First representation in New York of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (dramatized by
T. R. Sullivan from Robert Louis Stevenson's fantastical sketch, "The Strange Case
of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde "), at the Madison Square Theatre; with the following
cast: Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, Richard Mansfield; Gabriel Utterson, John T. Sullivan ;
Dr. Lanyon, D. H. Harkins ; General Sir Danvers Carew, H. B. Bradley; Poole, Harry
Gwynette; Inspector Newcomen, C. E. Eldridge; Jarvis, Thomas Goodwin; Mrs.
Lanyon, Katherine Rogers; Rebecca Moor, Helen Glidden; Agnes Carew, Beatrice
Cameron.

First representation in New York of "The Arabian Nights," by Alfred Thompson, at
the Standard Theatre, New York; with the following cast: Ski-Hi, F. W. Holland;
Princess Balroubadora, Celia Ellis; Tekiky-Nokra, Tom Martin: Chow-Chow, J. H.
Ryley; Klub-Lubba, J. E. Connolley; Kickapoo, Lena Merville; Aladdin, Loie Ful-
ler; The Widow Tootricum, Lillie Alliston; Fol-Dol, Lizzie Hughes; Zalambo,
May Yoke; Tam-borina, Zoe Vielli; Genie of the Lamp, Miss Cogan.
First representation in New York of "Circus in Town" (originally produced, Septem-
ber 7th, at Pawtucket, R. I.); with the following cast: Victor Magillicuddy, John A.
Mackay; Signor Furioso, W. H. Hamilton; Philip, Paul Arthur; Felix Featherly,
Edward Gervaise; Old Sleuth, W. C. Mandeville; Mlle. Ritta, Adah Richmond;
Mlle. Patrice, Hattie Delaro; Zulu, Grace Wilson; Zozo, Emma Hanley; Zampa,
Josie Hall; Bridget Montmorenci, Richard Golden.

First representation in New York of "The Wily West," musical comedy by Frederick
J. Havner, at Harrigan's Park Theatre, Gus Bruno appearing as Willie Gordon and
John T. Kelly as Arizona Mike. The first scene discloses an alleged interior of
Macy's store, with numerous shop girls and bargain hunters who cluster around a
pompous floor walker named Willie Gordon, and whose heart melts only in the pres-
ence of the head saleswoman, Lulu Diamond. The approach of the Wild West
parade ends the scene. The remainder of the piece tells of the adventures of
Willie Gordon seeking his Lulu, who has decamped with an Indian chief to explore
the Western wilds. After a varied experience, in which a Deadwood coach with a
panoramic scene plays an important part, the couple are reunited.
Production of "Pawn Ticket 210," a four-act drama, adapted from the French by
David Belasco and Clay M. Greene, at McVicker's Theatre, Chicago, Ill.
The Haymarket Theatre, London, England, reopened with an English version of
"Gringoire," by Walter Besant, in which Beerbohm Tree acted Louis II. and Marion
Terry the title rôle. This piece was followed by a revival of "The Red Lamp," by
Outram Tristram; with Mrs. Beerbohm Tree and Charles Sugden in the principal rôles.
---Production of "Dandy Dick," comedy by A. W. Pinero, at Toole's Theatre,
London, England.- -Production of "Woman's Wrongs," comedietta by A. M.
Heathcote, at Toole's Theatre, London, England.
Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett opened their joint starring season with "Julius
Cæsar," at the Academy of Music, Buffalo, N. Y.- -John F. Ward began his first
starring tour at the People's Theatre, Brooklyn, N. Y., appearing in "The Doctor,"
an adaptation from "Dr. Klaus," by L'Arronge.

Opening of the new Columbia Theatre at Cleveland, Ohio.- -Opening of the Comique Theatre at Newburg, N. Y.- -Opening of the new Opera House at Hanover, Pa.

13. Opening of the new Stadt Theatre, at Riga, Russia, the old theatre having been destroyed by fire in 1882.— -Louis James and Marie Wainwright appeared in "Ingomar" at the Grand Opera House, for the first time in New York.

14. Production of "On ne badine pas avec l'amour," drama in three acts, by Alfred de Musset, at the Théâtre Français, Paris, France.Louis James and Marie Wainwright appeared in W. S. Gilbert's "Gretchen" at the Grand Opera House for the first time before a New York audience.

