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News and Notes Concerning Act ors, Plays and Singers, Bills at the Local Places of Amusement—Amer ican Opera to be Heard Again in Brooklyn. The New York Theaters—A Few Misses Who Are Wives—Also a Few Stage Names—A Ten Dollar Dude—Something About the Wages of Actors—Report and Rumor. The Brooklyn theaters this week offer a goda, a variety of matter, and one may take this pick of sensation, melodrama, society drama, idol, min strelay and varieties. PARE THEATER. Madame Modjeska is an actress whose perform ances it is a pleasure to see. She is one of a few to whom the public owes a debt of gratitude for main taining the excellence in presentation of the legiti mate drama, and for holding to Shakapeare and the masters at a time when clownish burlesques and fell sensations claim the stage. It is true that she occasionally plays French drama, bit no actress plays it in a cleanlier manner. Her repertory for the present week at the Park is as follows: MOTGEY. .ascsesence cece senense resoesse resorseseres ROD Frou Tuesday. ....... sends ense ce ba enwatente ven venses see famille Wednesday matines....... As You Like It ‘Wednesday evening.... .Mary Btuart Thursday and Pride? pigilta: ‘and Saturday rmmachines. as aee Juaweléth Night Saturday night... Jum Mb eens teerwe eee BROOKLYN THEATR, James O'Neill, an actor who is thoroughly in ear nest, and who impresses one with his strength without resort to uproarious methods, will be seen tomorrow night in one of his test pieces, namely, “The Count of Monte Cristo.” This play is one that wears unusually well,and it better deserves per petuation than much of the matter that is offered as melodrama, of which it is an excellent type. Mr. O'Neill is graceful and picturesque, and hig Count is the best one seen since the time of Fechter, LE ® AVENUE THEATER. “The Main Line,” an enjoyable play that had a flattering reception in New York, and that was re cently acted at the Park, is the week's attraction at this house. The authors took old materials that had dramatists long ago vulgarized into disrepute and constructed from them a clean, interesting style comedy, clothed it in sensible English and fitted it with scenery and mechanism that lend It realism and picturesqueness. It is commendable in treatment, it is American and its well acted, GRAND OPERA HOUSE. The melodrama, “A Ring of Iron,” will be played this week by a company of fifteen that includes Ralph Delmore, Harry Mack and Jennie Satterlee. The author, Frank Harvey,a not a man who will win renown for the refinement or literary merit of his plays, but he huge sympathy for and under standing of human nature that account for more in the drama than skill and finish. The play is In five acre, and the scene is laid in England and Austra lia. CRITERION THEATE Minstrelay continues on a career of evident pros perity, and the entertainments given at this house are neat, bright and free from objection. The singing is good, and the acta have a flavor of old time minstrelsy. A burlesque on Gilbert and Sulli van’s popular opera styled “My Card Oh” is one of the features of tomorrow night's bill ,YDE BELLMAN'S THEATER, Marinelli, who twists himself out of shape, Ralph Terry, who makes shadow picctures with his fingers, the Marzello Brothers in a grotesque acrobatic per formance, Hilda Thomas, Shaffer and Blakely, Swift and Chase and Alice Temple In songs, the n Jeromea, Billy Carter, Miss Bournell and Leroy and Flynn in sketches are the high priests at this tem ple of Thespis. NOVELTY THEATER. Musketry will roll, blood will flow and marriage will take place on horseback this week. James H. Wallick has arrived with “The Cattl King,” a piece in which rifles, men, 6 baby, three actresses, four horses, a donkey named Calamity Jane, delegation of living cowboys, some scenery, a hang ing, 4 fire and 4 few other ingredients are com pounded in a hot, strong mixture. BROOKLYN