The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-24
FOREIGN STAGE GOSSIP.
Parisians Paid S5,S51 ,O35 for Amuse-
ments Last Year.

ments Last Year.
LONDON, Feb. 2.-The full returns Of
the Paris amusements receipts for 1894 are
now in hand The twenty-eight theaters
took 1858. 49, an increase OF S13l,77o over
the preceding year. Adding to this amount
the thirty variety entertainments. such as
cafes chantants, music halls and dancing
places, and the total paid by the people in
Paris for amusement last year comes to
SIS ,035 compared with S., 626, 40 in 1893.
OF course. the opera led the list with
ceipts of s63O,000; the Theater Franchise
took s4o!,900; Sarah Bernhardt's Theater,
$2Sl.000; The F'olies-Bergere, $4,000; the
Moulin Rouge. $1l5.0O0, and the Casino De
Paris, $4,000 while the Ice Palace picked
UP the not inconsiderable sum Of $4,000.
Sir Edward Malet, Her Majesty's envoy
extraordinary to Germany, has, in his leis-
ure from watching Chancellor Prince Won
Hohenlohe, written a lyric drama entitled
Harold" which deals with the last of the
Saxon kings. Music to it has been written
by Mr.. f. II. Cowen, and probably Sir Au-
gustus Harris will include the work in his
next Covent Garden season. Mr. Cowen
intends to compose the music for an opera
SO soon as he can find libretto.
Mr.. Irving is making collection of
prints and relics of Napoleon, with a view
is announced, viii be Madame Sans Gene"
He has already large number wherein
Napoleon Is given spare figure and many
more inches than usually go to the figure
Of the great Corsican in popular mind
Carmencita, the well-known Spanish
dancer, will open an engagement at the
Palace Theater on Monday.
Mr.. Kendall has written letter to the
ada by IN N wnie Yor ne quotes the apologies
ton with his trouble at the custom house.
He says he sends the quotations in order
not acquainted with the amenities of Amer
lean Journalism. from believing that he was
The weather ' played Jay havoc in the theat-
r r profession lon Mr. Irving is i'll s and is
SIC s e the c and
Miss Emery Moore are also on the sick
list; list Doyle Carte is mending slowly. Mr..
Theater, is down with influenza
a.a The New. New Boy at the Vaudeville The
Criterion. had its one hundred iA and fftieth
Popular interest in Mr.. Pinero's play at
Garricks Theater has already begun to
MED with discordant notes ei in the Chorus Of
sex auestion,zDas Ewigg wei Bleiche -of
Ing for new themes on the boards. The
piece has just been read to the company,
put in rehearsal. and if no unkind fate pre-
March 2. For its heroine Mrs. Patrice
Campbell. the original Paula. has been en-
who was made favorite in Mr.. Grundy's
unfortunate Slaves of the Ring" Will also
Rorke. Mr. Hare win mount the piece with
his accustomed liberality, and intends, if
possible, to retrieve the failures of 1894.
be produced by Mr.. Hare and his company
In New York next october. His agent, Mr..
helmsley, VIII III. reach New York tomorrow
tour. The. repertoire will include the sPair
OF spectacies." one OF the finest stage pre-
Robertson. that delightful actor, secedes
from the cast of king Arthur where he
has been sustaining the part of Lancelot,
ertson was only lent to Mr.. Irving by Mr..
Hare, as he is under contract to the Gar
month Mr. Robertson will turn manager on
his own account, and in view of this he
has already. secured several manuscript
Mr.. r.. G. Carton. Mr.. Robertson WILL in
all probability. make his first independent
during Mr. Hares absence in TIE tie tinted T1eI
States. When MIR. Robertson leaves the
cast, of King Arthur he will be succeeded
Oxford University Dramatic society pr .ae
duced on Wednesday 1.-THE Merchant Of
Venice hend It o Vas exceedingly fins
peared the Prince of Morocco and young
Comyns-Carr as Antonio.
When the Countess of Clancarty, better
known to former frequenters of the music
halls as Belle Billion. reappears on the stage,
as she, has announced she will do shortly,
she will be accompanied by the Marchioness
of Ailesbury, who, as Dollie Tester. also
made a reputation. such as it was. on the
boards of the music halls and off them
Both will possibly appear under the man
agement of Sir Augustus Harris. Mrs. Der.
nard Bere will tour in the autumn, with
her own company, under the direction of
Mr. Russell II. Ross.
1.-THE City of Pleasure Mr.. George r.
Simmss version of "Gigoette," will be pro-
duced at the Prince of Wales Theater,
Birmingham. on April o. by Mr.. Robert
Pateman. Mr. Charles Frohman will give
1t it's American premier in August next at
New York, with Miss George Cayvan.