Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-04

time with mathematical accuracy at any rats
desired
MoGinty, so long prosecuted in song has
been dramatiZed and his Sufferings are now
visible to the naked eye.
Spanish soldier of twenty-three years
named Vanti has been found by manager at
Cienfuegos, who halls him as great tenor
w. G. Wills blank verse play of 'sJuanna, u
which was produced originally i'll the London
Court theater with Wilson Barrett and Hell
ena Modjeska in the principal characters, has
been rewritten.
Lili Lehmans Norma is described as a
wonderful performance, much more effective
even, than the characterization of Brunhilde
and other Wagner heroines. Her action is
said to be superb in its art aud its variety,
and she seems to reyel in the vocal ceauties of
Dellinis music.
When an audience at theater in Santiago
de Chill is displeased because of change in
the bill 1T has its own way of expressing dis
pleasure On a recent occasion, when the
play was shortened, the spectators wrecked
the theater and compelled manager and artists
to flee for their lives.
After Sarah Bernhardt appears in this
country, Abbey and Grau will take her to
Brazil and tour of the greater part of the
two continents will be arranged to occupy two
years.
1t is whispered among the cognoscenti that
Colonel lngersoll is the author of the prayer
in ''Money Mad,n which excited so much at
tention in New York, and which Mrs Yea
mans speaks.
1t is said that negotiations are about COM
pleted with NJ. Gounod to write grand opera
to be produced in America in 1892. He will
himself ''superintend its production and con-
duct in person on the first night The scenes
OF the first, second and fourth acts are said to
be laid in Mexico at the time of the Montezu-
mas, and that of the third in the west
The composer Arrigo Bolto viii bring out
his OPERA ''Nerone,n ~ next year at La Scala.
He has lately finished alibretto, 'Maometto"
which he himself set to music
Boieldieu's opera, ''The Caliph of Bagdad,m
the overture to which was once universal
favorite was lately revived at the Breshau
Stadt theater, and received with much favor
Alice King Livingston retires from the
lord Chumleyn company to prepare for
summer tour of her own in Michigan and the
Lake superior country. Prior to this under
taking she viii produce MIR. w. c. Hudsons
recent dramatization of his novel, "JaclS Cor
don, Knight-Errant." The play will probably
be brought out in Albany
Sarah Bernhardt is to play "Joan of Arc,n
in London, and certain alterations will be
made in the dialogue and action of the play.
Six stalWart Englishmen will no longer fall
like rushes before the scythe-lille weapon of
the gallant maid and the poltroonery of the
island bulldogs (they would seem to have been
toy terriers in those days will have its pro-
portionssshorn little.
The name of the great tenor Gayarre will
not soon be forgotten IN Spain. A new thea
ter is about to be opened at Barcelona which
viii be called the Theater Gayawe while
next month another, bearing the same name
will be opened at Las Pallnas, ON the Canary
Isles. ~.
Annie Pixley says it is not an easy thing
10 get new songs suitable for singing in pub
lie. Out of large number of ballads Sc
cured for her last year by her European
agent, she could make use of only one,
Loves DID, Sweet Song" which is very
popular on both sides of the sea.
A new star, Marie Hubert Frohman. has |
new play ''The Witch,n which pictures life |
during the time of the Puritans, and borders
on tragedy. One of It's scenes shows how
men and women were put in stocks for max !
ing love on the Sabbath.
Ira Aldridge, the colored man who used TO
play Othello in this country and Europe, |
has daughter on the stage who has fine |
contralto voice. She has been at Krolls |
lheater Berlin to sing in OPERA and has been |
cast for the part Of Azucena in "Trovatore" |
The old theater at Richmond, near London,
where Helen Faucit made her first appear |
ince as Juliet, and was rewarded by the ap- /
proYal of the then dying Edmund Kean van. |
shed long ago. A new playhouse has now /
)een built in the delightful old town and will /
Dc managed by Horace Leonard a literary
nan, not an actor. 1t win be opened by Mrs.
-angtry.
Fans are Of moderate size and, except for
cry ordinary use, are Of lisse or lace, or q
combination Of both.