MUSED Edwin F. Mayo will play “Davy Crockett” this week. He plays it well and the piece is a good one; indeed, it is one of the best native plays on the boards, and it has stood the wear of a dozen seasons without injury, STANDARD MUSEUM. This week George Morton will appear in ‘His Sin” and “Branded,” two pieces that promise a fair amount of excitement In addition to the dramatic features of the bill there will be a musical sketch by Ned Hanson and Mamie Hayman. THE CYCLORAMA. The realistic Battle of Gettysburg still attracts spectators in large numbers, and it has become one of the stock attractions in the city. An invitation will be extended to General Sherman to see the cy clorama during his vielt East. The great picture has now been an exhibition for over three months, and although it is likely to remain for a time longer the management has‘not determined to make it a fixture in Brooklyn. The building and painting are portable, and if there are indications of a wane in the popularity of the exhibit i is transfer to an other city will be easy. Contrary to expectation the Sunday attendance has been large, for many who would not risit an ordinary place of amuse ment have no scruples against the viewing of a tableau, and instructions to be had as well as pleasures in viewing the great work of Philippoteaux, MISS WELD'S CONCERT. The third concert in the series given by Miss Georgia Weld at Historical Hall is announced for Tuesday evening next. The programme and names of the associate artista have not been published. AMERICAN OPERA IN BROOKLYN. The American Opera Company is encouraged by the success and appreciation it enjoyed in Brooklyn and is coming back again. The New York season at the Metropolitan Opera House begins on the night of Monday, the 28th instant, with “The Flying Dutchman,” and during the New York season the company will cross the bridge on every Thursday night and give a performance at the local Academy of Music. The first work to be sung in Brooklyn will be Frotow’s “ Martha,” and it will be giyan on the night of the 3d of March with Pauline L’Alle mand as Lady Harriet, Jessie Bartlett Davis as Nancy, Charles Bassett as Lionel, Alonzo Stoddard as Plunket and William Hamilton as Tristan. At least one hearing of Rubinstein's “Noro” will be ac corded after its initial production in America—the fret peformance of that work will occur in New York on the night of March 7—and among other operas that may be sung in Brooklyn are “Lohengrin,” “Flying Dutchman,” “Faust,” Aida,” “The Huguenots,” Lakme” and “Orpheus and Eurydice.” Subscriptions will be received at Chand ler’s tomorrow and thereafter, and last season’s subscribers will have preference in the choice of seats. The sale of seats for single performances will begin on the 28th of February. The American Opera Company has outlived calumny and abuse from papers and people that give encouragement to sensational drama and cheap music, and it is cheering to know that seats are nearly all taken for the second engagement of the company in Boston, which begins tomorrow night. 4 TEN DOLLAR DUDE. A frequent theatergoer attended a recent per formance of melodrama in one of the Brooklyn playhouses and was struck by the imposing ap pearance of one of the younger actors, who swelled his chest, carried his head high, wore immaculate lnen, had a dress coat that fitted him like wall paper, was barbered a la Pompadour and seemed to be quite a fellow. The rest of the company, the scenery, the fittings and the character of the play house made it seem more than likely that the aver age salary paid in thas troupe was not high, and on meeting the manager after the show the frequent theatergoer asked: ‘How can you afford to keep a dude like that in such a company as yours?” “Oh,” said the manager, carelessly, “we picked him up in Connecticut—amateur—ten dollars a week.” CONFIDING MANAGERS. The managers of the Leo Avenue Theater have done a deed of wondrous