AUGUST.

1. "The World Against Her," melodrama in five acts, by Frank Harvey, was produced at the Grand Theatre, London, England. The plot deals with the separation of a happy couple, James and Madge Carlton, by the nefarious designs of Gilbert Blair, a rejected suitor, who desires to possess Madge for himself. The piece is interlarded with various comic and melodromatic episodes, and husband and wife are finally reunited, while the villain is duly exposed and punished. "Elaine," the play adapted from Tennyson's poem and originally produced at an authors' matinée at the Madison Square Theatre, New York, was brought out by A. M. Palmer for a week's run at McVicker's Theatre, Chicago, Ill., with the cast of the original performance, except that S. M. Kent assumed the part taken on that occasion by Robert Hilliard.

Production of "Wrecked in London," melodrama by George Roberts, at the Elephant and Castle Theatre, London, England.

Production of "False Lights," drama in four acts, by T. B. Bannister, at the Pavilion Theatre, London, England.- -Production of "Lucky Star," drama by George Comer, at the Theatre Royal, Darlington, England.- -Production of "The Fugitive," drama by Tom Craven, at the Alhambra Theatre, Barrow-in-Furness, England. -Production of "Desperate Straits," a melodrama by Herbert H. Winslow, at Tony Pastor's Theatre, New York.

2. Marriage of Henry C. Kennedy and May Newman at East Wilton, Me.

4. Production of "Reward," drama in four acts, by Alice Ives, at Detroit, Mich.Death of Mary Alice Rowe, actress, at Liverpool, England.

6. Marriage of Frank Griffin (step-brother of Mary Anderson) to Jessie Black, at Denver, Col.

7. Daniel Sully produced his new play, "A Family Affair," at Butte City, Mont. The plot tells how an Irish and a German family become connected through the intermarrying of their offspring, and the complications that ensue give rise to some serious and ludicrous situations.

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Death of Alfred Hennequin, dramatist, at Liege, France, aged 45.

Boudinot, operatic singer and actress, at Tannersville, N. Y.

-Death of Annie

"As You Like It" was produced in the open air, for the benefit of the Actors' Fund, at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass.; with the following cast: The Banished Duke, Mark Price; Duke Frederick, Frazer Coulter; Amiens, Lillian Conway; Jaques, Frank Mayo; Le Beaudex, B. F. Conway; Oliver, Charles Abbott; Jaques de Bois, George C. Boniface, Jr.; Orlando, Osmond Tearle; Adam, George C. Boniface; Charles, the Wrestler, Harry Meredith; William, W. H. Crane; Touchstone, Stuart Robson; Sylvius, Arthur Falkland; Corin, George A. Schiller; First Lord, C. E. Boardman; Rosalind, Rose Cogh'an; Celia, Minnie Conway; Phoebe, Maida Craigen; Audrey, Agnes Booth-Schoeffel.

"The Way of the World," a revised version of "Our Minstrel Boys," was produced at Tony Pastor's Theatre, New York; with the following cast: George Dunbar, Moris Weston; Egbert Folwell, S. J. Forhan; Manuel Sherman, C. E. Osmond; Horace Dunbar, Edward Bethel; Nelson Dunbar, Grace Cushman ; Sally Snooks, Mary Bird; Mrs. Dunbar, Mrs. W. J. Horton; Bridget Fagan, Edward Webster; and Frank Stevens, Samuel Weston.

