The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-04

Theatrical .amuSemcnts.
Iilda Clark is i'll.
Fayne Moore is to star.
Melba is wearing a hoopskirt
Loie Fuller is dancing in London
Louise Baudet is to star in a hur!etta.
Efie Ellsler is to appear in Barbara
Freitche.
Mrs. Bandmann Palmer has acted Ham
let Over 800 times.
Mary Anderson donated $50 to the Lon
don Galveston benefit
Victorien Sarlouu is TO supply the text
for 1.-The Barbarlans.
"Richelieu's Strategem IS the TUE OF
J. e. Dodson's vaudeville play.
Mrs. F'iske is to produce a new play IN
Chicago at the end of December.
Sherrie Matthews and Norma Wtlalley
were married in Chicago o.. October 10th.
On Verdi's recent birthday his operas
were sung in nearly all OF the Italian
cities.
Roland Reeds relapse gives his south
ern territory to Thomas Q. Seabrooke
The ballet Cinderella found among
the late Johann Strauss effects, will be
given in Berlin in November.
The opening night receipts Of Mis-
,ress Nell" amounted to $50, and on the
following Saturday Henrietta Crossman
closed to $1,100.
Die ATeistersinger" was recently given
with Dutch text in Amsterdam for
| the first time. 1t was received with great
! enthusiasm.
opera called THE BaEparans,' which
will be sung next summer in the Antique
Theatre at Orange.
Digpy Bell has been especially engaged
to sing the role of koko in the coming
production OF "The Mikado" at the Metro
politan Opera House.
At one time Irish melodramd now con-
fined to cheap houses. was the chief at
traction at Wallack's then the most fash
:orable theatre in the country.
! Anniversary performances i'll honor of
StanisIas Moniusako. are soon to be given
| In Warsaw. None OF his operas has been
heard outside OF Russia and Poland
Pedro Gailhard. Of the Paris Opera. has
lust invented a curtain which makes II
possible to conceal the great stage OF
the arena during the intermissions.
In Garrett OMagf, Chauncey Olcott
l. 10 plav a Young Irishman who retu-as
to Ireland from America TO claim the col
lee.l he adores and lays .-shes at her feet.
s Paul listers version Of when Knight
hood Was In Flower is to be presented
nv Julia Marlowe on November 9th. the
same night as Sweet Nell Wester, who
is but thirty years OF age, has written
forty plays.
"Robert OF Sicily the new play in
! which Joseph Eaworth is to star this sea-
/ son. is :. romantic legendary drama. has-
/ ed on I.ongfelows poem of that name
| The dramatization has been made by
! Grace Livingston Furniss.
Stansilans Strange has decided to call
his newly-made drama tization Of the
| latest novel ny the author OF Quo Va
! ais" 'Twixt Cross and sword"-'1o
/ relation, mind you, &c Twxt Ak and
| Crown
| For a dime, one OF the best reserved
/ seats at the Chicago Haymarket Thea
weeks 1s-act bill inclnded Lottie Gibson,
/ Genera & BaiN, Juggling Johnstors
| Grant and Norton. and W. c. Fields.
| The singing of Charlotte Wyns is said
! to have been the most agreeable feature
| of the open-air performance of Carmen
! at Bayonne, when the bull refused to
! fight. Tie arena held 5000 persons, but
| she made herself heard n every part OF
| the opera.
/ Rusgiero Leoncavallo's ''Zaza"t is to
| be ready for production at Milan during
! the second week in November He is
| to COMPOSE a requiem mass. which viii
! he sing first on the anniversary of Hum
| bert,s assassination. His Roland Of
| r~,fn,' is to be ready in the autumn -
1901. HTFFTii..IYEEFIEEI
/ spI, Jefferson, the veteran actor Ia
!, Welded to the request OF his friends to
lecture only in recent years, and mem
her of his family said last week that he al.
WAYS had a severe attack of stage fright
before he began his address Mr. JET
ferson told the pupils of the Chicago MusI-
/ cal College last week that he began his
/ stage career when me was in long skirts
and he has been SO continuously before
\ that n,a
Wonrd think that ne had overcome an,
] tendency to stage fright. Mr. JEFFERSON
i 70 popular a. . laeaaasaE tAAt hs misht