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Show FOOTLIGHT FLASHES. Mrs. Langtry ia traveling iu Algeria. T!ie past year's profits of the Theater Fraucaia were some 7.000. Tbey say that Minnie Hunk is in Madrid oow. Making studies for Carmen, possibly. Edwin Hooth is iu better health than he has enjoyed for a year, and he is in quite good spirits. Pauline Hall will produce a new opera at the Tremont, Boston, on June 15. She will appear in a boy's part. Edmund Missa lias completed the score of an opera in three acts founded upon Shakespeare's "Cymbeline." Mote. Janauschek has gone to Florida to regain her health. Her company has been disbanded and the dates canceled. Miss Maud Banks, of "The 'Soudan" compauy, is the daughter of the famous General N. P. Banks, of Massachusetts. The hotel at Long Point, Seneca lake, N..Y., has become Edwin Booth's, through foreclosure of a $10,000 mortgage on it held by him. Miss Lilla Vane, who created the role of Gertrude EUingham in "Shenandoah," has appeared at every performance since the original production. Angustin Daly has written an original comedy of New York life, which will be played shortly at his theater, and Miss Ada Kenan will be in the cast. Bcrnhardt's successor in point of talent at the Comedie Francaise is Mile. Dud lay, who has risen from the bottom of the dramatic ladder to near the top. Strauss' first and it is safe to say last grand opera, "Hitter Pasmau," produced at the Imperial opera house in Vienna on New Year's day, was not a success. A new society called L'Uniou Artistique, i whose object is the performance of works for chorus and orchestra by French composers, com-posers, has been organized in Paris. Alice Johnson, who not many years ago j was singing in a tent in Brooklyn, has been studying acting, fencing and music in Paris and reports a repertory of thirty operas. Marie Van Zandt brought suit against the newspaper Le Petit Parisien for saying say-ing that she appeared in the opera of "Mtguou" so intoxicated that she felt and cut ner face. The case was last week decided de-cided in her favor, and the paper was fined twenty-five fraucs and costs. |
