The morning call., 1894-04-15
LATEST OPERA
Will Be Produced i'm Berlin Very
Shortly.
1T is RATHER A DULL SEASON
But the Manager Who Has a Good
Thing Is Sure of Sue
cess.

son showed no Improvement the past week
and con .equently several of the managers
are suffering from more or less severe at
tacks of the blues.
Another of the expensive productions
of the season. Mrs. Lsnsingham." at the
Garrick Theater, must now be pronounced
a failure for it can last but few weeks
at the utmost. Miss Eizab RI bins as
the heroine has been unable to excite any
in terest in her portrayal of the character
allotted to her, and that usually charming
actress Miss Mary Moore and John Hare
have unsympathetic parts. The rest of
the company is very bad.
The second edition Of Don Juan" at the
Gaiety Theater was greeted with raptur-
Gus applause yesterday evening. Don
Juan" has been largely rewritten and the
burlesque of certain music hall living
pictures" with the features of the new
Don Juan" is a great success. The
oratorio of bethlehem" by Professor
Alexander Campbell Mckenzie, prime pal
of the Royal Academy of Music. once ln-
tended for the Worlds Fair at Chicago.
was performed for the first time on Thurs
day evening at Albert Hall. The soloists
Mckenzie and Messrs. David Bisha.
Arthur Barlow aud Barton McGuickin.
This scholarly work was we'll received.
George Alexander has fixed April % for
the production of the new four-act play by
Henry Arthur Jones, which is 10 succeed
'The Second Mrs. Tanqueray." at the st.
James TDeater. The scene of tie first act
is the courtyard of the Stag Eotel at
Crandor; that Of the second is the draw
ing-room at Lady Skeen's; the third is a
private sitting-rOOm at the Hotel Prince
de Gales, Nice, and the fourth is the
observatory of Mount Garidelli Martini
Alpa, near Nice.
Sir Arthur Sullivan's opera "Ivanhoe"
is announced for production at the Berlin
Opera-house at the end of the present
month.
Mrs. Bernard Shaw's new play, which
is to succeed the ill-fated comedy of
"Sighs" at the Avenue Theater on or
about the Sd inst, is a skit on things that
be. 1t is burlesque of romantic drama.
The scene is laid in Servia during the
Zerbo- Bulgarian war, and there is no lack
of local color in the names of the charac-
tiers. one and all being unmistakaDly
national.
it is rumored that a certain actress
whose name has been1ong associated with
melodrama in London has been offered
ESQ week for three months sure to sup
port Jim Cor bett in gentleman Jack" at
Drury-lane Theater.
Mr.. W. S. PenIey has issued invitations
to dance at the Globe Theater to-day to
aIohr ho fva n
10 London of "Charley's Aunt"
The play which John Oliver Hobbies"
ana George Moore are writing in collabora-
ton is 20 be published in installments in
the new quarterly 1.-THE Yellow Book"
the first number of which will appear
about the middle of April. The title chosen
Is "a FOOLS Hour
The annual summer garden at Earls
Court is to be known this year as the
Exhibition Of Industries" and British
manufactures of every description will
be on show. 1t has been proven, ho W.
ever, that the general public care
but little for the serious portion
of these exhibitions. They prefer to sit
in gardens surrounded by mult-colored
lamps and listen to Strauss waltzes
played by crack military bands. Two
grand flower and fruit shows will be held
at the exhibition during the season, one in
June and the other In September Among
the general attractions will be the gigantic
Ferris wheel from Chicago, 800 feet In
diameter, a show in the arena and a real
ice skating rink.
The Lyceum Theater will reopen to-day
with the promised revival of Faust"
The extension of Mme. Wagner's rights
in "Parsifal' by the Austrian Emperor
has led to an important alteration in
Austrian copyright law. Hitherto in Aus
tria copyright has extended to ten years
after the death of the author or composer.
A mod fcation of the law has just been
proposed by the Austrian Parliament ex-
tending copyright and performing right,
whether musical. theatrical or literary, to
thirty years after the authors deaths.
Sir Augustus Harris has arranged with
NJ. Sardou for the production at Drury
Lane of two of his plays. Don Quxote"
and LA Patrie." 1t is possible that Mrs.
Langtry may appear In the latter.
In regard to the row at the Savoy Thea
ter, where "Utopia, Limited" has been
holding the fort. no new play being ready.
r. d'Oyley Carte wanted to revive the
"Mikado." but w. s. Gilbert refused to
allow this unless the heroine's part was
allotted to an artist who was objectiona BILE
to both Arthur Sullivan and D'Oyley
Carte. Consequently the negotiations are
at standstill.
AFTER THEIR AMERICAN TOUR.