Show I Jr o lo l o p f tr < tl 5 Iij fi W1 t t 1JIo 1 < r The Bostonians open their engagement here tomorrow night in EobinHood which will also be the bill for Wednesday Wednes-day Tuesday night The Knickerbockers Knicker-bockers will be presented Although a very large share of the success suc-cess of the Bostonians is Undoubtedly due to the finding by them of that materpiece I c If light opera Robin Hood it is not to be overlooked that in other hands this work might have endured for no more than one profitable season Messrs Barnabee Karl and MacDonald are first of all artists of many years experience Long before they entered the managerial field they had proved themselves artists in the highest sense of the term and when they took upon themselves the bui ness management ol an enterprise so finicky as an operatic organization they brought to the task experience not only from the stage side of the work but also bearing upon the publics preferences From season to season the Bostonians have added to their artistic strength engaging en-gaging the best of artists and enlarging their force for auxiliary work and at the present time comprise an crganization the like of which in equipment and capability capa-bility has not heretofore been known Recognizing the fact that the trying roles in opera may not be sung effectively by one set of artists seven times a week Messrs Barnabee Karl and McDonald had sufficient liberality in art to secure a douoie company of prucipal singers all of the highest pos jle merit By tis arrangement ti a cut is renewed re-newed from time to time without with-out the performance suffering in the least from the abominaion of ordinary operatic management known as the introduction of understudies And so careful have the managers been in perfecting per-fecting their nlans to this end that the lost critical of auditors have failed to find in their performances any reason toT to-T ish for other artists than appear Mr Karl divides with Mr Hoff the tenor work Miss Camille DArville and Miss Fatismah Diard alternate in the soprano roles Miss Jessie Bartlett Davis and Miss Finlayson relieve each other in the contralto part and Messrs MacDonald and Rowland share the baritone work Mr Barnabee the unctuous comedian qf the company stoutly upholds the work of ottinghamB egotistical sheriff at all performances thereby proving himself as much of a wonder in capacity as he has long since shown himself to be in capability capa-bility Mr John D Spencer one of the leading lead-ing members of the Home Dramatic club will arrive from Boise City this week to commence rehearsals on the clubs conference con-ference programme According to the present outlook the conference will be very heavily attended and the exercises at the dedication of the temple it is thought may be prolonged week Entertainments En-tertainments both at the theatre and tabernacle therefore will do a thriving business and both houses will probably be open the full six nights The Home Dramatic have Thursday Friday Saturday Satur-day and Monday April 6 to 10 booked at the theatre and will no doubt do an enormous business Before appearing there however they will take part in an entertainment in the Eighteenth ward EChool house for a charitable object giving giv-ing one performance of their very successful suc-cessful comedy Confusion about the 17th inst Eleonora Duse the Italian actress is paid 300 for every performance A Brooklyn capitalist has offered to build a theater in that city Rose Cogh lan Darkest Russia by H Grattan Don nelly will be one of the new scenic productions pro-ductions of next season Sarah Jewett who has quite recovered health is said to be planning to return to the stage Mrs Minna GnlesHaines denies the report re-port that she is to retire from the stage at the end of the present year William H Crane gives out that some Wall street men have offered to build a theater for him in Upper Broadway Miss Johnstone Bennett of Jane fame will probable next year appear in a new comedy specially written tor her entitled Fanny James J Corbett has broken the financial record of nearly every theatre he has played in this season He recently played to over 12000 in St LouisA Louis-A writer in The Theatre thinks that the present season can be set down as the most successful the present New York theatre managers have experienced thus farBuffalo Buffalo Bill is at present in New York talking about his show which will be directly in front of the Worlds fairgrounds fair-grounds in Chicago It will cost 150000 to get it ready Lottie Collins is to head a vaudeville company of her own next season It will be under the management of her husband Mr Cooney J and Charles Harris a son of the well known Boston manager I Anna Boyd who was