, 1877-12-30

title OF "'GatauS Ui1It.
Mr., James II. Hardie of the Lingard troupe,
saved from drowning OF late, near Galveston,
! Texas, pretty Miss Wood
The McKce-Rankin combination were in
Philadelphia last week. Thc7 come to Chicago
again in February with "The Danitcs.'
Mr.. ]. Steele Aackayc is engaged on ! new
| p]ay Of the 1nclodraInatic order, which he
States is ten times Us strong as ''Non at Last. -
The death is announced OF Mr. Philip Stoner,
author Of the drama. "Woodlcigl,' played last
| summer by Miss Lette Allen and Mr.. j. 3. At
| water.
| A suit has been commenced by George Faw-
| cett Rowe against Rose Eytinge, for royalty on
| the s:Gencva Cross,'' amountiu. to something
over 500.
Miss Marie Courcclles, who is au authorcss Of
note made her first appearance at the Fifth
Avenue Theatre, New York, as De BeFltus0e in
| "Adricnne."
| Sardou's play, 1.-THE Exiles.'' is having run
| in Boston, and the proprietors are besiegcd al
ready by managers for the privilege Of bringing
| it out elsewhere.
Mr.. Boucicault paid 800 last week for the
| funeral OF the stage-carpentcr who tell dead at
| the Brooklyn Academy when he was playing
| ss+Ihe Shaughraun.'
| from the citizens Of Syracuse to play Hing Lear
| ard Richard, on the last night Of the old year
| aud the first Of the new.
Mr.. J. Chcever Goodwin's new opera bouffc,
''Pippius'' hos been well received at the Boston
Globe 1t is reproduction Of Talfourd's old
burlesquc OF "Ata]anta."
Fred Williams, of the boston Museum, has
written new dramatic version OF "fhe Crlcket
on the HEARTH which is one Of the features Of
the holiday week in Boston.
Senator John r. Jones llas brought suit against
Tom Mcguire to recover Sf74. 10 Tor board. Tom
acknowledged the debt and cravcd time, but he
failed to come to time. Hence legal proceed
lngs.
Mr. Horace Will will introduce to the United
States uext autumn the celebrated actress, Miss
Ada Cavendish, whose Success In England is
said to have been very marked. Sue is about to.
appear in London.in new play written for her
by Willde Collins.
John S. Clarke p1aycC at his own theatre the
Broad Street, Philadelphia, on Christmas-Day,
for the first time nfter three years absence
He made his re-entrec as DR.. PdHgioss Miss
Marie E. Booth, the daughter Ut Juuius Brutus
Booth, PLAYED Cice'y. She is said to possess
considerable ability, besides yoil+n and beauty.
IT. r Sheldon, of the Adah Richmond troupe,
came to grief in Troy the other day. While
PLAYING in Rand's Hall he made local hit, say
ing lie was u al! broken up, as he had been on .
spree with Smithy.n The next day James Smith.
the Individual alluded to, met the actor on the
street, pounded him, and told him to 20 home
and tc1l his wife he had been on spree with
Smithy.
Mr. Louis James, while enacting the part of
.UdI in The Exics'' one evening reccutly
dropped the butt OF his ri.c too hard, in thr hut
scene. aud, the hammer catching in his clothing,
the result was a premature discharge OF the
piece, the muzz1e of which was so close to his
head that his neck and ear were quite badly
burned, and his hat and wig were blown of It
was narrow escape from a serious aud perhaps
fatal accident. >.
The dispute between Mr.. George K. Goodwin,
OF the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, and
aIr. John Sleeper Clarke WAS so serious that it
almost came to blows. Mr.. Goodwin. who is
not easily aroused, Offered to break Mr.. Clarke's
back over his own banisIcrs, and from that
moment Mr.. Clarke's backbone was much more
malleable thai, before, and be practically gave
in, Mr.. Goodwin remaining i'll peaccable posses
sion. Air. Clazke's expectation that dividends
should bc rs good now as they were five years
ago is certainly repostcrous.-Drarnatic Acrs.
The Cincinnati Gazette says: 'sAIr. r. f. J.
Miles. the indelatigahle manager, has su-ren-
dcred his lease OF the Grand Opcra-Housc. which
would expire next May, and has taken new
lease upon different terms, beginning Jan. l.
There is talk of the formation Of theatrical
circuit, composed Of St. Louis, Chicago, ard
Cincinnati, if it is not already accomplished The
advantages will be that better terms can be had
with better artists, and much more economical
representations can be given. Portable scenery
can be constructed aud carried around
the circuit, instead Of having new
| scenery painted ut each theatre Better stock
com parics can be engaged, il the plan is cx-
| tended to that department, because 1t will be
| cheaper to employ Fewer number Of actors,
and transfer them from place to place to where
| theatre, and hare many OF the members idle
nearly all the time. The chief advantage, how
ever, ard the one that probably has the greater
t weight, is the power IT will give the managers
! fcr fl,H 81 iS 1nif ffnI hat
| the present arrangement, managers, US rule,
| are not keeping ercn. They are at the mercy
| OF the 1ealiug stars, and hence they are from
time to time catching at second rate men, in
the hopes OF getting some returns Such a
combination as the one mentioned will give
better assurances to the stars, and will make it
| possible tor them to give better terms 10 the
| managers, while the latter will be in contli-
| tior to be sought after. Nlr. Miles is exceed
inC!y hopeful OF good results from the arrange
mcnt. Everybody who knows him will be glad
| to see him succeed"
| NEW ToRK NOTES.
Madame Aodjeska las won high honors in
| New York, her performance OF Adrienue having
elected some warm tributes from the critics.
Lotta is to reappcar at the New York Park
| again this season, under Mr.. libbcy's manage
| uent Her recent tour has tccn yery pros-
porous.
Owen Fawcett. the comedian, for several years
past member Of Augustn DaIy's Fifth Ay-
| enue Theatre company, intends going to En-
| gland after the close of the present season.
| with view to performing there.
Shook & Palmer have purchased from Den
| merry and Cormon, the authors of the 1.-TWO
t Orphans" new play produced by them tn
Paris on the 4th inst with expected great sue
cess. The title Of tic new play is .sUne Cause
! Cejebrc."
/ The announcement that Miss Mary Anderson,
| on the conclusion OF her engagements at the
| Fifth Avenue Theatre, would 20 abroad to study
| the Partisan stage aud would bc absent FROM
| home for TWO years was premature. US she is
| understood to have made an engagement to ap-
| peat in New York again next October.
The New York Sun says OF Mary Anderson:
81 Never have we seen an actress OF talcut so
! aagrantly addressed in all the roles that re-
qulrcd decorative costrnery. On the night Of her
debut she melted all the ninQr Journals to write
ESSAYS her corscts, the details of those useful
| appendagcs obtrudin:s themselves upon the at
| tent'on Of everybody. 1t wAs only when she
! 20: into, plain. flowing white robes that the
natural lines and harmony df her person OBJ
| talncd the mastcry over her drapery and made
ncr beautiful. So ill-t1cyised were her skirts
that one critic went away with the impression
That She was twelve feet high. And our pIynp-
ton. who opened the season with her in tile
lady Of Lyons seemed to grow gradually less
every night, and finally Disappeared
Miss Ayonia Fairbanks, who PLAYED the Ladv
dune 70 Count Joanues' Kichard on Christmas
EFe at the Rowcry, was asgrieyed at the criti-
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