THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

Evening Star, Issue 3996, 15 December 1875, Page 1 (Supplement)

THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

Our London correspondent sends us a few items of interest :— *• Mr Henry Irving haß received his mobt serious check. He attempted, the character of Maooeth at the Lyceum on Saturday last, the ?sth iDst. (September) and completely failed to give any idea of the soldier, and from a knowledge of the man and a study of his previous history, no one is the least surprised that such is the case. Incited, most of the papers content themselves with a mere mention of it, as from first to last he makes Macbeth a cravea-bearted any redeeming point, Miss Bateman'h ("Leah" Batemsn) Lady Macbeth being almost as bad. Dolores Drummond (Dolly Green) has not done any good by her change of name. It is a year she landed in London, and she has done nothing. Your Ounedin readers will be glad to learn of the continued success of your la f e townsman, Walter Bcntley, who has commenced a second starring tour, which closes at Edinburgh on December 15, during which week ho is engaged te support Miss Neilson at the n;-w Edinburgh Theatre. He will play Borneo to Miss .Neilson's Juliet Considerable interest centres in Miss Burvett, a native of Sydney, who gives her first concert next month. Her musical education has been received on the Continent and reports speaks very highly indeed of her powers as a pianist." "Prompter " tells Us ihat by th«last mail he received a little book of ' Press Opinions," in which Mr Bentley ? s name figures largely, and his acting is spoken of in the very warm terms of praiseElis repertoire is large and varied, and includes "Othello," "Rob Roy," "Bel phec;or," "The Man of the World," "Lady of Lyons." At Aberdeen he played ".Still Waters "and "Hamlet" the same evening and tbo local paper prefers him to Sullivan as the melancholy Dane. On the continent

the theatrical event of the month has been the Kalian "Othello" of the ltulinn Rossi, which has taken Paris by storm. k So realistic is the acting in the last scone said to have been that Muiinel-Suliy, the greatest of French tragedians, is report- d to have declared its <qual is not to be seen on the modern stage. Rossi, Salvini. and Ristori are " the g'orious triumvirate " who are to appear at Drnry i anc next month. From Amerioa. we h.ve intelligence of the reception of the litjiens, who has created a furort. On arrival at ew York, she was the object of a tpecial magnificent popular display, made in her honor, when serenaded by the " Cent nnial Choral Union," numbering nearly a thru.and voices, and a full orohestra, in the public square facing the hotel where she has fixed her residence. A large company of ladiea assembled in full evening dresß in the rooms of the hotel and at eleven o'clock offered v*dlle. Titiens perhaps the most genial greeting aud compliment and the warmest welcome. 'J he si'.ht vvaß most striking aa witnessed from the level of tho plaza, the hotel and houses around being brilliantly illuminated, and tho whole square being almost as bright as in daylight with colored fires and festive lights. She receives L 20,000 and all expenses paid to sing two nights a-week for six months. Charlotte Cushman is dangerously ill from cancer. Mr Barry Sullivau, after a successful engagement in New York, is now in Philadelphia. Hi 3 countrymen in that city welcomed him with charaoterisjiic Irish warmth, aud on tho ni<ht of fcis tfrst ap. pearar.ee the 09 hj (Irish) Militia • egi.'n ■ nt attended the theatre in full uniform, "if t}}9 applause that; eToning—especially from thfr

gallery, where the ghost, they s y, was mistaken for Ham'ot and honored accordingly—was not always discriminating, it was, at any rate, siucere. A special interest was added to the performance by tho fact that a rival Hamlet in the versionof Mr U: . L. Davenportsimultaneously stalked upon the stage at the Grand Opera House, and the public was earnes ly re quested to observe that this melancholy Dane was strictly an American one. Whenever the Irish actor changtd his part the American did the same. Now that Mr Sullivan has gone away Mr Davenport goes als.), and there are two Richards, two Hamletv, iwo Kichclicus in Philadelphia, as there were in New York. Miss Julia Matthews was very well liked in New V'ork, and has gone tli9 usual tour of the States with her merry company.