Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,

boufie nearly ready.
MARIE VAN ZANDT, the American vocalist.
is singing in Portugal.
EDMOND AUDRAN the French composer
has about completed new comic opera.
RUBINsTEIN has finished a new grand
opera, ''Gorivska-" on a Russian subject
Nh. WHETHERILL the husband of Emma
Abbott, the American prlma donna. is dead
LAWRENCE BARRETT Is afflicted with a
glandular swelling that IS likely to prove
serious.
THE musical colleges of Chicago are said
to be unsurpassed by those in any other
American city.
EDWIN BOOTH and Lawrence Barrett are
to receive $4,000 cash for seven nerforT,-
ances in Louisville.
1T is said that Joseph Jefferson intends to
engage both John Gilbert and c. W. COul-
dock for next season
W. j. FLORENCE, the comedian, is con-
templating big revival of one of Shakes
peare's plays next season.
THE London papers are unanimous and
enthusiastic IN their praise Of Henry Irving'S
impersonatiOn of Macbeth.
WILSON BARRETT, the English tragedian,
will play four weeks at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre, New York, next season
Miss HELEN HAsTREITER sang recently in
Rome in an opera by a Greek composer,
Splro Samala. 1t was a very gorgeous spec
tacle.
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI." an opera by
Cagnoni first brought forth in Italy ten years
ago, has just been revived with favor in
Milan.
Jack" HAvERLY, the reimbursement
King, is welding pick and shovel in a mine
at Trinidad, Col. and is said to have struck
it rich.
HENRY IRvING's production of E'Macbeth'
IN London is pronounced the most gorgeous
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$4,000.
ROSE COGHLAN is making an extensive
tour of the South, where the favorite actress
Is appearing in her new play of 'Jocelyn" to
crowded and fashionable audiences.
THE Turkish Censor absolutely refused to
allow Sarah Bernhardt to play Theodore"
in Constantinople, having more respect for
the memory of the Byzantine Empress than
NJ. Sardou had.
MEssRs. De MILE and Belasco, authors
of lord Chumley' and The Wife," are
now at work on their play, which will be
called The Charity Ball" 1t will not be
produced before next summer.
SINCE Little Lord Fauntleroy," the play,
has been success, no less than fifty stage
struck children have offered themselves to
play the part of the hero. And the manager
says that most Of them were thoroughly
competent for the part.
HELEN DAUvRAY is to be a member of Jo-
seph Jefferson's company, which will play
1.-THE Rivals next season. At present she
is in Europe awaiting the return of her hus-
band John Ward the ball player, via the
Suez Canal from the Antipodes.
JOHN P. SoUsA, the leader of thu
Marine band of Washington, has sold to
Francis Wilson, the comedian, a new comic
opera called 1.-The Wolf" Under the con-
tract Mr.. Wilson agrees to produce it in New
York city within a year. The scene is laid
in Spain.
Mrs. JAMES BROWN POTTER, the society
actress has appeared at PaImer's Theatre,
New York, in gorgeous revival of can
tony and Cleopatra" in which she assumes
The part of Cleopatra, and Kyrle Bellew sup
ports her as Antony. Mrs. Potter received
scant praise from the critics for her rendition
Of the part
CONREID's new opera ''The Kings Fool ="
has made an enormous success in Chicago,
where the first weeks receipts were close to
$1,000. There are ninety-six people in the
cast, and yet not a single supernumerary. The
whole lot are trained singers, and the pro-
duction is regarded one of the best ever
seen in this country.
BOITo's new opera, ''Nerone," has been
completed and Will probably be produced in
Milan during the winter season of 1SS9-90.
The work is in six short acts, each having a
special character. BoitO, before presenting
the musical settings, intends to submit the
libretto to the judgement Of the public as a
literary work by having it represented in a
theatre as drama. The librettO is said to
be a splendid work of poetical art.