Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-09
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

Possart, the German actor, is to give 100
performances in this country next winter.
Annie Pixley and her manager husband
are to start on a two months tour OF Europe.
John Gilbert, the venerable actor, is suffer
ing in Boston from an attack of pneumonia.
Miss Genevieve Ward has been giving fare
well performances of "Forget-Me-Not" in
London.
George S. Knight has been taken from
Orange to Ashbury Park IN the hope that
the sea air may maxi him well.
1t is said that the Imperial opera house at
Berlin is negotiating with Mesdames Blanca
Bianchi and Moran-Olden for next season.
"Patrie," an opera by Paladilhe, founded
on Sardou's famous play by the same name,
is shortly 10 be revived at the Paris Grand
opera
Modieska is to begin her unexpected tour
with members of the Booth-Barrett COM
b. G.
Mrs. Langtry's newest play. "Esther
Sandraz," which she Is to bring out in chi
cago, is an adaptation of Adolphe Belot's
novel.
Tony Pastor will end his spring travelling
tour at Cleveland. Early in August he will
resume his professional travels with new
specially company.
Kate Claxton has made arrangements
with A. M. Palmer for the production of
"Bootles' Baby'' in the Madison square thea
ter, next September
No such triumph has been known in the
history of the Casino, in New York city, as
"The Brigands," hundreds being unable
nightly to gain admission.
The transformation scene for "Bluebeard
Jr.," the new extravaganza to be brought
out at the Chicago opera house this summer,
will. it is claimed, be the finest that has ever
been witnessed in This country.
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Globe theatre, and is to open there on the
18th prox. in "The Tigress.n Later on she
Will present ''Among the Pines" and one or
two other plays by American authors.
"rhe Ooah" at the Broadway theater New
York city has turned out popular success
and is no longer "the dark horsep in the race
Tor public favor. Many improvements and
additions have been made since the first
night.
Minnie Hauk is said to have lost her sing
ing voice. Even in Carmen" which she
has been singing ON the Continent she is so
Kissed her 80 vigorously that she went into
Mysteries.
Clara Morris is at her home, in Riverdale
Almost every pleasant DAY she takes can
ter up to Yongers on heavy-hoofed horse
and when the weather Is inclement she re-
mains indoors, talking to her parrot and
playing with her dogs.
Etelka Gerster has a home on mOu ntain
top in Italy. 1t is so difficult of access that
days pass without any visitors relieving the
monotony of her solitude Her health is so
precarious that she has about abandoned all
hope of again singing IN public.
Jeffreys Lewis is said to be suffering ex-
treme poverty in San Francisco, and per-
formance is to be given for her benefit at
the Baldwin theater. When she was III
Augustin Daly's stock company she boasted
that her expenses aggregated $4,000 per
year.
The average weekly receipts at Palmer's
theater, New York, since the production of
"Clover' have amounted to IS, 700, re-
markable sum for q theater of the size of
this house and at regular prices. No better
evidence of its continued success could be
offered.
Geraldine Ulmar will be warmly well
coined when she returns in the autumn as
prima donna of the McCaull Comic Opera
company. When she went TO Europe il was
thought that she was suffering from fatal
attack of consumDtion, but she now weighs
twenty'seven pounds more than she did
then.
Daly's theater will be closed during June,
July, and most of August. On the 26th OF
August Sol Smith Russell will begin an en-
gagement of four weeks in "a Poor Rela-
tion." In October the regular company,