The evening world., 1894-06-16

French journalist and l%itterateur. is put
ting the nnai touches to a Feerie Dram
ntique. founded on the legend OF which
Merlin, the magic 4, immortalized by
Sir Walter Scott. Is the hero. The piece
is TO be called The Enchantress."
Hitherto the legend has not been utll-
ICED by any dramatist or librettist.
L. s. Willard, who opens tonight at
the Comedy in ''The Middleman." after
his American tour. is to be entertained
at supper next Thursday by the men,
bers OF the Green-Room Club. The
event will take place at the Criterion
Restaurant. and Henry Irving will AXE
the chair.
John O'Connor. who Is well known as
the promoter of the annual Summer
show at the Royal Agricultural Hall,
where the Military Tournament is now
in full swing. intends to produce a
Grand Chinese Water Carnival at the
end of the present month. The huge
building will be converted into a fac
smile of a Chinese villa on the water,
with its surroundings. promenades.
flower-beds. bamboo bridges, pagodas,
SC.
Sir Augustus Harris, not content with
running italian opera at Covent Garden,
has arranged for eight performances Of
German opera at Drury Lane, starting
next Tuesday. The works to be per-
formed are "Valkure.' "Sicgfried,"
Tristan" "Lohengrin,'' "T%annhauser,"
"Fidelis' and "Freischutz." The sing
ers Include Frau Klafsky, Nine. VIE
gand and Herr Max Alvary.
NJ, Jean de Reszkp modo bia raon-
pearance at Covent Garden In Massen-
cts "Werther." performed in England
for the first time. The eminent Polish
tenor had already sung the part of
Werther In America, and It was more
particularly owing to his success in It
tina the work was mounted in London
this season. The w sisters were In
the capable hands of Mines. Emma
Games and sigfrid Arnoldson. who sup
ported M. de Reszke in "Werther" in
the United States.
Inc nrst performance in England Of
Frederick Governs sigma Is antici-
pated with eager interest in musical
circles, as being another step in adj
vance for English opera. sigma was
originally written for D'Oyley Carte's
unlucky English Opera-House-now the
Palace Theatre Of varIeties-but had
not been brought out before the the
aires existence as an opera-house came
to an untimely end. 1t was produced
last November at the Dial Verne The.
atre. In Milan, by Sig. S~onzogno, the
famous publisher. who discovered Mas
cagni and Leoncavallo.
Inc principal parts in sigma" at
Covent Garden. will be interpreted by
Nine. Melba and NM. Boduschi. Ancona
and Customary.
A new operetta entitled THE House of
Lords" written by Harry Greenban NJ
and composed by Ernest Ford, will short
ly be presented at the Lyric in front of
Little Christopher Columbus"
For the purpose OF showing that the
true process OF training wild animals ia
not attended by the cruelty pictured by
imaginative people, a bear is being pub-
licly raine at the Royal Aquarium by
Prof. Lindemann, who is well known as
the owner and trainer OF the celebrated
boxing kangaroo. The bear Is of the
Russian species and belonged to a DIR.
]. Douglass, who had him from his birth
until he was a year old Then, finding
that he was too much for him. he
Always get the original Calisaya, "A
popular for "a years as tonic and prpvenfIva m