confidence and daring. They have purchased a quantity of umbrellas which will be kept in readiness at all times, and loaned to patrons who are caught in ahower without any charge. Such a mark of confidence in human honesty is worthy of the warmest praise, for the most upright of men usually exhibit moral laxity in the single matter of umbrellas. IN NEW YORK. The following attractions are announced for next week in New York: German Opera at the Metro politan Opera House, “Erminie at the Casino, “ McNoonsy's Visit” at Harrigan’s Park Theater, N. C. Goodwin in the “Mascot” at the Bijou, ‘Hare bor Lights ’ at Wallack’s, “‘ Taming of the Shrew” at Daly’s, Dockstader’s Minstrels, “Jim the Pen man” at the Madison Square, Helen Dauvray in “ Maske and Faces’ at the Lyceum, Rose Coghlan in “Lady of Lyons” at the Union Square, Sals bury’s Troubadours in the “Humming Bird” at the Btar, Don Thompson in “The Old Homestead” at the Fourteenth street theater, Vaudeville at Tony Pastor's, Mestayer’s “ We, Us and Co. at the Peo ple's, Cora Tanner in “ Alone in London” at the Windsor, Eben Plympton in “Jack at the Fifth Avenue Theater, Sol Smith Russell in “Pa” at the Standard, “Black Crook” at Niblo’s Madison Square Garden, the last week of the Wild West, Harts Theater Comique, McKee Rankin in “The Danites,” “Lights of London” at the Grand Opera House, Frankie Kemble in “Sibyl” at Poole’s Theater. The presentations of German opera will be as follows: Monday night, “Die Walkure;” Wednesday, “ Masantello;” Friday, Rienzi;” Sat urday matinee, **Masantello.” The National Opera Company will appear at the Metropolitan Operas House on the night of Monday, February 28, and will open a series of twenty performances with “The Flying Dutchman.” The first of threes sym phony concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be given at Steinway Hall tomorrow night, un der direction of Wilhelm Gericke, THE KEMBLE ROW. The affront to the dramatic stage implied in the occasion of the late wrangle in the Kemble Society occasions those scornful remarks in the Keynote: “How ridiculous are the bumptious claims of the Kemple’s president of social superiority is shown when from the very name of the club it must ap pear that the social element is secondary to the dramatic. The Kemble Dramatic Club means something. The Kemble Social Club is a misno mer. The name of John Philip Kemble is not il lustrious from the conditions of his social Ife, but because of his dramatic genius. The Kemble So ccial Club would have been lost in the crowd. The Kemble Dramatic Club, thanks to the intelli gence and conscientious efforts of the dramatic corps, secured recognition from the press and com munity from an art standpoint, and President De Cordova received his only credentials for social honors from the hands of those devotees at the Thespian shrine. So far as the president of the Kemble Dramatic Club is concerned, he cannot In sult the dramatic corps; he can only be insolent.” MARRIED MISSES AND STAGE NAMES, The title of “Mrs.” is seldom found on play bills, the ladies of the various dramatic companies ap pearing as Misses. Yet a majority of the actresses on the stage are married. Clara Morrin in private life is Mrs. Harriott. Charlotte Thompson is Mra. Loraine Rogers. Marlo Wainwright is Mra. Louis James. Maggie Mitchell is Mrs. Paddock. Kate Claxton (nee Kate Cone) is Mra. Charles Stevenson, Eleanor Carey is Mra. Blood. Mario Prescott is Mra. Pertzel, Rose Coghlan is Mra. Clinton Edgerly. Fay Templeton is the wife of West, the negro minstrel. Annie Pixley is Mra. Robert Fulford, Fanny Davenport is Mrs. K. H. Price. Mario Burroughs is Mrs. Lt. F. Massen. Eliza Weathersby is Mrs. Nat Goodwin. Minnie Maddern is Mrs. LeGrand. White. Rose Wood is Mrs. Lewis Morrison, Georgie Drew is Mrs. Maurice Barrymore, Florence Girard is Mrs. Henry B. Abbey. Louise Searle is the widow of Harry Hunter. Cora Tanner is Mrs. Colonel Linn, Emma Abbott is