The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-22

new piece; and when they write one for a
manager the author gets either from Sl5 to .
$50 a night for it so long as it runs, or a per- !
centage of the receipts.
Miss Lizzie Price, who has been playing
the part of Dora in Charles Reades beau
tliul drama of that name, with much success
in New York, was tepdered the role of "Arrah
Meelish, in Arlub-Rd-P PogUe, at Niblo's, but
her demands for sllary-sl5O per week-did
not suit the ideas of the management, and
she was consequently not engaged.
The Lydia Thompson troupe are in the
last week but one of their present engage
mcnt at Niblo's Garden. This is the forty
fourth week of the engagement of this troupe
in this country For eighteen weeks they
attracted good audiences TO Woods Museum,
where they presented LIioa, ar tie Man at the
iEcd, for thirteen weeks. On December
IS Ern0Hi was given, and ran for five weeks,
when the troupe closed at Woods and opened
at Niblo's Garden, on February 1, in The
Foyty IHjcpes This was presented seventeen
weeks, when SjHbad the tS0jIor was produced,
and will continue the attraction to the close of
the engagement The troupe close on July 81,
when Miss Thompson, Beckett, and Mr. Hon
derson will take couple of weeks rest at
Niagara Falls, from which place they proceed
to Buffalo, N. Y, and play one week, and go
thence to Elmira, N. Y, for two nights, after
which they so to the Arch Street Theatre
Philadelphia, August %, for few weeks
They then proceed on their tour through the
West and South, visiting all the cities of note
as far as New Orleans, returning to New York
about March to play a farewell engagement.
Joseph Jefferson has bought Ranlett
place, at Hopokus, on the Saddle river, Ber-
gen county, N. j., for 100000. He takes
formerly owned and improved by the late
William II. Ranlett, architect, subsequently
by Mr. Forester, who sold it to "Old Rip
1t is IA charming spot lying on both sides of
the river, with n fine brook trout in the rear
a capital old brown-stone house and spacious
outbuildings the whole surrounded with in
Vulnerable fruit and shade trees.
Susan Denim has already got into the
English courts. On June - an action was
brought ut the Bloomsbury County Court by
her husband, MIR. Morris, against Messrs.
Shepherd IL Creswick, of the Surrey Theatre,
London, to recover the sum of E12 1Gs. ID,
being half the gross receipts taken on May 6
last upon the occasion of Miss Susan DENNIS
benefit. The ladys counsel stated that the
plaintiff is an American lady, and came to
that country to obtain London engagement.
She appeared at the Standard and other
places. She obtained an engagement at the
Surrey, and she was to have a benefit and was
to receive half the gross receipts provided she
of stars to appear on the said night She
obtained the services of the Volles Family
but it was denied that they were stars and G3
was paid into court as the amount owing
He then called Mr.. Corbyn, q theatrical
agent, who stated that he acted as agent
to Miss Denim, and arranged the engage
ment with Messrs. Shepherd q Creswick. He
knew the Vokes Family, and considered they
were a ''star" and not stock company
had TO Of
earned E55 per week. A star was an artistic
engaged for a definite number of nights, and
not regular member of any company. He
was acquainted with Mr.. Macready and knew
that he performed at the Haymarket for a
term, but he was decidedly a ''star" of the
first magnitude. Mr.. Frederick Vokes said
he was leading member of Vokes & Co., and
for the last few years had filled starring en-
gagements only, in Sheffield, Plymouth, and
other places; also at the Crystal Palace, for
which he was paid G25 per week, and the
Alhambra, for which he received $50 per
week. and he worked both places the same
day. He had filled no engagements but star
| ring ones during the past two years Mr.
Nimmo, ,theatricala agent, stated that he had beer
connected with the profession for forty years
and was acquainted with every star in the
world, and he was decidedly of opinion tha
the Vokes Family were ''stars, and acknow-
lodged ''stars' On the bills for the benef
in question their names were printed in larg,
type, as the names of ''stars" generally are
BIr. Shepherd stated that Miss Denim wished
to perform in the fifth act of Richard til
THIRD. He said he had no dress, and it wa
then agreed that if he would provide tn
dresses she would bring the Vokes Family a
an equivalent. The Vokes Family might b
music hall stars, but were certainly not, il
his opinion, theatrical ''stars." His homo
said that as neither the lady nor her husban
were present to dispute the agreement state
to have been made, he must decide for tn
defendants Judgment for the defendants
with costs, was then given.