The Prompter

Leoncavallo's new opera, "Medid," has j been successfully produced in Mrtan. i Mlle. Louise Níkita is now in St. Petersburg, where she will soon be heard in opera. Rosina Vokes' plays are offered for sale and it is said that she will never acfc again! Antón Seidl says he likes the works of E A. MacDowell better than those of Brahms! Lilliau Russell wants to sing "Martha," so that she caá do "The Last Rose of Summer" too. Edith Kenwood will come back to America to do a kangaroo dance iiext month- or else to act. "A Scandal in High Life" did not get much farther than Brooklyn. It is to let on royalty. Berlioz's "Damnation of Faust" will be given with sceuery and action in Liverpool next month. Clementina De Tere is singiníí in Germany. Her husband, Mr. Sapio, plays her accompaniments. The veteran Verdi is at work on a new opera, "Romeo and Juliet." The book is furnished by Boito. Charles A. Gardner, the Germán dialect comedian, has a uew actor who weigh.s 160 pounds and is a dog. Charles Walcott, in "An American Duchess," made up to imítate George Pullman, tbe carbuilder. London has a new opera entitled "Nice Boy Jim" that is tbou;bt to be unequal to the Goetterdaeinmerung." Item from St. Petersburg: Mossorgsky's opera, "Chouanschtschina," has been produced at the Kononoff theater. Sardou in France and Sims and Raleigh in England are manufacturing new plays for the New York Lyceum theater. M. Le Roy will write the music for an opera based upon a Russian-Polish story. Fred Isham oí the Detroit Free Press will furnish the book.