Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-27

ably be more than she could obtain
from the Metropolitan Company. Nine,
Calve is reported as anxious to make
the same sort of tour through the
country with Carmen" and it is safe
| to say that the country is just as anH-
ious to have her do it.
Charles Emerson Cook is writing "The
Chorus Girl comic opera, with music
by Charles Dennie He is also think
ing of Disgusting his former work, THE
| Walking Delegate" under the name of
The Koreans" and trying it in New
York.
| Although it is not vet possible to say
how much will be realized from the re-
| cent production of 1.-The Queen of the
/ Ballet" by the Boston Cadets, it is GER
tain that the figures will foot up more
| than $50, 900, and it is quite possible that
the amount will reach $1,000 more. In
no previous year have the profits been
! so large For the special matinee for
/ the benefit of the firemens fund the pre-
miums amounted to $4,000, and every
/ seat but rs was sold in advance.
| Pickpockets are almost daily reaping
4 rich harvests from the crowds flocking
| out of the Boston playhouses.
! W. S. Hart received 81 curtain calls dur
( ing single weeks engagement recent
ly, while playing THE Man in the Iron
/ Mask
! Strong language is dear in Boston,
says the Dramatic Mirror. E. G. Bates,
a musician, was granted Judgment for
/ $1,000 against Charles H. Hoyt. OF this
| sum 5000 was for assault, Mr.. Hoyt hav
! ing expectorated on Mr.. Bates in the
| course of a quarrel about song, and
| $1,000 was for a choice epithet applied by
/ the defendant to the plaintiff.
| This country seems gradually return
| ing to the stock company plan. Already
I in the principal cities there are 2S stock
/ companies, all making money, and more
are reported in process of formation.
/ De Wolf Hopper will open on June 20
for six weeks at Manhattan Beach,
/ where he will present besides Eel Cap
/ itan" and Wang" 'Bocacio'' and
THE Bohemian Girl
| Sir Henry Irving suffered a heavy loss
ten days ago by the burning of his Lon
don storehouses. All his scenery and
+ III, Macbeth and Peter the Great"
were destroyed.
| Sarah Bernhard successfully under
went a dangerous operation at a Paris
| hospital recently. The surgeon removed
a cyst that had formed as the result of
! injuries from fall. The patient is ex-
pecte to be out again in about six
| weeks.
Herbert Kelcey and Effie Shannon
will present Clyde Fitch's new play,
THE Moth and the Flame at the New
/ York Lyceum Theatre April IL. The
play made a hit in Philadelphia last
week.
Elita Proctor Otis will begin her star
| ring tour in "Oliver Twist at the
| New York Grand Opera House on March
Z. Charles Barron and Charles Dandy
have been engaged for the roles of Bill
Sykes and the Artful DodgeT respective
ly.
Henry Miller's new piece, 1.-THE Mas
! ter" presented at the Garden Theatre
! last week, was we'll liked, although it
was essentially a one-part play. Mr..
Miller enacts a stern parent who expects
his whole household to bend to his will,
and turns them one by one out of doors
| when they don't After ne has made
himself entirely bereft he relents. and
forgives and is forgiven. Arthur Eli
/ OF made big hit as the villain
! Harrison J. Wolfe, seen here twice
/ this season as leading man with Rhea
and Margaret Mather, was injured pain
/ fully while playing Romeo in Miss Ma
| theirs company in st. Louis last week.
| In the fight with Tybalt, Mr. Wolfe's
| forefnger was accidentally cut so badly
/ that it had to be amputated. This will
/ necessitate his retirement from the
stage.
! Boston theatres this week: Park, "The
| Ballet Girl fremont, ''Modjeska;" :"
/ Hollis, E. H. Sothern; Museum, 'Jack
and the Beanstalk;'' Castle Square,
Young Mrs. Winthrop;" Boston, grand
opera; Grand Opera House, Darkest
| Russia
New York theatres this week. Manhat-
tan, Way Down East" Lyceum, "The
Tree of knowledge" Daly's $, The Coun-
try Girl" Hoyt's, "Oh, Susannah;"
I Knickerbocker, w. H. Crane Academy,
/ ''The White Heather" American, "The
GYPSY Baron" Broadway THE High
| wayman;" 14th Street, Chauncey Olcott;
! Wallack's, John Drew; Empire, '"The
/ Conquerors;" Garden, Henry Miller;
| Garrick, Maude Adams; Bijou, What
/ Happened to JONES' Grand Opera House,
Under the Red Robe;'' 9Th Avenue, De
! Wolf Hopper; Casino, THE Telephone
Girl Herald Square, "A Normandy
4 Wedding" Third Avenue, The Woman
| in Black"
OPERA IN BOSTON.
The grand operas to be given by the
Ellis Company, at the Boston
Theatre, this week. are as follows:
Monday die Meistersingers" Wednes-
day "siegfried"; Thursday, Romeo
and Juliet; Friday, die Gotterdam-
merung'' Saturday afternoon, Barber
of Seville"
Mr.. HARKINS' NEW PLAY.