The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-08
Gossip Of the Stage.

Hello! Where is Ibsen?
Robert Downing, the tragedian, has
written "A novel.
Buffalo Bill is presenting his woolly
entertainment in Scotland.
Jerome X. Jerome has written a
comedy satirizing official busybodies.
Fanny Davenport has bought a $50
acre farm in California, near the ranch
of Modjeska.
Two-cent programs, containing por-
traits and biographies, are sold at the
Colonne concerts in Paris.
Mr.. Arens is raising a guaranty fund
for concerts of American music IN Ber-
lin. He has 1875.
Mr.. Salvini has organized a fencing
class i'm his company and devotes an
hour day to sword practice.
Paderewski, in his last nineteen con-
certs in London, made $l2, $50. 1t pays,
sometimes, to play ON the piano.
w. III. Crompton leaves Richard Mans
fields company, after some years of SER
vice, to play in "The Lost Paradise"
w. j. Scanlan's memory has become
so poor that he is said TO keep "A prompter
OH each side of the stage to prompt him
in his lines.
Joseph Hatton's play, "The Vicar"
will be tried at a matinee at Palmer's
shortly, as Mr.. Herne's play Of Mar
garet Fleming" will be.
A number Of painful apprehensions
have been removed. Mrs. Langtry says
that she has decided not to come here
and act this winter.
The Austrian boy band has a repertory
of fifty-6ve marches, twenty nine pot
pouris, thirty-fve overtures, fifty-seven
concert pieces, eleven quadrilles, thirty
waltzes, eighteen polkas, seventeen fast
polkas, fourteen czards, fifteen mazur-
kas, five laendler and five hymns-a
total of 361 pieces. Pretty well for a
party of lads whose ages are from II to
1S years.
Sarah Bernhardt says that she wants
to play Fabienne in Thermidor," the
part now taken by Elsie DeWolfe. She
saw the piece in New York for the first
time, and the part is the only leading
one that Sardou has created in the last
eight years that Sarah did not play
before anybody else had chance TO
do il.
A few days before his death William
j. Florence said TO one of his friends, a
Brooklyn man, :" | dread the end of this
season, for then I've got to separate from
Jefferson. It's all right for him, for he
is rich and can afford to retire whenever
he likes, but for me it means that I'm to
be sent back TO THE Almighty Dollar
to earn my living"
John l.. Stoddard, the celebrated lec-
turer will give series of five illustrated
lectures in Music Hall this city in Janu-
ary and February, under the manage
ment of Mr.. J. A. Shibley. The SUBJ
jects will be: L., Travels in Sunny
"Mexico No. g." w., Jerusalem and
the Holy Land" V. Egypt and the
Nile" Mr. Stoddard will take trip
around the world after this season and
will not return until 1894.
The next promenade concert will be
given on the 2Sth of this month, when
Reeves American Band has returned
from its triumphant and extended con-
cert trip. The same program as played
on the concert tour will be given, and
the band will comprise thirty men and
Madame Baretta Morgan, soloist.
Great interest is manifested in the
first concert of the great Symphony
Orchestra of New York in Music hall
this coming Friday evening. Walter
Damrosch with his seventy crack
musicians will endeavor to demonstrate
to the music-loving people of Rhode
Island that he has one of the grandest
orchestral bodies in the world. Madame
Hitter Goethe, the renowned contralto
artistic, will be the soloist. Following is
the program
Overture" In spring.. ........... .Goldmark
Air-"Oh, rest in the Lord" from Elijah
Mendelssohn-Madame Ritter-Goetze,
Symphony No III in & minor. 81. .Tschaikowsy
l. Andate sostento Allegro Vivo. III, Andan-
Allegro Motto Nivace ", Moderate Assoi
Allegro Nivo.
Air from samson at Delilia, Saint-Saens.
Madame Goetze, a, Song of the Forest
Bird" from Segfried) Wagner. b, Ride OF
the Valkyries," Wagner.