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Show DRAMATIC Edwin Booth will commence his engagement at the California theatre on Monday, September 4th, in the tragedy of "Brutus." During his engagement the management will raise the prices of admission, and the tickets for the fiist performance will be sold by auction. The Grand Opera bouse, London, is expected to be ready for the opera season in A aril next. IU stage will be 100 feet wide by eighty feet deep. Its cost will be about $1,250,000. The Paris Opera bouse, in many parts incomplete, cost 1,450,000. Go to New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, or where you will, the same stagnant state of affairs exists in dramatic circles. |