Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-15
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Minnie Palmer can play in French and Ger
man as well as English
Edwin Booth has again placed his Newport
cottage on the market for sale.
The Apollo. .theater in Rome is TO be pulled
down to make way for new streets.
Mrs. Potter intends to do Cleopatra with
much gorgeous magnificence next season.
j. X. Emmet will begin engagement in
London next spring under his sons manage
ment.
Town lots in California are given away
with each dollar ticket at Pope's theatre. st.
Louis.
Possart, the famous German actor, made a
great impression recently at the New York
Thalia.
1t is stated on best authority that Pauline
Lucca is about to settle in Vienna as singing
teacher.
The National Opera company still survives,
having done a fair business in Toronto and
Montreal
Patti Rosa is regarded as the best banjo
player IN her line of business since Lotta's
pallny days
The venerable rope walker Blondn will be
the attraction at st. Georges, Staten island,
next summer.
Massenet and Sardou are co-workers in the
opera that will reintroduce Marie Van Zandt
to Partisan audience.
An Amati violin, which originally belonged
to King Louis XIV, has recently been sold
at Buda Pesth for $500
Patti has advertised her Welsh estate for
sale because burglars recently made sue
| cessful raid on the castle.
Sylvia. the tenor, has secured his money
from Manager Loie, and will join the Ma
tional opera company in Boston.
Al a sale of autographs recently at Berlin
a letter of Sarah Bernhardt sold for $50,
while one of the Emperor William went at
SO only.
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to resume starring next season, when she will
be seen in Charles Coghlan's new play of
"Joselyn."
M. Guile, the dimnutive tenor that ac-
companied Nine. Patti in her last years tour,
is singing in opera at the grand theatre in
Marseilles
Mr.. Abbey announces three more after
noon concerts by Josef Hofmann, in New
York. They will take place January Is, 20,
and February 1.
1t is said in Italy that Baron Achille Pa
ganini, the son Of the famous violinist, will
shortly give to the world the unpublished
| works of his father
| Victor Nesslcr, the successful and opulent
| composer of "The Trumpeter of Sackinpen,"
| is engaged on new opera, the scene of which
| is laid in Strasburg
London World: hear from Berlin that it
| is expected the famous Meiningen theatrical
company will go to the United States next
| September for Il tour of eight months.
Jacques Kruger is said to have won a law
suit in France involving the title to q large
estate. His friends will be able to make lit
| tie loans for time if this news be true.
Nine. De Murska receives $4,000 salary as
| professor at the New York musical academy.
| The professors at the Paris conservatory are
paid from $40 to $500 year for their SER
| vices.
| Mary Anderson, having refused duke, an
! earl and several of the British gentry is now
1 I,V tI.
| Beckwith, who runs "a dry goods store in
| London.
| p. It. Barnum's special agent George o.
| Starr, purchased u complete menagerie of
| wild animals and birds in Europe, which have
| just arrived in New York by steamer, from
| London.
The Cincinnati Musicians Protective union
| has decided that no member shall play in an
| orchestra with women under penalty of ex-
pulson and fine Of 500 if he shall apply
| for reinstatement
| From Hamburg comes the sad news that
| Hans Won Billow is seriously i'll. At the last
| concert he conducted he was too weak to
hold the baton, and led the last part of the
| final number with his hand.
Henry Irving the other day telegraphed to
New York asking when the burlesque of
Faust was to be done at the Star, as he did
not care to give the regular performance of
| that piece after the burlesque.
A new book on Beethoven has just been
| published in Vienna by DR.. t'rmmel, who
| calls it ''Neue Beethoviana." 1t contains,
| besides six hitherto unpublished letters sew
| eral studies on the composer and his life.
Barnam's agent in Paris has contracted
| with the Paris Hippodrome company for a
troup of Arab riders and performers which
have been such Il feature in that city for
some months past. They will be brought to
this country.
Last week Messrs. Booth and Barrett made
o.
for the New York Academy of Music. This
is $4,000 more than Gilmore & Tompkns
paid for the houses, but they promptly de-
clined the Offer
Mile Luisa Lablanche, who was under
engagement to the Boston Ideals this season
and violated her contract, is now travelling
with an operate company managed by Mr.
Mapleson redivivus, and devastating Great
| Britain and Ireland.
Kate Claxton's new play, 1.-THE World
Against Her." reveals the story of the
| separation of man and wife through the
Vaccinations of a rich scamp and their sub
sequent reconciliation after number of
thrilling adventures.
Nine. Geistnger has found - biographical
sketch in Brockhaus' encyclo fldia which in
| voices her age at fifty nine. She denounces
the statement as a base libel, and is flourish
ing certificate of birth, which testifes that
she was born in the year 1887
The comic actor, Warlamoff, of the Alex
| andra thcater, st. Petersburg, has brought
Bismarck on the Russian stage in a farce
with the ominous title, "On War Footing
in which he mimics the chancellor to the per
feet satisfaction of the Muscovtes.
Campanini's brief season of Italian opera
in San Francisco was very successful, artis
tically and financially. He produced ''Rigo
letto," LA Favorita," and Faust" for three
performances, and his principal singers wer,
Schalchi, Repsto, Galassi, Baldini and Nan
| netti.
| Mime. Etelka Gerster is still living in New
York, the guest of her brother, who is well
| known physician. She sees no one. DR.
Gerster says, however, that his sister has
not lost her voice, and that she will sing in
this country and prove it before going to hel
estate in Italy.
Henry Il. Abbey intends to celebrate Jan
uary 10 as one of the red letter days of his
life. On that day he will pay the last s., 90,
of that colossal debt of S2S3,O0 incurred in
the seasons of lSS3-S4, when he was at tn,
head OF the affairs at the New York Metro
politan opera house.
Nine, Modieska has added 'Much Ad,
About Nothing and Romeo and Julietn I,
her repertoire this season. Last year Nine
Alodicska humorously threatened to pla,
Juliet when she was a grandmother She ha
become grandmother and she has kept tn
promise made III Jest.
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