The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-06-07
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
The Fair Lillian Russell has New
and Strange Ornament.

The Casino is in the full blaze of its
summer glory. The combined attrac-
tions of the spectacular apollo" and
the ever popular roof garden makes the
prosperity twofold. Fully eight thousand
people visited the garden last week dur
ing the warm nights. The tiftieth per-
Torrance of Apollo will be celebrated
on Thursday evening. June 25 A novel
entertainment both in the auditorium
and on the roof garden, will be given on
that evening The primitive idea has
been suggested by the subject and sur
roundings of the opera, aud the effect
will be a truly GreciAn night. Rudolph
Aronson is in Europe searching for an
appropriate souvenir to present to the
audience.
Lillian Russell's singing of the inter-
polated ballad In the third act is one of
the most enjoyable treats in the opera.
Some one of the lady's admirers, not con-
tent with seeing her wear upon her arm
the regulation stage iewelry armlet, has
presented her with the dried skin of a
snake mounted on q coil of gold wire,
heavily bronzed and with diamond eyes.
1t is worn by Miss Russell during the
Temple scene.
Mrs. James Brown Potter is playing In
China. Kyrle Bellew is with her. The
company is a conglomeratlon of her ow
and George @. Minis, Mr.. Bellew
and Mr.. Min are both tragedians, but as
they can't both play Romeo or Hamlet or
Scarpia at the same time on the same
stage, the heather Chinee may be treated
to delightful theatrical row. Before
going to China. Mrs. Potter played
through India, and then at Colombo in
Ceylon. She enjoyed the experiences
and remained in excellent health despite
the trying climate; In China they play
first at Shanghai, Kobe, Penang and Sig
napore. In India Mrs. Potter and Mr..
Bellew were the guests at several times
of the Viceroy and the Nizam OF Hydera-
bad while during their one nights stay
at Colombo they put up at the house of
eral.
Marie Jansen sailed for Europe yester
day.
Only fifteen of New York's twenty five
theatres are open now.
John Hare, well-known English actor
at the London Garrick Theatre, has been
engaged by Charles Frohman for the part
of Martial in 'sThermidor."
Aunt Louisa Eldridge has been looking
for the slowest steamer going to Europe,
as she wants a long rest on the ocean.
She leaves june IL. bound direct for
Glasgow. from where she goes TO Edin-
burgn, and thence to London. She will
be gone all summer, leaving Europe ut
Antwerp, after having taken peep at
Paris.
Harry Lee has married Tessie feathers
in London. This is the young woman for
whom Bob Hiiliard chased S. Miller Kent
around the Hoffman House few years
since. Harry Lee, by the way, has also
doue up London to the tune of about
$1,000.
Mrs. Leslie Carter viii abandon the
dramatic stage for comic opera, aud Mr..
E. d. Price, her manager, Will by force of
circumstances become an impressario.
A certain actor, travelling in the West
with certain company, which stranded
there, received a despatch in the midst of
his misery from w. A. Mcdonnell, then
managing ''lhe Fakirp company. He
said:-"Can you join this company at
49, in two weeks?" The actor wired
back Thanks for offer, but must de-
cline. Have trouble enough already"
Felix Morris of the Vokes company is
an American and has a farm at Ocono-
mowoc, Wis. He Is the only one OF Miss
Vokes' clever people who prefers the
prairie to the Strand.
The secretary of the NationaI Conserva-
tory Of Music-of which Mrs. Jeannette
M. Thurber is observation-disclosures that
the annual entrance examinations will be
held as foIlOws;-Singing. September "a
and %; violin, cello, contra bass, harp
and all other orchestral Instruments,
September 2S; piano and organ, Septem-
Der 20; orchestra, November 2: chorus,
November 4; operatic chorus, November
2. Aptitude is necessary for admission,
but the fees are so small that tuition Is
practically Free. Secretary Charles Inslee
Pardee will furnish further information
to applicants. His address is the Con-
servatory, No. 126 East Seventeenth
street.
Alexander Salvini has been drawing