The herald., 1894-06-24
Music aud Drama Notes.

III. Grattan Donnelly is at work on q
play for Stuart Robson.
Henry Dixey will not play next year,
but will essay the George Grossmith
style of monologue entertainment.
John Kernell ia to star under Thomss
II Davis management next se ason in a
sw musical farce entitled McFadde n "a
Elorement.
Adelaide Russell. Rose Beaudet and
Arthur Bell are members Of a summer
opera company at the Edgewood Avenue
theater at Atlanta, Ga.
Zols's drsmatization OF his famous
novel, Therese Raquin. will be the open
ing production OF the Potter Bellew en-
gagement at the Baldwin.
Mckee Rankin and Jeffeys Lewis in
tend to play Montana and the north
west as soon as they can extricate them
selves from their legal difficulty in Den
yer.
w. F. Dickson, for the past five years
manager for Thomas w. Keene, has sew
cred his connection with the tragedian,
who intends to have entirely new sur
roundings next season.
1t is doubtful if the Potter-Bellew sea-
son at the Baldwin will open July I'd, as
announced, as Mrs. Potter and Mr.. Bel
lew have been guaranteed at Yoka-
hama and may not arrive in time.
Lillian Russell now announces
through Teddy PEPPER, her agent. that
she sails July 1lJh for Europe to re-
main one year. at least, under engage
ment to a prominent manager, but she
won't tell who it is.
At Duluth recently 20 supers engaged
by the Whrde.J anne company to appear
in Francesca de Rimini struck q few
moments before they were to go on and
demanded 100 per cent in advance in
salaries. But DIR. Wards refused to be
buldozsd and went through the scene
without them, after explaining the de.
mand to the audience.
Rubnstein's Christus will be present.
ed as An opera this summer at Breslau,
with scenic effects and dramatic access
SORES. 1t ia we'll for the German music
lovers that they have no Gerry societies
to dictate to them, or they would be de-
MED the pleasure OF witnessing the grand
work. After all, which is the free coan-
try, the empire or the republic?
The De Riskes and Madame Melba
will return to this country for the Alb
hey, Grau and Sch@fel grand opera sea-
son, and probably Calve, who will sing
in Massenet's La Navarraise, a one-act
opera written expressly for her, if she
can be induced to come. AS Emma
Eames is unlikely to be- member of the
company, the French artistic will prob
ably be induced to accept an engage
ment.
Frank E. Gates OF the firm OF Gates &
Marange is making the models for Off
the Earth, the new play in which Eddy
Foy will star next season. Mr.. Gates
has done great amount of high-class
scenic work during the last four or five
years. and ia one of the finest figure
painters in America. He was the only
scenic artist who received the official
indorsement of Halsey G. Ives, chief of
the fine arts department of the worlds
fair.
1t will be news to many musicians
and admirers of opera to learn that
Verdi's Falstaff is not the original Ital
ian opera Of that name, bat that the first
was written by an Irishman and pro-
duced IN July, 1888, at Her Msjesty's
thester, Haymarket, London. Michael
Bale wrote Falstaf originally, and when
it was presented by Lablache, Roaconi,
Tamburini, Mesdsmes Grisi and Alder
tazzi, as above, it was pronounced by
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