9. Production of "Zenobia," drama in five acts, by Oscar Geisler, at the Wilhelm Theatre, Goerlitz, Germany.

11. Production of "The Quack," a farcical comedy in three acts, adapted by Louis Honig from Von Moser's "Eine Kranke Familie," at the Royalty Theatre, London, England; with the following cast: Dr. Silvercote Paine, M.D., Charles Bedells: Sempronius Q. Soperius, U.S.S.C., Harry Paulton; Mr. Arthur Lilly white, Tom Paulton; Caleb Nayler, Esq., G. F. Marier; Julius Nayler, H. P. Grattan ; John, E. A. Young; Mrs. Margaret Nayler, Miss T. Lavis; Miss Emily, Annie Castle; Miss Marie, Julie St. George; Aunt Dorothy, Miss A. Haviland; Jeannie, Miss M. Herberte. The “ "story" consists mainly of a recital of the imaginary ailments of a family of hypochondriacs. Old Nayler, a retired merchant, having nothing else to do, becomes an amateur invalid, and his wife plays the same game. Their son Julius stops out nights, and his doating parents attribute his intoxication to over-study. An honest physician who declines to make money out of his patients' follies is speedily dismissed, and an ignorant quack, who pretends to be an American "sanitary inspector-general," and who calls himself Dr. Sempronius Q. Soperius, U.S.S.C., supplies his place. This quack is really a barber and hairdresser, and is, of course, an impostor of the deepest dye. He fools the Nayler family to the top of their bent, but is eventually exposed by the real physician, and all ends happily. The other characters are a doddering imbecile who comes courting one of the Nayler girls, and a deaf aunt, who laboriously misunderstands everybody and everything.

Death of Mme. Peschard (Marie Renouleau), operatic singer, at Cirons, France.Death of Mrs Eliza Kinlock, veteran actress, at Long Branch, N. J., at the age of 92.Death of Annie Tudor, actress, at Leadville, Col.- -Death of Felix Bloch, head of the dramatic agency in Berlin, at Pontresina, Germany.

12. Production of "Wespenstiche," farce in three acts, by Rolf Aller, at Lauchstaedt, Germany.Death of Josefine Wessely, actress of the Vienna Burgtheater, at Carlsbad, Germany, aged 27.

13. "Loyal Love," a drama in blank verse, written by a lady under the pseudonym of Rose Neil, was produced by Mrs. James Brown-Potter at the Gaiety Theatre, London, England; with the following cast: The King, George Warde; Pedro, Kyrle Bellew; Gonzales, E. S. Willard; Count di Luna, Cecil M. York; Sebastian, Edwin Cleary; Antonio, Mark Kinghorne; Luis, Willie Phillips; Donna Leonora, Isabel Eilison; Inez, Mrs. James Brown-Potter. The play is founded on "Inez; or, the Bride of Portugal," which was published about 15 years ago. The plot relates that Inez, who is of humble birth, has captivated a young Portuguese prince named Pedro. His attentions being honorable, he has secretly married Inez, whom he keeps "in the garden in the mountains." Pedro's general demeanor and his frequent absence from home arouse the suspicions of his father, the King. These suspicions are soon turned to account by a bad confidant of the King, named Gonzales, who causes a bitter feud to rage between father and son, and later, by permission of the monarch, disguises himself and carries off Inez to a deep dungeon below the castle moat. Gonzales wishes to possess Inez for himself; but she, in spite of his pleadings and of the King's commands, remains firm. Gonzales determines that if he cannot possess her, no one else shall. So he orders a myrmidon to hand to Inez a bowl of poison. Inez, preferring death to dishonor, drinks the deadly drug at a draught, and, after a passionate outburst, falls in a heap upon the dungeon floor. Gonzales's triumph, however, is short, for at this moment shouts are heard without, and Pedro, assisted by several insurgents, breaks through the prison wall. Gonzales points out that Pedro is too late-his bride is dead. Whereupon the myrmidon informs him that having a drug of a diluted kind ready to hand, he substituted it for the original poison, and that Inez only sleeps. Gonzales then endeavors to have Pedro arrested on the charge of rebellion; but at that moment somebody rushes in to announce that the King is dead, and that Pedro reigns in his stead.

Whereupon Gonzales is bound hand and foot and carried off for instant execution, and Inez, now recovered, embraces Pedro and prepares to share the throne with him.

