The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-10


The new theatrical year has already opened
in New York. 1t begins unusually early, prob
ably because the managers wish to make up by
its length what it seems likely that it will lack
in novelties. AS far as be judged from the
list of companies, dramatic and musical, that
have been organized, the coming season will
be as devoid of real novelties as was the last.
1t seems probable that the decline in melo-
drama will continue and that fewer OF this
class of PLAYS will be offered the public than
for many years. There will be about the same
quantity of light opera and opera bouffe, but
the outlook in the higher classes OF opera is
rather uncertain. OF comedy and farce-comedy
there will be no end, and musical burlesque Or
ganizations will also be plentiful. A num-
Der of foreign stars and star.clusters will
sweep across our dramatic ornament, but
none of note that we have not
already seen. The leading New York dramatic
importing houses and jobbers have brought over
with them from their European tours consider
able invoices of foreign plays, and these will be
put on the American market by American COM
panies None of these imported plays have yet
been exhibited in this country, and it is impos-
sible to say what their value is from anAmeri-
can standpoint, or how they will strike the
tastes of our consumers. number of our
American stars, tragic, comic, operate, and
burlssque, will have new plays and some of
them promise to be good OF their kind.
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As usual, our enterprisng local theatrical
managers will give us the best that is going.
The local season will open on the 25th. when
both the National Theatre and the Biiou will
expel the dust and dsspate the dampness which
have gathered in their auditoriums during the
summer and again open their doors to the pub
lic The National will begin it's season with
Herrmann's Transatlantique Vaudeville Troupe,
which ought to furnish appropriate entertain
ment for the still warm weather. Albaugh's
Opera House will begin its season week
later than the National, on the 1st of Septem-
ber Fay Templeton in her new burlesque of
ssHendrick Hudson will be the attraction, and
from all accounts it will be first-rate one. All
the houses have undergone more or less renova-
tion during the summer and will present fresh
and delightng appearance to their patrons on
the opening nights.
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The list of attractions which Manager Rapley,
of the National Theatre, will offer his patrons
during the coming season will be about the
same as last years. The Kendals, jefferson
and Florence, Rosina Vokes, the companies
under the management of the Frohmans, Nat
Goodwin' in his t'Gold Minen and perhaps in
new play, Francis Wilson in his new opera,
s'The Merry Monarch;'' Bronson Howard's
s'Shenandoah,' which has not been seen in
Washington yet, though the most successful of
recent American plays; Lotta with her new
company and plays, Thatchers Minstrels,
HERMANN the magician; "Aunt jack" the
comedy which has been such success at the
New York Madison Square; E. H. Sothern in
his new plays, and many other standard attrac-
tons, with judcious sprinkling of the lighter
sort, such as Hoyt's farces, minstrels, bur-
lesques, and, of course, good deal of comic
opera.
Manager Albaugh has booked fine list of
companies for his opera house here and his new
In Roll fha ly
Bernhardt concludes to come to this coun-
try this season, he will have her at his
houses. Then he will have Fanny Davenport
in cleopatra" Stuart Robson in his new
Company, w. H. Crane, the new farce-com-
edy, 1.-THE U. S. Mail;' Aronson's Casino Opera
Company and several other opera companies,
Mile Rhea, and an extended list of other first
class attractions.
Lincoln Music Hall will come into competi-
tion with the older houses to a considerable ex-
tent next season. Already good deal of time
has been taken there by highclass attractions.
The Stoddard lectures will be given there in
stead of at the Congregational Church, as in for
mer years The Boston Symphony Orchestra
will give a series of concerts at the hall; the
Choral Society will again hold its concerts there,
while number of other local and travelling mu-
sical organizations have secured dates from Man
ager Pratt. Richard Golden in his new Yankee
comedy, cold Jed Prouty," is also on the list
at the hall Mr. Zeff Schlossberger, the scenic
artist of the National, has painted a number of
new sets for the stage during the summer.
Geo. Wilson'S Minstrels at Albaugh's.
There will be a brief break in the vacation of
the big theatres this week, when the mdsum-
mer dullness will be dissipated by the merry
making of George Wilson and his famous band
of minstrels at Albaughs. The engagement
will last three nights, Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday, with matinee on the last after
noon, If there is one form of entertainment