The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-14
Stage News and Gossip.


"Sowing the Wind" continues to be one
OF the strongest attractions in New York
Madame Melba the great opera singer
will begin concert tour OF this country
next October.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall close their season
in Boston April %, but they will feturn TO
America next fall.
Gus Hills World of Novelties will be al
the Westminster Theater during the
week beginning April %.
Manuel Garcia, who was in America
with Italian opera seventy years ago, is a
teacher in the British Royal Academy OF
Music at this moment. He is in his 91st
year.
A manager having heard that Sheldon,
Mo-, was a good town To play, telegraphed
to secure the theater there and received
this reply: "ImpossiDle-you can't get
it. II is filled with hay TO the roof"
Katherine Rober, always a favorite, will
be seen in the charming play entitlc
"Esmeralda" at Lothrops Pawtucket
Opera House next week. The cleverest
members of the stock company will be in
the cast.
1t now turns out that John A. Ellsler OF
Cleveland IS the oldest living theatrical
manager. Henry &. barrett, however, is
the oldest still in harness, and the veteran
Thomas Mcguire OF California is second
only 10 Mr.. Ellsler.
Reginald de Koven announced that his
new opera "Rob Roy" is the first to deal
with a Scottish subject. He is
mistaken because there are several en-
tirely Scotch operas. For instance, "The
Highlanders," "Lucia di Lammermoor, !"
and "The White Lady,"
Denman Thompson has engaged this
double quartet for The Old Homestead -
next season: X. j. Jose and Fred Rycroft,
first tenors; John Davis and Stephen
Baker, second tenors; Thomas Lewis and
Walter Rubber, baritones, and III. w. Frill-
man and Fred Clare, basses.
"Charley's Aunt" which is now finish
ing its 1S-weeks' run i'm Boston, will be
seen in this city in the Providence Opera
House in a few weeks. This farce has
made more OF n theatrical stir than any
other of recent date. IL has been a Lon
don, Berlin, Paris and American success.
Horace Libby, for six or more years past
ianitor and watchman Of Keith's Opera
house, died few days ago in Somerville,
Mass, OF the grip. He was a faithful and
conscientious man, trusted by his en-
ployer and esteemed by his associates. lie
was 5S years OF age, veteran OF the war,
and formerly kept a restaurant in Boston.
A drama OF different type than any
seen in Providence this season will be pre-
sented at Keith's Opera House on the 23d.
IL Is called the Gland of the Midnight
Sum-" and, as its title would indicate, its
action and scene is located in regions OF
the frozen North. Hall Gains legendary
story is thus given in dramatic form.
Mounet-Sully's "Hamlet" rs seen in
New York does not warrant the
many high strung reviews writ
ten about il. His "Hamlet" Is
neither strange enough nor independent
enough to call for gush. 1t is not tran
scendent by any manner of means. His
abbreviated stage stride is distressing. A
few lessons in walking would be bene-
fetal.
Kyrle Booth, who advertised in tho city
papers few months ago that he would
instruct aspirants for the stage, has
turned up IN Washington, ID. "a, where he
announces the same sort of thing. "Kyrlen
had curly hair and aped the manners of
tragedians and sensational lithograph
actors dear TO the hearts of the small boy
and impressionable young women-he
looked so stacy you know. He had
little success i'm this city and Boston and
IL the New York Dramatic Mirror il read
much i'm the national ca itol he will fare
badly i'm that city. The Mirror says he is
a masquerader and practically declares he
IL A fraud