Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-10
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.


LESTER WALLACE is writing his RecoE-
lections of the Stage
ROSE CoGHLAN has left Wallack's. New
York. and will be a star once more
THOMAS B. Marlborough viii revive Bart
ley Campbell's siberia next season
THEODORE THOMAS was a fiddler at 81
week in the old Broadway Theatre IN the me-
trUpoliS
THE authorities at Madrid. Spain. have or
dered every theatre unorovided with electric
lights 10 be closed.
The salary OF the Rev. Lyman abbott,
temporary pastor Of Plymouth Church, has
teen fixed at g.. 5oO.
THE Duke OF Sparta, son OF the King and
Queen Of Greece. Is 10 marry a younger
daughter Of the Prince OF Wales
MASTER WoRRELL. a nine vear-old
prodigy, recently paved the cornet before
the crowned heads OF the Vanderbilt family
EDWARD HARRIGAS SAYS he pays I04 peo-
pie every week, and that his salary list -
larger than that of any other theatre man IN
New York.
Mrs. LETTTIA MCCULLOUGH widow OF
John Mccullough the trage1ian. died re
Gently in Philadelphia She leaves an estate
worth $1,000
THE opera is said TO be having hard time
all over the world, but twenty five new ones
were produced IN Germany last year and
thirty five in Italy.
EDWIN BoOTH's first appearances on the
stage WIS WITH ScUOOtItllDAS IN Ba.IiinoTts n
juvenile minstrel performan' admission
one cent-giving him his opportunity.
FREDERICK WARDE Is making an extensive
tour of the large Southern cities and l. said
10 be drawing big audiences everywhere. At
the close of his season III the South he goes 10
San Francisco.
RUDOLPH ARONsON has secured the Ameri-
right of the next Gilbert and Sullivan
opera, an opera on a Spanish subject. ty
Tito Mattel; La VALERIE by Charles
I %. T..
composer of ''Falka."
LARGE returns are still the order Of the
day from Messrs Robson and Cranes invest
ment IN The Henrietta" dividends being
paid nightly at the Union Square. Mr..
Howard's bright play shows no signs yet OF
losing its popularity.
THE performances of the Irving Company
in this country are regularly advertised IN
the theatrical advertising columns OF the Lon
don papers, just us though the company was
appearing at its own Lyceum, instead OF
1000 or 5000 miles away.
IMRE kIRALFY has commenced active
preparations for the big spectacle which ms
will produce at St. George, Staten Island, in
June, and on which, it is said. 20 men and
women will be employed, including Chevalier
Blondin, the famous tight-rope artist, who
has been engaged.
MR. W. /. BISHOP, the ''mind reader" will
give his entertainments for the next twelve
months under the management of Mr.. NJ B.
is finished he will make tour of Southern
cities and then go to Australia, where he
will remain eight months.
LITTLE JOSEPH HOFFMAN, recently con-
Quoted Neuen lorffs orchestra of seventy
musicians at the Metropolitan Opera House
in New York and astOnished the audience.
The ''Polonase Americaine,' which the boy
composed and dedicated to his manager,
Henry E. Abbey, was played.
H. j. FURBER JR., young ChicagOan,
not vet twenty. and a Stu lent the
University of Berlin has concei,e ed the idea
OF founding in Chicago a great university, to
be modelled after that at Heidelberg He will
devote 81, 200, 900 to the project an induce
ment to other citizens to JON him in the
movement.
RUSSELL SAGE, the Wall street, New York
City, magnate, serves as central figure In a
play written by his private secretary, John
f. Mccain, and ycleped Puts and Calls"
Puts and calls speculative contracts
whose peculiaritieS were invented by Mr..
Sage when he first entered wall street, not SO
rich as he is now, years ago.