The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-07

will sing in the quartets, and the music selected
VIII be simple, familiar airs.
Ludwig, the great baritone, passed the summer
at an Irish seaside resort He will return to
this country the latter part of Septem5 5er and
VIII pc heard during the season at the principal
music festivals and in concert.
w. II. Cranes Senator" will begin new term
at the New York Star Theatre tomorrow night
1t is expected it will run there until the 1st of
January. Mr.. t. d. Frawley, of this city, will
again be member of the company.
Western paper, whose dramatic critic seems
to be very pidnissimo, said recently: Emma
Abbott is whole-souled little creature and has
no iads, and 9 compositor who had been cele-
brating birthday set it up "has no pads"
Henry c. De Mile and David Belasco have
completed the new play for the New York
Lyceum Theatre which they have been working
on since last December. There are twentv.two
acting parts in it. and the scene is laid in New
York.
Miss Mary Howe, the soprano singer from Yer
mont, who has aroused the pride of New Eng
land, If not of the country, says she will sing
only in concert for the next two or three years
1T is the wear and tear on ones voice and physi-
cal strength in opera that want to put off for a
The list of singers of the Boston Ideal Opera
Company for this season is not at all suggestive
OF old times. 1t includes the names of Idella
Grenquist, soprano Edith Murilla, soubrette:
) nlia Glover, late of the Boston Museum Eau
vette'' cast; Henri Laurent and Frank Blair
comedians Lloyd Wilson, baritone and Joseph
Armand, tenor.
Break. break, break
On the cold, gray stones. o, sea!
But the misspent cash of a summer gone
VIII never come back TO me.
An well for the actor man,
That has summered in st. Louie.
but oh and alas for the minstrel swell
That has strutted beside the sea!
Mirror.
1t is becoming very difficult to deal with the
stage in these days. The stage carpenter has SO
largely usurped the space behind the footlights
hm tSat 6ae s 1nas IL ,s manisst injustice to
type, and that his assistants should not be known
by name as well as works to the public which
tney enterlain.-BOstOn Home Journal.
Lewis Morrison has recommended his season in
Faust" in which he seems to succeed in certain
sections of the country. although there is little in
Ihe play: Morrison claims to have expended
$e,OOo this year in scenery and properties.
method of projecting electricity through the at
mosphere, producing a real though miniature
flash of lightning.
cry of fire was raised in the Buenos Ayres
Grand Opera House recently while 1.-THE Huge
nots" was being sung. A stampede of the i'm
mense audience at once began, and an awful
catastrophe seemed imminent, when the con.
ductor of the orchestra ordered the musicians
who had not fled to strike up the Argentine Ma
tional anthem. Tamagno, the tenor, who was
the RdOul. took up the air with his powerful
voice. and the panic was stopped as il by magic.
Nine. Sarah Bernhardt's next tour will be of a
very extended nature and will necesstate the
great actress being away. from Europe till 1893.
During her wapderings she will visit North and
South America, India, and other parts of Asia
and Australia, SO that she will practically make
the circuit of the world. cleopatra" shall be
produced at the Porte Saint Martin Theatre on
the 9Th of October. 1t will run till the 9th of
January, and Nine. Bernhardt and the support
ing company will embark on the sth.