Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-12-06
MUSICAL. AND DRAMATIC,

paul JONES" has passed its 3OOth per-
formance in London.
SOPHIE EYRE made hit in San Francisco
with her new play, 1.-The Witch"
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG is now so stout
that she will never again be seen on the
stage
PATTI is said to be the only person in the
world who can draw a full house to Albert
Hall, in London.
MYRoN W. WHITNEY. the popular Boston
baSSo, is proud of the fact that he was a
bricklayer for seven years of his life.
MINNIE HAUK, the American singer, has
bought the house near Lucerne, Switzer
land, that used to be occupied by Wagner.
''SHENANDoAH' will very probably be
shortly produced in London, such has been
the success of Bronson Towards play in this
country.
The fashion of trying new plays at matt
nees is becoming so common in London that
the performances themselves are losing all
significance.
IT is reported that w. H. Crane has won a
marked success in the West with The Sen
atOr," the play which was written for him by
David D. Lloyd
accompaniment to M. VOLTS violin when
that artist appeared before the Queen of
England recently.
A NUMBER of Partisan women have sent
an address to NJ. Sardou thanking him for
his rehabilitation Of the stage mother-in-law
in 'Belle Maman."
BUFFALO BILL contemplates taking his
Wild West show to India. Certain Indian
potentates who visited Paris in the summer
advised him to do so.
AT the Dial Verne Theatre, in Milan, a
play has been brought out entitled ''The Re
treat from Moscow" in which the leading
character is Napoleon /.
MISS JUcH, who sang Gounod's cave
Maria" drew large crowd, including Presi-
dent and Mrs. Harrison, to the Church of the
Covenant in Washington.
FREDERICK WARDE has commenced prepa-
rations for Shakespearean revival in New
York city next season, when he will have the
assistance of several prominent actors and
actresses
SIR GEORGE GROVE, the eminent English
musician, was educated for a civil engineer.
He designed the first two modern lighthouses
erected by the English Government in the
West Indies.
Mr.. WILLIAM ARCHER, in the London
World, reads Mr.. Irving a lecture for his
failure to produce new works. He saws: He
has done much for the English stage nothing
for the EnglisE drama.
NINE. FURSCH-MADI has appeared at the
Lamoreaux Concerts in Paris with great sue
cess. She is now singing in Berlin and will
probably appear in New York in the oratorio
of ''Messiah'' this winter
Mr.. ALEXANDER CoMsTocK has gone to
England with the view of completing ar
rangements for the production of THE Old
Homestead" now in its second year at the
New York Academy of Music, in that coun-
try.
The famous company of the Saze-Meinin-
gen-Court Theatre will give a series of per-
formances next year in Russia. They will
open at Kiev in February, and proceed
thence to st. Petersburg, Moscow, Riga and
Warsaw
Mr.. SIDNEY DICKINSON, the well-known
art critic and lecturer of Boston. is now a
very successful lecturer in Australia He is
in the employ of the Government of New
Zealand, delivering illustrated lectures on
that country.
EDUARD STRAUSS and his famous orches-
ira have completed a tour of eighty cities in
$50 days, during which time an average of
twenty-five pieces a day were played. At
Hamburg As, 900 persons attended his con-
certs in four weeks.