THE  NEW  YORK  CLIPPER  ANNUAL
 

THE BROADWAY  THEATRE, near Pearl Street, New York, 1850.
 

18—Leonora Von Stosch, violinist, made American debut
Lenox Lyceum.

23—"La Cigale," F. C. Burnand's adaptation of Edmond
Audran's comic opera, heard first in America, in Eng¬
lish, Garden Theatre, N.Y., when Carl Streitmann was
heard for first time in English opera;  Arthur Ryley

and Ethel Ross-Selwicke made American debut.......

Alfred Gruenfeld, pianist, and Heinrich Gruenfeld, vio¬
linist, made American debut, Madison Square Garden
(concert hall), N. Y.

29—Eda Zuckerman, vocalist, made professional debut.
Central Music Hall, Chicago.
 

XOYEMBER.

3—"Miss Hel.vett," libretto by Maxime Boucheron, music
by Edmond Audran, Americanized by David Belasco,
sung first in America, Star Theatre, N. Y.; originally
sung Bouffes Parisiens, Paris, Fr., Nov. 12, 1890; as
"Mi.ss Decima," adapted by F. C. Burnand, first sung
in English, London Criterion Theatre, July 23, 1891.

......American debuts made in "La Juive," French

Opera House, New Orleans; MUe.s. Baux as Rachel,
M. Paulin as Eleanor, M. Bordenseuve as Cardinal
Brogni, M. RouzajBond as Leopold, Mile. Vieuse as
Eudoxie, Mmes. Antonelli, Ratteri and Ferraro, dan-
seuses, and Mons. Warnots.

5—American debuts made at French Opera House, New
Orleans, in "Les Huguenots:" M. Verhees as Raoul de
Waugis, Mile. Cagnard as Valentine, M. Dulin as Le
 

Comte d« St. Bris; Mile. PriauUaud as Marguerite de
Navarre, and Mile. Vallier as Page Urbain.
7—M. Pascal, as Don Gaspard, and Mme. Duvivier, as
Leonora, in "La  Favorita," made American debuts,

French Opera House,  New Orleans......"The Stock

Broker," libretto by Chas. L. Wood, music by W.
Fischer Burns, originally sung Lynn, Mass., Theatre.
8—Mons. Moreau, as Gaspa'rd, in "Les Creches de Corne-
ville," made American debut, French Opera Honse,
New Orleans.
9—Emma Eames, Julia Ravogli, Jean De Reszke and Ed¬
ward De Reszke made American debuts, Auditorium,
Chicago.

11—Sofii  Ravogli made American debut in "Orpheus,"

Auditorium, Chicago......American debut  made in

"Rigoletto," French Opera House, New Orleans: M.
Guillemon as Rigoletto, M. Jahn as Matheo Borsa,
M. Meffre as Le (^omte de Ceprano, J. Florentin as
La Costesse de Coprano, Mile. Conti as Joanna, and
Mons. Rossi as Marcello.

13—Marie Van Zandt made American debut in "La Son-
nambula," Auditorium, Chicago.

17—Ignace Jan Paderewski, pianist, made American de¬
but, Carnegie Music Hall, N. Y.

23—Cyclone at Washington, D. C, destroyed Metzerett's
Music Hall.

30—"Uncle Celestin," ty Edmond Audran, libretto by
Maurice Ordonneau and Henry Keroul, sung first in
America, Grand Opera House, St. Louis, Mo.; as
"L'Oncle de Celestin" was originally sung, Menus-
Plaisirs, Paris, March 24.
 

SKIN  GRAFTING  ON  THE STAGE.
 

This Winter, a well known actress, being in danger of
disfigurement through an accident to her lace, her physi¬
cian supplied the necessary grafting from his own person
and saved her good looks. This caused no little talk and
some joking at the time, as the physician was said to have
borrowed the piece from his leg. And now in a funny play
performed at one of the Paris theatres, the occurrence,
somewhat adorned, is the cause of unfailing merriment
 

to the audience. In the play, the physician is supposed
to have exchanged epidermis with the actress, and as
each patch retains its identit.y, when the physician, a
rather loose fellow, is kicked, the actress feels a blow on
her face and hits back any one at hand. On the other
side, as often as the actress is kis.sed, the physician is
horrified that any one should take such liberty with his
limb,