New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-14
ACTORS. MANAGERS AND PLAYS

Louis James and Mario Wainwright win close their
season at the Academy OF Music The week of May %
This attraction will also finish the hrst OF tho
Academy a combination house During June and Jrly
the big theatre viii generally overhiuled and altered
,eopenIng the week IN August with Dennan ThomTe
son in the Old Homestead which is booked for the
entire season
The Erma Abbott Opera Company will arrive here to-
DAY after an Of thry-nve weeks during which
they visited all the leading cities and given twenty
seven operas ana 272 performances
Abbott will open In Chicago September II,
and Bzets Pearl Fishers" Thomass Esrneralda" and
psvids Laa ROOKIE will be added to the repertory
aUnele Toms Cabin" Will, It seems never cease to
be attractive in dramatic form. grand revival is be
one Of the features OF next Clay Greene has
prepared version in which all the front scenes
have dispensed with, and win be played in
single w. W. Randall will be the principal manager.
Gustav Binrichs formerly musical director Of the
National Opera Company, has organized the New American
Opera Company, carry In the artistic spirits the
production OF operas In English shown in the
National opera. The new company, Of which he is
proprietor director will the Grand Opera House,
Philadelphia for the summer months, with the following
principal artists Sopranos Louise Natalie, Charlotte
Walker, Helen Dungeon. and Adela vsrens contratos
Clara Poole. Lizzie xeNicho and Carrie Morse tenors
Charles Bassett and William Castle baritones and bassos
AlenrO soddard, William II. Lee, Frank Ve,ta and Ed
yard Knight
Miss Pauline Hall is suffering from an attack Of gastric
fever and VIII probably be unable begin engage
nent with the Carleton Opera Company soOn a. had
been arranged
The Crystal Slipper" Prince Prelliwetz and
Little Cinderella" will be produced the Chicago Opera
House June - The piece is q spectacular extrava-
ganza by Alfred Thompson and Harry B. Smith
The entire costumes scenery, baets and effects have
been arranged and invented By Alfred Thompson Among
the people engaged for the production Robert Graham
Edwin Foy Tom Martin, Little Tich Ernest Tarlston,
Thomas w. Reilly, Ida MULE May A. Yohe, Jessie
vers Isaac FknS Harry Alien and Elma Delaro. This
a Possible CASE has three weeks ut the Madi-
Square Theatre. where 1t win DO followed BY Richard
Mansfield
The benent for the widow and children OF Albert S.
Phillips win be given the Fifth Avenue Theatre
Thursday afternoon when number Of prominent people
viii appear.
William Gillette will present st the Madison Square
Theatre. for OF three months SEVERN Of HIS
plays beginning early In August with light comedy.
Legal Wreck" which will be followed in September
with q revival Of Held by the Enemy" During the
month October entirely military comedy entitled
Confederate Casualty" will receive its first presenta
ton. A Legal Wreck which is entirely original
comedy with the scenes laid In and around Boston, will
touch Of pathos through the story. The
character Of the play and the viii be entirely
American.
Hermann, the magician, will this summer. make
thirteen weeks tour OF the Pacific Coast and Mexico
under the management Of NJ. 3. Leavtt