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Show THEATRICAL 7)M auxrriiiNK 1 1 nwiu x acccriN. Joaephlne l.mlwlg wih born In St. lule. Mo., where she won local fume for her excellent voice. She finally fi-nally went abroad and studied under Houhy, CupoUl, Marehesi and other noted vocal teacher A .voir and a half ago she was wi urcd by llenry W. Sutage and mail" bar drlmt with the Castle Square Opera Company last October In Chicago, appearing as Marguerite Mar-guerite In ' Kaust," In which ahe scored an Immediate success. Her next appearance w.ia mad" in her native city, where aa Ju !( in "Itomno and Juliet," she duptlcntcd thnt success. Since thnt time she) has sung all of T"r, a name 1, i.-t, nothing can ob- t "Urate; which inn .t . hurling, of! "rse, physical dis.ildlrlv, giow into n r'Wla.lon not wbll less glorious "'n Noidba's ,in, M..i,.,-, d jenny I-ltd's It I- .l. a-:int. t,.o. to note that gen-roia. gen-roia. sp,, ,,,, ,.,,., ,, C. II lloml of commonwealth """', have nm,io this triumph pos-H'l'. pos-H'l'. "Jcirv" has fur vers been a P'ot.,;e f theirs, and Mr. Ilond has furnished. In hn,.e pan, the tiionev for ker nml. a clu, adoli hIho.,.1 To Mr nd Mis lloml s actiiaiiltance and klw.iy interest , ,1,,,. the opportunity 01 Ise girls meeting the grand opera stati while tliev were In no-ton And It s an engaiteiueiit at t in Parker Home thnt Ills, made known to these great slngeia the marvelous voice I lis! she kn "rr tit nr." AtoMi lii.il iiiiislial faiTe i onictly. In thris) nets, had Its first production at New lleilford. Muss, recently, entitled "Paa llahy " it was written by Harty Watson and C. Herbert Kerr. The scene of the first net Is at Rhino- 1 ' - a- - - t J".r.-- .-' JOSEPHINE LCDWIO. the leading female roloa In the grand opera repertory of tho Castle Square Opera Company, winning other especial espec-ial successes as Alda, Klsn, Ncdda and Muaetta. Her first New York appearance appear-ance waa made nt the Broadway theater thea-ter the other day aa Muaetta In "La Duheme." noNi-oN tiiiti.'a i.tti K. A BoBton girl of lu yeura baa been engaged by the management of tho Berlin Royal Opera House to alng the trying role of Marguerite In "Kauai, says the Host on Journal. And what la mure ahe baa been engaged for a period per-iod of three years, and will be allowed to proaent the part In Italian, aome-thlng aome-thlng absolutely unprecedented upon the oflklal German stage. Six moulba of each year thla slip of a girl, not yet, evon, woman grown, may have for her own sweot self to travel where she wills It, to alng whenever she wishes. Oeraldlne Piirrnr baa been engaged at an almost unbelievable price, a price ao large, In fact, that her own parents will not yet let their friends on tlais side of the water know the exiact amount At least It la Is onu a yew, for that la what Maurice Grail offered two years ago and bo did not succeed In booking her. Probably the aalsry Is noarer $10,000 annually! Think of It Truly a pra pect so alluring aa to Invito the envy of some of the fore-moat fore-moat operatic singers In the world today, to-day, Takae llerlln by fltnrm Miss Karrar baa taken Berlin quits by Sturm. Thore, where dwoll some OERALDINE FARRAn. ol the fluent musicians In the world; where criticism la most acute; where ncouragenient of foreign talent Is tho great exception, not the rule; where hundreda of "prodteles" fall each yeui by the musical wayalilo there. Miss "Jerry," only daughter of a Yankee baae ball player, whoao name wai, upon tho nps of every sporting man a dozen yeura ago. has made, within two beck'i fiat, and deplete tb trlula ol Peter Jthlncbeck, a German brewer, and kit friend, Reuben Green, an Inventor. In-ventor. The complic ations are many and kmghnblo and hinge on a baby that Sblneheck flnda In bla home and hides when he heura aomo one cum, Ing. The servant flnda the baby anil In htr hurry to dlapoae nf It puts It In an Incubator which Gruen has Invented, Invent-ed, when tho mother demands tho child It Is finally traced to the servant who uknowledges having had the baby ind says she put It In the Incubator. In-cubator. The incubator is opened Ind out steps a full grown buy, which makes a laughable climax of the first art Act second takes place at Seller's Sell-er's Prk, where a masquerade and Bummer festival is being held. This act la flven up entirely to specialties. The cut: Peter Hhlnebeck, Harry Walsot; Reuben Green, Ed. Edwards; 1 tl II r Hie Dlter, John Roland; postman, Robert Harty; llurt, Master iledcar; Reuben McCluakcy Green, the baby; Soplironlu Cecelia St. Clair, Lulu Nlch-ols; Nlch-ols; Mn Green, Mabol Nichols; Mrs. Rosy Rhlnubock, Allre Mulchings; Mra. Oreen, Mabel Nlcbola; Tottls Kresh, Lulu Nlcbola; Maggie, Lotllo I'art; Mra. Mllby, Frances Gerald. Mlt Mollis; Theo Leon; John Robert Harty; DcFreczlngtun Smyth, John Roland; Charllo New, Edward Dutllu. During thla act Watson, Hutchlngs and Edwards gave a sketch, entitled, "The Dramat.c Agent"; the Nichols Slaters sing their lullaby duet, and Mr. Roland alngs "Davy Jones," with s chorus by the company. The end l reached by the collapse of Green's patent pat-ent folding bed and Rhlnebeck being carried up In the flies by a monster bst A CI.KVKB l-HKNH MITIIx' "If an) body should tell you about a crop of corn growing within half a block of Broadway what would you think of blm?" inquired Wlllard Hol-comb, Hol-comb, literary representative for Mr. Hackctt t Wullack'B. "Well, should any be had boon dal-lying dal-lying the distilled ,rlt of corni his Imagination had become disordered," disor-dered," wus the reply. "Well, you just take a little walk and see for yourself, for otherwise. 1 know you would doubt my statement unproved. Sure enough, we fouud In a little grass plot adjoining tho stage door of Wallack's theater, on Thirtieth street, a small pat' h of green corn Just coming com-ing Into 'ur. There woro not more than a dozen atalkn. but they served to prove the statement that agriculture la possible within ,1, ,ir, of t, busiest street in (he big metropolis. l.y the way, i,,n my ,ju u the little Plot, but It does not grow under the eet of Mr. ,lll ku.H Hcnta.lve. Wlllard llulcouib. -x York Clipper. |