ART, LITERARY, AND DRAMATIC GOSSIP.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1769, 21 October 1879, Page 4

ART, LITERARY, AND DRAMATIC GOSSIP.

[From English Files.] By the next San Francisco mail (says the " Town and Country") there comes to us an artiste whose fame has for years resounded through the capitals of Europe, and wherever music finds an echo in the hearts of the people. Lady violinists are very rare, the difficulties to be overcome in attaining anything like proficiency in the art of playing this instrument being so great as to discourage any but those who have genius and a large Bhare of patience and perseverance; and the number of those who have attained to eminence in the front rank of artistes is Bmall indeed. The sisters Milanolo astonished the world thirty years ago. Mdlle. Neruda (now Madame Norman Neruda), has long been one of the reigning favourites of the musical world; later "our own" (as she ■was called, having been so great a favourite here), Jenny Glaus, aro the only names that can be recalled during the present age ; but that of Camilla Urso has reached far and wide as one of the purest and most graceful players that has ever appeared in public. Musical papers speak of her as an artist by nature as well as by skill and culture ; and the greatest masters of music have testified to her bright intellectual powers. Desirous of extending her conquests, Camilla Urso has arranged for a tour through Australia, and we shall very shortly have the opportunity of appreciating her merits. The opening of Booth's Iheatre under Mr Boucicault's management was annonnced for Thursday evening, September 4th, with the manager's four-act drama, of which the title ia " Rescued ; or, a Girl's Romance." The play will enlist the talents of Mr John Clayton's, Mr Boucicault's son-in-law, Mr John Broughham, Mr Dominick Murray, Mr Bose Coghlan, Miss Ada Oilman, Miss Marie Preacott. Miss Nellie Mortimer, Misß Eytinge and others. Mr Agnew, it is stated on pretty good authority, says the " Builder," gave Mr Millais 800 guineas for his portrait of Mr Gladstone before it went to Burlington House, where it now is. After again changing ownership, it has been bought by the wellknown dealer for the Duke of Westminster, at the price of 4000 guineas. " Poor Relations " is the title of an adaptation of "Jane Eyre," by Mr Jas. Willing. The piece will shortly be produced at the Park Theatre, London. Mr J. K. Emmett has achieved an unequivocal success in Liverpool in a long engagement recently closed, showing, as a local journal states, " that alike in ' Fritz' and •New Fritz,* the cheerful geniality of an actor who from small materials, can create a character capable of arousing the most sympathetic feeling is always sure of awakening a responsive chord." The most important and interesting theatrical news that has reached us in many a day is the news that Edwin Booth intends to act in London, and that negotiations are even now in progress, between Henry Irving and himself, with a view to his appearance in that city. Edwin Booih is our greatest tragedian. He is in the prime of life ; he has baen thirty years an actor ; his name is associated with some of the noblest dramatic undertakings that ever were attempted ; he haa been of incalculable benefit to the stage, equally by his pure life, high principled conduct, dignity, integrity, and rare gcniuß ; he never has had an equal, on the American Btage, in " Hamlet" or in " Richelieu ;" he stands alone in these characters which are colored with romantic weirdness, and of which the central attribute is spiritual pathos; he has been accepted in a larger repertory of great characters than any contemporary actor haa even attempted; and he is a better actor to-day than at any previous period of his life. Edwin Booth, on the London stage, accordingly, will be a very prominent and significant figure—for he will illustrate to the British public not alone his own genius and accomplishments, but the condition of American taste and scholarship with reference to the drama in its highest branches. The public has already seen our greatest comedian, Jefferson, and has awarded to him even a higher rank than was claimed for him here—not hesitating to name him | with the best artists of the best school in France; When it has seen Edwin Booth it will fully understand to what a degree of excellence the art of acting has been carried in the New World. Mr Booth will go over next spring, and it is not unlikely that Mr Irving, a little later in the same year, will make his long contemplated visit to America. —"New York Tribune;" There is something on the stage at last. Wallack's was opened recently, in the midst of a tremendous storm, which, however, did not prevent the house from being packed, with the new play that George F. Bowe worked out of Washington Irving's delightful Legend of Sleepy Hollow, for Colonel Sellers Raymond. " Woolfert's RooBt" is about aa