Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-01
MUSICAL AND DRAYATlC.


MUSICAL AND DDRAJATlC.
It is rumored on good authority that Will
liam Harris will not be identified with the
Howard Atheneum Specially company next
season.
Emma Mabelle Baker is to be the new
prma donna in the reorganized Emma Abbott
troupe. which will open in New York IN
week or two.
"Ibsen's sDoll's House" with Beatrice
Cameron as Nora, had New York city re-
vival at the Garden theater last Wednesday
afternoon, January 2S.
Maurice A. Scanlon, brother of William
j. SCanlon, died of consumption in New YORK
city last week. The deceased was himself a
popular Irish comedian in one night stands
and in many important cities.
Isabelle EyesSon sailed for London last
week. Her sister, Estele Clayton is playing
hec part in 'Dr Bill" There is no truth in
the rumor thatMiss Evesson is to be married
to II. Henry French, who is also in London
at present.
Guido Ferrantin is the title of a new play
| of Italian life which Lawrence Barrett has
| just given New Workers.. Nat Goodwin and
| Jimmie Powers also opened in the metropolis
in new plays on Monday night, the former in
| 1.-The Nominee and the latter in "a Straight
| Tip"
| Charles Reed and William Collier will star
| next season under the management of
| Matthews and Smythe, in a new farce
comedy, entitled "Hoss and Hoss." This
will not interfere with 1.-THE Burglar"
which has already been booked for a third
| season.
Fred Sinson, in a crcularletter to the
| dramatic editors throughout the country, an
| nounces that Julia Marlowe has entirely re-
| covered from her long illness, and that She
will resume her professional duties under his
| management about March |. Miss Marlowe
will be seen in Omaha before the season ends.
Max Maretzelx's new book, ''Sharps and
Flats, ~ has charmed musical New York. The
| gifted composer is often seen on Broadway as
| chipper as he was score OF years ago, Re-
port has it that he will conduct the Italian
opera at the Metropolitan opera house under
Henry Il, obey, and he could find no better
| man the world over.
Mr.. Fred Abbott, brother of the late
Emma Abbott, says that the provision in her
| will for an electrical test to determine
whether life is extinct will be carried out
The arrangements to that end have not been
completed but the test will probably be made
at GraCelaud cemetery, where the body now
is. Mr.. Abbott says his sister always had a
dread of being buried alive.
Nearly all of John Russells comedians are
going starring on their own nook in the sweet
by-and-by. Twas ever thus with Augustin
DAILY in his earlier days, when Fanny Dayen-
port, Clara Morris, Kate ClaXton, ct al. were
| on his salary list. Performers all get the
astral fever in the first flush Of am pros Iarity
brought about through managerial conjuring
or pluck.
There is rumor in eastern dramatic circles
| that Richard Mansfield will be his own man
ager after this season, as he expects to have
| a new theater in New York city by the open
ing of next season. Although his present
manager, A. f. Hartz, has a three-years' con-
tract with Mr.. Mansfield, the latter says that
any arrangement that will be finally made
will be with the approval of Mr. HartH.
Hereafter Mansfield will only act in New
! York. Chicago Philadelphia and Boston,
which makes a manager other than hlmself
seem the less necessary.
A correspondent in the New York World
thus speaks of the return of Italian opera at
, the Metropolitan opera house: welcome,
thrice welcome, the return OF ltalian opera
The childish myths of the Norseland, set to
the sound ana fury of the scientific Wagner,
are too heavy for the overworked brain OF the
average New Yorker. The public needs re-
Taxation ard the soothing influences of the
divine harmonies and melodies of Beethoven,
Bellini, Verdi, Dopizetu and the swan OF
Pesaro-divinest OF the demigods! Byron in
his hints from Horace" sings;
, Hence the pest shopkecper, whose throbbing
, Aches with orchestras which he pays to hear
Whom shame, not sympathy. forbids to snore
, | His anguish doubling by his own encore
. Squeezed in "Fops' alley" jostled by the
@ Teased with his hat and trembling for his
toes,
| Scarce wrestes through the night, nor tastes
of ease,
:, Till the dropped curtain gives glat eease
Why this and more he suffers-can ye guess
q Because it costs him dear. and makes hin
dress
g To the scientist and musician the heavily
z scored music of Wagner is wonder and {
delight, but the public is scarcely educated
9 up to that point. Wagner belongs to thu
IS future, and the present generation Is too busy
and 100 preoccupied to appreciate him. WheI
IS the lion and the lamb lie down together ant
+ the lamb is not inside the money-grabbinl
lion will be time enough"
J. Mrs Laura Ward, the pretty soubrette il
20 Donnelly Il Girard's "Natural Gas'' com
81 pany, now showing in the middle Atlantic
o states, has received absolute divorce iron
o her husband, Nathaniel, on the ground o
@ non-support. The suit was not contested
IL and Mrs Ward was the only witness. Sh
,gas certainly not the typical victim of non
support as seen in the municipal court, say
the New York Word. She was attired in
10 brown dress of heavy woolen materill. owe
, this was n seal plush sacque with real sea
trimmings, and on her head was iaunt
little bonnet. To the court she said she wa
e, married to her husband eight years ago, an
a year later went on the stage. Since theI
d she bas not lived with him, AT first sh
J., was only a chorus girl and got small pay
Slowly she developed, so that she now re
" ceiyes a good salary, enough TO amply sur
o port herself and lay away something besides
n While she was learning to act she repeated
n asked her husband for money, but as olte
- he refused her and frequently she suhere
!" for the want it, Since then she has seYera
u times been possessed OF desire 10 leave lh
stage. but her husband would not supper
rt her and she had TO keep at it or starve' IL
IN had said TO her, she said You are snai
= and can earn good living TO ana 90 /
8 You can earn better wages than / can.
" She said her husband ran a restaurant
le New York and was abundantly able to SUI
lt port her and keep her from working. lie
, maiden name she said, was Laura Wood.
e- W. II. Brewster OF Quincy, H. treasure
re of the League of American Wheelmen, wa
ly in Omaha, a guest of A. ii. Perrigo, las
IS, Sunday
&c ~
Five hundred patents on tires and tire col
n struction have been issued from tue paIei
ne Office at London, England.