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MUSIC AND DRAMA.

STAGE GOSSIP.

It is romored that Sophie Eyre is to secure a London theater.

Mrs. John Wood denies the report of her intended marriage.

Mme. Janauschek has resumed her tour in "Meg Merrilles."

Buffalo Bill is to winter at Manchester, Eng. He has gone on a tour of the continent.

Isabelle Coa will leave the Tin Soldier Company shortly, her place being taken by Elvia Crox.

Evans and Hoey, the comedians, are going to play through the Australian Colonies from June next to the following January.

Charles Bowser leaves the Rudolph Company on Saturday night to create the new comedy part written by William Gillette in "She."

The receipts for the Booth Barrett performance have averaged $25,000 per week, an amount never before realized by any combination.

David Belasco and Henry C. De Mille are drawing a royalty which averages $100 jointly a week during the run of "The Wife," at the Lyceum Theater.

Mrs. Crabtree is credited with the announcement that her daughter Charlotte (Lotta) has concluded to bid farewell to the stage at the close of next season.

Mr. Mansfield is having a season of unbroken success. His Baltimore engagement was notably brilliant, despite the formidable opposition of the National Opera Company.

Loie Fuller has been added to the cast of "She." Miss Fuller resigned from the Arabian Nights Company. In "She" she will be given an opportunity for pathetic and sentimental lines, entirely without comedy.

"The Stroller," in which Grace Hawthorne lately appeared in London, is said to be an adaptation by Oliva Logan, who was called before the curtain on the opening night and made a fifteen-minute speech.

Sidney Rosenfeld has just finished an original three-act comedy, entitled "A Possible Case." He states that Daniel Frohman, of the Lyceum Theater, is anxious to secure it, but they can not agree on terms.

A classical drama is being written for Mr. Mansfield, in which he will personate one of the most famous characters in Roman history. It is his intention to produce it with great spiendor and entirely original effects.

Mrs. Chanfrau and her son, Henry Chanfrau, will during the season of 1889 star jointly under the management of A.B. Anderson, in a new and romantic drama entitled, "The Oath," which will permit a field for both stars.

David Henderson, of the Chicago Opera House, arrived in New York on Friday from Washington, where he had been looking after his interests in "Arabian Nights." He reported that the company played to 6,200 at the National Theater last week; that Dick Golden had made a tremendous hit, and that Loie Fuller is doing exceedingly well. He is much pleased with Emil Wolf, his new musical director. He further stated that he has already booked all the time at his theater for next season.

It is reported that after this season Lotta will put into effect her long cherished plan of founding a children's home.

Unless Ellen Terry. Sarah Bernhardt and Modjeska brace up and get some better clothes they will be left way behind by Mrs. Potter.--Life.

"If I were asked," writes Kate Venning, "to express in a word the difference between the English and the French methods of acting, I would say that English actresses play chastity and that the French play passion. This is the difference, for instance, between the style of Ellen Terry and that of Sarah Bernhardt."

Mr. A.M. Palmer will soon bring out in New York "Heart of Hearts," the new society drama by Henry A. Jones, author of "Saints and Sinners," which is a gerat success at the Vaudeville, London, and of which Mr. Palmer holds the American rights. "Heart of Hears" was writeen with a view to its presentation at the Madison Square, and the characters are to a certain extent fitted to the peculiar talents of the company that house. It is described as a play in which strong dramatic scenes are deftly mingled with bits of light comedy. Mr. Jones has signified his intention of coming over to witness the first production of his piece.

Probably few person who have seen Miss Connie Jackson play Tillie Slowboy are aware that she is the sister of Mr. Joseph Jefferson, who plays Caleb Plummer in the same piece. Such is the fact, however and, although she doesn't appear to be more than fifteen years old, she is nearer forty-eight. This clever actress is almost totally deaf, and relies wholly upon her eyes while on the stage, witnessing the movements of the different actor's lips. She has played Tillie so often that she can castly tell when it is her turn to speak without watching very closely what is being said. Miss Jackson was one of the first Topsies in thie country and made a great success of the part.