Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-13
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Lulu Lingard is shortly to marry wealthy
Londoner.
Jennie Yeamans does not go out thus sea-
son after ALL She announces trip to Eu-
rope.
Evans and Hoey again make the
announcement that they are soon to sail
for Australia. This is what they said two
years ago.
There ls report, which seems to be
wholly trustworthy, to the effect that
Charles Il, Gardiner Is completely and hope
lessly blind.
neck has become so painful that his friends
are advising him to cancel mis- dates and sub
init to a surgical operation.
The Emma Juch opera company will begin
its season at the Brooklyn Academy October
2S. The company will probably be seen here
during the coming spring.
Miss Mary How, the great Boston con-
tralto, will sing the "lntlammatus,n from
Dovraks "Stabet Mater" at the first SYM
phony concert in Boston,
George G. Min, the preacher-acto con-
tinues to prosper III Australia The last mail
from there states that he Is to become the
proprietor of "A theater very soon.
Manager Robert Grau is still in Ludlow
street Jail in New York. He was arrested
in n suit brought BY chorus girl formerly
in his employ to recover five weeks salary
at the rate of Sl2 a week.
Fifth Avenue theater, New York, next May,
the whole building will be remodeled, and
the auditorium willrun parallel with Twenty
eighth street. About $4,000 will be ex-
pended on improvements.
A Paris inventor has obtained patent on
new theatrical snow. 1t is said to disap-
pear as soon as it falls. 1t tiutters about
exactly like the real article, and costs next
to nothing. The first Trial of it is to be made
in the midnight mass scene in "Roger la
Honte,'' at the Ambigu in Paris.
The VILLAIN of a melodrama had to be
shot. The supers came on and fired at him
accordingly, but the property man had
omitted to load the guns, and the only sound
was the clicl, of the falling hammers. The
VILLAIN had to die, and rose TO the occasion.
Throwing up his hadds he eXclaimed ~ die
perforated by a thousand bullets, but ] take
the opportunity of cursing with my last
breath the niggardly government that sup
plies its army with air guns"
The proprietors of the operatic organiza-
tion known as "The Bostonians," have com
pleted their plans for the coming season and
are already we'll advanced in the rehersas
preparatory to their transcontinental tour
The managers have in the Don Quixote''
of Reginald de Koven an opera written
pecially for the company by an American
musician, with a book furnished by an
American journalist. The opera is to have Il
simultaneous production in England and the
United States, and is the first American ope-
ratio composition that has achieved this dis
tinction. "Suzetten new opera by that
clever musician and librettist, Oscar We'll,
Is also to be included IN the seasons roper
toire, and the other operas announced for the
tour are Ambrose Thomas "Mignonn and
"Pygmaion and Galatea," Louis Varney's
"The Musketeers," Suppe's .Fatnitza,"
Auber's FRA navolo," Gounod's Faust"
dour," Bizet's Carmen Offenbachs "The
Poachers," and Balfe's bohemian Girl"
The company begins its tour tomorrow and
during the fall, winter and spring of the sea-
son of 1sS990, it will visit all the leading
cities of the country as tar west as San
Francisco, saving such cities as are scattered
through the southern states. The leading
artists OF the company are as follows: So
pranos; Marie Stone, Juliette Gordon, Car
lotta Maconda. Contraltos: Jessie Bartlett
Davis, Josephine Bartlett. Tenors: Tom
Karl, Edwin w. Hoff. Baritones and bassos:
w. III. Mcdonald, II. g. Barnabee Fred
Dixon, Eugene COwles, George B. Frothing-
ham. Samuel Studley, director.
Wilson Barrett's company Of about thirty
people arrived in New York on the the City
of Chicago on Friday, October L. In the
party were MIR George Barrett, the popular
English comedian and character actor and
brother of the tragedian Charles Cathcart,
who has been Wilson Barrett's stage man
ager for many years and who is we'll known
in this country; Austin Melford. w. A. Eli
ott, Cooper Cliffe, Murray Carson, and Alice
Cooke and Lillian and Alice Belmore daugh-
ters of the late George Belmore, the beloved
comedian who died while playing starring
engagement at Wallack's theater few years
ago The principal actors in the company
were accompanied by their wives. The
steamer brought over also the costumes for
the extensive Barrett repertory They are
packed in fifty immense rattan trunks and
weighed nearly 10000 pounds.
When Robson and Crane dissolved part
nership there was good deal of surmse as
to the result of their ''going it alone.n MIR.
Crane WAS the first To take 10 the road, aud
he has now been out nearly month playing
in Decatur, H., Milwaukee and Chicago. He
has been greeted with succession of
crowded houses, and his new plays, the
four-act American comedy, ION Probation"
the adaptation from the French called
Papa Perrckon,n aud the latest London
success, "The Balloon" have all made hits.
Mr.. Cranes hold on the public seems as
sured. He will present all the plays named
above in this city,
Sick headache is the bane OF many
lives. To cure and prevent this annoy
ing complaint, use DR.. j. II. McLean's
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