The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-27
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

ADALNA PATTI has dyed her hair yellow.
SEATTLE, Wash, is to have S2Oo,oW
opera house next year. a<s
PIT. BARSUM's show is the biggest sensa1
ton in England at the present time ~
New YoRE CITY now has on ordinance
forbidding all playing by street bands ana
:organ-grlnGers.
WILSON BARRETT and Miss Eastlake took
the place Of the Kendals at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre, New Ycrk.
THE Queen of Roumania composed a series
:of sea songs in Domburg, in Holland, WHICH
will be published next Christmas.
RICHARD Voss, the distinguished German
dramatist. is suffering from nervous disease,
which has compelled his retirement to an
asylum.
Otis SKINNER, who is pronounced by Lead
ING critics the best actor in the booth-M MOO,
.ieska combination is the son OF Hardord
Conn., clergyman. ~
sTHE DEAD HEART" has turned out to oe
tremendous popular success at the Lonoon
'Lyceum, and the nightly receipts amount 20
the full capacity of the house, a little Hiore
than $1,000.
.sHANps ACROSS THE Sea-" the English
melodrama which was played at the STAND
ard Theatre, New York city, a few weeks ago,
has been purchased by Charles b. JEFFERSON
and H. S. Taylor.
THE New River runs under the stage OF the
old Sadlcr's Wells Theatre, i'll London, ana
was often used as scenic accessory In q
old days, whenever situation ca4eo ior
employment Of ships or boats. So
GILBERT. the librettist, does not care at
all for society, but is much sought after IN
London. His conversation is said to possess
the same whimsical flavor which has MADE
his poems and operas so popular. ~
IN Melbourne, Australia, special policeman
are detailed every night to visit tie theatres
and music halls before the audjSGce Gfe adj
mitted, to see that all means " exit are free
and unobstructed. This is aH example which
might be initiated profitabKy here.
MRS. KENDAL. the English actress, makes
a hobby Of collecting fans. She has very
large collection, anJfs always adding 10 IL.
Mrs Kendall has purchased some very rare
and beautiful ones in this country, wnlch sne'
will take back with her to England.
LEADER SoUsA, of the Marine Band, Wash
1rgton, has completed his collectlon OF thej
national songsof the world ordered by the
Navy Department Mr.. Sousa has been able
to identify the composers of only twenty one
numbers out of 12S which his book contains!
SARAH BERSHARDT is thinking Of playing;
Cleopatra, and has been negotiating, not
very seriously, for special translation, by al
well-known author. of Shakspere's play. She
also meditates the assumption of Desclee's
famous part in Dumas's LA Visite de Noces, ;"
OF of the Medea of Legouve.
THE Conservatory of Valencia in Spain
offers a list of prizes for the best of each Of
the following species of composition: Al
symphonic poem, a vocal duet, piano solo, ,
a four-pavt chorus, quartet fcl strings, a.
concert piece for the harp, 81 orchestral
symphony, Il violin concerto and hymn to;
st. Cecilia. (;
THE real name of H. B. Conway, the En-j
elish comedian, who has been performing ini
the Lyceum Theatre, New York city, isl
Henry Byron Coulson. He is grandnephew|
of the poet, Lord Byron, and grandson OIL
Byron's sister, Augusta Leigh, whom Mrs.
Beecher Stowe attacked in Mdcrli!lan's somel
fifteen years ago.
SALvIS1, the Italian tragedian, now Play-l
irg O farewell engagement in this country. Is
stalwart, enthusiastic hammered man, OF thet
robust school, with massive bald head andf
a dropping moustache waxed at the ex-|
tremities He isas strong as the proverbial|
Nemean lion, and six and fifty. He has al
voice like roar, and son in tho profession
and he studied the part of Othello while
languishing in the deepest dungeon beneath
the castle wall at Geneva