Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1880 — DRAMATIC NOTES. [ARTICLE]

DRAMATIC NOTES.

Lotta’s French is so. bad that they thought in Paris it was Arkansas Gerster’s baby: js sung to thousand • dollar songs. New York World. t A leading actor declined an to fight a duel on the ground thatihp didn’t believe he would make a hit. Henry Lee will be the leading support of Fanny Dawenport • this season. There—there was a gentleman named Price. Miss Carrie Howard, a variety actress is the heiress of $30,000, the estate of her great-grandfather, who recently died in Yorkshire, England. If Joe Emmett could be induced to go without liquor for forty days he would be almost as great a curiosity as Dr. Tanner.— Philadelphia Chronicle. Kate Sanborn is an Eastern girl who is having excellent success in the lecture field. One of her best lectures is on the ‘ ‘ Spinster Authors of England. ” Much of the material of All the Page has evidently been drawn from a German comedy, by Wilkens, entitled Der Loewe des Tages. (The Lion of the Day.)Madame Patti, who is at Aix-les-Bains, France, is suffering from an affection of the knee, but not enough to prevent her fishing for crayfish, which is said to be her favorite amusement. “ Mary Anderson” may sound well to Kentuckians; but it’s too singular to take generally. “Sarah and her sons,” though, is what’s plural enough to cover the whole wide world.— Newport (Ky.) State Journal.

As Lydia Thompson grows older a more fully developed sense of propriety induces her to wear more clothes upon the stage. She has lately donned another finger ring. — Quincy Modern Argo. The son of the celebrated banker, Baron d’Erlanger, Frederic Erlanger, a virtuoso of twelve years of age, made his debut as a pianist at the Casino at Deauville, France, week before last, by exe-’ cuting a concerto of Mendelssohn. Before she appeared on the stage, Miss Neilson served as a bar-maid at a little French case, the Case de la Regence, in Windmill street, Haymarket, where she first learned French, and left behind such a reputation for beauty that all the bar-maids of the case ever after called themselves Lilian. The New York correspondent of the Buffalo Courier writes: Whether Bernhardt will do as well as Miss Neilson did remains to be seen. No one has h-ny wish to the contrary, but, on the other hand, no one will be surprised if the eccentric Sara fails to draw quite as well as Manager Abbey appears to expect. The cost of her engagement will be enormous, and perhaps she will not make a sensation after all. It will take at least $1,500 a night to clear expenses. Bernhardt will dress wonderfully, no doubt, but fine dressing alone is not enough to insure success. Miss Neilson spent an immense deal of money on her wardrobe, but her pretty face and pleasant ways on the stage were more effective than all her satins and diamonds. An actress of any note at all must dress extravagantly nowadays, but even the best dresser must have more than that to commend her. She must either have genius or beauty. Bernhardt certainly has not got the latter. She may have genius, but it is not yet quite certain that her genius, supposing that she has it, is the right sort for the American stage. However, for the manager’s sake, if no more, it is to be hoped that Bernhardt will make a hit at the start and keep it up. He has taken a big risk, and if anything goes wrong it will not be an easy matter to make it right again.