15. Opening of the new Academy of Music, at Jersey City, N. J.

16. Production of "Stahl und Stein," drama in three acts, by Ludwig Anzengruber, at the Belle-Alliance Theatre, Berlin, Germany.

17. Production of "Seines Glückes Schmied," drama by H. Busse, at the Koenigstaedtisches Theatre, Berlin, Germany. Production of "Lady Fortune," play in one act, by Charles Thomas, at the Globe Theatre, London, England.- -Destruction by fire of the Alhambra Theatre, at Ironwood, Mich.- --Death of Joseph von Witt (Wittinghausen), operatic singer, at Berlin, Germany, aged 44.

18. The Continental Opera Company presented "The Mikado," by Gilbert and Sullivan, at Copenhagen, Denmark.

19. Production, at the Casino, New York, of "The Marquis," a comic opera (first presented in America under its original title of "Jeanne, Jeannette et Jeanneton," by a French company at Booth's Theatre, New York, in October, 1878), the music by Lacome; the French libretto by Clairville and Delacour; the English libretto by Robert Reece, adapted for the Casino by Max Freeman; with the following cast: Marie, Bertha Ricci; Mae, Isabelle Urquhart; Jacquette, Sylvia Gerrish; Clorinde, Rose Wilson; Marion, Lillian Grub; Marquis de Noce, Mark Smith; Prince de Soubise, Courtice Pounds; La Grenade, Max Freeman; Bailiff, Arthur W. Tams; Notary, Edgar Smith; Briolet, James T. Powers. The story deals with the fortunes of three pretty girls-named respectively Mae, Marie and Marion-who meet aboard a diligence on the way to Paris. They make a compact to meet in five years at the Cadran Bleu inn. A change of scene is all that indicates this lapse, the unit of time not being thought worthy of consideration. The girls meet; Marion is found to have inherited the inn and is about to marry La Ramee, a supposed private in the Horse Guards. Mae has been thrifty, and is no less a personage than the Countess du Barry, Louis' celebrated favorite. Marie has not done badly, either, for she is the premiere danseuse of the Royal Opera House, and the protegée of Prince de Soubise. The friends meet as agreed, and consent to serve as Marion's bridesmaids, but La Ramee-who is really a marquis masquerading as a private-gets out of the marital scrape into which he has unwarily fallen, by getting himself arrested. Briolet, the chef of the Cadran Bleu, who loves Marion himself, is overjoyed. The second act takes us to the boudoir of Marie, the dancer. She is having a flirtation with the protean marquis. Marion recognizes in him her recreant fiancé, La Ramee, but he denies the story. The King, hearing of Du Barry's visit to the Cadran Bleu, is angered. She has also numbered the Marquis among her admirers. The three women determine to avenge themselves. They force him to declare in writing before a notary his intention to marry Marion. The third act is laid at Trianon, near Versailles, the Countess' residence. Briolet has enlisted as a soldier. He deserts his post to see Marion, who loves him and promises to become his wife. Briolet is about to be court-martialed, but Du Barry secures his pardon. The King consents to the marriage of Soubise and his dancer; the Countess resumes her sway over him, and the Marquis escapes punishment for his amatory sins by going to the war. Production of "Two Roads," melodrama in four acts, by James Carden, at the Windsor Theatre, New York; with the following cast: Allen Van Dorne and Mad Peter, James Carden; Arthur Garner, W. S. St. Clair; William Wolf, Malcolm Bradley; Jerome Madden, E. Murray Day; Herbert Reardon, M.D., Ivan Peronet; Billy Buck, Will H. Mayo; Jessie Van Dorne, Bella Stokes; Susan Buck, Joey Sutherland; Alice Van Dorne, Marston Leigh. The incidents of the play recite the old story of woman's perfidy to man and man's inhumanity to woman. They follow the lives of a wedded but unmated pair, whose marriage was the result of circumstances, caused by the impecuniosity of the man, and an inane desire on the part of the woman's parents to marry her into an aristocratic family. The unhappy union is found to be blessed with a girl seven years of age when the story opens. The designing and villainous lover then appears on the scene and captivates the susceptible and neglected wife. The husband's suspicions are aroused, and after a failure to expose his wife's sup

