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close of Hwcns' engagement the stock company
viii cnna harl n nroducc Engaged" il
| which Wr. Sothern was TO have appeared. And
! sneal,inr ri thc cnmn man, Mr.. Abbey denies tllt
rnmnr Tint James Lewis is going to rlay it
| 1u1f7s - Pinofora,s y marty. Duff announced
hin,' hut 1,e must have been counting his chick
| ens hofore The ,ops were laid. Lewis will moi
/ 1snro ahhov at aIl
JOHN i, STEVENS
has split with the capitalist who was backing
nrr,yed in town this week, and several dates
| rrr., cancelled. but Stevens isn't going to quit
| y, this stoTc nf tie ru1ne-nut if he knows It.
III has reorranIzcd his combination, and on
Monday viii takc tie road, managing its affairs
himself. in addition to playing the principal
nart in his Iurid drama: nc SAYS he is going to
rmnte morn money rhun Bonanza Nackey ever
saw. Wei, here's luck!
| The reports OF business outside New York are
| generally of an uufayorabIc nature. But from
| one or two nlaccs the stories are Immense. In
| Phjladelnhia. Jonn Mccullough opeueu his sec.
| md week on Monday with a 81, 800 house, and
has tlayed pretty close to that figure all through
| the engarcmcnt Den Thompson, too. has
struck the spay streak u at the iaycty Theatre
| In Boston. The house is small one, and will
| oply hola about s7OO at once, but it has been
| hacked every nicht ]. ?, Htli, the manager of
| iThompson's company, must have received
| his ideas of newspaper advertising in
| Chicaco-yhere they know how to
| do it better than in any other
| city In he United States. He had a whole page
Of the Boston Herald a couplc Of SUNDAYS ago,
and told me that it had cost him $GCu. 81 Butn
he added. II cot Il ali back before the week
was ont. The ncwspaprr is 100 per cent better
os an ADVERTISING medium than tile finest lot OF
mister ranrr In The ,torldt y,
THE NEAprEAnAScE or LESTER wA1LAcK
at his own theatre has not been all that 1t was
hoped. For two or three nights the business
wax Iarrc. hut since then it has crown smaller
and beautifully less. Whether Mr. MerritE's
nlav l:Itan 1rst.r,s f}rowinr ronactfv or lestrr
i;illci thc nlay. only au esuert cun say. But a
rrren hand at rucssiur would be upI to think
iiiat mutual rnuruer lad bceu attempted This
is the. final week of {. Al Last ~ Tie piece will
he lthfirawn Saturday uicht. and Ours will
tiit ,ts Miner Then W. sjSnii sea what we shall
see, But if something don't set tic Wheels go
inn arain, Mr.. WoIacE will Laye to 20 starring
50 So; Us to support his theatre: which would be
rough on lin at his time Of jife
The Lyccum has been devoted to "Eyange-
line,' tnii week. The cast, taken us whole, is
rather above ANYTHING Mr. Rice las ever given.
Mr. Fortescue plays Catherine as nobody ever
n1aved # hcforc. and The mart assumes much
preatcr nron1lnence at his bapJs than it has done
hitherto. Mr. Forester is also new to tho me-
tronolis in It Bit,uc but hc pays the Nily no.
tary better than ANYBODY ever saw, excepting
Riliy Crane. All the old layorites are still iu-
r}fPH the cast. MISS ll1ZZlG " GDStcF'S
shapcly limbs arc encasel in more rcspleudenr
embellishments than OF yorc, but shc's tie same
hrirht-cyei and statucsauc Ga1ris, she used to
was Vrnie Clancy irnnroycs upon acnuafpt-
ancc as Eg1u1eiuc and the other parts arc well
done. The house last night was fully as large
as at the opening, aud the piece will no doubt
run several weeks.
ssDAvY cRoCKETT''
didn't get here in Sine to play Tuesday night,
even, and Jane Eyre" was given instead. 1t
was stupendous aud monumental perform-
ance. At its close Mr. Mayo, who llul arrived
during the evening, came before the curtain and
explained that he lad been snow-bound and
couldn't get there before. The audience recoy-
cred its eQllaninlity enough to applaud him
heartily. tic Nil appear tonight
At the OLYMPIC, George Jones, alias the
Count johannes, has been playing at Il Richard
ILL.,, since Monday night. Beau-blowers, over
ripe cats, and eggs that have entered their
dotare, have no terrors for him. There is
regular riot in the auditorium every night. but
ZONES actually thinks he has made great lit,
Tha Foy sisters are PLAYING at the Globe
titled ttMischicf' 1t is built on tile Vukcs
order OF architecture, and is interpreted in d
very satisfactory manner ". Il, lyte]l. Harry
Allen. anu Florence Ellis fill the parts not taken
by the Foys: The Globe has apparently entered
upon u successful season under Aiurtha's man
atre,nent 1t is said to be making money.
his last week. He has had run Of month
with MS "MessenEel from JARVIS Seetlon'r anu