actor, Rob-
ert Hilliard; Ophelia, Mime; ModJeska
Queen, Mrs D. P Bowers; Player Queen,
Miss Rose Coghlan.