Production of "Farinelli," opera in three acts, with libretto by Willibald Wulff and Charles Cassmann, and music by Hermann Zumpe, at the Friedrich-Wilhelmstaedtisches Theatre, Berlin, Germany. The text is partly adapted from Scribe's libretto to Auber's opera “Carlo Broschi," and partly from the drama "Farinelli,” by Steigmann, which was produced at the Thalia Theatre, Hamburg, Germany, about 30 years ago. Death of Jules Pasdeloup, orchestral leader and manager,

at Fontainebleau, France.

Marriage of W. Barter Johns and Mae Bruce of Ki

ralfy's Dolores Company, at St. Louis, Mo.

14. Death of Ernst Georgi, actor and manager, at Warmbrunn, Germany, aged 63. 15. First representation in New York of "Gwynne's Oath," at the Windsor Theatre; with the following cast: Sir Pearce Parker, R. F. McClannin; Harry Vesey, Herbert Archer; Jim Richards, George R. Edeson; Gussy Lambton, Ernest Carlton; Richard Welbeck, Nelson Wheatcroft; Gilbert Archer, Dan Leeson; Gwynne Archer, Adeline Stanhope; Miss Willoughby Parker, Emma Skerritt; Bessy Smith, Isabella Irving; Pepe, Bella Ross.

Production of "The Game of Life," melodrama in five acts and five tableaux, by W. Howell-Poole, at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, England. Production of "Pepita," comic opera in three acts, composed by Charles Lecocq, the libretto adapted from the French of Duru and Chivot, by Mostyn Tedde, at the New Prince of Wales's Theatre, Greenwich, England.- -Production of "The Friars of Whitehead," operetta by George W. Goold, at Portland, Me.First representation in America of "Pert and Her Stepmother," by Frederick G. Maeder, at the Bush Street Theatre, San Francisco, Cal.

16. Death of Frank E. Rea, veteran actor, at New York City.- Death of Alice May, operatic singer and comedienne, at St. Louis, Mo.- -Death of Louise Hesse, comedienne and singer, at Heidelberg, Germany.

17. Production of "Russia," a dramatization by Charlotte Behrens of Henry Gréville's novel, "The Trials of Raïssa," at the Richmond Theatre, Richmond, Va.; with the following cast: Count Valdimir Olgareff, F. C. Bangs; Baron Resof, Frank Ambrose; General Zankoff, Harry Colton; General Ivankoff, M. Howard; Colonel Marumsky, G. Santini; Dr. Norroff, Samuel Glenn ; Juliesky, Charles Sanford; Nemsky, Nihilist, George Riddle; François, S. Gabriel; Pierre Kreloff, L. Browning; Countess Olgareff, Isabelle Waldron; Adine Gretsky, Garrie Livingstone; Mme. Norroff, Mrs. Harcourt; Vera Norroff, Charlotte Behrens. The scenes are Russian and military life. Siberian exile and love are the themes wherein are displayed the virtue and constancy of the heroine and the valor of the hero. The piece is similar to "Zitka," produced at the People's Theatre, New York, June 21st, 1886. Production of Kiralfy's spectacular version of "The Duke's Motto," under the name of "Lagadere," at Niblo's Garden, New York; with the following cast: Henri de Lagadere, Maurice Barrymore; Duc de Gonzague, Joseph Slaytor; Marquis de Chaverny, Maurice Drew; Phillipe d'Orleans, G. F. Nash; Duc de Nevers, F. Osborne Comte Navaille, W. H. Bartholomew; Cocarcasse, Harold Forsberg; Passepoil, W. H. Lyteil; Stanupitz, John De Gez; Blanche de Caylus, Helen Tracy; Blanche de Nevers, Mamie Floyd; Pepita, Helen Sedgwick; Angelique, Dora Fisher. Death of Gustav Bohna, singing comedian, at Köln, Germany, aged 42.-Death of Dora Stuart, American actress, at New York City.

18. Production of "The Royal Mail," drama in four acts and prologue, by authors of "A Dark Secret," at the Standard Theatre, London, England; with the following cast: Guildford Lawes, G. W. Cockburn; Colonel Paton, George Byrne; Colonel Wade, Hugh Marston; Jack Cardwell, Richard Purdon; Doctor Dorling, Richard Hunter;