Mrs. Wetherer. Laura Joyca a Mra. Digby Bell. Nellie McHenry is Mra. John Webster. Kittie Blanchard is Mrs. McKee Rankin. Catharine Corcoran is Mrs. James A. Horne, Annie Ward Tiffany in Mrs. Green. Emme Skerrett is Mra. R. F. McClaunin, Rose Skerrett is Mra. JL. R. Shewell. Maggie Moore is Mrs. J. C. Williamson, Catharine Lewis is Mrs. Arfwedson, Violet Cameron will be Mrs. De Bensaude until she has her divorce. Theresa Vaughn is Mrs. W. A. Mostayer. Minnie Conway is Mrs. Osmond Tearle. Lizzia McCall in the widow of Mr. Wall, whom she killed. Rachel Booth is Mrs. William Powers. Marlon Fiske is Mrs. T. J. Martin. Eliza Lorg is Mra Charles Welles. Marlo Roze is Mrs. Henry Mapleson. Milo. Cavalazzi is Mrs. Charles Mapleson. Annie Robe was Mrs. Henry Lethcourt. Rose Courtney Barnes is Mrs. John T. Raymond. Belle Archer is Mrs. Herbert Archer. Genevieve Rogers is Mrs. Frank BE. Aiken. Alice Atherton is Mrs. Willie Edouin. Mary Wiliams is Mrs. J. H. Barnes. Mittens Willett is Mrs. Henry Aveling. Fanny Addison is Mrs. H. M. Pitt. Geraldine Stuart is Mrs. Shiel Barry. Iffle Weaver is Mrs. H. McVicker. Virginia Buchanan is the widow of Benton Parker. Katie Baker is Mrs. Clarence Handysides. Selina Dolaro (born Simmons) is Bra. Isaac Be lasco. Phoebe Davis is Mrs. J. R. Grismar. Alice Placide is Mrs. Charles E. Emmett. Marion Elmore is Mrs. Ira N. Losee. Effie Ellater is Mrs. Frank Weston. Sophie Eyre ia the widow of Captain Lonsdale. Laura Wallace is Mrs. Frank Mordaunt. Agnes Wallace is Mrs. Sam B. Villa Augusta Foster in Mrs. James H. Foster. Lizzie May Ulmer is Mrs. George T. Olivier. Caroline Hill is Mrs. Herbert Kelrey. Bijou Heron is Mrs. Henry Miller. Ada Bartling is Mrs. Gustavus Lovick. Eugenie Legrand is Mrs. Kyrle Bellow. Louise Lesters Mrs. Louis Nathal. Dickie Lingard is Mrs. Dalziel. Jennie Lee is Mrs. J. P. Burnett. Madjeske appears as Madam on the bills, but her full name is Mme. Charles Bozenta Chlapovaky, and her maiden name was Modrejewska. Lavinia Bennett is Mrs. John A. Mackay. Sadie Martinet (born Egina) is Mrs. Fred. Stinson. Augusta Raymond is Mrs. Edward E. Kidder. Adeline Stanhope is Mrs. Nelson Wheatcroft. Carrie Turner is Mrs. Albert His. Helen Barry's fourth husband was H. 8. Bolman, Maud Granger is Mrs. Alfred Follon, Pauline Markham is Mrs. McMahon. Virginia Dreher, widow of Mr. Dreher, was Miss Murphy before she married. The French twin sisters are wedded to Evans and Hoey. Three of the St. Felix sisters married wealthy New Yorkera. Miss Louise Dillon is Mrs. John Dillon, and mother of three children. Ade Gray is Mrs. Charles Watkins. Kate Castleston is Mrs. Harry Phillips. Ada Gilman was Mrs. Leander Richardson, Milo. Bonfanti married a son of Governor Hoff man. Sidney Cowell is Bro. Raymond Holmes. Agnes Hoath is Mrs. Shoofer. Katie Mayhew is the wife of Harry Widmer, leader of the orchestra in Daly's Theater, Flora Irwin is Mrs. Senator Grady. May Irwin is the widow of Mr. Keller. Josie Les Randolph is Mrs. J. Newton Beers. Eugenia Blair is Mrs. Forrest Robinson, Maude Branscombe is Mrs. Everard Stuart. Roslya Vokes is Mrs. Cecil Clay. Julia Wilson is Mrs. Charles Fox. Fanny Louise Buckingham (born Fanny Ward) is Mrs. Pettitt Hattie O'Neill (sister of Ada Rehan) is Mrs. RK. Fulton Russell. Adele Measor is Mrs. J. C. Buckstone. Estelle Clayton is Mrs. 8, EB, Cooper. Eva Boucicault is Mrs. John Clayton. Mrs. J. W. Carroll is Mrs. Ogden Stevens. Fannie Dillon is Mrs. Richard HE. Parker. Josephine Baker is Mrs. John Drew, Jr. Augusta Dargon is Mrs. Dr. Plercy. Adelaide Thornton is Mrs. Paul Nicholson, May Saville in Mrs. J. G. Saville. May Davenport is Mrs. Willie Seymour, Blanch Chapman is Mrs. H. CG. Ford. Albina De Mer is Mrs. M. B. Curtis, Annie Russells Mrs. G. W. Presbrey. Fannie Reeves (daughter of Sims Rolves) is Mrs. E. A. McDowell. Lilian Cleves is Mrs. Richard Foote, Gertie Granville is Mra. Tony Hart Hannah Bailey is Mrs. H. J. Sargent Alice Vane is Mrs. John