Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-31

ceum hall tomorrow evening by the Chat
elain School of French. Two one act plays
will be given in French and musical num-
berS will be contributed by Miss Helen
Cooper, Mr.. Antoine Sporl and Mr.. Gustave
Schoettle. Miss Clarissa Cobb, Miss Mar
ian Newcomb, Miss Helen Cooper and Mas
plays.
Yvette violette, the clever New York
girl who gives such an accurate imitation
OF YYette Guilbert, will go aboard shortly
ceres in Paris. While she was in London
last summer she met NJ. LIE Marchand.
who managed Guilbert and Loie Fuller in
Paris, and he Immediately engaged her to
appear at the great Paris music hall dur
ing May and June of this year.
>, The arrangements made for 1.-THE the produc;
theater. London, IN the spring, may pos
sibly undergo a change. 1t has been pro-
to appear in the role he has created. In
that case 1t is proposed to take over the
scenery and costumes and organize the
supporting company from English talent.
Among the most positive hits none is
mere prosperous than Francis Wilson s
new comic opera. Half a King" 1t is very
Ssciose @ faults 3 in S constTuetion. ~ dialoSae and
music which can only be discovered when
the piece is presented to the public, but in
moved so smoothly and so satisfactorily to
the management that not a single rehearsal
was called for the purpose OF making cor
rectlonS.
Mr.. Francois Boucher has organized a
string quartette which will be called the
Kansas City String Quartette Club. 1t will
give its first concert in February. The
members of the club are: Mr.. F. Boucher
violin; Mr.. Hugo Schmidt, violin: Mr..
Rudolph Engel, viola; Mr.. Louis Appey.
cello. AT, the first CONCERT the club will
tone. and Mrs. r. Boucher, pianist. The
programme and date of the concert will
be published later.
Lewis Morrison has come to be the ac-
Faust" which he has been presenting for
the past decade. Faust" is like the per-
ennial plant that seems to go on forever
gathering strength with each succeeding
season. The production of this play as
given by Mr.. Morrison is a notable one
from the fact that it is one of the few
plays put upon the stage with every minor
detail of staging carefully attended to. The
production will follow Corbett at the
Grand.
Reginald De Koven announces that he
and Harry B. Smith are at work on n new
orera which will be the finest they have
yet produced. Mr. De Koven does not care
but says that 1t will deal with events in
history which are well known and will
bring out certain interesting facts which
have been neglected by the histortans. The
scene will be laid in Scotland and Robert
Bruce will be one of the characters.-Dra-
matte Mirror.
An unusual array of musical talent will
be heard in a concert under the direction
of Mr.. w. II. Potter at the Academy of
Music February IL. The programme will
be given by the Ideal Quartette. composed
of Mrs. Ben T. Hollenback, soprano: Mrs.
Frank j. Whitelaw. contralto: Mr.. w. II.
Potters. tenor: Mr.. Frank j. Whitelaw
basso: with Mrs. Jennie Schultz as accom-
panist, and by the Warwick Club male
quartette. composed of Mr.. Dudley w.
Eaton, first tenor: Mr. w. II. Potter. sec
ond tenor; Mr.. E. *. Chafee. baritone;
Mr.. c. A. Johnston. basso, with Mr.. Her
bert ]. Sisson as pianist. and Mr.. Edgar
j. Ebbels. reader.
The Corinne extravaganza company
composed of sixty clever people, engaged
In singing, dancing and merryInaking IN
the big spectacle burlesque, "Hendrick
Hudson, Jr." will be the attraction at the
Ninth Street. February Z. The newness OF
the entire production, the large and brill
liant ensembles. and the up-to-dateness oil
everything are the characteristics that vii
impress everybody who goes to see this
really notable production. The company
embraces the names of some of America :
foremost comedians, burlesque and oper-
attic artists. Among those specially en-
gagged for this season are: Joe Cawthorne
john Page Neil Mcneil. John Park, II. A.
Cassidy. John II. Connolly, Maurice Rob-
inson. John F. Barry. George olmi, Oc-
tavia Barbe, Nelly Strickland, Anne Hutch
irson, Helen Holden Welch, Arnola Belle
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