The Washington times., 1894-10-21
GALLERY, PIT, AND GREENRooN.


ner, Dvorak. Berioz, Tchaikowsky, List,
Greig, Beethoven, RafT, Bach, and Chadwick,
the latter an American. The soloists for the
season will include Madame Emma Juch,
Miss Lillian Blauvelt. Miss Julia P. Wyman,
Miss Lotta Mills. pianist, young Washing
tonian, who is said to have promising future;
Sig. Campani, Herr Emil Fisher, Ysaye, the
great Belgian pianist, and Ben Davis, the
celebrated English tenor.
The first concert of the series will be given
on Tuesday evening next at Metzerott Hall.
A superb programme has been arranged.
The wedding of Isaac Strebig and Ada Mel
rose in Cincinnati recently was happy affair.
Mr.. Strebig is well known and popular rs
manager, while Miss Melrose is an actress
who is favorite with large portion OF the
public.
Mary Hampton is making a deep impress
sion through New England as RosamOnd in
Sowing the Wind" By some dramatic
writers, who saw the original Empire pro-
duction of this play. her Interpretation Is
placed above Viola Aliens.
H.J. W. Dam, formerly wells known as
newspaper man in New York city, has been
engaged by Henry Il. Abbey to Americanize
''The Queen of Brilliants," -" in which Lillian
Russell is now appearing in London. Mr..
Dam mas wriden an opera called 1.-The shop
Girl the music for which is being written
by Ivan Caryll, Geraldine Ulmar's husband.
Rehearsals of "The Coming Woman" by
Carrie Turner and her company began at the
Filth Avenue Theater, New York, yesterday.
Carrie Turner, in a picturesque hunting
habit, devotes an hour daily to horseback
riding AT an uptown. New York city, academy.
Miss Turner is breaking high-spirited horse
for a sensational trial scene iu her new play
The Coming Woman" Frank Melville Is
coaching her.
Grace Henderson has settled in Paris for
the winter In the spring she will spend some
time in London She is enjoying the French
theaters and studying, with keenly OBJ
servant eye, the French players.
Referee Gilbert NJ Speir has reported to
the New York supreme court, and decree
has been granted for a divorce in favor of
Daisy Way Emmett and against Joseph Il.
Emmett.
The aldermen of Newark have amended
the ordinance in that city relative to bill post
ing by providing that proprietors of theaters
shall have the right to put posters on bill
boards owned or leased by them without pay
ing the 500 license heretofore exacted.
Paderewski's tour will begin at the Metro
politan Opera House, New York city, on De
cember 81.
Kate Bateman, who will be recalled as Leah
in the production OF the play of the same
name at Niblo's Garden, New York, during
the sixties is coming TO America shortly TO
give a series of readings. Miss Bateman
played q wide range OF parts in her fathers
theater in London when Henry Irving was
leading man of the company, and latterly has
attained pronounced success as a reader
throughout England and Scotland.
Lillian Russell will sail for this country
from Liverpool next Saturday.
Wilson Barrett will sail for this side on No
vember II, opening in New York on NOyem-
Der 20.
Alice Fischer-Harcourt has been engaged
! by Charles Frohman TO play the part of Helen
LarondIe in the 'Iasqueraders'' at the En-
pire.
Myra Lee Civalier, of Alexandria. viii soon
adopt the stage professionally. She is said
/ by competent judges to possess remarkable
talent. Miss Civaier has appeared recently
as Virginia and Caianthe with Edwin Ferry
in Alexandria and neighbOring places. and
her acting has called forth the warmest
praise. She is also credited with success in
comedy parts. She will probably be mem
Der of a company in Washington next summer.
Miss Civalier is a granddaughter of the late
Col. Richard Bland Lee, who was q first
cousin OF Gen. Robert E. Lee.
In Buffalo reformer is getting signatures
to petition for a law forbidding women TO
wear hats in public balls and other places
where the sexes cOngregate. But the reform
never can be worked IN that way. Moral
suasion-mixed with at leastan equal part Of
/ tiattery-aione can accomplish it.
| The directors of the New York Casino Com
/ pany last week elected Rudolph Aronson
/ president, William Frank Hall vice president,
/ S. Webber Parker treasurer. and Joseph A.
/ Arnold secretary. These officers, with the
/ addition OF Albert Aronson. constitute the
! board of directors. The plan for changes III
/ the interior arrangements of the building
/ have been finished and the work upon them
! will begin in November. Rudolph Aronson
4 is now in Europe, where he will engage vaude.
/ vile performers for the opening under the
new management.
/ The burglar, the bridge jumper. the pugil-
! ist, and others of strongly sayory note who
/ have embraced the theatre are being fol-
| lowed by the old-time faro dealer, the dive
/ keeper, the plug-ugly. with nothing bat his
/ plug-ugliness TO recommend him. The col
/ lection, as a whole, is as interesting as a
! menagerie OF strange creatures unknown TO
orderly and civilized persons. 1t smacks
nothing of histrionism. and will never so
smack. but it will pay as a sop to a vitiated
/ curiosity which promises to be succeeded by
taste more normal in the sweet by-and-by.
Mr.. Mansields irritability sometimes leads
! him to say and do odd things, but now and
then he speaks to the point. His public pro-
/ test against the unfairness and the injustice
OF the practice some managers have of Turing
| actors from other pNmn1nipG ny OtTpriD ~
slight increase in salary, is both timely and
commendable.
The thing is done constantly. l don't know
| that Charles Frohman, whom Mr.. Mansfield
| singles out in this connection, is more ad-
dicted to this unprofessional course than
others that might be mentioned with equal
propriety; but the fact is that number of
managers not only bribe actors to leave posi-
tions i'll which they have become valuable to
some one else, but they do it even when they
know that they are crippling their colleagues.
This reprehensibe custom does not indicate
"enterprise,' or shrewdness, or brains. 1t
reveals simply a lack of business conscience.
Those who may have imagined that in
effecting his ambitious purposes abroad Au-
gustin Daly had lost touch at home are re-
forming opinion. Mr. DAILY is still potent
factor in amusements. His project of starring
Miss Rehan has been brilliantly successful.
That fine actress bears her new dignity like
one to the manner born, and her receipt of
over S27, 900 in two weeks at Boston refute
any theory that art is no longer appreciated
in this country.
| Mr.. Crane is entitled to more credit than he
has received for his sumptuous production of
The Merry Wives of Windsor in New York.
That popular star should venture in these
tIcklish theatrical times to step aside from
| the beaten track and risk large amount of