Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-30
PERSONALS

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titled Strategy"
PERSONALS.
Sarasate, the violinist, is confirmed
bachelor, and the responsibility is US
ually laid at Auber's door. When that
composer handed Sarasate the first prize
of the Paris Conservatoire, he wound
up his little speech of presentation with
the words. And. above ALL never
marry!'--a piece of advice which Sara
safe has never forgotten.
Ethel Barrymore's engagement to
Lawrence Irving, son of Sir Henry
Irving, is an accomplished fact. 1t was
well known that the young man was
instrumental in securing her engage
ment in his fathers company, and the
unfiattering comments Of the press on
her acting in peter the Great" seem to
have aroused his ire and brought mat
tiers to crisis. Young Irving has an
allowance of $4,000 a year from his
father and his prospects as a play
wright are considered excellent
Reginald de Koven is very III at
Aiken, S. c. He underwent a serious
operation short time since and is now
suffering from a severe form of gastric
fever.
The new prima donna of the Bostoni-
ans, who succeeds Alice Nelson, is a
San Francisco girl named Eleanore
Giusti. She will sing Yoonne in 'The
serenade."
Now that Lillian Russell, Della Fox
and Margaret Mather have Indignantly
defended their sisters against the
charges brought by Clement Scott as to
the immortality of stage life," says the
New York Sun, there can be no doubt
in the public mind as to the complete
inaccuracy of Mr. Scott's views"
May Irwin has been sailing down her
earnings and putting them away in
good New York real estate. She already
owns several valuable pieces of pro-
perty, and last week bought two houses
in West 2Sth street, paying therefor the
sum of $4,000.
Did Miss Flavilla seem pleased when
you asked her to go to the theatre %
PLEASED! She wanted to keep the
tickets for fear something might happen
to me-
The Manhattan Theatre, New York
city, has passed into the managerial
inaugurate his role with production
of Way down east" which was well
received in this city early in the sea-
son Mr.. Brady is bitter enemy to the
theatrical trust.
Anna Held's manager has purchased for
her the luxurious parlor car built for
Mrs. Langtry, and afterwards used by
Hermann.
Nat c. Goodwin's wife, Mrs. Nella C.
Goodwin, has secured a divorce from
him with SIS weekly alimony and per-
mission to resume her maiden name
and to marry again. Nat however,
can not iemarry during his former
wife's lifetime, which will be a horrible
blow at a deeply settled habit.
Charles T. Parsloe, the Chinese i'm
personator, who with Louis Aldrich
made My Partner famous, died last
week, in New York.
Ida Mule has secured the rights to a
number of Lotta's plays, and will star
In them next season.
1t has just leaked out that Mary Man
nering, the leading lady of the Lyceum
Theatre Company, is the wife of James
K. Hachett having been privately mar
ned to him some time ago. Mr..
Hacket who has recovered from his at
tack of typhoid fever, will NOT be in the
Lyceum company next season. Miss
Mannering, however, will remain.
Efforts are being made towards the
formation of an ope-a company next
season which will star Lillian Russell
and present a repertoire of standard OPP
eras, including Martha" Faust" and
the Bohemian Girl"
Nellie McHenry contemplates visit
to the Klondike in March and expects
to give the first regular dramatic per-
Torrance in the land of gold.
The American Drama Company, COM
posed of democratic free silver leaders,
has been Incorporated to produce The
Curse of Colo" play calculated to
voice their political doctrines
r. c. Cartons play, THE Tree of
knowledge" was produced for the
first time in this country at the
New York Lyceum Theatre last Mon
day. 1t treats Of the everlasting prob
lem of uusavory relationship between
the sexes, and the woman with a past
appears IN the regulation series Of COM
plications. The wit and cleverness of
the dialogue save the piece and will
doubtless carry it through a long run.
Miss Mannering and Mr.. Courtleigh
made strong successes, and Miss Opp
a fair one in the role of the adventur-
ess
On Monday, Feb. 81, will begin the an
nual season of grand opera at the BoS-
ton Theatre 1t will consist of 10 per-
formances, to include four nights and
a matinee each week for three weeks.
The operas to be performed are Faust"
Romeo and Juliet Les Huguenots,
"Traviata' - "Cavalleria Rusticana,"
'Manon," "Rigoletto," Carmen" "Lo-
hengrin," Tannhaeuser," die Meister-
singer" Tristan und Isolde" "Das
Rheingold," 'Siegfried" and die Got
terdaemmerung." The sopranos and
contraltos will be Media, Gadski, Barna,
Seygard, Toronto, Staudigi, Mattfeld,
Van Cauteren and Nordlca. OF tenors,
there will be M. hos Herr Rothmuhl,
M. Salignac, Herr Breuer, Mr.. Van
Hoose, SignOr Vanni and Herr Krauss,
and the bassos and baritones will be Mr..
Bispham, Signor Campanari, N. Bou-
douresque, Herr Staudigi, Herr Steh-
mann, Mr.. Rains, Signor Vivianni and
Herr Fischer. The operas will be pre-
sented in German and Italian, under the
direction of Walter Damrosch.
Boston theatres this week: Hollis
Street 1.-THE Heart Of Maryland" Bos-
ton, Anna Held and 1.-THE Cat and the
Cherub;" Castle Square, THE Prisoner
Of Zenda;" fremont, 'tThe Mysterious
Mr. Bugle;' Museum, Andrew Mack:
Park, "A Normandy Wedding:" Column
bia, Robert Mantell; Grand Opera
House, "The Ladder of Life.
New York theatres this week: Bijou.
May Irwin; Broadway, 1.-THE Highway
man. Hoyts, Robert Hilliard; 14th
Street, Chauncy Olcott; Grand Opera
House, Cumberland 81 Garrick,
Maude Adams; American, Paul Jones:'
Casino, 1.-THE Telephone Girl;' Knicker-
booker, w H. Crane; Empire THE
Conquerors;" Garden, THE Royal Box"
Academy. The White Heather" Her