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Show DRAMATIC DOTS. Church Choir Companies Have Already Al-ready Organized "The Mikado" Campaign, Dion Boucicault and his " new wife, Louise Thorndyke, will return from Aus- j tralia in October.. Joaquin Miller's daughter is on the stage. She is one of London McCor-mack's McCor-mack's '49 company. Her name is Maude Miller. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge's son Stephen, Ste-phen, who was over here with his friend Henry Irving, has written a play which is to be acted shortly. The Pall Mall Gazette's scandal articles have furnished the hint for a realistic drama of modern high life, now being performed in Hungary under the title of "The Maiden Tribute." Advocates of marriage with a deceased wife's sister are about to invoke the aid of the stage. Macdonald Green has just written a play for the Olympic theatre showing the injustice of English law on this subject. Salvini is 62 years of age and has been on the stage forty-two of them. He was born in Naples on a New Year's day and was the son of a professor of languages. He was intended for the bar, but the actor Modena took him under his wing and made a player of him. This season Emma Abbott's company comprises Laura Bellini, Lizzie Annan- J dale, Marie Greenwood, BerCha Fricke, Eloise Mortimer, Fernando Michelena, Augustino Montegriffo, William Pruett, Giovanni Konconi, William Broderick, Maurice Connell and Angelo Barbara. This week she opens in Cleveland, Ohio. It appears that Bellini, Donizetti and even Rossini are at last to be shelved ; for of the thirteen operas to be produced at the New York Metropolitan opera house during the coming season, there are six by Wagner, while Meyerbeer, Foldmarck, Gounud, Ponchielli, Verdi, Bizet and Halevy are represented each by one opera. "A Moral Crime" is still on the boards of the Union Square Theater, New York ; "Nordeck" is running at the Third Avenue, Ave-nue, "Nanon" at the Casino, "In Spite of All" at the Lyceum, "The Mighty Dollar" at Daly's, "The Mikado" at the Fifth Avenue and the Standard, "A Parlor Par-lor March" at the Grand, "Old Lavender" Laven-der" at the Park, "Adonis" at the Bijou, "Anselma" at the Madison Square, "Pa-quita" "Pa-quita" at the Fourteenth Street, "Comedy of Errors" at the Star. Hermann and Jones, the authors of "The Silver King," have quarreled over their respective shares in the authorship of the play. Hermann asserts that the story is his; that the working ' out of the details is his, and the construction is all his own. Jones, on the other hand, declares de-clares that the whole play, save some unimportant lines, was written by him, and that every character in it was drawn by him, although he concedes that Hermann Her-mann assisted in evolving the plot. An exchange states that "when asked recently when he did his composing, Strauss, the distinguished musician, replied re-plied that he usually worked in the morning, morn-ing, as his nervousness interfered with his labors in the afternoon. His musical ideas, however, come to him unexpectedly unexpect-edly at all hours of the day and even at night. In the latter case he does not get up and write them down, but tries to give a general idea of them to his wife, who has a good memory and repeats' them next morning. 'Occasionally,' Strauss added, 'I attend concerts in my dreams, at which I hear the most wonderful won-derful compositions.' " Thatcher, Primrose & West's minstrels are in Brooklyn this week ; Barlow Wilson Wil-son & Rankin's minstrels in Chicago ; W. J. Scanlan, Brooklyn ; Harrison & Gour-lay, Gour-lay, Brooklyn ; "Rag Baby," Montreal; "Romany Rye," Boston ; Rhea, Boston ; Roland Reed, Cincinnati ; "Private Secretary," Sec-retary," Minneapolis ; "Nobody's Claim," Newark, N. J. ; Milton Nobles, San Francisco; Fran-cisco; James O'Neil, Buffalo; "The Tourists," Tour-ists," Montreal; "Alone in London," Williamsburg; Aimee, Toronto; Alice Harrison, Philadelphia; "A Wife's Honor," Hon-or," Chicago ; "A Prisoner for Life," Buffalo; "Paquite," Baltimore: "A Bunch of Keys,"Cincinnati ; Clara Morris, Cincinnati ; Lotta, Chicago ; "Around the World," Boston; "Niagara," Philadelphia Philadel-phia ; John Howson, Boston ; Gus Williams, Wil-liams, Indianapolis; Estelle Clayton, Louisville; "Lost," Detroit; "Devil's Auction," Louisville and Nashville; Daly's company, Boston; Den Thompson, Thomp-son, St. Louis. |