Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-06
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

paul JONES" has passed its S0Oth per-
fornancc in London.
SOPHIE EYRE made hit in San Francisco
with her now play, "The Witch"
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG is now so stout
that she will never again be seen on the
stage.
PATTI is said to be the only person in tho
world who can draw Il full house to Albert
Hall, i'll London.
MyRoN w WHITNEY. the popular Boston
basso, is proud of the fact that ho MAS u
bricklaycr for seven years Of his life.
MINNIE HAUK, tho American singer, has
bought the house near Luccrnc Switzer-
! land, that used TO be occupied by Wagner.
"SHENASDoAu' will very probably DO
! shortly produced III London such has been
the success Of Bronson Towards play in this
country.
TnE fashion of trying new plays at matt
necs is becoming so common in London that
the performances themselves are losing all
significance.
1T is reported that W. II. Crane has won IA
marked success i'll the West with "Thc Sem
ator." the play which was written for him by
David d. Lloyd.
accompaniment to NJ VOLTS violin when
that artist appeared before the Queen of
England recently.
NUMBER of Partisan women have sent
an address to NJ. Sarlou thanking him for
his rehabilitation of the stage mOthcr-in-luw
in Belle Manlau."
BuFfALo BILL. contemplates taking his
| Wild West show To India, Certain Indian
potentates who visited Paris in the summer
, advised him to do SO.
AT the Dial Verne Theatre, in Nti.nn q
play has been brought out entitled "Thc Re
treat from Moscow in which the leading
/ character is Napoleon |.
MISS JuCm, who sang Councils "Ave
Maria," drew large crowd, including Presi-
| dent and Mrs. Harrison, to the Church. Of the
| Covenant i'll Washington.
FREDERICK WARDE has commenced prcpa-
rations for IA Shakcspearcan revival in New
| York city next season. when he will have tho
| assistance of several prominent actors and
| actresses.
SIR GEORGE GROVE, the eminent English
musician, was educated for u civil engineer.
| He designed the first two modern lighthouses
erected 10y the English Government in tho
| West Indies
Nix. WILLIAM ARCHER, in the London
! World, reads Mr.. Irving lecture for his
| failure To produce new works. He saws: "ie
has done much for the English stage, nothing
Tor the English drama.
NINE. FURscH-MADI has appeared nj the
iainoreauX Concerts in Paris with great sue
cess. She is now singing in Berlin and will
probably appear in New Yorl, in the orutorio
Of "Messiahh this winter.
MIR. ALEXANDER CoMsrocK Inns gone to
England with the view OF completing ar
engagements for the production of "Thc Old
Homestead" now in its second year ut tho
! New York Academy of Music, in that coun-
| try.
| TIE famous company Of the SAFE Mrinin-
gen-Court Theatre will give /, series of per-
| Cormanccs next year in Russia. They will
| open ut Niev i'll February, aud proceed
thence to st. Petersburg, Moscow, Riga and
Warsaw.
Mn. SIDNEY DICKINSON. the well-known
| art critic and lecturer of Boston. is now n
very successful lecturer in Australia He i;
| IN the employ of the Government of New
Zealand delivering illustrated lectures ON
| that country.
EDuAI;D STRAUSS and his famous orclcs-
ira have completed u tour of eighty cities in
$50 days, during which time an average of
Twenty-Five pieces Il day were played. At
Hamburg $4,000 persons attended his con-
,erts i'll -four weeks