Templeton, Annie Edmonstone is Mrs. Fred. Warde, Ada Deaves in Mrs. T. Grosaman. Ide Glover is Mrs. Henry E. Dixey. Ere Roseau is the widow of Samuel Colville, Ada Vernon is Mrs. E. A. Taylor. Tima di Murskea in Mrs. Hill; she had four huse bands before the present Incumbent. Mile, Zoo was Mrs. Benjamin Yates, Laure Bellini is Mrs. Laura, Woolwine. Mme. Janauschok is Mrs. Fred, Pillot. Miss Mattie Vickers is Mrs. Charles 9. Rogora. Mme, Ristori is the Marchioness Caprantea del Grillo, Alma Stuart Stanley is Mrs. Charles de Garmo, Lydia Thompson is the widow of Alexander Hen derson.. Jane Coombs is Mrs. Brown, Pauline Lucca is Baroness von Walhofen, Kate Fisher was Mrs. Maher. Sarah Hildreth was the wife of Ben Butler. Susan Denin was Mrs. Theodore Morris, Kate Denin was Mrs. William Wilson. Kate Foley is Mrs. John Evans. Rose Vernon is Mrs. Luke Brant, Pauline Hall is the wife of a rich young New Yorker, who has just settled $10,000 a year on her. Mile, Idealetta in Mrs. Patrick Miles, Gertrude Toussaint in Mrs. W. H. Clark, Helen Dayton is Mrs. W. H. Courtney, Mile. Cornalba is the wife of Morelli, the New York restaurateur. Mrs. D. P. Bowers a Mrs. McCollum. Minnie Hauk is Baroness Von Wartegg. Mario Jansen is Mrs. Barton Key. Maggie Muhlenbring is Mrs. James Fitzpatrick. Josie Hanley is Mrs. John F. Donnelly. Zimma Hanley is Mrs. Louies Allen. Bertie Fisch is Mrs. B. C. Jarrett. Ida Bella Mra. Frederick Eustis. Amelia Somerville in Mrs. Frederick Runnels. Jennie Kimball was Mrs. D. Doane and is now Mrs. Flaherty. Ada Varley, more recently known asward Al mayne, is Mrs. Nelson Decker. Maud Stuart (wes Maude Grubbs) was Mra. Mar ble, Louise Pomeroy was formerly the wife of “Brick” Pomeroy. She is now Mrs. Elliott. Grace Hawthorne (nee Cartland) is Mrs. John Murray. Helen Fawcitt is the wife of Sir Theodore Martin Nora Kent is Mrs. Charles Barringer. Miss Kate Meek is Mrs. Kate Meek. Annie Firmin is Mrs. John Jack. Adelaide Lystra is Mrs. Blithorpe. Emma Nevada (nee Mixon) is Mrs. Palmer. Victory Creese is Mrs. Sheldon Bateman. Marle Heath is Mrs. Warren Apsley. Minnis Palmer is Mrs. John 8. Rogers. The adoption of stage names also leads to some confusion of family records. Henry Irving to Henry Broadribb; there is a legend that Lawrence Bar rett was born Branigan; Ida Vernon did not tell the public that she was Bridget McGowan; Miss Till bury is Lydia Thompson's daughter; Mile. Albani (Mrs. Guy) adopted that name because she was all satisfied with her own, La Jeunesse; Clara Morris’ father was Mr. Morrison; Helen Dauvray was “Little Noell, the California Diamond,” when she went on the stage, and she has been known as Helen Gib son and Helen Williams; Signor Perugini is a Balti morean named Chatterson; Mlle. Mariana Dufay is Mary Ann Duffy; Blondin, the rope walker, is Emile Gravelet; Dominick Murrays Mr. Moran; John T. Raymond is John T O’Brien; Madame Ninon Ducloss Bridget O'Brien; Tom Karl is Thomas Carroll; John H. Selwyn was John Josephs; the singer Braham was a Hebrew named Abrahams, and Lawrence is said to be a change from the Hebrew name of Lazarus; Mrs. Yeamans was Mrs. Hyde and before that was Miss Grimetha; William Terrigs, the handsome English actor, is Arthur Lewin; the actor Arnott, who committed suicide not long ago, belied in his impatience of the ire of Hfe his name of Job; Eleanor Moretti is Katharine Mlogers’ daughter; Irene Perry and Helen Sedgwick are sisters and their name is Brady. Mme. Valda, Mme. Valleria, Mme. L’Allemand, Mie. Dotti are foreign disguises for the names of American singers; Signor Brocco lini was John Clark when he was an EAGLE report er, his stage name being merely an Italianization of Brooklyn; Lew O Dookatader is Lewis Clapp; George F. Devere, of the Lyceum Theater, 18 George Smith; Joseph Arthur to Arthur F. Smith; Alice Atherton was Mary Alice Hogan before her mar riage; Laura Joyce was Adele Maskell; Charles Dickson, formerly Dobson, is Charles