The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-13
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MARY ANDERSON Is Worto Ssou,VU.
MARIE VAN ZANDT, the prima donna, has
made o hit in Lisbon.
The use of electric lighting in Paris thea
tres is almost universal.
The Madrid Spanish Opera Company will
Boon 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 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 manuscript Of Mozart, the
composer, sold recently in Berlin for about
sl4O.
Mrs. POTTER, the society actress, has O
little daughter who is said to be curiously
like her.
The benefit of A. R. Cazauran, the play
wright, at Palmer's Theatre, New York city,
netted $1,000.
SreNoR ToMAs1 has retired from the Emma
Abbott Opera Company. Carl Martens IS 20
supplant him.
MRS BURyETT'S play, "Little Lord Faun-
leroy" is giving her an incoms of more than
$5o,6oo Year:
JOSEPH JEFFERSON, tine com ,dan, has gone
to his Louisiana plantation for his usual
wiatcr vacation.
NoTHISG like the profitable long life of
1.-THE Silver King" has been achieved oy re-
cent me'odE1~as.
SiGNoK Del. PuENTE has decided to re-
main in this country, AMI intends to open
school for singing.
JANE HAD1NG. the French actress, is study
ing English, with view to touring this
country next season.
MISS KATE FoRsYTItE is to appear in,sIhe
Gold Mine" with Nat Goodwin at the Filth
Avenue Theatre, New York.
LAWRENCE BARRETT has q glandu!ar 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 prilna donna, has just been opsned 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 los roles.
AGREEABLE to the wishes Of the German
Emperor, the theatres have resolved to aboi-
ish all French theatrical terms which have
crept into the language.
IT is said that $4,000, 900 has already been
| pledged for the erection Of 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 q new minstrel company.
P1cKw1cK, prior to the breach Of promise
trial, is the subject of new comic opera by
Burnand, Of London Punch, and Edward
Solomon. twill soon be produced in London
Mrs. LANGTRY's Lady Macbeth in New
York was somewhat Of q 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
liz plot, in which are the graves OF Junius
Brutus Booth and J. Wilkes Booth
PRESIDENT GILMAN, of Johns Hopkins
University, at Baltimore, objected to tbs
students Of that institution acting as "supers
to Booth and Barrett after the initial par
formance of Julius Cesar" and his advice
was followed.
HENRY E. ABBEY, the New York man,
ayers attractions are pretty we'll scattered
over the world. Mary Anderson is in Phila
delphia, Coquelin and Hading are in thu
CITY of Mexico, Bernhardt is in Cairo anc
Mrs Potter is in New York.