posed dishonor, he hands his child to the guardianship of a friend, and attempts to kill the object of his wrath. He is baffled in his purpose by the timely arrival of the villain, who makes the husband hors du combat and elopes with the wife. A lapse of ten years occurs before the next act. The child, who has been stolen from her guardian by gypsies, turns up as a flower-girl of unknown parentage. The father is found roaming the streets as a monomaniac in close proximity, but wholly unconscious of the existence of his daughter. The return of the guily wife with her betrayer; the recognition of the daughter by the mother; the return of reason to the husband in time to save his child's honor; the repentant wife and flinty-hearted husband; a robbery prevented by the presence of the discarded wife; a shot from the villain, who is engaged in a robbery, aimed at the man so cruelly wronged, is received by the wife; the capture of the villain and his pal; a forgiving husband, sorrowing daughter and dying wife, bring the story to a close.

Production of Little Puck," a musical comedy, founded on Anstey's novel, "Vice Versa," at the Academy of Music, Buffalo, N. Y.; the cast including Frank Daniels, Bessie Sanson, Will Henderson, Robert Fraser, Rillie Deaves, Lea Raymond, Ray Douglass, and Hope Curtiss.

First representation in New York of "As In a Looking-Glass," dramatized by Frank Rogers from the novel of the same name, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre; with the following cast: Captain Jack Fortinbras, Maurice Barrymore; Lord Udolpho Daysay, Robert Hilliard; Count Paul Dromiroff, Frederick A. Everill; Sir Thomas Gage, H. A. Weaver; Algernon Balfour, Louis Calvert; Lady Damer, Hattie Russell; Miss Beatrice Vyse, Kathrine Florence; Florence, Lilian Florence; Lady Gage, Rose Roberts; Felicie, Nadage Doree; Lena Despard, Mrs. Langtry.

First representation in America of "The Red Lamp," by Outram Tristram, at the Boston Museum, Boston, Mass.: with the following cast: Paul Demetrius, Charles Barron; General Morakoff, Alfred Hudson; Allen Villiers, William Seymour; Prince Alexis Valerian, Edgar L. Davenport; Ivan Zazzulic, Frazer Coulter: Kertch, C. E. Boardman; Count Bohrenheim, J. Burrows; Turgan, Boyd Putnam; Rheinveck, E. E. Rose; Tolstoi, H. P. Whittemore; Officer of Police, J. Thompson; Servant, J. K. Applebee, Jr.; Princess Claudia Morakoff, Annie Clarke; Olga Morakoff, Isabella Evesson; Felice, Annie Chester; Madame Dannenberg, Kate Ryan; Countess Voelcker, Grace P. Atwell.

First representation in New York of the spectacular melodrama "A Dark Secret," at the Academy of Music; with the following cast: James Norton, Harry Ashton, Jonas Norton, Joseph L. Mason; Stephen, Hudson Liston; Martin Brooke, Frank Lane; Nat Dickon, Charles Cummings; Jem Slim, John E. Hynes; Mr. Arthur Loates, George Backus; Mr. Cecil Rayner, Clarence Heritage; Oarsman, George H. Hosmer; May Joyce, Dora Goldthwaite; Nelly, Virginia Nelson; Emilie D'Esterre, Gabrielle Du Sauld; Bessie Dickon May Nugent.

Destruction by fire of the Opera House at Ottumwa, Ia.- -Opening of the new Grand Opera House, Buffalo, N. Y.-Opening of the new Hennepin Avenue Theatre, Minneapolis, Minn.

20. First representation in America of "The Great Pink Pearl," farcical comedy by Cecil Raleigh and R. C. Carton, at the Lyceum Theatre, New York; with the following cast: Prince Paul Peninkoff, Herbert Kelcey; Count Serge Keronine, R. F. Cotton ; Anthony Sheen, E. H. Sothern; Patruccio Gormani, W. J. LeMoyne; Valovitch, Herbert Archer; George Lillicarp, Rowland Buckstone; Albert, W. Davenport; Ivan, Charles Bowland; Princess Peninkoff, Mme. de Naucaze; Mary Turner, Grace Henderson; Jessie, Etta Hawkins; Mrs. Sharpus, Violet Campbell. A Russian princess wishes to secure a loan on a pink pearl of great value, which is an heirloom. A poor journalist and an adventurous Irish dynamiter and opera-singer, through a combination of circumstances, go to Paris in order to make a commission by negotiating the loan. The journalist personates an American millionaire, is suspected of

