MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1903, 31 March 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

" Pinafore" has mode its appaaranee for the first time in Honolulu, and. so far as they have got, the critics don't seem to think much of it.

Tha Chevalier Thorn and Company are amusing the good folk of British Columbia, who, according to recent files, seem to think more of tham than the New Zealanders.

Judging from the Sydney journals Carlotta Fatti is a great success there. Her husband, M. Ernest de Munck, is described as the greatest violincellist that has visited the colonies. The company includes Mr Craine, an English tenor singer of considerable ability, and Signor Ciamphi Cella, a baritone of very high class. Says the " Figaro"—At the New Tear it will be useful to cast a glance over the leading productions and revivals of the past twelve months. Taking first the new pieces we have "Truth" ("Hurricanes"), produced January Bth at the Criterion, and played 150 nights; "New Babylon," Droduced January 10th at the Duke's, and still being played at that theatre; "Esmeralda" at the Q-aiety j " Madame Favart," produced and still being performed at the Strand; "Crutch and Toothpick," produced April 15th, and still being played at the Royalty; " The Queen's Shilling," produced April 19th at the Court; "The Girls," produced April 19th at the Vaudeville; "Boulogne" at the Q-aiety; "Drink," produced June 2nd, and still being played at the Princess's; "Venus," at the Royalty; "Betsy," produced August 6th, and still running at the Criterion ; " Forget-me-Not," produced August 21st at the Lyceum; " Handsome Hernani" at the Q-aiety; " Duty," produced August 27th at the Prinoe of Wales'; " Monsier le Due" at the Bt. James's j "La Petite Mademoiselle" and " Rothomago" at the Alhambra ; " The Falcon" at the St. James's; "Buch a Qood Man" at the Olympic, " Gulliver" at the Gaiety, "The Old Love and the New" at the Court, besides the pantomimes. Among revivals during the past year we have " It's Never too Late to Mend," produced January Ist at the Princess' ; " A Quiet Rubber," " A Scrap of Paper," " The Ladies' Battle," at the Court; " She Stoops to Conquer " at the Imperial, " The Lady of Lyons "at the Lyceum, " The Bchool for Scandal " at the Adelphi, " Sweethearts " at the Prince of Wales', " Eugene Aram," " Richelieu," " Louis XI," " The Bells," " The Iron Chest," " Charles," and " The Merchant of Venice," at the Lyceum; "Amy Robsart " at the Adelphi, " Fernando " at the Court, " The Beaux' Stratagem " at the Imperial, " Two Roses " at the Vaudeville, " The English Gentleman " and " Daisy Farm " at the Gaiety, " Rob Roy " for the opening of Sadler's Wells, October 6th ; " The Poor Gentleman " at the Imperial, " Henry V." and " Black-Eyed Susan " at Drury Lane, " Married in Haste " at the Folly, " Nicholas Nickleby " at the Adelpfr 5 , and others.

The year's records also include " Uncle" at the Gaiety, " The Snowball" at the Strand, " The Crimson Cross" at tae Adelphi, " Gretchen" at the Olympic, " Ellen, or Love's Cunning" at the Haymarket, Mr Henry Hersee's "The Dragoons" at the Folly, " Heavy Fathers" at the same theatre, the burlesque " The Lady of Lyons" at the Imperial, " Brag " at the Haymarket, " Another Drink" at the Royalty, " Zillah" at the Lyceum, "Jilted" at the Criterion, "The Great Oasimir" at the Gaiety, Mr Boucicault's "Bescued" at the Adelphi, "Courtship" at the Court, "Light and Shade" at the Imperial, "Marigold" at the Olympic, " Bobbing Boy" and "JußtLike a Woman" at the Gaiety, and other pieces. The dramatio obituary of the year includes the following names,: —John Baldwin Buckstone, 77, October 31st; Charles Calvert, 51, June 12th ; Edmund Falconer, 64, September 29th ; Charles Fechter, 57, August sth ; T. L. Greenwood. 72, May 10th; Lionel Lawson, September 20th ; John Nelson, 49, July 25th; Mrs Rousby, April 19th; and Oliver Sarony, August 30fh. The death is announced in the New York "Dramatic News" of the notorious Count Johannes, otherwise Mr George Jones. The deceased gentleman went to dine with a pupil, when he was suddenly seized with illness and expired the next day, In his younger years George Jones was a good actor, and he was the original representative of tha part of Claude Melnotte in the United States. He was a member of the American bar, and the father of Avonia Jones. Of late years his mind has been unsound.

