The herald., 1893-01-22

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Lolita is going to California for her
health.
John H. Russell has returned from
Europe.
NJ. Talazae, the operate singer, has
died in Paris
Jean de Reszki is well again and sang
in Paris last week.
Won Buiow is sick in Berlin with his
old nervous malady.
Albert Bruning is coming money with
the Clemenceau Caee.
Robert Fulford, husband of Annie
Pixley, is seriously i'll.
Eleanor Duse has decided to make her
American debut as Camille.
Harry Davenport and Marie Osborne
are engaged to be married.
Rubensteln has flushed a new one
act opera soon to be brought out in st.
Petersburg.
The Palace theater in Philadelphia
has put up its shutters and retired
from the race.
John r Rogers is in New York and
in Gotham this time.
Charles Barton will produce his Out
slider at the New Park theater, New
York, Jannary S0th.
Dinghy Bell will try his fortune once
more with Jupiter, under the manage
ment of James H Palser.
Percy Grant has given premiums for
the singers of his African cantata, Push
Dem Clouds Away, in London.
Sardou's new play, Americans Abroad,
will be called Les Riches in the event
OF its being transferred to PARIS.
Donnelly and Girsrd did the largest
holiday business ever done at the opera
house in Des Moines with Natural Gas.
The Stowaway is the only survivor OF
a long list of melodrsmas produced sew
eral years ago. and 1t is the best of the
lot for it is still doing good business.
1t is said that Hoyt's A Temperance
Town will finish the season at the Bos-
ton Park theater, and do it in walk
easily.
The Bostonians have new opera by
7. Pearsal Thorne which they will pro-
duce in San Francisco in the spring
time.
Harriet Williams. a daughter Of Jesse
Williams, the we'll known composer and
musical director, has joined the Nellie
McHenry company.
The New York Dramatic News is out
this week III an wholly new dress. 1t lie
the most successful dramatic journals
tic enterprise in the world.
The Hustler played to immense re-
ceipts New Years day in Brooklyn, and
The Ensign turned away thousands at
both performances in Baltimore.
The holiday records in St. Paul and
Minneapolis Christmas and New Years
were broken by Friends, Edwin Milton
Royle's charming and fanciful play.
The Hustler will play all of next sum-
mer at one of the Chicago theaters and
will undoubtedly be one of the sure
money makers during the worlds fair.
Sir Arthur Sullivan has returned to
London from Monte Carlo and has sh at
himself up with his opera Ivanhoe,
which is to be altered for presentation
in Berlin.
Mr.. Edward Solomon has completed a
new opera ON subject derived from
Dickens's The Cricket on the Hearth.
The setting includes toy symphony
and a chorus for children.
Grace Filkins seems to have entirely
recovered from her late illness and IL
now frequent promenader on Broad
/ way, and one of the very prettiest or
that thoroushfaro at Jnnt.
M. Saint-Saens will visit Cambridge
England, in June next, in order to re
ceive the honorary degree of doctor O.
music. Signor Arrigo Boito will prob
ably receive the same compliment al
the same time.
A stark naked Diana rests on the
Madison Square roof garden, and will
go to the top of the tower at daylight Of
the first windlees morning. She ia only
13 feet tall, and will take the place of the
1S-foot Diana sent to Chicago. As she
wears no clothes at all. and the weather
is cold, there will no doubt be bowling
about and around the square when the
lady exposes herself.
written jointly with M. Moreau for tht
Grand theater in Paris 10 Madame Sans
Gene, which may be rendered in English
as Mrs. Free-and Easy. Madame
Sans Gene" was a nickname which, il
the days of the first Napoleon, was be
slowed on the wife of a distinguished
military officer, notorious for her Hitter.
ateness. This lady is M. Sardou's hero
inc. The play is described by the author
as "a dramatic comedy"
Nine. Melba is residing in an exquis.
itely furnished apartment in the rue dc
Prony, Paris. In the drawing room is 9
portrait of the prince of Wales, with 6
dedication, expressing the admiration oi
the royal donor for the cantatrice
Nine. Melba intends remaining in Paris
till January Sd, when she returns te
make tour through the United King
dom, in the course of which che will
give 16 concerts. From February 18th tt
May 18th Nine. Melba is free from al
engagements, but it Is not impossible
that she may appear between these
dates at the Paris opera. In October
next she goes to Chicago with the Broth
ers de Keszke.