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Show DRAMATIC ITEMS. Mrs. F. S. Chanfrau will open the Varieties theatre, New Orleans, on the 1st of November for the season. The Oatea Comic English company (reorganized) open at the Howard . AtheoBBLim, Boston.on the 29th iuBt., in "Uirofl6 Girofla." J. H. Leooy, of San Francisco, lias dramatized Tennyson's Queen Mary; but the dramatic writer of the Call thinks that it is not available for the stage. Anna Dickinson is underlined for "probable engagement " at Daly's Filth avenue, New York, after the clnae of ttio season of Miss Clara Morris, Rossi, the great Italian tragic actor, makes his first bow before a New York audience on October 26th. His performances will run simultaneously with those of Edwin Booth. Fanny Elssler, the once famuus dancer, is tho wife of a well-known German t.octor, and lives at Berlin, where alio is celebrated for her extensive exten-sive charities and great benevolence. In a recent letter Edwin Booth says: "I am getting well rapidly; have been three times outdriving. I cannot use my arm, nor can I yet inflate my lungs without pain. My engagements must be deferred two weeks Irom October 4, for 1 must be perfectly sound before 1 begin work." Catherine Rogers is indignant bo-cause bo-cause tho Boston papers speak of her as a western actress. The Globe sets her right as follows: The statement is an injustice to Mis Rogers. Far from being a "western actress," she has barely, if ever, acted in that locality, and as the term carries with it a cor-tain cor-tain status in the profession not over and above desirablo,wo at once habten 10 make the amende. -Ah a provincial star she achieved an enviable reputation, reputa-tion, and her career on tho London boards was a brilliant and rising one. She came to this country orgiuully to perform the part of Galaloa, in "Pygmalion "Pyg-malion and Galatea," at Wallaek's theatre. At the close of tho season she traveled in the west as a star, including in-cluding two euccesalul engagement in Han Francisco under Juhu McCul-lough's McCul-lough's management, from which establishment she comos to assume a similar position. |