Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-02-08
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MARY ANDERSON is worth s25o,Oo0.
MARIE VAN ZANDT, the prima donna, has
made hit in Lisbon.
THE use of electric lighting in Paris thea
tres is almost universal.
The Madrid Spanish Opera Company will
soon be seen in this country.
In Los Angeles, Cal, a party is organizing
an ostrich show to take the road.
A GERMAN specialist asserts that Patti has
two extra valves in her windpipe.
EDMOND DELANNOY a noted French actor,
has just died at the age Of seventy-two.
SPENCER's 'Little Tycoon" opera is having
| a wonderfully successful Southern tour.
/ The annual agitation against German
opera has broken out again in New York.
A MUSICAL manuscri pJ Of Mozart, the
composer, sold recently in Berlin for about
$40
MRS POTTER, the society actress, has a
little daughter who is said to be curious1y
like her.
The benefit Of A. R. Cazauran, the play
wright, at Palmer's Theatre, New York city,
netted $1,000.
SIGNoR TOMAsI has retired from the Emma
Abbott Opera Company. Carl Martens is Go
supplant him.
MRS. BURNETTs play, ''Little Lord Faun-
leroy" is giving her an income of more than
$6O,00O year.
to his Louisiana plantation for his usual
winter vacation.
NOTHING like the profitable long life of
''The Silver King" has been achieved by
cent melodramaS.
SIGNoR DEL. PUENTE has decided to re-
main in this country, and intends to open
school for singing.
JANE HADING, the French actress is study
ing English, with view to touring this
country next season.
MISS KATE FORsYTHE is to appear in The
Gold Mine" with Nat Goodwin at the Fifth
Avenue Theatre, New York
LAWRENCE BARRETT has glandular tu-
NOR on his neck which will probably require
surgical operation to remove.
A NEW theatre specially devoted to French
operetta, with Miss Horwitz, an American,
as prima donna, has just been opened in st.
Petersburg, Russia.
EDWARD FALEs COWARD. the amateur
actor who used to support Mrs. James Brown
Potter in her amateur days, has during his
career acted 105 roles.
AGREEABLE to the wishes of the German
Emperor, the theatres have resolved to abol-
ish al, French theatrical terms which have
crept into the language
IT is said that 81, 000, 900 has already been
pledged for the erection of a mammoth
amusement temple on the site Of the Madison
Square Garden, New YOrk.
BILLY BIRCH, the merry end man of the old
San Francisco Minstrels, is again about to
enter the field of management. He is or
ganizing new minstrel company.
PICKwICK, prior to the breach of promise
trial. is the subject of a new comic opera by
Burnand, of London Punch, and Edward
Solomon. 1t will soon be produced in London
MRS. LANGTRT's Lady Macbeth in New
York was somewhat of a surprise TO the
critics She did better than was expected.
Her rendition of the part was lit up by oc-
casional CLEANS Of tragic force.
EMMA ABBOTT, notwithstanding the death
of her husband, will not for the present de-
sert her opera company the members of
which are in the main dependent upon the
organization being maintained.
Miss ROsALIE ANN BOOTH, an elder sister
of Edwin Booth, has just been buried in
Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, in the fam
iy plot, in which are the graves of .unius
Brutus Booth and j. Wilkes Booth.
PRESIDENT GILMAN, of Johns Hopkins
University at Baltimore, objected TO the
students of that institution acting as ''supers'
to Booth and Barrett after the initial per-
Torrance of Julius Cesar" and his advice
was followed.
HENRY E. ABBEY, the New York man
ayers attractions are pretty well scattered
over the world. Mary Anderson is in Phila-
delphia, Coquelin and Hading are in the
City of Mexico, Bernhardt is in Cairo and
Mrs. Potter is in New York.
DR.. JOSEPH PARKER, the London sensa-
tionalist preacher, recently went to see a
popular piece at London theatre, and at its
conclusion exclaimed: ''God bless the man
who wrote so useful and admirable plaY!''
THAT play he continued, in conversation,
was simply dramatic sermon of the most
powerful kind as to doctrine, eloquence and