Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC I Emma Juch Lengthens Her Stay to Three Nights I THE IMMENSE RUSH FOR SEATS The Jubilee Singers Last Night Der Fre schutz with Emma Jnch The ladles Musical ProgrammeNotes The crowd that assembled around the box office yesterday morning has not been equaled by anything since the sale of city lots The fame of Emma Juch the greatness great-ness of her company and the recent addi tion of Tagliapietra all combined to excite a furore and the treasurer had all he could do for three or four hours to rake in the gold and silver and hand back the coupons cou-pons Over a thousand dollars were taken I in for Carmen and Faust the two operas in which Juch was announced to sing S Just five minutes before the box office opened something of a flurry was created on the interior by the receipt of the follow I ing dispatch from Manager Locke I PiTTSBtjna Pa Dee 2 C B Burton Salt Lake Announce three nights and matinee instead of two Carmen Tuesday lau > t Wednesday I Der Freiacnntz Thuibday all with Juih Bohemian Girl matinee Wednesday with Leonhardt CUAi E LOCKE Mr Burton had been trying lo get three nights out of the company instead of two and he at once put out a placard notifying buyers of the change in the programme Der Freischutz will be the novelty of the engagement and it will without doubt be witnessed by a great a house as any of the repertoire even though Faust comes on the great theatrical holiday night of the year The Ladies Musical society have arranged ar-ranged a specially attractive programme for their meeting in Calders hall tomorrow night Theevenings exercises will introduce intro-duce a new baritone Wheelock a lady violin soloist Mrs Wheelock antI a new pianist her sister i Mrs Selfridge Th numbers are as follows Hungarian Dances u u uu Brahm Mrs Selfridge and Mrs Wheelock Two GrenadlersuuuuuuSchumann Mr Wheelock Trust Her Not Bait Mrs Shelton and Mr Wheelock a Romanza Becke b Tarentelle Rat Tarentcle u u f u u Rat Mr Wheelock Fiddle and I Ir Shelton Polonaise Mrs Self rids Hvbnas the Cretan Mr Wheelock Polish Dance Scharvcnka Mrs Wheelock When the project o15 erecting a statue to Lester Walluck iu this city was first discussed dis-cussed Tie Dramatic Mirror pointed out the impractibility of die idea Until statues to the great actors thatourcbuntr has produced were set up in ourparks and < streets bjthe geniusloving of the community I com-munity we thought that the distinguished manager and light comedian should wait We had no objection to the Wallack statue i Forrest and Cushman and other more notable histrions were first honored And now but eight months after the publication of these views comes their jus tificatiou in the announcement that the committee of women formed for the purpose pur-pose of raising funds has abandoned the plan and disbanded I they wish to testify their appreciation of the stage in a more sensible manner these women cannot better than join the Cushman Monument asscciation organized organ-ized by Mrs Ingersoll Lockwood and expend ex-pend their energies in raising money for the worthy object that called it into existence exist-ence + The George M Scott Mastodon minstrels gave their second pleasing performance at the Grand opera house last evening Mr Scott has reasonto be proud of his show In the early part of the evening augmented aug-mented by the boys of the flambeau club who looked somewhat cold in their trous ei s of spotless white the ouaves paraded the streets in fine style and later they adjourned ad-journed to the Grand opera house which was very much in need of their attendance attend-ance The singing on the stage was very sweet and charming and the boys in front by using the butts of their bayonets saw that the singing did not lack for generous applause I seems that even Gilbert and Sullivan are not to escape the charge of plagiarism The charge is a breezy one and it comes from an American a Mr Cohen manager of the Charleston Tlodd who states his case thus During the past summer I wrote to Sir Arthur Sullivan desiring to know whether he would be willing to furnish the music for my libretto for an interest in the opera In reply I received a very courteous note regretting his inability in-ability at present to enter into any such arrangement In my letter to Sir Arthur I enclosed an exceedingly full synopsis of Niatnci in which I brought out with as great prominence prom-inence as possible the two leading ideas A couple of weeks ago when 1 read in the New York Herald a rough forecast of Gil bert and Sullivans approaching new comic opera I at once concluded that the Gondolier Gon-dolier in their new opera was a direct and deliberate steal from the character of Mar tinez the principal triplet in my opera Niatrici This impression has now become a conviction con-viction since I have seen a mtro exhaustive account of their new opera and have learned that my idea of the triplets being constantly together has been also practi calJy stolen by them with the modification of twin brothers instead of triplets Theru are I understand also other points of sim larity which tend to confirm me in my Ideas of plagiarism As A M Palmer the theatrical manager has purchased the right to produce Tho Gondoliers it is not improbable that Mr Cohen will make an effort to prevent the representation of the opera in this country coun-try He will claim it is a colorable imitation imita-tion in the language of the law and a violation of the copyright of Niatrici The legal fight may prove more amusing than the operas |