Doblin; Mar ried Barrymore’s name was Cline when he was an English barrister; Louise Lester is Isabella Barnes; Little Corinne is the child of Jennie Kimballla herty; Patti Rosa is Jessie Buckingham; Gustave Levick is Levick only by adoption of Milnes Le vick; Gus Williams is Gustave Wilhelm Leveck; Joseph F. Winter is Joseph Winkler; Walter Bent ley is Walter Begg; Charles Barron is Charles Brown; Jean Burnside is Joan Burnside Carr; Ade laide Cherie is Adelaide Fenelon; John Clayton, son in law of Dion Boucicault, is John Calthorp; the late Frank Clements was Robert W. Mintry; E. R. Dalton is Edward R. McNamara; Arthur Dacro is Arthur James; Gerald and Sophie Dyre are children of an Irish family named Ryan;T. F. Eg bert is Egbert I. Ten Eyck; “Billy” Florence's nameé is Conlin; May Fielding is May Scovel; Wil liam Herbert is William Eden; Tony Hart Jerald to be Anthony Cannon; George 8. Knight is George Sloan; Lotta ig Charlotte Crabtree; Robert B. Mar tell is Robert Hudson; it is said of Minnie Maddern, the daughter of Manager “Tom” Davy, that her Binge Dame was suggested by the madder tints in her hair; Richard D’Orsay Ogden is Richard Marx well; Lilian Russell was Helen Louise Leonard be fore she married Mr. Braham, who leads the Brook lyn Park Theater orchestra, and “Teddy” Solomons; Frank Mayo is Francis Maguire; M. B. Curtis is Samuel Skelenger of Posen, Germany; Louisa Al drich was known as Master Moses when he went on the stage; J. Newton Gotthold is Isaac Gotthold; Adele Belgarde is Adele Levy; Louis and Alice Harrison’s parents are named Metz; Ada Rehan is Ada Crehan; Richard Mansfield is the son of Mme. Rudersdorff; Signor Federici is Frederick Baker; William Daly, of the American Four, was William Ackerson; Milo. Marie Decca is Mary Johnston; “the adorable Monta gue” was never a Montague by birth—and so It goes. It is noted with pleasure, however, that there is less of this name changing now than there used to be, and that young men and women who adopt the dramatic profession are not sufficiently ashamed of t to conceal their personality. ACTORS’ WAGES. Good actors command good wages, and those of repute have little difficulty in procuring places that pay them from $0 to 3150 a week, though the price of their costumes must be deducted from this sum, and the warm weather vacation of from two weeks to three months must be set down as a non produc tive period. Salaries in America average better than those in Europe, although no reports of dis tress come from the foreign actors. The following, snipped from a Manchester, England, newspaper, shows that there are at least a couple of dozen players who can keep body and soul together, for here is what they get: alary Namea, Per weak, Theater. _ William Terrias,... + BS00, eeee reeeeseeeeeteees AGO] Phi Charles Warner. O.. .Prinvessa 4 peseee M. Maurius.... Harry Nichols. ..Drury Lane Beerbohn Tree s. Haymarket W.8 Penley... Hes attantte bon hedeske and Globe Mr. Willard....... ..Haymarket Rillon Terrys.e.s sos BIG ese sasveeseenseeees. Lyceum Miss Rastlake.... 25 ett's company Lundy Moncton...,. hs Hoeymarket Mrs. Bernard Beere. . Haymarket Miss Millward ...,, .Adelphi Nellie Farren.... ‘,. Gaiety Dorothy Dens... 50. +». Princess Kate Rorke... 125. Vaudeville Amy Roselle... . Resting Florence 81. to 800... . Comedy Mary Moore.... 100... Criterion Mrs. John Wood 200...Gourt Winifrad Emory... 76.. .Lyceum Clara Jeeks...... 60.. .. Adelphi Harriet Gaveny. . .