Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-07-21
Notes Of the FootlIghts.

Richard Mansfield is studying Ham
let" for next season.
The Black Patti will take out a com
pany Of real Africans next season.
Reginald de Koven has completed the
score Of his new Chinese opera, The
Mandarin"
The new theatre at Portland. No. 10
cost 10000 will be one Of the finest in
New England
THE Tenderfoot' Is play by Charles
Coote and Horace Townsend, which is 10
be seen in the autumn
Georgia Cayvan has returned from
Europe. She will open her starring sea-
son at Palmer's Theatre. October 18th.
Beerbohm Trees new theatre, Her Ma
jesty's. will be a three-tier house. with
dress-circle, boxes, and gallery. and a
huge pit.
Augustln DAILY intends to produce next
season a play called ourselves" which
Dion Boucicault completed shortly before
his death.
Professor f. Nicholas Crouch the aged
composer Of Kathleen Mavourneen.'
sang several OF his old songs at Ihe Bal
timore Music Han last week
London has over thirty music halls.
Bernhard has given her own play
LA Duchesse Catherine" TO Olga Neither
sole. who will do IL in New York next
season.
Helen Baldwin. the woman racing
'cyclist will 60 on the stage next fall in
a new play, now being prepared for her
by a leading bicycle firm. II will pro-
baby be called Miss Wheeler, OF Wheel
ing"
A Baltimore company talks OF buying
the railroad ferry steamer Thames River,
to convert her into a floating theatre for
thar CITY The yaecaf n Ia ftfoJ .fr n
accommodate an audience OF several thou
sand.
NJ. Cavalho will revive Don Pasquale"
at the Opera Comique, Paris. Donizetti
composed the opera in 1912 In Paris. and
il was produced IN the January OF the
following year at the Sale Vantadour,
with Mario Tamburini, Lablache, and
Grsi
Begium's famous band Of the First
Regiment OF Guides must be cut down
to forty-two performers, as King Leopold
Is going TO discontinue his yearly subsidy
Of 1900 francs, and the War Ministry
can allow to the Guides no more than to
other regiments.
Emma Calve announces that she will
sing in America next season In Hamlet
Carmen" Faust" "RAfricane" LOO
hengrin,' and La Narvarraisc." besides
two comic operas by Offenbach, in which
she will appear with Jean de Reszke.
At Vienna summer theatre was
founded for the assistance Of actors with
out engagements, and similar enterprises
are being started IN Berlin, Munich, and
other German cities. While they are not
making much money, the receipts are
sufficiently high TO furnish fair salaries.
The Susie Kirwin Opera Company will
begin its tour IL Washington August
20th with Miss Kirwin as the leading
singer, and Miss Clara Englander. Dou-
glass Flint Benjdrnn Lodge, and Clayton
In support. The repertory will include the
Queens Lace Handkerchief" Madame
Favart." and several other operas.
The members Of a recently-disbanded
company formed quite a big crowd in
front OF a Washington theatre recently.
Salaries were IN arrears, and they were
waiting 70 see the manager whats the
trouble hereg' was asked OF one Of the
young women. We're waiting for
X raise" was the reply.
Jean de Reszke Is an extensive breeder
OF race-horses on his Polish estates.
Last year he gained the prize offered by
the Car for the best stud, and he has
received word that at the great races al
Warsaw a few days ago two OF his horses
came in first and second, dividing stakes
TO the value Of about i00O0 rIbles.
Sarah Bernhard has telegraphed %
| Mr. Ulman. tho manager OF Theatre ce
| Ia Renaissance. to start preparations IoI
I her novelty OF next season. This viii %
Emile Bergarats play Plus que RENE
More Than Queen. 1t deals with The
divorce Of Napoleon from Josephine
/ Bernhard will take the character OF the
Empress. She studied the part durins
, her American tour.
Colonel Mepleson IS at present In Milan
! engaging an Italian Opera Company. IL
has so far succeeded in closing contracts
with eight prlma donnas OF the first rank
among them Mines. Derclee. Eames, ane
Vidal. He has also engaged four OF th'
best te1ors 10 be had-3Iessrs Alsarenz
from Pasts: DurOt, from ST. Petersburg
nerincher. from Madrid. and Rittershaus
from Munich Maestro ofeste Bimpon