, 1879-03-02
SCATTERING.
!. GREEN-RO0AI GOSSIP.

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Opera House, Cleveland, O., on Monday
March 5.
Haverly's Mastodon Mfnstrels are in the fptc
rior Of Illinois, making West, on their way tt
California.
Chrisdie's Hufhpty Dumpty Troupe opened
Inst Monday at the Metropolitan Theatre, In
dianapolis, Ind.
Lydia Thompson's husband, Alexander Hen.
| dersou, has retired from the management o1
! the Folly, Globe, and Criterion Theatres o1
! London, with bank account Of half q million
! dollars.
Lester Wallack, 1t Is said. has received q
handsome offer to play at the California Thea
tire next season, but he has not vet accepted It,
as he cannot leave New York for several
! months,
| The poor rates collected By L percentage on
| the gross receipts OF the Paris opera-houses,
concerts, and theatres amounted to S1G0, 600 last
year. There Is strong effort to have the tax
reduced.
:iiss Nellie Boyd, formerly Chicago actress,
+ is now at the head Of a dramatic company which
! is exploring the new mining districts in Colo
RADIO. They recently appeared in LcadVille,
playing '' a Celebrated Casc.''
During the Lenten season the dramatic com
pany at the Grand Opcra-House, San Francisco,
Arc to be engaged In revival Of 1.-The Passion
Play" in which the great emotional actor, Jim
o'Neill, sustains the leading part.
Wilhelmj, Moljcska, Fannie Davenport, Dl
Murskl, and Alice Oates are among the stage
folks who have been robbed of iewc}ry lately,
and IN unkind paraerapher speaks Of their mis-
fortunes as an advertising dodge, Did Fanny
have her nose broken for IN advertisement
II a man should go on the street md below,
roar, stamp, nnd stride along, dragging one
seemingly paralyzed leg after the other, as
some of our actors do in playing the Shak-
spearean drama, nnd as many actors have done
for generations, he would probably be arrested
for Iunatic.-draphic.
John T. Raymond lately cssayed the serious
part in the play s'My SOM at the California
Theatre, and the audience, hnyiag previously
seen him as Col. Sellers, rhoughr that everything
he Gid was Intended to be funny. AS conse-
quence the most pathetic scenes were received
With uproarfous laughter.
Speaking Of long runs, Agnes Robertson fairs.
Boucicault) says: "For four years VIC PLAYED
nothing but s1he Colleen Bawn,' uud it became
almost unsupportable. To illustrate how me-
chanical 1t all grew, need only say that ii there
was any change in the cast, forgot nv lines
utterly at the first sound OF the strange Foice.'
William Henry Chppendale, the london
motor, whose farewell benefit was spoken OF re-
Gently, was for seventeen years on the American
stage. In his carly days lle was incidentally
connected with literature, for as u printers boz
he used to take the proofs Of Sir Walter Scott's
nuthor and his publisher. However, bis father
was an actor, and he soon had the boy playing
in childten's parts to several members of the
Kemble family. He made his debut in 1911.
The young man OF the name of Paulding, who
has been playing Bertuccio and other parts in
New iork. comes In tor bis share OF gentle rid-
cule BY the correspondents. Miss Fluty Nc
Glider tells the Boston Gazette how his mother
stood at the rings with bowl of peef tea, and
fed him when be came of the stage, and the
New York Tribune adds: 1.-THE illustrous Nc
kcan Buchanan used to devour roast beef,
tshed himself for Hanlet on i1idnuys and sweet
breads. These great examples should not be
lost"
Miss Anna Dckinson's new play "Aurclian''
Is thus announced by q New York critic: ''Tbis
piece Is written in prose- and consists Of series
alike, and all talk like the writer It INTRODUCES
4a,e ian, zenobia, 9acitus and few other
characters. It's production, should it be pro-
duced, might, perhaps, carve a good purpose,
tllumiuatiyc novels of 'Aurelian' and 'Zeno-
bia,' BY William Ware, once renowned but now
almost forgotten. The statement, lately circu-
latcp, that John Mccullough had accepted Miss |
Dickipson's 'Aurcltan,' and would act in it, |
proves to have been iucorrect.''
The hard times in England are telling upon |
the theatrical business. 4 correspondent OF 4 |
paper relates conversation he had |
with Caatterton, one OF the most distinguished |
London managers, in which that gentleman says
i great many discouraging things about the sca-
son. Take Boxing Might" says Mr.. c.; 'siu
ng Night to the upper and lower gallery to the
extent Of two and three hundred at the very
least. On last Boxing Night was only asked
% return to the amount Of shi]lings in the np-
Der and Is pence ln the lower gallery. My dear
ooy, am taking this year at the rate OF G100
light less than took last year at th!s time. Go
ntn my theatre, and what will You find The
galleries full, but not with the usual class of
people. You will find there, sir. people who
you'd have been in the dress-circlc in former |
'at-onizc theatres in the way they used to be
and there is an end Of the matter"
A ''star :" was playing Macbeth in very small
ompany, where each member had to sustain I
hrec or four different characters. During the
performance the man appointed to play the first
O be spared, and the only resource left was to
end on q ''supcr," supposed to be intelligent,
0 stand for the character. "keep close to the
ing" said the prompter; "1'll read you the
Fords, and you can repeat them after me-" The
Gene was that of the banquet; the 'ssupcr"
Eas pushed on; and Afaebeth. stridtng down the
tagc, seized his arm, and said, iu stage whis-
er, "Therc's blood upon thy face!" "'Tis
5anquo's then," was the prompt Lost and be-
never spoken before upon the
the traEedtan's intense, yet natural
ones, the fellow. initiating them III the most
0nldential manner, answered, 'ls there. by
oves ~ put his hand up to bis forehead, and, |
1ding it stained with rosc-pink, added, "Then |
ne prpperty-man's served me trlciz!"
Rose Eytinges engagement at the California |
heatre came to an abrupt conclusion on the
lst, ut the conclusion Of the third act OF EAST
ynnc," when she appeared before the curtain,
nd, after Stating that she was an emotional and |
OF mechanical actress, declined to proceed
1rthcr with the play, as one OF her best Scenes !
ad been destroyed BY reason of the audible
onments Of an lnebrated individual in the Or
acstra,: who had not been removed until some
me after he had rendered himself extremely
bnoyious to the audience and the artists on the
tage. Subsequently she sent communication
, the management, stating that she considered |
er engagement concluded there and then. In
1e dilemma the management aLncaled to Miss |
lara Morris, who, at the brtefest notice, ap-
cared successfully in the character Of Nancy
ykes in the play OF SOLVER Twist" with only
day's notice. Miss Morris seemed to be on |
er nettle, and played the character OF Nancy I
ykss for all 1t was worth, perhaps itnbued with
'e idea that 1t was the character in which Miss
ose Eyringe had made 50 great a success in
ondon and the Eastern States, and which was
should be the strong card for her
alfornia engagement.