The evening world., 1893-11-25
OUR THEATRES NEXT WEEK.
Italian Opera Season Begins at
the Metropolitan.
Irving ami Terry in "The Merchant
of Venice"

TN, Italian opera season at the Metro
noli,an OPERA House will open Monday
night with Gounod's ever-popular opera
Faust" interpreted by the ideal cast"
IN, n 'endid gathering OF people In
cludes Miss Emma Eames, who. OF course,
sings the role of Marguerite Nine. Sofia
Scalchi Mile. Bauermeister. Mcssrs La
sale. Edward de Reszke, Sig. vaschettl
and Jean dc Reszke. The conductor will
he Sig. Mancnelll. Wednesday, night
there will be a double bill. consisting OF
Gounods philemon an ,aucis" and
Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rustcana.' in
which Nine. Calve, Mile. Guercia.
N. Mangiere, NJ. Dufriche and
Sig. Vignas will make their Ameri-
can debut. Friday night Wagners
"Lohengrin'' will he sung. with Nine.
Nordica as Elsa. Sig. Ancona will make
his American debut In tnis opera.
Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry
will present "The Merchant of Venice"
at Abbeys new theatre next week. Mr.
Irving and Miss Terry are seen at their
best in this Shakespearian drama, and
Miss Terry has more Opportunities"
than Beckett gave her These artists
have been seen before in "The Merchant
of Venice" but their return to 1t will be
very welcome event.
Il. s. Willard begins an engagement at
the Garden Theatre Monday in j. NJ.
Barre's comedy "The Professors Love
Story" which was seen last season at
the Star Theatre, from which house it
had to be withdrawn at the height of its
prosperity. Miss Marie Burroughs will
appear as the pretty Secretary, and the
cast will be practically the same as be-
fore.
Alexander Salvni succeeds Joseph JEFF
ferson at the Star Theatre next week.
lie opens Monday night in The Three
Guardsmen." The cast will include Will
lam Redmond. John 4. Lane, William
Harris. Eleanor Moretti, Augusta DE
Forest. Maud Dixon, Jessie Lansing.
ST. Martin, Max Mazsarovich, and
others.
the second week of its run at the Casino
Monday night. IT should stay for a long
time at that house, for 1t Is a genuine
comic opera, at a time when th" city
needs It, Miss Lillian Russell is lovelier
and more tuneful than ever, and the
composer, William Furst, has written
music that is worthy of her. The opera
Is gorgeously staged.
Lille Langtree will be heard for the
first time In this city at Tony Pastor
Theatre Monday night. She is very pop
ular in London. where she Is known as
the pearl of the music halls the
res, Of the programme will include Mile.
Duclerc, j. W. Kelly, Miss F'lorrie West,
Hector and I.auraine, clark and Will
iams the four Nend9m"s, hi 1dh More'lo'
Olaf is doing splendid business at
Niblo's Garden. and Messrs Rosenteld
have made arrangements for rs presenn.
tation in ar untown atre later on "
will he withdrawn from the stage OF
Niblo's after Dec. ., and play two dates
out OF New YORK, avd thrn rc'!irn rnr :.
into into the Spring "olaf' Is certainly good
enough for any theatre In New York or
paosie Borohin enters unon the th'~d
and last eek of her engagement at the
New Prk Theatre. Monday night
"Plavma tes' has met with measure OF
larity of Hiss Bonehill, whose clever
work when at Ton. Pastors has not
been forgotten William and Charles
Jerome are rehrarsing a new speciality
tlat they will introduce into the farce
comedy Monday night
"An Anne rican Duchess" Clvde Fitch's
MAY. remains at the Lyceum Theatre
Some changes have been made in It since
the opening night, and the fact that II
was roasted to cinders by Tuesdays cos
tunes does not necessarily mean that
playhouse will reject il. The patrons o
the Lyceam are unlike those, of any
other theatre. They may like 'Ar
The Span of Life" Sutton Nane',s
English melodrama, will be next weeks
attraction at the Peoples, Theatre, a
which house 1t was first introduced tC
metropolitan audience. Tne muscular
gentlemen who stretch themselves acros!
chasm to make footway for an escap
ing woman will be there in all thei
glory, and the scenic effects will be a.
handsome as those seen before.
The Councillors Wife" at the En-
nra Theatre, Is doing very nicely. in
deed. 1t is charming play, full of tn
dantiest kind of genuine humor. TIL,
flftIeth performance will occur, Dec. II
and Mr.. Frohman announces that upoi
this occasion he will give out the fines
souvenir ever presented in New York
For point of beauty" SAYS an eoquen
agent, "i, will be surprise to theatre
goers."
"Ermlnie" enters upon the ninth weel
or its run at the Broadway Theatre Mon
day night. and II still attracts the mus
lovers of New York. For a comic oper
that had been given several hundred per
formances in the metropolis "Erminle
IN lts revised form Is simply wonde,
Jakabowski. the composer, was dellghte'
az the appreciation accorded to his wor
by New York.
"shore Acres" will be obliged to relin