much like the original story, which ra only a skeleton of a story, as the Black Crook is like a Midsummer Night's Dream. Rowe killed Irving in the first act and buried him on tfce spot. He made a pTetty good play, nevertheless, and it will probably have a fair run. Ichabod Crane is the only one of Irving'a characters that he haa preserved in any likeness to the original, and even this one is so changed that Irving himself would hardly recognise it. All the mellow charm t>f the story disappears, and in its stead we have the brisk, and sometimes rather rough, action of a moderate play. Bowe seems to have done his work in haste*] He has made a pretty good play, but he might have made a better one if he had taken more time. His literary work always looks as though it had been done in a hurry. He certainly has talent for good dramatic writing and ingenuity in planning situations, but lie does not use the talent as well as he might. " Wolfert's Roost" is not the beat thing he has done, but it will probably last aa long as anything else he has written. Mr Edward Dalziel, of the firm of Dalziel Brothers, has, it is said, purchased the " Pictorial World," and will take over the management from October Ist. Mr Wilkie Collins's new novel, entitled " Jezebel's Daughter," will be commenced in the "Weekly Irish Times," a Dublin journal: Mme. Adclina Patti in Wales, is studying in order to extend her repertoire, encouraged by her success in "Semiramide," and in Selika (the " Africaine "), she is inclined to essay Norma, and to aingalso the Wagnerian repertoire either aa Senta in the " Flying Dutchman," Elizabeth in the " Tannhauser," and Elsa in " Lohengrin." Mme. Selina Dolaro will be again a member of Mr Carl Rosa's company at Her Majesty's Theatre next January, and will resume the part of Carmen. Miss Gay lord will be the Mignon in the opera of Mr Ambroise Thomas. M. Offenbach is at" Etretat" completing a score of his new opera, " Lea Contea d'Hoffmann." M, Fanre ia aho at Etretat. Italian opera seems flourishing at Buenos Ayrea, for on five nights the works performed were Meyerbeer's " Africaine " and " Huguenots," Verdi's " Aida " and " Don Carlos." Ernesto Rossi waa performing with great success in "King Lear," "Hamlet,""Nero," " Macbeth," " Louis X 1.," &c. There seems every hope that Mme. Nilsson will be persuaded to take the part of Francisca in Ambroise Thomas's new opera next year, M, Vancorbeil having made the prima donna a brilliant offer. Capoul and Mile. Paolo Marie left on board the Salvador for their artistic tour in the States. The former on hia firßt appearance in America will sustain the part of ADge Pitou in|" Madame Angot." a character he once played at an entertainment given at the Opera for the wounded of the late war, with immense success, Mr Edgar Bruce haa secured the Prince of Wales's Theatre, which he will re-open after the close of Mr and Mra Bancroft's final season at that house. Miss Ingelow'a new story will be published in " Good Worda " before it appears in book form. Father Curci, aa wo learn by apecial telegram from Rome, ia about to publish a new Italian translation of the Bible, with an introduction and annotations. The translation haa been approved by the Pope, Messrs. Hurst and Blackett have in the press " Goodwyn's Ordeal," a novel by Mrs J. K, Spender, and " Records of a Btormy Life," by the author of " Recommended to Mercy " and other successful novels. Mies Dolores Drummond (Miss Dolly Green) is playing with the "Jo" company at the Surrey Theatre, London. Miss Myra Home has been engaged for the Lyceum by Mr Irving. Pilotel has finished a new picture, " The Last Moments of the Girondists." Mr John Hutchinson, 8.5. A., is putting the finishing touches to the statute of Ring Sobeit the Bruce, intended to commemorate

the champion of Scottish independence in the town of Lochmaben. The Comedy Opera Company, for which the opera bouffe " H.M.S. Pinafore" was composed by Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan, state that the sum of £3OOO has already been handed to the author and composer for the work. Opera bouffe is evidently more paying than productions of a high class. _ One or two ladies who recently visited the city from the country, wrote home as follows —"We attract a great of attenshun promenadin' the streets like other ladys, and holen up our cloze. Nobody isn't nothin' now-a-days which don't hold up their cloze, and the hiar you holds 'em the more attenshun you attract." " What! You are aware that this poor fellow had ju9t lost his wife, and instead of sending him the smallest word of condolence, you dun him for the 200 francs that he owes yon." "Hem! I know that there are grief which no words can console, and I thought I was doing him a aervice in giving another course to his sad thoughts."— French paper. Love may be blind, but it's the hardest work in the world to make a young man with a patch on his knee believe any such thing.