The evening world., 1894-09-06
MISS BEAUDET 70 STAR.
A New Opera Has Been Written
and Perugini Is in 1t Also.
Possibilities OF Stage SpeechmslxiDg
Other Dramatic Items.

ut appears that Miss Beaudet is not
going to appear in etiquette as orig
inally intended" said Sig. Perugini yes
terday. "A new opera is on the pro-
gramme. and 1t has doomed UP within
the last week. Yes, am going to be a
member of the organization but Miss
Beaudet Is the star. l am going to avoid
notoriety of any sort; don't want stel-
lar honors. i have had enough of that
kind of thing" Perugini raves about
La Navarraise," the new one-act opera
In which Calve appeared this season at
Covent Garden. II never had such a
treat in my life," said the tenor. 81 sim
ply revelled in It. Anything more superb.
more soul-inspiring. l have never heard.
You know what the phlegmatic, aristo-
cratic patrons of Covent 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 asy-
lum. All! Calve Is great artist, and IL
requires an absolutely artistic tempera-
ment to manage her properly. Sir 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 Covent Gar
den were sold at premium during the
Calve engagement. Even artists had to
pay their way in. / am sure. however
that nobody regretted the outlay" Sig
Perugini would discuss no other matters
aft arfn
ing Is assuming alarming proportions"
said manager vest erday. Della Fox $
kind words about Hopper, and Hopper
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
OF John Drew at the Empire. and of
few other worthy actor, who will be all
the better for his patronage. I'm sorry
words for Sothern at the Lyceum. 1t
must have been an oversight"
The Professional Woman's League Is
being doomed in both THE Little
Trooper and "Dr. Syntax," and the au-
diences always roar with laughter when
the institution is mention d. The League
Is capital target just now. 1t remains
to be seen what Francis Wilson will do
for 1t.
1t seems pretty hard work to get
leading lady of renown, although one
hears so much about disengaged ac-
tiating with both Minnie Seligman and
Julia Arthur for his production of The |
Cotton King" in Boston next month |
want the earth, he says Miss Amelia
Summerville is to be the soubrette. and |
Bijou Fernandez the ingenue.
The New York craze for living pic
lures is not Endorsed by the out-of-
towners. The pictures have been utter |
failures in number of towns. 1t is
said that the Kilanyi series used in the
Railroad Ticket" in BROOKLYN met with
tableaux are looked upon with some
contempt everywhere but in New York.
Here the craze is as colossal as ever.
not a craze. but simply a new epoch:
I'VE shall have living pictures forever" |
he said, and 1t Is absurd to say that
nude figures figures have anything to do with
Balls contain many nude figures, but |
am seriously thinking of doing away
with them. The audiences like the
gelus, Under Cover and I776' are i'm
mense hits. Living pictures are beau
tSul and artistic rest for the mind and
over the ever-changing beauties. The
scope Of the pictures Is unlimited. We
have but just begun
There are a number of the late Dion |
Boucicault plays in the market ana |
Mrs. Louise Thorndyke- Boucicault is |
trying to turn them to account The |
list is remarkable one, but it is a |
very small part of what Boucicault |
wrote during his prolific life. 1t In
cludes The Shaughraun," 1.-THE Col
leen Bawn," The Cherry-Tree Inn"
Fin MacCool" Foul Play" Jessie
Brown, "Forbldden Fruit" Led
Aistrsy The sea- Jl! "Raddy oPP9wd",
Griffith Gaunt.' and Hunted Down"
The Columbus Theatre. Harlem, Is
forging ahead as a combination house
for novelties. Most of the combination
houses are satisfied with plays that
have been, seen. and approved. The
ties. SHAFT No. 3" and md Slaves S'e Of
Gold" ''Old Glory" will have its first
metropolitan hearing at this house.