Life — July 30, 1885 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: THEATRICAL RUMORS, D* LY'S popular company are scoring triumph after triumph in western latitudes and the popularity of that dainty little comedy, “ Love-on-Crutches,” shows no sign of abatement. The preliminary season at Mr. Daly's theatre will be begun in September by the Florences with one of their laughter evoking plays. The arrangements for the production of the ‘‘ Mikado,” by Gilbert and Sullivan, at this theatre, are not yet completed. . . . ] R. DIXEY'’S “ Adonis” is booming merrily along, and the rumor that it is shortly to be withdrawn to give place to the *‘ Mikado,” the new opera by Sullivan, lacks con- firmation. . . . R. MCCAULL is so well satisfied with the staying powers of the “ Black Hussar" at Wallack’s that he has decided to keep it on the boards all summer. On this account it is not probable that Gilbert's latest skit, the “ Mikado,” will be brought on here until the middle of September. . ’ .- T is rumored that the Madison Square management are in negotiation with a well-known American librettist for his adaptation from English into American of the late Lon- don success, the “ Mikado.” The first night’s performance of this little operetta cannot fail to be interesting, as the management, owing to their facilities for a double stage, will present both acts simultaneously, so as to get ahead of the possibilities of an injunction. * . . M R. DUFF, the popular manager of the Standard Theatre, will open his second season with an entirely new and original musical conceit by Sullivan and Gilbert, the exact title of which escapes us just this moment. It is Japanese in its general style, and has been played in London for the past few weeks to immense houses. * . * T HE Fifth Avenue Theatre management, personified by Mr. John Stetson, of Boston, has purchased the American right of D'Oyly Carte and Sullivan's latest vocal venture, the “ Mikado.” The genial John is not sanguine of success, owing to the interest and co-operation of other managers in his work. DWIN BOOTH, we feel authorized to state, is not under contract, as has been rumored, to appear at the Union Square Theatre in a comical opiratical adaptation of Rosenfeld's, called the “ McAdoo.” Western papers please copy. . . * T is not probable that New Yorkers will mlss the last of | the series of operas by the celebrated authors of “ Pina- | fore,” “ Patience” and “ Iolanthe,” as was at one time feared. It will doubtless be brought on splendidly mounted in al- most all the law courts of the Union, where it cannot fail to achieve success in one way or another. A TENNIS LYRIC. WAY, away to the close-cut grass— A strip of the garden level— Where birds with light-heart melody pass, And bees in the blossoms revel. The nets are set where the thick leaves make A foil for the sun's gold lances ; The cooling shade is for your sweet sake— A mask for your shyest glances. Then come my Phillida; come my sweet, My muse with a tennis jacket ! And I'll be Corydén at your feet, And woo in a Norfolk jacket. Away, away to the court where love Is waiting my heart to greet it; And none shall know save the sun above, And he shall never repeat it! A VISIT TO THE GENESTA. IFE’S special Sport was fortunate enough, a few days since, by a visit to the Genesta, to fathom the reasons for the awe with which that vessel is regarded by our gallant yachtsmen, The little English cutter was evidently built for nothing but speed, as everything is sacrificed to promote that de- sirable quality, her owners even going to the extent of hiring a transatlantic steamer to carry her spars. The first object to be noticed upon gaining the deck is a large bellows, placed near the stern, which, when the vessel becomes becalmed, are worked by the sailors, creating an artificial breeze, by the aid of which the cutter sails away from her wondering competitors, For a like purpose, near the bow, is placed a suction-pump which, when operated by the cabin boy, creates a vacuum and draws the vessel after it and affords the captain and his comicbooks.com