for a long time the I widow in HA Trip to Chinatown in the Madison Square theatre New York now I plays the role in The Dazzler in which the late Kate Castleton was much admired ad-mired I Miss Maud Adams who is the leading lady in John Drews company in The Masked Ball was but nine months old when the footlights first glittered between I her and the admiring public in one of J i K Emmets plays I Charles H Hoyt has been working steadily upon his new piece which is to be a satire on the state militia He intends in-tends this production to be the most pretentious pre-tentious of any he has y3t undertaken j < At Houston when Jeffreys Lewis reached the point in Forget Me Not I where she searches her pocketbook in vain and says I have no small change I a coin was thrown on the stage by a gallery gal-lery boy The incident stopped the play for several minute II j Bliss lIaida Craigen formerly the leading lead-ing actress of the BoolhMpdjeska combination 1 com-bination is this season playing the chief i female parts with Thomas W Keene I Miss Craigen is a graduate of the Boston Museum Stock company and though I young in years has played many important import-ant parts I The report last week that Edwin Booth intends to return to the stage next season I was denied promptly From those that I know his broken condition it received no credence It is sad to contemplate the fact but it is evident nevertheless that Mr Booth has given his last performance perform-ance At least so says the Jfirror The Hanlon Brothers are among the wealthiest of theatrical managers but I they have given the public value received for all the money spent with them When Superba was burned out in the Cleveland I Cleve-land fire the Hanlons suffered a loss of 27ODO They rebuilt the piece and made it so it is claimed more magnificent than I ever everManager J M Hill will introduce anew j a-new operatic star to the public next season I sea-son in the person of Katherine Germaine who was born in Washington but is a I resident of Brooklyn She is twenty I three years old and described as very beautiful with a fine ana welltrained I voice De Koven and Smith are now engaged i en-gaged on a new opera in which Miss Germaine is to be starred Mr Hills I contract with her extends over a term of I years i Mr Nat Goodwin who passed through I New York recently wore a pair of eyeglasses eye-glasses the employment of which he explained ex-plained to his friends by saying he lud been undergoing severe trouble with his eyes for some weeks The optic nerve is I somewhat affected according to Mr i Goodwins physician and he is threatened threat-ened with trranulation of the eyelids Mr j Goodwin does not anticipate any permanent perma-nent trouble but is greatly annoyed at present Carmencita the Spanish dancer after getting a full measure of newspaper notoriety no-toriety as a stage attraction will be given an opportunity before Judge Beach of the supreme court of New York to see how it seems to figure inan American court as a corespondent in a divorce suit Mrs Rose Moss wife of Charles Moss who is known on the stage as one of the Brothers Broth-ers Borain Disappearing Demons charges Carmecita with having usurped I the affections of particular Disappearing Disappear-ing Demon Sunday night amusements appear to grow in popularity in New York judging judg-ing from the number of announcements made and the size of the audiences The amusements include concerts of both j classical and light sacred and secular music lectures and variety performances I As yet none of the theatres repeat on Sunday Sun-day night the performance they give on I the other nights of the week and it is a j question whether New York would accept i ac-cept this innovation with favor I Dunlops Stage News says of the Italian actress Duse She is intense I high presured and severe One cannot imagine Duse trying on a new hat or having a tooth filled or owning a powder puff A chappie waiting at the stage door or a dude and a bird and a cold bottle are things not dreamt of in her philosophy She would wither a chap pie with a look and a dude would shrivel up like a spider on a redhot shovel if she shook her gory locks at him just once Jeff D Bernstein the husband and manager of Vernona Jarbeau is looking for a fortune Years ago his lather Isaac Bernstein was one of the organizers of the Louisiana Lottry Bernstein lately i bought out one of his two associates He kept his investment a profound secret even his family being ignorant of it I i Nine years ago he died worth 500000 leaving his property to his wife A year after his death his shares of the lottery stock were found in his safe His heirs tried to bring about a settlement with the lottery company and J A Morris then the main owner is said to