amatory designs by the fierce husband of the Princess, and of being a Nihilist by the agents of the Russian police. He manages to escape trouble for a time by getting an English bailiff, who has followed him from London to collect a debt, arrested instead. The pearl has meantime disappeared, and this excites the Prince to renewed wrath, which falls upon the Princess and the journalist. Finally the pearl is found to have been in the possession of the journalist's sweetheart-a pretty dressmakerall the time. It is restored to its owner, mistakes are explained, and everything ends after the usual correct and orderly pattern-This piece was preceded by the performance of Editha's Burglar," dramatized from a sketch of Mrs. Hodgson Burnett; with the following cast: Bill Lewis, E. H. Sothern; Paul Benton, Herbert Archer; Editha, Elsie Leslie. A burglar visits a house on plunder bent at midnight. A little nightgowned girl of nine comes in and surprises him in the act of gathering the plate. She prattles to him beside the fire, where he tucked her up cosily in a rug, giving him bits of advice and aid in return for certain favors that she exacts in behalf of her father. The rough thief discovers that the little one is his own girl, whom he has not seen since she was a baby, and was adopted by the man she thinks is her father. Discovered by the latter, he makes himself known and is allowed to embrace Edith before he goes. The situation is full of pathos-the burglar sacrificing the girl for the sake of her future; the girl fearlessly putting her arms about his neck, unconscious of the relationship between them.

Production of "Incognito," operetta in three acts, by Ludolf Waldmann, at the Walhalla Theatre, Berlin, Germany.

21. Revival of the "Sultan of Mocha," comic opera in three acts, music by Alfred Cellier, libretto by W. Lestocq, at the Strand Theatre, London, England; with the following cast: Shallah, Ernest Birch; Peter, H. Bracy; Captain Sneak, Charles Danby; Admiral Fiint, C. H. Kenney; Lord Chamberlain, C. Wrexford; Grand Vizier, Leonard Calvert; Frank, L. Batten; Blackwall Bill, J. Harvey; Chief of Firates, Calder O'Byrne; Head Slave, Edwards; Dolly, Violet Cameron; Lucy, Madeleine Shirley; Isidore, Florence Melville; Eureka, Florence Montgomery; Dick, Maud Hunzley; Jack, Nellie Lisle; Harry, Miss B. Matiste; Will, Gladys Carleton; Jenny, Beatrice Eaton; Polly, Miss B. Gordon; Madge, Miss F. England; Nan, Miss D. Templeton; Haidee, Miss F. Levey. The opera was originally produced at the Prince's Theatre, Manchester, England, Nov. 16th, 1874; and reproduced at the St. James' Theatre, London, England, April 17th, 1876.

Opening of the New Opera House at Towanda, Pa.

House at Hyndman, Pa.

Dedication of the Opera

22. Production of "Le Marquis Papillon," comedy in three acts, in verse, by Maurice Boniface; preceded by the production of " Jacques Damour," comedy in one act, adapted by Léon Hennique, from a novel by Zola, at the Odeon Theatre, Paris, France.- -Death of Elizabeth Nichols, retired actress, at London, England.-Death of Cora Lysle, actress, at Hamilton, Canada, aged 26.

23. First representation in New York of "The American Claimant " (by Clemens and Howells), at a special matinée of the Lyceum Theatre; with the following cast: Colonel Mulberry Sellers, A. P. Burbank; Repuit de Bohun, J. W. Pigott; Lafayette Hawkins, William Royston; Mr. Simpson, J. Barnes; Mary Sellers, Alice King Hamilton; Mrs. Sellers, Annie King; Aunt Sally, W. H. Lytell.

24. Production of “The Unknown Martyrs," drama in three acts, by Leon Mead, at Taunton, Mass.; with the following cast: Philippe de Blancastel, Oscar Eagle; Monsieur de Fabry, Frank Holland; Colonel de Chabert, J. D. Walsh; Mons. Duportail, Elmer Rigdon; Stephanoff Adrianoff, Stephen Wright; Gabriel, George F. Bird; Valentin, Little Mabel Adell Walsh; Helene Overmann, Sara Lascelles; Valentine Bernard, Helene Adell. The play treats of Parisian society of the present day. Production of "Wenn der Sommer kommt," French comedy, in four acts, by Charles