The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-08-10
THEATRICAL NorEs,

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September.
SUSAN GALLON took her farewell
benefit al the Boston Museum on Frs
day. The season has not been success
iul.
THEY ere playing q farce In London
called The Chops OF the Channel Il
cost the author much trouble 10 hatch
It,
LAURA KBBNE and q fair compauv
played In Our American Cousin ct
selwyn's, Boston, during the week lust
closed, 10 a Ealr business.
RACHEL CANTOR lost her gold watch
and diamond ring the past week, thew
having been stolen out Of her room In
her house In Boston.
THE theatrical experience OF the New
York Combination al the Sea Breeze
House, Cape May, has not been cheer.
Ing. Mr.. Wallace should have been
successful.
JOHN BRoUGHAM and Elise Holt are
both playing at the new California The.
atre-the genial John In IAN Irish
Stew" and the blonde burlesquer In
"LucrecIa Borgia, NJ. D."
HEAE are the June receipts at the
principal theatres = Niblo's, $50. 800;
Olympic, s26.60O; Wallack's, $24, 4O8;
Booths. 1886; Grand Opera House,
1888; Woods Museum, $3.50.
A NEW play by Dion BouCIcault, en-
titled "FormOsa; or, The Road to RUIZ, !"
will be produced on Saturday next at
the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
The Fifth Avenue Theatre and the
Tammany will open about the middle
Of August. II is said that the Waverly
will re- open during the month, under
the management OF Mr.. Clinton Eddy,
THE Chicago Museum Is the only
place In that city open 10 dramatic
amusement. Mr.. Whselock. Mr., Fisk
and Miss Josie Booth have been play.
ing there In drama called 1.-THE Work.
men OF Chicago"
ANOTHER row occurred at the Metro
polltan u few days since among some
excltable sons OF Thespis. Matthew
Snyder, late OF the Arch, Philadelphia,
gave friend gentle tap In the face,
drawing the claret, and placed a strang.
or horS du combat on the marble floor OF
the bar.room.
SEVERAL well-known people CON.
nected with the stage return the follow.
Ing incomes for last year: Edwin Booth,
SS3, 7S6; Lester Wallack. $500; G, L,
Fox, 3 400; Clara Louise Kellogg, IS OS9;
Barney Williams, f3,l95; W. J. Flor
enoe, $3,025; f. s. Chanirau, $2.l7G;
Maggie Mitchell, 81. 9S3.
IT Is rumored that Miss Lizzie Price
Will n IN thu rob
atre, and that her place there will be
filled by Philadelphia lady, now In
private lie, Of reputed great beauty
and good family. The lady In question
has been and IL q great belle, and has
on several occasions appeared In pri-
vate theatricals, displaying, 1t Is said,
great talent.
The Walnut Street Theatre In Phila-
delphia, newly furnished, opens Aug,
l4th, with new London drama EMIL
tied Duty The stars for the season
will be Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Mr., and
Mrs. uenrySWatkIns, Mr.. Edwin For.
rest, Miss Lucille Western, Mr.. Edwin
Booth, Miss Kate Bateman, Mr.. John
8. Clarke, Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Will
llams, Mr.. +. 8. ChRnfrau, and Mr.,
Joseph Jefferson.
AFTER a remarkably successful sea.
son OF forty.ive weeks at Niblo's Gar
den, the receipts OF the Lydia Thomp-
son Troupe for the last three nights Of
their engagement were as follows !;
Thursday, July 20, $3.50 90; Friday,
July so. 81, 64S 90; and Saturday even
Ing, July 81, being set apart for tho
benefit or Miss Lydia Thompson, pro.
duced the sum OF 81, 100 90, making for
the three nights grand total OF
S6.29s 80.
THE Oldest theatrical manager In
America lin point OF experienced ia Ben
De Bar, OF St. Louis, who 10 probably
the wealthiest also. John T. Ford, Of
Baltimore, Is the second. His theatre
(the Holiday street) Is the Oldest now
existing, having been built In 1872, j.
d. McVIcker Edwin Booths father.
in:law), ]. L. Wallack, Ben De Bar.
John L. Ford and Moses KImball, OF
the Boston Museum, are the wealthiest
managers In America.
TAIMANY, improved, will be opened
on the 10Th OF August, with strong
forces In the burlesque and pantomime
line. Among the 6urlesque folk are
Miss Pauline Markham OF the dulcet
voice, Fanny Prestige and Miss Alice
Harrison. The pantomime will be in
the keeping Of the Lauri family, who
Will just suit the patrons OF the Tam
many. The side shows will consist Of
Logrenia's trained cats, and other mat.
teIS OF that sort. Last season the re-
oeipts Of this place averaged 5000 a
night. It will probably do even better
the coming season.
The New York Express, which Ia
high authority in literary art and
dramatic circles, has this Just tribute
and admirable critique upon Joe JET
ferson, the occasion being hIs apnesr-
ance at Booths Theater: Now that
Blake has gone and Harry Placlde bss
retired Into the solitude OF rural life.
Joseph Jefferson must be regarded as
the representative comedian Of the
day. England and America have both
recognized the subtlety Of bis power,
and the overwhelming audience which
assembled within the walls OF Boothia
Theater, last evening, welcomed with
literally applauding hand an artist
who, both abroad and In hIs own coun.
try, has reflected credit upon the bro.
fesslon which he adorns. Closely asso.
olated with his name is the character Of
Rip Van Wrinkle, In the personatIon OF
which he has indellibly impressed upon
the public his claim 10 an exalted posi.
ton upon the pedestal OF hIstrionlc
fame. AS performed last night Il dis.
played all the features which have
marked all Its former represent atoms,
qRaintness OF humor, exquisite
pathos, and thorough avoidance Of all
Braining after effect which goes to make
IL one or the most unique and perfect
dramatic pictures Of the day, Mr.. Jeffer-
sons Rip Van Wrinkle, though, lie not the
jolly, reckless, ne'er do we'll OF which
Irving has given Us the outline, His
RIP is jolly, to be sure, but It 10 a quiet,
delicate Jollity which rarely bubbles 10
the surface, but enjoys itself In the In
ner recesseB Of the good, happy heart
which epgenders It. Irving has made
the skelch, Bouclcault has blocked In
the color, and Jefferson has finished the
picture with the hand OF a rare and
cultured master. The subtler qualities
OF the man are brought out In strong
relief, and we are shown, not merelv
the drunken sot, who Is the butt Of the
village, and the pest OF his wife, but an
easy.going, supplemented, tender.
hearted man, whose only fault IL his
Vacillaling weakness, whose greatest
enemy 10 himself. This conception Mr.,
Jefferson has elaborated 10 the Highest
degree OF dramatic art. Hackelt used
to give US rolllCklnR Rim, full OF broad