~ 60... ae ... Empire Aliss Norrays.....cen ceoss TBensesnsseneereesessereee Court NOTES. “Pinafore has reached Minneapolis, Hartford, Conn., is to have a new opera house, worth $50,000. A convention of cranks in the attraction at a St. Louis museum. Henry Hallam, tenor of the Casino company, is a son of Hallam, the English historian. It is asserted that Bronson Howard received noth ing for his “Met By Chance” except abuse, Saint Saens, the composer, came to New York in 1878, staid three days, didn’t like the place and sailed for home, Helen Dauvray wears $40,000 worth of diamonds in “ Masks and Faces.” The buttons on her dress are valuable solitaires. The Boston composer, Foote, has had a hearing for his orchestral suite in London. The music was received with approbation. Actresses who enjoy “notoriety gild their finger nails, in order to secure a mention for eccentricity. The freak originated In Paris. “The Tinted Venus,” under the name of “ Aphro dite,” will be revived at Dockstador’s in the Summer, with Mae Bruce in the title part. Henry Irving sent $100 to Manager A. M. Palmer for the new Monument that is to mark the actors’ burial plot in Evergreens as Cemetery. Call out the police! O'Donovan Rossa is writing an Irish drama. The gunpowder manufacturers are hopefully looking forward to a boom in their business. An exchange remarks that there is no longer any doubt that Mrs. James Brown Potter has the mak ing of a great actress. Her stage clothes are made by Worth. Miss Fortescue is made to say this in a Pittsburg newspaper: “Sometimes one wants to admit a boy to the theater, and is afraid he will sell the pass. The boy wears no cuff to write upon, and what can you do? Just make him hold his head up and write his pass upon the side of his collar. He shows it at the door of the theater, and in he goes safe enough.” A. C. Gunter has constructed the libretto of a comic opera that Edgar 8. Kelley, a Californian, has set to music. It will cost $10,000 to produce it, and will not be heard until next season. “Max O'Rell” (Paul Bloucher), the clever author of John Bull and His Island,” will lecture in this country under Major Pond’s management next sea son. He will make 100 appearances. Nat Goodwin's first company is said to have been organized for a season of one consecutive night in Augusta, Mo. He says the show would have taken with the audience if he (the sadience) had only waited to s ee it out.” Last year the visits of 1,700 English clergymen to the Lyceum Theater were recorded. They were‘ of all denominations. Those from other countries and those who went Incognito would easily raise the number to 2,000 The widely gifted Mme. Golstinger, who at 50 looksike a woman of 30, and who appears on suc cessive nights in heavy tragedy, broad farce and light opera, will return to this country in April, and will play at the Thalia. Charles H. Hoyt, the Boston newspaper man who has grown rich within a few years by writing such things as ** A Tin Soldier,” “A Bunch of Keya” and “A Parlor Match,” will marry one of his stars, Flora Walsh, at the end of the season. The annual visit of the Seventh Regiment, N. G., S.N. Y. to Harrigan’s Park Theater will be made tomorrow night for that one evening the regi ment owns the house, and there will be as much fun before the footlights as behind them. Carl Ross has produced a new opera, “Nordiss,” both libretto and music of which are by an English man named Frederick Corder. The scene is laid in Norway, the subject is pastoral and the music is declared to be northern in form and original. George W. Morgan and Miss Maud Morgan will give an organ and harp recital at Chickering Hall on every Thursday afternoon during March, the dates being theard, 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st The awkward hour of 4 o'clock is fixed for these recitals. Miss Marguerite Fish has a valuable advertising adjunct in a colossal Danish broodhound who is five by nine feet in measurement and who begs for pea nuts and candy. He is the biggest “purp” in America and is as good natured as he is ugly in ap pearance. Kit Clarke, the manager, thnies that he is a vic tim of the great railroad disaster. His telegram reads: Newspapers announce the discovery of my corpse in the Vermont railroad accident. I am not dead. Corpse belongs to somebody else. Mine is here in my possession, and in splendid condition.” George F. Bristow,,the veteran musician and composer, will