have offered them 1500000 but this was refused Five of IsaacBernsteins six heirs began a suit three years ago for an accounting and for Bernsteins share of the profits in the lottery company Bernstein is one ot these heirs Shore Acres a play of James A r Herne was produced in the Boston Museum Mu-seum Monday evening According to a dispatch from the Hub the piece is a drama of rustic New England life and the scene is laid on a farm near Bar Harbor Har-bor > Two brothers own the farm jointly It was bequeathed them by their mother with the condition that they should never sell it Brother Marlin in the absence of Brother Nat is induced to cut it up into building lots but Nat objects because the land contains their mothers grave This leads to a family quarrel Martins j daughter Helen elopes witn a Freethinking Free-thinking homoepathic physician The I scenic picture in act II i a lighthouse with a view of Frenchmans Bay and there is a spirited representation of a shdden storm showing the fishing smack carrying the elopIng lovers tossed about i I I in the waves But the play deals with I character rather than with incident Mr I Herne has tried once more to putihe rural New Englander as he sees him on the j stage There are twentynine personages j in the play mostly types Old frequenters frequent-ers of the Museum were reminded of J j T Trowbridges Neighbor Jackwood an antebellum play involving the New i England abolitionists and the underground under-ground railroad Perhaps Mr Hernes new play will equal that in popularity After act III the author came to the front I and expressed his gratitude for the applause ap-plause of the audience t I tVoiulcrland A very attractive bill is announced at I this family resort tor the week commencing commenc-ing Thursday March 9 The stock company com-pany will present another popular and thrilling play entitled Lynwood It is a military drama of the highest order and with Mr Crolins and Miss Darragh in the leading roles supported by the entire company Is bound to draw large and delighted de-lighted audiences In the curio hall new faces will be seen including Mr Ed Pringle the premier juggler Miss Alice Evans the very pleasing vocalist and the well known acrobatic song and dance team McLean and Hall will make their initial appearance in this city Wednesday March 15 will be a gala day for the ladies On that date the enterprising enter-prising management will eclipse all past efforts by observing this souvenir day in I presenting to each lady a handsome I tripleplated butter knife Thomas Cunningham one of the pilots I related the story of the two days fight Said he Nothing stood in our way we swept the bay Old wooden ships like the Cumberland Cum-berland and Congress were as toy ships against the destructive power of our ironclad iron-clad The whole Union fleet those that could sought safety in flightthe Minnesota Min-nesota hard aground and helpless off Newport News Point did all she could to stem the battle They were nothing more than sheets of paper against us Many an old sailors heart was broken that day to see the grandest wooden vessels in the j world j annihilated The second day the 9th was just such a morning as thib quiet and gray chill enough in the air to brace one for the coming fight We came down from the anchorage running down as far as the flat ground Then we started for the Minnesota off Newport News Point Suddenly Sud-denly we saw a craft of a kind we had never seen before come from behind the Minnesota And we slowed down and waited What kind of a thing that we asked ourselves I cant give exactly the pilots language lan-guage it was very forcible ready more picturesque than polite but very graphic Finally one of our officers who had been north within a short time said it < must be the ironclad built in New York I Heading up stream we began firing I The Monitor made no reply but quietly and steadily steamed toward us until within very close range of usthen she let fly a shot and I tell you there was that about that shot that made me feel we had met something that would interrupt our career The artist after some further details of his study proceeds But gradually the picture grew in my mind and at last I possessed the vision A calm morning silvergray quiet and peaceful Ii the distance at the right are the masts of the sunken Cumberland her ensigns still flying at the spanker peak The land visible still further to the right Newport News Point an important import-ant position commanding the entrance to the James river The frigate Minnesota aground with tug alongside is also on the right of the picture in the middle distance dis-tance In the center of the foreground is the Monitor like a gladiator stripped for I a fight all her deck hamper stowed away |