The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-03-14
Dramatic Notes.

Comedian w J. Seaman - n Q semi
coIaatoss condition
! Chevalier viii be seen Ia . musical
comedy next season
Jarbeau viii be seen In . new Ensiish
bGrlesqus next season.
The ROYAL Opera Budapest will pro-
duce a cyclus OF Hungarian operas
New Orleans is 70 have 8 summer sea-
son OF opera. beginning Easter Sunday.
The McHaggis' g new comedy by
Jerome K. Jerome, VIII shortly be given
in London.
Little Tycoon fame, 10 announced for
next season.
Bessie Bonehil abandons vaudeville at
the end OF The season 10 enter Rich %
Harris stock company.
In New York vaudeville bills last week
were Robert Eilliard. George Munroe,
Marie Dresslsr and Lawrence Hanley.
Emma Calve will sing in fifteen concerts
after her supplementary opera season. be-
ing guaranteed s., 500 Tor each appearance.
Another OF salvini's plays, written by
hm in IN %sa fSu
Mather.
When Francis Wilson returns TO New
York in May he viii present a new comic
opera adapted from the French Of Chivot
and Durot
Hattie Starr, actress aud composer Of
such darkey melodies as Little Alabama
Coon and "Do, NV Huckleberry. Do" Is
charged with shoplfting In New York.
Alfred Kennedy. author OF Dangers OF
a Great City" and Lady Barney" has
completed romantic play OF social and
political life IN Washington, called THE
Secretary OF State"
new comic opera called The Lttle
Bandit will be produced early next sea-
son by Steve King. present manager for
Della Fox. The opera Is by Herman Per-
ley and Bdgar Smith.
The four prime dome OF the Carl Rosa
opera company are Americans. as well as
the leading tenor, Mr. Hedmondt. and the
baritone. Homer Lind. England thus ap-
preciates the American singer.
Oscar Hammerstein by cable last week
engaged Dan Leno, next to Chevalier
London. He VIII appear at the Olympia
In New York next month at 1850 a week.
Three or four years ago young man
named John w. Isham was going around
bundle OF bills and a paste brush. He
now has two colored companies, and ~
credited with being worth about $4,000.
At Arad. Hungary an actor named
Bala, personaung character who COM
rriis suicide with a pistol played his part
In earnest, and, having summoned his
friends TO witness him at his best killed
himself on the stage IN the manner indl-
Gated.
II Dan Stuart and w. X. wheelock sue
coed in securing for their veriscope one
good Aim OF the Corbett and Fitzslmmons
fight they will unquestionably clear an
enormous financial return, as they can
send their machines ell over the world az
big prices
Calve was so upset by the news OF Nina.
Eames' Illness that she called as soon as
she could at the Hotel Marie Antoinette.
and left for the sick artist a small cruci-
fix, one that she believes TO be invested
with miraculous powers. Calve is q far
vent Roman Catholic.
Little Lord Fauntleroy IS following n,
his mothers footsteps. Vivian Burnett
has written the book to a comic opera
and II wiz b the next II Eta play at
Harvard. Young Burnett IS best known
as the original OF Cedric IN his mothers
novel, and when he played souhrstte in
the Pi Eta thsatricals last year he won a
notoriety which he did not at ali enjoy
There are thirty licensed theaters which
divide the patronage OF New York play
goeFs, resident and visiting. Ten OF these
houses. or ons-third. are under the man
agement OF the same three men, and six
teen are supplied with their ATTRACTIONS"
as such entertainments are technically
called. by enc or other OF the theatrical
syndieates," ss they are termed somewhat
grsnail0Qgently. IL is safe TO cay that
half dozen men have the virtual cIrec-
ton OF a majority Of the theaters OF the
United States.