Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-05-17
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

JOHN GILBERT, the actor, is seventy-eight.
Carmen is sung oftener than any other
opera the world over.
NEXT season Mrs. James Brown Potter
will attempt ROsalind.
HENRY IRVING has been invited to produce
Macbeth in Germany this summer.
PRINCE HENRY XIV, of Reuss is coming
to the fore as e composer of symphonies.
BUFFALO BILLS wild West" has sailed
from New York on its two years trip through
Europe.
Mr. CHARLES SANTLEY, the English bari
tone singer, is q capital painter, both in water
and oils.
NINE HAsTREITER has made great hit in
the Florence Italy Opera House in Gluck's
'Orfeo."
The two thousandth performance of ''Er-
MIME" in England took place recently at
Liverpool.
JoNEs's new play ''Wealth," with Mr..
Beerbohm Tree in the leading role, has fallen
fiat i'll London.
The drama in London has taken a curious
turn. which IS well worthy of notice. The
market now is for morality"
der MEIsTERDIEB'' (The Boss Thief is
the title of a new and successful comic opera
just produced, at Weimar, Germany.
SARAH BERNHARDT having made great
hit as Lena Despard in GAS in a Looking
GLASS;" is about to appear in La Belle Russo"
IRvING's next production at the London
Lyceum will be King Arthur" by w. G.
Wills, and Henry VIII" will be done later.
W. J. SEAMAN, the Irish comedian, has
made a very great success in England, where
he has already acquired the name of ''Peek-a-
Boo Seaman.
SARsATE, the Spanish violin virtuoso, ard
Won BulOw and Schwarenka, the celebrated
pianists are included in next seasons list of
concert artists in this country.
JOHN A. DUFF the New York manager
who died few weeks ago, went into the
theatrical business with $500 OOO and left il
with something less than $4,000.
NJ MENIER the chocolate-maker, has a
private circus in Paris where the Queen of
Naples jumps through hoops and the Marquiz
de JauZy turns sOrnersaUltS on bare backed
steed.
HENRY IRVING and Helen Terry recently
gave private performance Of The Bells' and
the Shylock Trial scene at Sandringham
England, III presence OF the Queen and royal
family.
CHE POACHERs," a comedy which has
been successfully produced in Vienna and
Berlin, is now attributed to the Queen of
ROumania, who has another piece ready for
representation.
REICHMAN, the favorite baritone of the
Vienna Court Opera House, and the hand
denly severed his connection with that insti-
tute, and will in ell probability, be heard in
New York next season.
BENJAMIN F. MARX and Louis Nathan Of
st. Louis have made a contract with GOunOd
the composer. for a tour of this country next
season. The contract calls for seventy-five
concerts, and the sum Of $3.50 is guaranteed
to Gounod for each performance.
IT is related 3hat some years before his re-
cent de2th, TambeThk, the great tenor while
walking through the bird market at Madrid
expended $500 in buying all the birds on sale
He then opened their cages, and as the birds
flew away shouted gleefully: go and be
free, my brothers"
RIcE's "Evangeline' company has gradu-
ated large number of famous actors. Among
them are Billy Crane, Laura Joyce Bell, Nat
Goodwin, Pauline Hall, Sadie Martinot,
George S. Knight henry E. Dixey, Vernona
Jarbeau, Lillian Conway and Lillian Russell.
The fifteen years existence of ''Evangelipe'
has made the play a school for the pro-
aessiOn.