The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

ALARD, once famous Vlollnlst, dled re-
Gently, aged 73.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is very fond of the
theatre, but seldom goes
A BELGIAN has invented harp to be
played upon with keys as in piano.
IT is reported that A. N. Palmer will build
a new theatre in upper Broadway, New York.
NINE. SEMBRIcH, who charmed Americans
in Italian opera some years ago, is singing In
London.
LorTA, through illness, recently missed q
performance, for the first time in her life, at
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
"PAUL KAUvAR," the successful New
York play, was sold recently to syndicate
of wealthy metropolitan gentlemen.
MoDJEsKA's French maid smoked ciga.
rette the other day and burned up the
theatrical wardrobe Of her mistress
AT Copenhagen, Denmark, great musical
festival will be celebrated in May. None
but Scandinavian music will be performed.
DURING the last three months of 1887
musical works of the value Of S73, 900 were
exported from Leipzig to the United States.
THE German Singers League, which con.
sists of nearly 64 ,00U members, will have its
fourth meeting at Vienna, Austria, during
the year.
MRS. JOSEPHINE CURRY, co!ored woman,
has just obtained 500 damages from Chi
cago Jury because she was refused admission
to the Peoples Theatre.
Miss ELLA RUSSELL, the American prima
donna, has just made her first appearance in
st. Petersburg, Russia, in ''Traviata." She
achieved triumphant SUCCESS.
Tony HART, the well known minstrel, has
had a monster benefit at the New York
Academy of Music, the total receipts from
all sources footing up over $4,000.
MRS. GENERAL Ton THUMB, having seen
every other vicissitude Of show life, has be-
come manageress recently. She is at the
head Of the Eden Musee in st. Paul, MINI.
FANNY DAVENPORT, the actress, wears in
La Toscan gold belt of Mosaic work con-
tanning 1900 stones diamonds, sapphires,
emeralds, rubies and pearls, weighing 500
carats and worth $40, ,0OU.
DURING performance OF "Souvageonne"
at st. Petersburg, Russia, Nine Moudrova,
after most pathetic and emotional scene
with the leading man, fell heavily-which
was not in the role-and died on the stage.
JULES VERNE, VIM. Busnach and Georges
Mausais are the composers Of q new drama,
Matthias Sandorf," which has taken Paris by
storm. 1t has been purchased for America
by Bolossy Kiralfy, who will produce it next
season.
ONE Of the prominent feathers Of Mr.. Buch
anans new play, on the eve Of production in
London, "Josephs Sweetheart" will be a
succession of tableaux, which will realize in
stage form Hogarths famous series of the
Marriage a la mode.~
IT is said that Mr. Booth and Mr.. Barrett
will fill an engagement of fifteen weeks at
the Lyceum Theatre in London in 1890, and
that Mr.. Irving during the term Of their oc
cupancy of his theatre will make his first
professional tour of Germany.
IT will interest those concerned in the de-
cadence of Frence and Italian opera to know
that, according to French paper, from 1910
to 1859 there were produced ten new French
and thirteen new Italian operas. From 1880
to 1887 the figures wererespectively four and
one.
NJ. LAMoUREUx, the eminent Paris conduc-
tor, with an orchestra of ninety performers,
will shortly undertake an artistic tour e1
tending over Spain, Portugal, Russia and
England, the most important undertaking Of
its kind ever projected by French orches
trail body.