Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-03-12

| ple With supporting columns Il bronze
Within the SPACE iucioep<l BY these
columns viii i~ a group Il statasry
n.ur~~-ati1e corpedy. tragedy. music and
art II Is thought that the fountain viii
| be erected next summer.
Edmund Gerson. Who Il nov Ia Paris.
| offered Yvette Gilbert. the celebrated
chanteuse exceEtrsque. c50D and al her
expenses paid for mouths engagement
il New York. The oder wac declined.
Nr. Gerson. however. has engaged Nile
Sxya. = disette. and Carmen Gilbert.
lie predicts that they will take New
! York hs storm. He has also bought the
american rights % "A Trip to spain
musical farce with music by varney, and
10 -Cristoforc Colombo spectacular
taiiet by Donisi.
The Cornell GIee. Banjo and Mandolin
clubs furnished thu hest performance It
liz kind ever given In Detroit The
whole program went Oh with vim and
snap that other glee clubs would 10 veil
10 initiate. A large and fashionable au-
iience was present TO enjoy the concert.
Detroit Free Press
The clubs viii he seen and heard In
The Powers. March ID.
Beginning on November next ut
Hartford. Conn. Fred solomon. the
operafic comedian. will star in The
Briganeis." "Erminic,~ Poor Jonathan"
and the "Nautch Girl Edward Solo
mons latest opera. the librefto Of which
IL being localized to this country. Madge
Lessing will take the leading soubrette
roles and Addie Cora Reed will probably
be the leading saprano.
Carl Martens " composing an opera
to librctto written by Charles Basf-
witz II Helena. Mont The title is
Navajo" and the heroine ia white
/ girl adopted and reared by Indians, who
have killed her parents. She is the
heiress Of great estate in England. and
is restored to her rights 10y an American
cavalry officer. who falls in love with
and marrics her
A jay went tothe Kansas City box office
and asked Treasarer Cooley how much
il cost TO 60 in. lie told him the prices
were 20 cents. 10 cents and 81. The
farmer started away. saying il was too
much. when Cooley called him back and
said. Il can put YOU in the gallery Tor -
cents" What are they playing up
there.- asked the granger.
Lewis Morrison has been invited by
Steele Mackaye 10 accent and create the
role Of Columbus in his coming worlds
fair production. The enormous success
Of Faust. and its large weekly profits.
however. keep Mr. Morrison undecided.
though the offer is very fiattering from
pecuniary as well as an artistic point
OF view.
The new and catchy" music which
has been arranged expressly for the
.Komoi.- 10 be given April 8 and : at
Powers Opera house. by the Misses
Gage and BENEDICT. will alone be worth
the very reasonable prices of admission.
Ii will be furnished by Wurzburg's full
orchestra.
Seven advance agents organized
heart game in Chicago last week AT 60
per heart. They played seventy hours.
six Of them losing nearly 10000. which
they settled by giving orders on shows
they were working for. The winner
only lost his time.
On the occasion Of the one hundredth
performance 81 Americans Abroad" at
the Lyceum theater last Tuesday even
ing. Nictorien Sardou cahled congratu-
lations and thanks to Manager Daniel
Frohman and the members OF his com
pany.
Mr.. and Mrs Kendall have been max
ing strong effort, it appears. to secure
the American right in Oscar Wilde's
new playa Woman Of No Importance"
These RICHES are owned by Charles Froh-
man. and he will not sell.
Pete Daley will star next season in
The Country Squire" Daley has been
dividing the honors with Jimmy Powers
for the past three seasons in A Straight
Tip and is one Of the wittiest come
dians on the stage.
II is said that Augustus DAILY will
soon have two companies. one III which
will be headed by Henry f. Dixey. who
will play at Days while the original
company is playing in London.
a Vienna correspondent asserts that
Johann Strauss new operette, Princess
Ninctta." has been but a partial success.
all the eulogistic press notices TO the
contrary notwithstanding.
The crinoline craze has struck Cleve-
lands Ministries. That organization in
cludes sextcfte whose song aud dance
speciality includes the inflated skirt
On December 18th Mr. Charles WIND.
ham and the Criterion Thcater company
viii leave for America. where they will
produc. The Bauble Shop"
Because Annie Lewis dsapproved ~
some specialties in the Nutmeg Match"
she withdrew without notice and Lizzie
Evans is playing her part.
The managers Of the Thcater - Arts
and Letters are reported 30 be negoti-
aiing for the permanent use Of Herr
manns fheafer
The Girl Left Behind Me- will run
the season af the Empire theaier and
bids fair 10 he one 81 Charles Frohmans
hest Successes.
Miss FfolIiott Paget has joined the
company az Eoeina Nokes 20 play the
leading part in jerome X. Jcrome's
Sunset
Susan Il. Anthony viii lecture vt the
LADIES' Literary club house Tuesday
evening. March IA Tickets at The door
- cents
The latest English play. for which
Manager Charles Frohu,an has bopRhf
the Amerioyh right IS called The silent
Battle.
4 discovery * go letters. supposed 10
have ben written by Neitaire. has been
niaslc at n library IN Geneva
Whitney Mockri'Ige's wonderful voice
has purity. pafhos and beauty. uneqnzled
~ this county
He Never Smiled.
H. uas a tai sHssere -. kir9 man
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