Life — October 30, 1884 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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* LIFE: N consequence of the enormous success of the “ Artist's Daughter,” at the Union Square Theatre, it will be re- placed, as soon as possible, by that rare bit of farcical bric- | a-brac known as “ French Flats.” . . . HE New Lyceum Theatre, an admirable school of in- struction for actors and actresses, opens under the most favorable auspices. The art of bungling will be taught in the most comprehensive manner by Mrs. Steele Mackaye, aided by Messrs. Charles and Gustave Frohman. quently, hampered by no traditions of the past, will doubt- less prove a valuable addition to the board of instruction. A boundless field is opened to Mr. Max Freeman, who will lecture daily, on what he does not know about the stage. Mr. E. E. Rice will enliven the Lyceum séances with feats of legerdemain with a salary list, and Mr. Isaac Norcross will give practical lessons in pedestrianism. . * . HE reappearance of Mr. Isaac Norcross, always a hu- | morous event in itself, will be hailed with delight by a large number of wig-makers and costumers who will “ assist’ at the first performance of the “ Grand Duchess,” at the New Park Theatre. talent and undoubted credulity, have been engaged for the No- vember season. . . . R. EDWIN BOOTH is actively engaged in prepara- tions for his Boston season. A company of unex- ampled excellence has been secured, and, it is alleged, that the tragedian has, with his accustomed prodigality, expended $38.70 on new scenery and guaranteed his leading man a cer- tainty of $23 per week. Mr. Booth’s plans for the coming season embrace, among other novelties, a revival of ‘ Mac- beth,” with real witches selected from the ladies of his com- pany. . . . R. HENRY IRVING will appear and Miss Ellen Terry will act at the Star Theatre next month. The best English critics say that Mr. Irving represents a much higher school of art than that attained by Punch and Judy in its palmiest days. . . . OLONEL MAPLESON is, at present, absorbed in the | contemplation of novelties for his fall season. He al- ways contemplates novelties at this season of the ye: Re- hearsals of “ Trovatore,” “ Traviata” and “ Puritani” will be- gin very soon. A magnificent revival of “Uncle Tom's Cabin" is among the possibilities of the coming season. Mr. F. H. Sargent, who has never been on the stage and is, conse- | A number of professionals of acknowledged | | There will be two hundred colored jubilee singers on the stage and four hundred on the bills. They will add to the death agonies of St. Clare by singing plantation melodies at his bedside. The “grand apotheosis" will represent Little Eva in Heaven. The realms of bliss will occupy the entire depth of the stage, and will be peopled by angels selected from the local branch of the Y.M.C. A. The “gags” uttered in this scene will be of a highly moral and instructive nature. ALAS! LL up and down the weary hills, Alone the sighing winds do pass ; No footbeat through the silence thrills — Alas! She comes not to the trysting place. The sunshine on the withered grass Shines like a smile on that dead face,— Alas! Ah me! How drear the world can be, When one whom love doth much harass Shall wait, and wait, yet fail to see A lass. FROM FOREIGN FIELDS. LaTEsT DISPATCHES FROM KHARTOUM. ‘AIRO, Oct. 25.—Osman Bigrow with his wife, Oswoman Bigger, arrived at Dolla Halfa from Djim Djam last | evening. They witnessed the terrible conflict between the British and the Rebels at Go-Tobeid, in which Gordon with ahandful of troops, numbering 5,009, utterly routed an im- posing array of ten Kashboys under the command of Masci Bey. : Masci retreated to his headquarters at Fo-Teenth, in the Province of Sik Sthavner, and was re-enforced by two regi- ments of Countah-Joomphas, with which he returned and treated with Gordon, ceding several important possessions in Hah-Des to the British. Masci Bey who is the right hand man of Osman Digpa, told your correspondent, whom he found investigating @ /a Moses, the bulrushes, hoping there- by to not identify himself with either party in this peculiar campaign, that “the next toime Gorden throied his bluddy Sassenach thricks an a Frinch Rifugay and an ix-mimber of a sons of Vetherans Association av the Ould Garde Naponiol, he 'd give him the rist av Gehinna with the ould bye thrown in.” Gordon considers this an important victory. London, Oct. 25.—Advices just received at the Foreign Office, but delayed by the Government's refusal to pay cable charges until the Conservatives concede seven seats in the House of Lords to O'Donovan Rossa and John Kelly for use in American politics, show that the Ding of Gondola has | offered to treat with Gordon and has sent a horse Khar-