Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-04
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
 Wilson Barrett sails for New York Octo- ber2
 Emma Abbott begins her season Se3tem- Der 16 in Cleveland.
 Myron Calico will paddle along with "Hans, the Boatman."
 The Park Opera-House at Livingstone, M. T., has been burned.
 Lawrence Barrett begins rehcarsals of 'Ganelon'' on September g.
 Frank Thayer is doing the advance work of Morrisscy's Opera Company.
 Sadie Stringham has been engaged tor a tonic part in ''Boker's Bltters."
 William Wolff, the comedian, rejoins the Bennett-Moulton Opera Company.
 Tom Ricketts is successfully launched in "Duvar." He is doing New England.
 Florence Bell will be in the cast of s'The Drum-Major's Daughter" at the Casino.
 E. H. Sothern will play next spring and summer at the Criterion Theater, London;
 Miss May Carlisle, Q young soubrette with Harrigan last season, will be with .that author-actor again this season.
 Thomas F. Shea, after eight years on the executive staff of Robson and Crane, goes with ''Little Lord Fauntleroy."
 "The Burglar" is big hit at the Bush osASSS AASSeSlt CIlSCO. h. 0TlSulcI duu fhCebe Davies are presenting it. 1
 Lydia Thompson and an entire English company will be seen on the road thls sea- son in comedy instead of burlesque
 Charles Pope, who was formerly of Pope's Theater, St. Louis, has been appointed United States Consul at Toronto, Can. Frederic Corbett, who was connected with the Madison Square companies for several years, has signed with N. C. Good win.
 Jane Coombs Is starting to comb the Northwest. She has a weakness for ssBleak House." Let us hope the houses will not be bleak.
 R. l.. Marsh & Co. have taken . long lease of the Standard Theater, Chicago. It is now closed for thorough renovation and reftting.
 George D. Melville has devoted four months of his time exclusively to superin- tending the preparations for the production l of "Kajauka."
 A new star will shine in New York early 1 in the season. Her name is Marion Mar shall, and she will appear in a new play, en- | titled ''Mardale."
 Miss Ramie Austen hasjust received from Paris the costumes she will use in "Guilty Without Crime.' They are said to be mar
 vels of beauty and richness. 1 Sol Smith Russell is supported this season l by Alfred Hudson, Charles Kent, Louis
 Carpenter, Maud Hosford, Grace Filkins, | Lillian Owen and Merri Osburn Charles w. Garthorne, the Englishman l who made a hit at the Madison Square The | ater recently, is 8 brother of Mir. Kendall, 1 who will shortly bring a company to this | country.
 Ida Van Siclen, the pretty and clever girl who is called the 'fCalifornia Rosebudrh by Al been engaged for the leading place in sup port of Mile. Rhea.
 James O. Barrows will play the Irish Ser 1 geant in "Shenandoah." MT. Barrows is best known as delineator of negro charac-
 ter, although his reputation as general dia-
 lect comedian is not excelled. Charles T. Ellis new comedy is entitled l 'SThe German Minstrel" The author, Her bert Hall Winslow, has been spending sey-
 eral weeks with Mir. Ellis at the latter's 1 Asbury Park cottage, where he has been l putting the finishing o,lches on his work. Miss Alice Coleman opens her season in
 her farce-comedy 'Butterfies'' on October l l, supported by an excellent company. A | "grand military band and orchestra"
 headed by Charles Petit, who for the past
 three seasons ofaciated as cornet soloist l with P. s. Gilmore's band, goes along.
 Miss Pauline Markham is engaged to create the leading part of Anarchy, In s.The Spider and the Fly" She looks the l same Markham as of old, and her deep, l rich, contralto voice still continues to send forth its vibrations of vocal velvet. Miss Markham will sing her new tropical song | "Well, Think Not''
 Sailing" Little Tich's new song and dance, is one of the cleverest specialties in | which that artist has yet appeared. The song is 2 parody on the familiar ballad and the lines are extravagantly funny. Tich
 scored great hit at the London Alhambra | and Empire theaters in this act and his l popularity at the Chicago Opera-House has
 been greatly enhanced by It's introduction.
 Mme. Janauschek, supported by the fol- lowing people, will open her season at l Yonkers, N. Y., on September 18: George 1 D. Chaplin, A. H. Stuart, Albert C. Tender 1 son, Tyrone Power, Frederick Roberts, l Graham Crawford, Jules Madero, M. E. Brewer, Ida Burroughs, Harriette Jocelyn, Dot Harrison aud Alice Crawford. Roper
 toire: 'The Woman in Red," ''Meg
 Merrilies," "Woman of the People," "Mary
 Stuart" and "Macbeth."
 "A Texas Steer," the piece written by
 Charles H. Hoyt for L. R. Stockwell, is con-
 siderably out of the line of farcical comedy
 with which Mir. Hoyt was identified prior 1 to tho production of ''The Midnight Bell" ! There is no music in it, and there will be no l specialties. The principal character is a hayseed Texan, who gets into funny com ! plications in Washington. The piece is now
 about finished, and Twill be produced in a | few of the smaller towns of the slope be-
 fore being brought out in Frisco |