have a benefit in Steinway Hall on the night of Washington’s birthday. Among the volunteers are 4 chorus of 8300—George W. Morgan, Ide Klein, Miss E. Raynor, A. Abramoff, E. Schultz, Signor Liberati, 8. B. Millis, Carl Lanzer and A. Florio. Mme. Patti thinks that music is a good deal of an institution. Here is what she says about it in a let ter to an American girl studying in Germany: “Whatever the relations of music, it will never cease to be the noblest and purest of arts. It is the nature of music to bring before us, with absolute truth and reality, what other arts only imply. Its inherent solemnity makes it so chaste and wonder ful that it ennobles whatever comes in contact with in. At the last meeting of the Musical Mutual Protect ive Union in New York eight musicians were placed on trial for playing in the same bands with non union Members and two of them were fined $10 each for this offense. In view of the wretched tyran ny which is the usual destruction of institutions that seek their own aggrandizement by the coercion of everybody else, it is significant that while one new member was elected at this meeting forty-seven others dropped out. Musicians are well paid, 48 rule, the wages of ordinary players in orchestras running from £ 23 to $50 a week, but these sums are augmented by teach ing. Samuel Bernstein, who beats the drums in Seidl’s orchestra, boasts that he earned $27 in a day once and he did it by parading with a brass band at 11 A. M. for $5; risying at a Brooklyn Philhar monic rehearsal at 8 P. M. for $5; accompanying grand opera at 8 P. M. for $7, and at 11 P. M. turn ing up for a few hours more work and $9 more cash to firemen’s ball. There was a lively performance of “Lady Aud ley’s Secret” the other night in Richmond. Va Louise Pomeroy, who was Lady Audley, was kicked by an actor named Feld as she was in the actor jamming him into the well in the murder scene. He had already glven offense by attaching the box of fice receipts. Miss Pomeroy followed up the stage murder by taking the handle from the well and slotting him over the head so that he fell a gory heap to the bottom—about two feet down—and be gan suit for damages next morning. It is said of Emma Abbott that she keeps her voice and health by jumping into a warm bath in her dressing room after the opera and being rub bed down by her maid. This don’t read right to those who know the average theatrical dressing room to be a aIngy, damp and draughty box, that actors hurry out of as quickly as they can get into their street clothes. The Tabor Opera House Denver is said to be almost the only theater in the country that has dressing 100ms worthy to be occu pied by ladies and gentlemen. With the introduction of alactria Ughting in thea ters , new danger is experienced. At the People’s Theater in Cincinnati the other night, a boy of 13 touched an exposed portion of a wire that was carelessly trailed around the gallery front, and staggered up the stairs with the remark, “The electricity is busted.” He was carried into an ante room, and while the audience was laughing and shouting over the antics of a comedian, the little fellow drew his last breath. A slight burn was found on his left thumb, but nothing more. The Clipper asks: Where is our bass viol soolst ? There is need of him. It is about the only solo novelty we lack at present. The trombones do ex cellent solo work in the brass department, and a virtuoso on the big strings would attract attention. In the old days Bottesini did that feature, but Bot is not around just at present. Come, Pfeiffen schneider and Luyfels (if your names are spelled that way), get up a few bass viol solos, with har monic attractions, and grow up and out of the drudgery of orchestral work, and you'll have a chance to do profitable ‘ soloing.’
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn, New York, US
Sun, Feb 13, 1887
Page 24
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