Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1880 — DRAMATIC NOTES. [ARTICLE]

DRAMATIC NOTES.

When Bernhardt leaves Paris, women of decided embonpoint are to be fashionable there. Julia Rive King is to have a first-class concert company out on a tour through the next amusement season. Christine Nilsson, in her correspondence with a personal friend, states that she will not come to America during the forthcoming season. Performances of Tristan and Isolde and Die Meistef singer of Nuremberg rank among the coming events at the Royal Vienna Opera-house. Joseph Jefferson, actor, artist and agriculturist, during his vacation among the Vermont pastures has selected a fine herd of short-horn cattle for his Louisiana farm. An uncontradicted rumor has it that Alice Oates Watkius is to forsake comic opera next season, and be the bright, particular star of melange called Long Branch. The death of the once-famous tenor Ivanoff, the contemparary of Rubini, is announced. His career on the lyric stage was brief, but very successful, both in Italy and England. Mr, Charles Coghlan has, commenced a country tour of England with a version by himself of the play of La Norte Civile, in which Signor Salvini lias occasionally appeared. Madame Patti will appear next winter in Paris at the theatre des Nations. Messrs. Polloni and Franchi will be the impressariiof the Italian season. It is said that Scmiramidc and Mefistofele will be mounted especially for Madame Patti. Mr. Louis Maas, who has been engaged by Mr. Theodore Thomas as solo pianist for a tour of the United States, resigns his position as Professor in the King’s Conservatory, Leipsig, on the Ist of October. Mr. Maas is an Englishman. Mary Anderson was born in Sacramento, California, during July, 1859. Her father’s brother, a resident of Louisiana, vouches for the truth of it; so does her mother. The latter ought, to know, and the other says he does. Yet paragraphers hint and doubt. The dramatic and musical obituary for the year 1880, thus far, includes the names of Mrs. Mary Chapman, Felicita Vestvali, Henry Wieuiawski, George Honey, J. B. Omaliundro, J. R. Planche, John Brougham, T. L. Donnelly, E. H. Majilton, Ole Bull, Tom Taylor, and Adelaide Neilson. The first man who ever sang a negro song which made a success was George Washington Dixon. The song was called “The Coal Black Rose.” This was in 1828, at New York. After making thousands of dollars and a great reputation, he died in the Charity Hospital at New Orleans, in 1861, Among printers who became eminent in the dramatic profession, are the names of George Jordan, James E. Murdock, George Clark (whose real name is O’Neill), Miron W. Leffingwell, Wm. E. Burton, Tom Placide, Sol. Smith, “Artemus Ward” (whose real name was Charles Brown), and Augustin Daly, the manager.

Tiie theatrical season this fall and winter promises to be unusually attractive. Three brilliant luminaries, at least, from the other side of the water will shine resplendent upon the American stage— Salvini, Bernhardt and Gerster. It is possible that Nilsson also may come, but this is not yet definitely settled. Owing to the remarkable success of the operatic and variety combinations last season the musical feature will predominate, and the prospects of fine Italian opera, under the able management of Mapleson and the Strakosclies, seems to be unusually bright. Mb. Sothebn, in all human probability, will never play again. He has been a broken-down man for the past two years. He is not an old man in years, but he is lamentably old in reality. “It is the pace that kills,” and the comedian has always pushed himself from “ eend to eend,” as the late Mr. Harper was reported to have said. With him will die Lord Dundreary, and also a certain style of easy, nonchalant acting, grotesque, quaint, and effective as it was original. The wink of Sothem was equal to a volume of Joe Miller. It was sly, knowing, confidential. Each man in the audience took it to himself and became at once an intimate friend of the actor. Of his private character there is nothing to be said; that is his own care. It is as an actor alone that the world at large has a right to look upon him—a fictitious being who won it to laughter by discovering a new and before unheard-of ticklish spot. He who creates innocent laughter is a public benefactor, and to my mind more worthy of a sculptured monument than he who under the impudent disguise of a military uniform shoots down his fellow-men and complacently looks around for applause.—Louisville Couricr-Joui’nal. Yes; the dramatic stage is improving. Sarah Bernhardt will bring with her from Paris twenty-seven new dresses for the stage, which will cost 75,000 francs. When Lydia Thompson came to this country she didn’t bring two dollars’ worth of stage dresses with her. She didn’t need ’em. Sarah, however, will look better in clothes.— Norristown Herald. Happiness and propriety are so indissolubly linked with good health that all those suffering with Hoarseness, Coughs, Colds, etc., should try Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup and be cured, Brice ?5 cents.