The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-04-19
AIDA" WAS WELL RECEIVED.
Nordica's Success in the Leading
Role of the Opera.
Mario Burroughs TO Star In
" Judah "-Other Stage News.

There was q large audience at the
Metropolitan Opera House last night,
and Aida" was accorded a splendid
reception, although II IL the fashion
among a certain set OF musical fanatics
or unmusical fanatics-to sneer at
Verdi as premature and old-fashioned.
The leading role was sung by Nine.
Nordica, whose work during the present
operate season has been very crafty
ing. Nordica sang admirably, and her
arias were repeatedly and enthusi-
astically encored. Her acting was also
distinctly good. Edouard de Reszke APP
peared as Ramfls, Mile. Guercia as
Amneris. and Sig. Nignas as Rhadames.
Aida was capitally staged, and II
of the, operate season. for its effect
upon the audience was undeniable. To-
night. for the first time in New York.
already heard IT, but owing to Nine
Eames's illness at the close of the regu-
lar season here It's postponement was
found to be necessary.
T.. s. Willard in burst of generosity.
has promised to lend Henry Arthur
Jones's play Judah" to Miss Marie
Ing lady. She is very fond of the role
of Vashti, and wants to play 1t next
| season as a star. She Is to have her
husband, Louis Massen. as leading man.
Mrs. Wilton Jones. Will also be pre-
scented by Miss burroughs.
The satrical Mr. Oscar Hammerstein.
in his formal letter to Kilanyi. anent
| the pictures that he is going to produce
at Roster Binls concert hall, adj
dressed the gentleman as Noble Sir"
ana ended his letter with Solicitations,
Duke, The pictures nv the hive
Kilanyi's own-are going 10 be dup1i-
Gated next Monday in Chicago, in the
pri2sduG st To,0 of ~ nus w kSn him
superintend the tableaux. and some of
the people now at the Garden are also
going. This. of course, will not interfere
of new ones will be done there next
week.
Although a good deal has been pub
nothing has been definitely settled The
probability is that I shall join Marie
Tempest, but l cannot say so positively
as yet. Miss Tempest does not intend
to drop her singing, as many people pro-
pose. She will do one-act operettas, as
well as one-act comedies Mons. Ma
where he staged "Tobasco' for Thomas
Q. Seabrooke.
NhotHtT wall SHlCdRO. w ny
should the best comedy that Pinero has
ever written ("The Amazons'), the farce
that has been convul sing New York and
Chicago for many months c"Charley' s
Aunt'D, and drama by Sydney Grun-
dy,. that has been widely discussed,
e. Sowing the Windy, have been re-
served exclusively for the East? The
gers haye not gumption enough to pur-
chase these plays themselves, energy
enough to go to Europe to look for
them the. or intelligence enough to discover
submitted to the public.
~. "Adonls,", when 4 comes to Palmer's
take Of announcing Itself as a brand new
performance. 1t Will be the good ole
"Adonis, slightly up-to-dated. Dlxey has
now allied himsC.f once more with
been able to do anything with him. and
| this VIII be the first time that he has
played IN this city, since the, reunion took
| place. Carrie Perkins will be the merry
little mountain maid.
.Lo!e Fuller has just done her serpen-
at the Folies Bergere In Paris. She Is
| making hay while the sun shines, and
| there VIII be no more American tours
with hal, a!htegf h celebrities celeb La Loie is not
she has become sort OF permanent
INSTRUMENTATION pays better in the
long run.
Bettina Ordway-Gerard-Pa delford- Raj
fael-Wolfe has been engaged to appear
With Miss Louise Beaudet at the Bijou
| The atre next month in etiquette" X
| A. Roberts will be another member OF
| the company. Mrs. Ordway Gerard Pad.
| elford- Raffael-W will next season
play the part of Bossy in Hoyt's skit
"A Texas Steer"
Jerome H: Eddy is to branch forth as
a playwright next season, and having
been an agent land a very excellent one
by the bye) for so long he should know
how. to boom it.. Mr.. Eddy is associated
in the authorship OF the play with Miss
Alice E, Ives. The piece is called 1.-THE
| Village Postmaster" and is in four acts
which are laid In New Hampshire. Man
| ager Rosenquest has acquired an inter-
est In the comedy and will stage 1t next
| season.
Some English agitators are raising a
hue and cry at the perpetual bur-
lesques of John Bull on the French
| stage. Dagonet, OF the Referee, started
the ball rolling. ard 1t Is going ahead
very nicely. One writer says: II often
go to the theatre In London, where the
| French mossoo Is no longer caricatured
Why should not the Partisan stage imi-
tate this example. and courteously rele-
gate to the limbo Of forgotten things
the Englishman with the red whiskers
York the question OF Jonathan's treat
ment in London and Paris has not as
yet been nooted. Foreign playwrights
| seem to prefer Miss Jonathan to her
father.