The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-11
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

paul JONES" has passed its 3OOth per-
formance in London.
SOPHIE EYRE made hit in San Francisco
with her new play, '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.
MYRoS w. WHITNEY, the popular Boston
bass6, IS proud Of. the fact tbst he was a
bg'icklayer for seven Years Of his life
MINNIE HAUK, the American singer has
bought the house near LtlCerne, Switzer-
land, that used to be occupied by Wagner.
"SHESAHDoAH' will very probably be
shortly produced in London, such has been
the success of Bronson Howard's 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. II. Crane has Won a
marked success in the West with 1.-THE Sem
ator." the play which was written for him by
David d. Lloyd
PRINCESS BEATRICE played the pianoforte
fbot artist ap;;r:ooared before the Queen of
England recently.
A NUMBER of Partisan women have sent
an address to NJ Sardou thanking him Tor
his rehabilitation of the stage mother-in'la@
in Belle Man!an."
BUFFALO BILL contemplates taking his
Wild West show to India. Certain Indian
potentates who visited Paris in the summer
advised bin to do so. q
Ar the Dal E:sme Theatre, III Milan, q
,,,v has been brought out entitled 1.-The Re-
treat from Moscow" in which the leading
character is Napoleon l.
Miss JUcH, who sang Gounod's ave
Maria y drew large crowd, including Pres-
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 q 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 lecture for his
failure to produce new works: He says: He
has done much for the English stage, nothing
for the English 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 az
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 series of per-
formancaS 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 4
! very successful lecturer in Australia. He is
in the eInploy of the Government of New
Zealand, delivering illustrated lectures on
that country.
EDUARD STRAUSS and his famous crches-
ira have completed tour of eighty cities in
$50 days during which time an average of
twenty-five pieces a day were played. At
Hamburg $4,000 persons attended his con-
ccrts in four weeks.