The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
Notes of the Stage.

Strauss has completed a new opera. 1t is called
"Ritter Pazman."
Christine Nilsson is said to have aged terribly
in the last two years.
Maude Granger played to a S53 house in He
lena, Mont, recently.
George Dalton will be member of j. NJ. Hills
Money Mad" company this season.
Fred Warde and Mrs. D. P. Bowers will begin
their season September 4, at Troy, N. Y, in
Henry VIII"
Oriel Barney, who managed Julia Marlowe last
season, will have charge of Mckee Rankin's
"Canuck" this year.
Tom Keene will have one new play this sea-
son, entitled "Fauncelot." He begins his tour
on Monday in the South.
Joseph Haworth has sold paul Kauvar," and
will star this season in new play by William
Haworth called "The Ensign"
The severest thing the California critics find to
say about Maurice Barrymore as Capt. SaUift is
that he 'makes vice too beautiful"
Manager A. b. Anderson writes THE HERALD
to say that he will bring his new star, Josephine
Anderson, to Washington in October.
Miss Mary Howe, the beautiful and gifted
Vermont soprano, will make an American tour
this winter at the head of an opera company.
Kate Claxton seems to have frozen to 1.-THE Sea
of Ice' for all time. She will devote next season
to aspectacuar production of the Arctic antique.
Richard Mansfield. after a two weeks rest. re-
appeared at the New York Madison Square Mon
day night in Beau Brummel." The audience
was large.
Nat Goodwin seems to have captured some of
the London critics by his acting of Coclsney cad
in "The Bookmaker," which he put on this week
to succeed "The Gold Nine"
The little island of Heligoland, which was
turned over to Germany by England the other
day, has the honor of being the birthplace of no
less eminent parsonage than Richard Mansfield.
Minnie Palmer seems to have given up the idea
of making her debut in light opera in new work.
She has fallen back on "Olivette.' in which she
will appear at Herrmann's Gaety Theatre. New
York, on September 8.
All the places of amusement at Washington
are closed except one, concern that pays no
rent, but j. forces nj the people to submit to a
Congress- -TdDgdrt's Times.
George S. Knight who lost his fortune and his
mental balance through the failure of his play,
Baron Rudolph" is said to be dying. Knight,
though he affected dialect plays, was true art
ist, and his death will be a loss to the stage.
Marie Tempest the English comic opera singer,
has made an unquestionable hit in "The Red
Hussar" at Palmer's Theatre, New York. She is
not very pretty nor extremely young, but she
has a good voice and fetching ways, and is al
ready established as metropolitan favorite.
Charlie Hoyt will have no less than Ave COM
panies on the road this season interpreting those
lSickabout classics, "a Midnight Bell. .""A Texas
Steer,""A Brass Monkey" "a Trip to China
town." and "A Silent Partner" Tim Murphy.
of Washington, will have the leading role in the
newest of these "A Trip to Chinatown"
The new skit in which that clever actress,
Vernona Jarbeau, will appear the coming sea-
son is called "Strlcty Confidential" 1t was
written by Edward Poland, member of Maggie
Mitchells company, who is also the author of an
Irsh-American comedy called NTerence O'Mal-
ley, ESQ.," to be produced in New York next
month.
Chevalier Scovel last year Col" Fosters
trump tenor card in the Boston Ideals, will sing
the coming season in London. He makes his ap-
pearance there next month at the Lyric Theatre
in the leading role of Audran's new opera, La
Cigale" Audran will specially write in some
new numbers to give the Chevalier's voice a
chance.
Here's another result of the advertising Toll
stoI's "Kreutzer Sonata" has obtained through
the Post Office Department: A New York jour
nast, Fitzgerald Murphy by name, has dra-
matized it and is looking for theatre to produce
it in in New York. Perhaps Anthony Comstock
| Will do for the play what Mr.. Wanamaker did
for the book.
THE Banker" the alleged new play in which
George Edgar appeared at the Windsor Theatre,
New York, on Monday night, was laughed at by