The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-06
MISS BEAUOET TO STAR.
A New Opera Has Been Written
and Perugini Is in 1t Also
Possibilities of Stage Speechmski ing
Other Dramatic Items.

at appears that Miss Reaudet is not
going to appear in etiquette, az orig
| inally intended" said Sig. pcrugini yes.
| terday. "a new opera is on the pro
gramme, and II has doomed up within
the last week. Yes, | am going TO be "A
member of the organization. but Miss
Beaudet is the star. | am going 80 avoid
notoriety of any sort; don't want stel-
lar honJr-. have hld enough OF that
kind OF thing" Pcrugin raves about
La Navarraise. the new one-aCt opera
| in which talvc appeared this season at
| covent Garden. Il never had such "A
treat in my life" said the tenor Il sim
! ply reNelled in it. Anything more superb,
more soul-inspiring. | have never heard.
You know what the phlegmatic. arisio-
| cratic patrons Of C~yrnt Garden are
Well, they were worked up to such a
pitch of excitement that, II the strain
had been kept up. | think they all would
have been carried away to "A lunatic asN-
lum. All! Calre Is IA great artist. and II
requires an absolutely artistic temprTa-
ment to manage her properly Sill Au-
gustus Harris understands her and gets
| along very well with her but she did not
| finish her engagement in London. You
see. they are trying So hard TO push
Melba that they devoted all their ener-
gies to that task. Tickets at Covert Gar
len were sold at premium during the
talve engagement. Even artists had TO
pay their way in ] am sure. however.
that nobody regretted the outlay Sig.
| Perugini would discuss no other matters.
This performance speechmak
| Ing is assuming alarming proportions"
( said a manager yesS ertiay. Della FoX's
kind words about Hopper. and Hopper's
beautifully charitable remarks anent
| Fox and Francis Wilson will undoubted-
ly bear fruit. We must hope that when
Steve Brodie appears at the Fourteenth
| Street Theatre next week he won't for
| get to remind his audiences or the merits
/ of John Drew at the Empire. and Of a
I few other worthy actors, who will be all
the better for his patronage. J. IN sorry
that Corbett forgot to say a few kind
words FOR Sothern at the l.yceum 1t
| The Professional WoInan's League is
being hoomed in both The Little
/ Trooper and "Dr SyntaX,' and the au-
| diences always roar with laughter when
If capital target Just now. II remains
/ to he seen what Francis Wilson Will do
! for H.
1t seems pretty hard work to get a
leading lady OF renown, although one
| hears so much about disengased ac-
tresses. Manager Brady has been nego-
! tiating with both Minnie Seligman and
Julia Arthur for his production OF 1.-THE
. Cotton King" in Boston next month.
| He has secured neither. They both
want the earth. he says. Miss Amelia
! Summerville Is to be the soubrette. and
/ it..tl a h..l
turas II not Endorsed by the out Of
townrrs. The pictures have been utter
failures In number Of towns. 1t In
said that the Kilnnyi series used in the
Railroad Ticket" In brooklyn met with
very chilly reception; III fact the
tableaux are looked upon with some
contempt everywhere but in New York
Here the craze is as colossal AZ ever
Mr. liummerstein declares that IT Is
not craze. but simply new epoch
I'VE shall have living pictures forever
he said and II Is absurd TO say that
nude figures have anything to do with
their success. My tableaux at Roster Il
Balls contu m many nude figures, but
am seriously thinking OF doing away
with them The audiences like the
drhped ones much better. The An
gelus. Under Cover and I77G' ure i'm.
mense hits. Living pictures are beau
tiful and artistic rest for the mind and
the eye. A man sits there and gloats
over the ever-changing beauties. Th.
scope of the pictures Is unlimited. We
have but Just begun"
There are number OF the late Dion
. houcicault plays In the market, and
Mrs. Louise rhorndyke- Boucicault Is
trying to turn them to account. The
Vsr, Is small nar S Mhst but 1t is
wrote during his prolific life 1t In.
rludes The. Shaughraun." The Col.
!sF tIn kn%n the o "herFYTree Inn
Brown, Forbidden Fruit" LED
A:'isIray" The Jilt'' DADDY oDowd,,
Lost at Sea, 'Arrah-na- Posue.
"frihith Gaunt,' and Hunted Down
The Columbus Theatre. Harlem. /.
forging ahead 49, continuation. house
houses, are satisfied with plays tina,
have been seen and approved. The
Columbus has already had two novel,
sf sh aia NS viii nRH hav s'f is rs
metropolitan hearing at this house
Not so very long ago Harlem wa.
looked upon with Nertable scorn b,
lIoey In his new play, The Flams,
seems to have been rather severel,
roasted In Chicago. one writer declares
historically, that THE Fans" is !
sense nor coherency. Yet Hoey, whei
in partnership with Evans, was neve
censured for his work IN "A Parlo
Match" and that farce was not IA class!
by any means.
r Miss Ada Gray. our good old friend
4 who has been playing East Lynne
since We We're little laughing boys an
, girls, has not met with success In Eng
: land. She went over there to show tn
, BritisherS her Idea of Lady Isabel am
Nine. Vine. II appears that she mad
tour of the English provinces tina
10 lasted bat three weeks.
10
I Miss Hattie Delaro- Barnes. OF conn
y opera renown, has been engaged to pla
. the part of MadEr Brierley in one @
the "Oli Kentucky" comprehension
/. are three OF them. 1t has been year
since Miss Delaru appeared cat OF hun
- lcsque or comic opera. She sang Lillia
Y" Russell's part in "rhc Queens Mate a
the Broadway Theatre a few years az,
= and sang in several of the Gilbert an
,. ,ul,ivan productions. Now she is 20 h
he heroic MadGe, swinging over a prec
Pc To rescue the hero. Laura Burt an
~ ''Lu Tabor are the Maices Of the othe
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