The following statement of the income of the societaires of the Oomedie Francaise during tho past year is given in the Paris "Figaro." M. Got received £3C3O ; Coquelin, £2960; Delaunay, £2920; Febvre, Worms, Thiron, and Maubant, £2600 each ; Mdlle. Sarah Bernhardt, £2680; Mdlle. Madeleine Brohan, Madame Favart, and Mdlle. Jouassain, £2600 each, and Mdlle. Croizette, £2400. The "Figaro " contrasts with thase figures the income of a Marshal of France, which it states at £I2OO, while a Counsellor of State receive! £640, an archbishop £6OO, and a general or an admiral £4BO. Mr W. Hepwcrth Dixon died suddenly at his residence, Regent's Park, London, of a paralytic seizure of the brain. Mr Dixon had never thoroughly recovered from the shock occasioned by the sudden death of his son, Mr W. Jerrold Dixon, at Dublin, a few weeks previously. Mr Dixon was born at Manchester, in 1821, and was therefore fifty-eight years old at the time of his death. He was editor of the " Atherteum " from 1853 to 1869, and was the author of a large number of well-known works, including the " Life of William Penn," in which Macaulay's charges against the founder of Pennsylvania were first met; the "Life of Admiral Blake," "Sew America," " Spiritud Wives," "Free Russia," "Her Majesty's Tower," and the '•' History of Two Queens." Mr Dixon was a justice of the peace for the county of Middlesex, a barrister of the Middle Temple, and chairman of the Palestine Exploration Fund. The Kind Heabted Cbeditob. —A saloon keeper went down to the train last night to overhaul a man who owed him sixteen dollars. He announced his intention of wiping the platform with the man if he once got hold of him. He found the man, and the two had a talk about the debt. Tho creditor told a pitiful story about his hard luck, and said he had only just enough money to get to Elko. The saloon keeper is a kind hearted German, and after hearing the Btory of the fellow's misfortunes the tears stood in his eyes, and he remarked—" Mine Got, Pill, ish dot jo ? Yell, here's two dollars and a half for you to get grub on de vay," and thrusting the money into the man's hand, he pressed it with a warm grip and a tremulous " Goot-by, Pill," and went up town murmurine, " Dot poy is always in hart lug."— [_" Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle." A Mistake. —An old fellow, who has a son just entering juvenile society, made a terrible mistake the other night. A note was laid at his plate, which said : " Miss , No. street, requests your company Tueeday evening." He combed his bald head and went there. A little girl ushered him into the parlor. "Is Miss —— in?" said he. " Yes,.that is my name," said the girl, " Isn't Johnny coming|to-night?" Johnny was his son. It all occurred to the old man in a moment. He thought Mies was an elder sister. He wiped his bald head, took his hat, and said, " No, Johnny has the cholera infantum. Just called in to tell you he couldn't be here." And the old gentleman went out and kicked himEelf. —" Nashville Banner."

A malicious story is current in london concerning the exceeding patronage Baroness Burdett - Coutts bestows upon Irving, the tragedian. It is said that the Baroness, hearing that there was discontent in the servants' hall, so that, in fact, the whole corps had determined to leave, sent for Ihe butler and inquired, "Now, Jones, what does it mean?" Butler: " Beggin' your ladyship's pardon. Which we humbly desire to explain our conduct, having only one complaint to make. We do not hobjc-t to Mr Enery Irviat breakfast, though it bo every day : no do we hobject to Mr Enery Irvin at lunch and dinner, though he do rarely miss ; nor do we not hobject to Mr Enery Irvin at supper every night of our lives. But what we do most respectful'y hobject to is, that whe B ever any one of us has a hevening hout, we should be expected to go to the dress suckle of the Lyceum and clap continuous." Vegetable Mabbow in White Sauce.— Pare and quarter three good-sized vegetable inarr >ws. Remove the seeils, cut the quarten into pieces about two inches long, and shape each piece in a point at the top and flat at the bottom. Boil until tender. Place them standing side by aide on a hot dish, pour some good white sauce round them, and serve as hot as possible. Or after boiling cut them into dice, and boil them up in some good white sauce. Time, about twenty [minutes to boil the marrows. Suffisient for six persons.